JTG MINI: How one interview may have ruined Timothée Chalamet’s chance at an Oscar.

Timothée Chalamet has made no secret of the fact he is campaigning HARD for this year’s Best Actor Oscar for his role in ‘Marty Supreme’. But many are saying he made a major misstep in a recent interview, in which he declared that audiences shouldn’t take his work for granted, as he’s been delivering ‘some top level shit’ for years. Cut to an industry-wide eyeroll and the line ‘some top level shit’ immediately becoming an embarrassing meme. So did he ruin his Oscar chances? Timothée’s team has always marketed him as an earnestly ambitious wunderkind - his brand is taking himself and his art REALLY SERIOUSLY, but in a charming way. When he won a SAG award in 2025 and said in his speech that he wanted to be ‘one of the greats’, people called it ‘refreshing’. But when some people in the room looked visibly annoyed when he recently won at the Golden Globes, whispers started that he may have tipped the scales from ‘refreshingly ambitious’ into, well, thinking he’s ‘some top level shit’.

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The ‘some top level shit’ interview (2025):

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/timothee-chalamet-defends-marty-supreme-press-tour-backlash-1236613045/

Variety article: ‘Timothee Chalamet defends Marty Supreme press tour backlash’ (2025):

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/timothee-chalamet-defends-marty-supreme-press-tour-backlash-1236613045/

Humble Pie Golden Globes speech (2026):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Por5AWQB9_M

Screen Actors Guild ‘I wanna be one of the greats’ speech (2025):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wdPKn4ZwxxA

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