Timothée Chalamet could join the history books as the second-youngest best actor winner of all time if he takes home the Oscar this year for “Marty Supreme.”
In 2018, the 30-year-old landed his first nomination at just 22 for his role in “Call Me By Your Name.” Chalamet was nominated again at last year’s ceremony for his performance in the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown.”
But he’s the closest to the statue this year with the ping-pong sports drama “Marty Supreme,” for which he has already won the Golden Globe and the Critics’ Choice Award.
The actor has also starred in critically acclaimed movies such “Dune,” “Interstellar,” “Lady Bird,” and “Little Women.”
Here are all 23 Chalamet movies, ranked by critics’ scores.
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23. “Love the Coopers” (2015)
The actor starred alongside Diane Keaton, Steve Martin, and Amanda Seyfried in the holiday comedy “Love The Coopers,” which centers on a troubled family coming together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration.
Despite its talented cast, the movie was criticized for its cloying, overbearing script.
NPR critic Scott Tobias described the film as “holiday entertainment that feels like a horror movie.”
22. “The Adderall Diaries” (2016)
Based on Stephen Elliott’s memoir of the same name, “The Adderall Diaries” follows a troubled writer (James Franco as Stephen) who becomes obsessed with a high-profile murder case. Chalamet has a small role playing the teenage version of Stephen.
The movie received largely negative reviews for its inability to translate Elliott’s memoir into a compelling onscreen story.
“‘The Adderall Diaries’ is about nothing but itself,” wrote IndieWire critic David Ehrlich. “It’s not fiction, it’s forgery. It’s not adaptation, it’s erasure.”
21. “Men, Women & Children” (2014)
Chalamet had a small role in “Men, Women, & Children,” which revolves around a series of interconnected characters who are negatively affected by technology.
Many critics took issue with the movie’s patronizing, outdated view of social media and the internet, and found its characters two-dimensional as a result.
“Men, Women, & Children’ curates the world of technology into a tiny sliver of only the most outlandishly evil elements, and pretends that perspective is reason for despair,” wrote Teo Bugbee for The New Republic.
20. “Hot Summer Nights” (2018)
After making waves for his role in A24’s 2017 movie “Lady Bird,” the actor starred in “Hot Summer Nights,” another offering from the popular indie film distributor. Here, he played an awkward teenager who begins dealing drugs in Cape Cod during the summer of 1991.
“Hot Summer Nights,” which was written and directed by Elijah Bynum, was largely criticized for its inability to sustain a compelling story outside its nostalgic ’90s visuals.
“While Bynum captures the year of [1991] and its transitional early-’90s fashions with melancholic vividness, his paper-thin story of minimal character development ultimately resolves to a shrug,” wrote Time Out critic Tomris Laffly.
18 (tie). “One & Two” (2015)
“One & Two” centers on two siblings (Chalamet and Kiernan Shipka) with supernatural powers who plot to escape from the family property on which their father has imprisoned them.
Although “One & Two” received mixed reviews, many critics found that its quiet coming-of-age meditations gave the young adult movie some much-needed substance.
“[Director Andrew Droz Palermo’s] affinity for naturalism — complemented by Shipka and Chalamet’s introspective performances — prevents ‘One & Two’ from being co-opted by the tired tropes of recent YA fantasies,” wrote Ehrlich for Time Out.
18 (tie). “A Rainy Day in New York” (2019)
The actor was criticized for starring in Woody Allen’s 2019 film “A Rainy Day in New York” after Allen’s daughter, Dylan Farrow, had accused her father of sexually abusing her when she was a child. Allen has denied the allegations.
Chalamet later apologized for his involvement in the project and pledged to donate his “A Rainy Day in New York” salary to the anti-harassment movement Time’s Up, RAINN (an anti-sexual violence organization), and the LGBT Center in New York, per The Wrap.
The movie itself, which follows a love triangle that forms when a young couple (Chalamet and Elle Fanning) spends a weekend in New York City and meets an old acquaintance, Chan (Selena Gomez), received lukewarm reviews for its predictability.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Jordan Mintzer called it “merely a watchable rehashing of [Allen’s] preferential themes and plot points, set in a present-day Manhattan so nostalgic and unreal it might as well be a period piece.”
17. “Don’t Look Up” (2021)
Directed by Adam McKay, this Netflix-released film starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as astronomers who make an astounding discovery of a comet orbiting within the solar system, and it’s hurtling directly toward Earth.
Chalamet played Yule, a skateboarding, live-streaming, long-haired outsider who unexpectedly connects with Lawrence’s character, Kate, as the end of the world draws nearer.
While the film remains one of the streaming platform’s most-watched movies, it wasn’t such a hit with critics.
“It’s a disaster movie in more ways than one,” Rolling Stone’s David Fear wrote in his review, noting that “while McKay may believe that we’re long past subtlety, it doesn’t mean that one man’s wake-up-sheeple howl into the abyss is funny, or insightful, or even watchable.”
