SAG Awards: Timothée Chalamet Deserves Trophy for Shoutout to His Mom

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Timothée Chalamet Brought a Date to the SAG Awards 2025, But It Wasn’t Kylie Jenner

The times they are a-changin' astatine the 2025 SAG Awards

Timothée Chalamet won the grant for Outstanding Lead Actor successful a Motion Picture astatine the Feb. 23 ceremony, beating retired The Brutalist's Adrien Brody, Conclave's Ralph Fiennes, Queer's Daniel Craig and Sing Sing's Colman Domingo. (Click present for the afloat database of winners.)

The prize—Chalamet's archetypal SAG grant for acting—celebrated his portrayal of Bob Dylan successful A Complete Unknown and made him the youngest histrion ever to triumph the accolade. 

And similar a rolling stone, the 29-year-old was freewheelin' arsenic helium made his mode connected signifier astatine the Shrine Auditorium successful Los Angeles.

"I was not expecting this astatine all," Chalamet said. "Truly."

And helium couldn't person done it without the enactment of his day for the night, his ma Nicole Flender, who received an adorable shoutout. 

"I’ll commencement by thanking my parent who I’m present with tonight," Chalamet continued. "She has been moving astatine Actors' Equity for 40 years, successful the signifier union."

But the Ladybird histrion besides enactment successful the work—a information helium wasn't acrophobic to admit. 

"I cognize the classiest happening would beryllium to downplay the effort that went into this relation and however overmuch this means to me," helium said, "but the information is this was 5 and fractional years of my life."

Noting that helium is "in pursuit of greatness" erstwhile it comes to his craft, helium added, "I cognize radical don't usually speech that but I wanna beryllium 1 of the greats, I'm inspired by the greats. I'm arsenic inspired by Daniel Day Lewis, Marlon Brando and Viola Davis arsenic I americium Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps."

Indeed, to hole for his relation arsenic the people euphony icon, Chalamet did much than conscionable deliberation twice. As helium enactment it, "I've turned implicit each stone."

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"I did each the work," helium shared successful a January occurrence of NPR's All Things Considered podcast, "physicality, behavior-wise."

The Wonka alum added, "I besides put connected 20 pounds because, judge it oregon not, I was thinner than the guy."

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He adjacent recreated 1 of Dylan's past looks astatine the New York City premiere of the biopic successful December, rocking a blond wig beneath a heather bluish beanie. He completed his sartorial tribute to the vocalist with a achromatic leather overgarment and black-and-white plaid scarf that was astir identical to the 1 Dylan wore astatine the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.

And Chalamet's large SAG grant triumph was a agelong clip coming. In fact, the actor—who antecedently earned a Lead Actor information astatine the 2018 ceremonial for his show successful Call Me By Your Namejoked astir the deficiency of recognition for his enactment erstwhile helium hosted Saturday Night Live past month.

"It’s been an tremendous grant going to these grant shows. It’s specified a large acquisition but I conscionable support losing," helium quipped." And each clip it gets harder to unreal it doesn't sting."

For much winners astatine the 2025 SAG Awards, support reading.

Outstanding Performance by a Cast successful a Motion Picture

A Complete Unknown

Anora

WINNER: Conclave

Emilia Pérez

Wicked

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor successful a Leading Role

Pamela Anderson—The Last Showgirl

Cynthia Erivo—Wicked

Karla Sofía Gascón—Emilia Pérez

Mikey Madison—Anora

WINNER: Demi Moore—The Substance

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor successful a Leading Role

Adrien Brody—The Brutalist

WINNER: Timothee Chalamet—A Complete Unknown

Daniel Craig—Queer

Colman Domingo—Sing Sing

Ralph Fiennes—Conclave

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor successful a Supporting Role

Monica Barbaro—A Complete Unknown

Jamie Lee Curtis—The Last Showgirl

Danielle Deadwyler—The Piano Lesson

Ariana Grande—Wicked

WINNER: Zoe Saldaña— Emilia Pérez

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor successful a Supporting Role

Jonathan Bailey—Wicked

Yura Borisov—Anora

WINNER: Kieran Culkin—A Real Pain

Edward Norton— A Complete Unknown

Jeremy Strong—The Apprentice

Outstanding Action Performance By a Stunt Ensemble successful a Motion Picture

Deadpool & Wolverine

Dune: Part Two

WINNER: The Fall Guy

Gladiator II

Wicked

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble successful a Drama Series

Bridgerton

The Day of The Jackal

The Diplomat

WINNER: Shogun

Slow Horses

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor successful a Drama Series

Kathy Bates—Matlock

Nicola Coughlan—Bridgerton

Allison Janney—The Diplomat

Keri Russell—The Diplomat

WINNER: Anna Sawai—Shogun

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor successful a Drama Series

Tadanobu Asano—Shogun

Jeff Bridges—The Old Man

Gary Oldman—Slow Horses

Eddie Redmayne—The Day of The Jackal

WINNER: Hiroyuki Sanada—Shogun

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble successful a Comedy Series

Abbott Elementary

The Bear

Hacks

WINNER: Only Murders successful The Building

Shrinking

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor successful a Comedy Series

Kristen Bell—Nobody Wants This

Quinta Brunson—Abbott Elementary

Liza Colón-Zayas—The Bear

Ayo Edebiri—The Bear

WINNER: Jean Smart—Hacks

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor successful a Comedy Series

Adam Brody—Nobody Wants This

Ted Danson —A Man connected The Inside

Harrison Ford—Shrinking

WINNER: Martin Short—Only Murders successful The Building

Jeremy Allen White—The Bear

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor successful a Television Movie oregon Limited Series

Javier Bardem—Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

WINNER: Colin Farrell—The Penguin

Richard Gadd—Baby Reindeer

Kevin Kline—Disclaimer

Andrew Scott—Ripley

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor successful a Television Movie oregon Limited Series

Kathy Bates—The Great Lillian Hall

Cate Blanchett—Disclaimer

Jodie Foster— True Detective: Night Country

Lily Gladstone—Under the Bridge

WINNER: Jessica Gunning—Baby Reindeer

Cristin Milioti—The Penguin

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble successful a Television Series

The Boys

Fallout

House of the Dragon

The Penguin

WINNER: Shogun

The 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards aerial tonight, Feb. 23, astatine 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT connected Netflix.

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