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 Name—joked 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.