16. “Beautiful Boy” (2018)
“Beautiful Boy” is based on a pair of memoirs by journalist David Sheff and his son, Nic Sheff. The movie tells the real story of David (played by “The Office” alum Steve Carell) struggling to help Nic (Chalamet) overcome his meth addiction, and the leading duo’s soulful performances largely helped writers look past its aimless structure and muted emotional beats.
Chalamet was nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Nic.
“Chalamet now leaves no doubt that he’s an actor of refined and profound gifts,” wrote The Washington Post’s Ann Hornaday. “His performance in ‘Beautiful Boy’ helps elevate a boho-bourgeois melodrama to something that aspires to be more achingly real and human.”
14 (tie). “Hostiles” (2017)
The actor briefly appeared in “Hostiles,” which tells the story of a 19th-century Army captain (Christian Bale) escorting a group of travelers on a treacherous journey through the American West.
“Bursts of intense violence are punctuated with sometimes tedious blocks of speeches and silence, but ‘Hostiles,’ despite its posture of brutal amorality, has a goodness at its core, of understanding and empathy,” wrote The Associated Press critic Lindsey Bahr.
14 (tie). “The King” (2019)
Chalamet played royalty in “The King,” bringing the monarch King Henry “Hal” V to life in the Netflix original movie. “Twilight” and “The Batman” star Robert Pattinson also appeared as “The Dauphin” (the historical term for a French king’s youngest son).
“The lithe, doe-eyed Chalamet may feel too physically slight for the role, but he brings a fierce emotional intelligence that moves his Hal much closer to believability,” wrote Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly.
13. “Interstellar” (2014)
Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic “Interstellar” follows an astronaut named Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), who leaves his family behind to go on a space expedition that might hold the key to humanity’s survival.
The movie stars many famous actors, such as Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway, but viewers might have forgotten that Chalamet also appeared in “Interstellar” in one of his earliest roles. The actor played the younger version of Cooper’s son, Tom, while Casey Affleck portrayed the character as an adult.
“Yes, [‘Interstellar’] may be tendentious at times and absurd at others,” said The Atlantic critic Christopher Orr. “But the scope and ambition of Nolan’s vision are refreshing in this era of safe bets, of sequels and spinoffs and franchise-hopefuls.”
12. “The French Dispatch” (2021)
Told in an episodic fashion, Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” focuses on an American newspaper in a fictional French city as it celebrates the life of its recently deceased editor in chief.
As well as Chalamet, the eclectic cast includes stars Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody, Saoirse Ronan, Léa Seydoux, Willem Dafoe, and Owen Wilson.
Chalamet’s section of the film is told from the point of view of Frances McDormand’s character, a reporter. She meets Zeffirelli (Chalamet) while he’s in the middle of organizing a student uprising.
“The film is — to use a French term — a jeu d’esprit with no depth to its characters or edge to its satire,” Nicholas Barber at the BBC wrote in his review of the film, adding that Anderson’s “craftsmanship is so overwhelming that unless you’re already allergic to his tics and trademarks, you should get a buzz from the film’s many, many incidental pleasures.”
9 (tie). “Bones and All” (2022)
Set in the late 1980s, “Bones And All” follows Maren (Taylor Russell) and Lee (Chalamet) as a pair of young lovers with, let’s say, interesting appetites, who develop feelings for each other on a road trip.
The film marked Chalamet’s second collaboration with Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino following “Call Me By Your Name.”
Audiences may have found the film’s subject matter hard to stomach, but Chalamet and his costar were praised for their performances.
As ABC’s Peter Travers wrote in his review of the film: “It’s the romantic sweetness of the two leads, even playing lovers ravaged by killer impulses, that carries you through their fiendish odyssey.”
9 (tie). “Wonka” (2023)
Chalamet played the titular character in this prequel to Roald Dahl’s children’s book, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” which was previously adapted into the 1971 movie “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” and 2005’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
The film follows a young, driven Willy Wonka as he embarks on his journey to open the candy shop of his dreams. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance.
Writing for RogerEbert.com, Matt Zoller Seitz described the film as a “breezy two-hour musical comedy” that hopes to “make the audience shed a sentimental tear or two, but is mainly content to amuse, delight, and inspire cheers when the bad guys are defeated.”
9 (tie). “A Complete Unknown” (2024)
“A Complete Unknown” follows a young Bob Dylan in the early 1960s as he embeds himself in — and later extricates himself from — the Greenwich Village folk scene, alongside other real-life legends like Joan Baez and Pete Seeger, played by Monica Barbaro and Edward Norton, who received Oscar nominations for their roles.
Chalamet’s portrayal of Dylan was five years in the making, allowing him ample time to embody the musician and even learn to play and sing like the legendary singer. It was worth it; he earned his second Oscar nomination for the film.
