Like a rolling stone, James Mangold‘s Bob Dylan biopic “A Full Unknown” has formally entered the Oscar race. Final evening on the Zanuck Theater on the Fox Lot in Los Angeles, the movie screened for the primary time in entrance of an viewers with Mangold, in addition to stars Elle Fanning and Monica Barbaro, costume designer Arianne Phillips, and manufacturing designer François Audouy all in attendance.
All through the screening, the group was enlivened by Mangold and crew’s rigorously crafted recreation of Sixties Greenwich Village, in addition to the Newport Folks Pageant held in Newport, Rhode Island. Following the screening, critics had been fast to share their admiration through social media, highlighting Timothée Chalamet’s efficiency as Dylan, each performing and singing, as a significant standout on this yr’s awards race.
Journalist Scott Menzel described Chalamet’s work on X, previously generally known as Twitter, as “a tour-de-force the place Chalamet isn’t seen,” whereas additionally giving kudos to the supporting turns of Barbaro as Joan Baez and Edward Norton as Pete Seeger.
Regardless of not being an enormous fan of people music, Gregory Ellwood of The Playlist was additionally moved by the movie saying “A Full Unknown” is “excellent and shockingly shifting.”
Wading into the awards dialog, author and podcast host Kris Tapley shared that he felt Chalamet was a shoo-in for Finest Actor and “hardly ever believed him a lot in a efficiency.”
Selection’s Senior Awards Editor Clayton Davis additionally expressed appreciation for the performances, saying “For me, it’s Monica Barbaro and Elle Fanning that anchor the story of an illusive, mysterious man that is still in that sphere.” Selection has additionally up to date their Oscar predictions this morning, putting Barbaro squarely within the race for Finest Supporting Actress.
Leisure journalist Scott Mantz added that “A Full Unknown” serves as a “sister movie” to Mangold’s earlier musical biopic of Johnny Money, “Stroll the Line,” which garnered Joaquin Phoenix his first Oscar nomination for Finest Actor and earned Reese Witherspoon an Oscar for Finest Actress. Funnily sufficient, Money performs an integral half in “A Full Unknown” as effectively, this time performed by Mangold favourite Boyd Holbrook.
“A Full Unknown” follows Dylan’s early years from 1961 to 1965, as he arrives in New York Metropolis from Minnesota hoping to “catch a spark” on the folks music scene that was being revived there on the time. After coming underneath the mentorship and inspiration of a hospital-confined Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy) and a mission-oriented Pete Seeger (Norton), Dylan is quickly caught up in a frenzy of creation, romance, and fame that forces him to reinvent himself as soon as once more.
Searchlight Footage releases “A Full Unknown” in theaters on December 25.