As critic Mark Kennedy wrote for the Associated Press, “A Complete Unknown” is Chalamet’s “most ambitious work to date, asking him not only to play insecure-within-a-sneer but also to play and sing 40 songs in Dylan’s unmistakable growl, complete with blustery harmonica.”
8. “Dune” (2021)
Based on the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert, 2021’s “Dune” marked the third time the story had been brought to life, following the David Lynch-directed movie in 1984 and Syfy miniseries in 2000.
Chalamet took on the lead role of Paul Atriedes, a young nobleman who must travel to the desert planet Arrakis to secure the future of his family and people.
“Chalamet plays Paul as someone alternately tempted by and fearful of his prophesied future, and the mythic powers that carry him further and further from normalcy,” David Sims wrote for The Atlantic.
7. “Miss Stevens” (2016)
“Miss Stevens” revolves around its titular high school teacher (“American Horror Story” star Lily Rabe), who chaperones three of her students (Chalamet, Anthony Quintal — aka Lohanthony — and Lili Reinhart) on a weekend trip to a drama competition.
Chalamet appeared as high schooler Billy, who is dealing with a behavioral disorder.
“‘Miss Stevens’ […] is a small but likable film,” wrote Christopher Orr for The Atlantic. “The true standout, however, is Timothée Chalamet, who plays the most troubled of the teacher’s charges.”
6. “Dune: Part Two” (2024)
In the follow-up to Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part One,” Chalamet returns to continue the story of Paul Atreides as he seeks to avenge his father’s death while fulfilling the ancient prophecy that an off-world prophet will bring prosperity to the planet of Arrakis.
The sequel also introduced a handful of new characters played by Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Léa Seydoux, and Christopher Walken.
Critics lauded the movie for its epic scope and powerful performance by its lead, with Inverse’s Hoai-Tran Bui dubbing it “the best sci-fi epic of the century.”
5. Marty Supreme (2025)
Chalamet won his first Golden Globe for his performance as Marty Mauser, a young hustler determined to become the next table tennis world champion, in “Marty Supreme.”
He also won the Critics’ Choice Award, and is one of the frontrunners at the Academy Awards this year.
“Chalamet is fantastic in this role. It may very well be his best work yet, in a career filled with excellent performances,” wrote Max Weiss for Baltimore Magazine.
3 (tie). “Little Women” (2019)
Chalamet reunited with “Lady Bird” director Greta Gerwig for her adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic book “Little Women.” The story centers on the four March sisters as they come of age during the Civil War.
Chalamet played Theodore “Laurie” Laurence, the March family’s wealthy neighbor who becomes infatuated with the sisters (particularly Saoirse Ronan’s Jo and Florence Pugh’s Amy).
“Timothée Chalamet plays charming boy-next-door Laurie in a more quiet and pensive way than the character has typically been portrayed,” wrote Danielle Gensburg for The Chicago Reader. “‘Little Women’ is a beautiful story about family and love, the creativity and imagination that comes with childhood, and the challenges and sacrifices we make as we grow up.”
3 (tie). “Call Me By Your Name” (2017)
Adapted from André Aciman’s best-selling novel, “Call Me By Your Name” tracks the summer romance that unfolds between 17-year-old Elio Perlman (Chalamet) and 24-year-old graduate student Oliver (Armie Hammer), who is studying at the Perlmans’ Italian home.
Chalamet received his first Oscar nomination for best performance by an actor in a leading role at the 2018 Academy Awards for his portrayal of Elio.
“‘Call Me By Your Name’ is a visually stunning coming-of-age story that boasts a star-making performance by Chalamet,” wrote Calvin Wilson for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
2. “Entergalactic” (2022)
In the animated rom-com created by rapper Kid Cudi, Chalamet voiced a character named Jimmy, the best friend and confidant of Cudi’s character Jabari.
The film, which was released in 2022 alongside an album of the same name, follows Jabari as he attempts to balance success and love when he moves into his dream Manhattan apartment and falls for his next-door neighbor.
Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times called the special “sweet, corny and fairly adorable rom-com,” that benefited from the gimmick of “being animated and the musical tie-in.”
1. “Lady Bird” (2017)
In Gerwig’s 2017 film “Lady Bird,” headstrong 17-year-old Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) clashes with her equally strong-willed mother (Laurie Metcalf) as she dreams of attending college beyond her quiet hometown of Sacramento, California.
Chalamet played Kyle Scheible, Lady Bird’s high school crush. The movie received near-unanimous praise for its warm, wistful meditations on mother-daughter relationships and growing up.
“As teen movies go, [‘Lady Bird’ is] supremely sophisticated, capturing and crystallising that moment in adolescence when it seems that life is at last about to start and the only place you want to be is elsewhere,” wrote Sandra Hall for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Note: All scores were current on the date of publication and are subject to change. Films without critical scores were not included.
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