Leonardo DiCaprio Never Acted Like This, Fans Claim After Timothée Chalamet’s Oscar Remarks
Timothée Chalamet hasn’t even rolled out Marty Supreme, and he’s already drawing fire for chest-thumping confidence — signaling he plans to win it all, a bold call many read as a bid to sweep awards season.
Timothee Chalamet is doing that thing actors sometimes do before a big release: talking like he already knows how the story ends. His next film, the A24 sports comedy-drama 'Marty Supreme', is still a ways out, but a fresh interview has fans convinced he just called his shot for awards season. And not everyone is loving the confidence.
What he actually said
On Good Morning America, Chalamet tried to frame it as wanting the movie to do well. Then he very quickly went bigger.
"The bigger, more important thing is I want the movie to succeed and I want everything to win in the film... The real truth is, with Marty Supreme, I feel confident to the degree that, by next summer - I don't know, man, should I not be saying this? Like, I feel like it will. No, I'm confident, I know what it's going to be by next summer."
That 'everything to win' line plus the 'by next summer' timeline is what set people off. It reads like he expects serious awards, fast — with fans taking it as Oscar talk, even if the calendar math is a little fuzzy (Oscars are typically in March, not summer).
The backlash
Social media did what social media does. Across X, the vibe ranged from eye-roll to outright hostile. The themes:
- Comparisons to Leonardo DiCaprio: multiple posts said Leo didn't talk like this on his way to his lone Oscar and that Chalamet doesn't have the same body of work.
- Accusations of arrogance: people hoping he 'gets humbled', calling the comments 'insufferable', and saying if he wins it will look like he 'begged for it'.
- Reading his quote as a guarantee: fans paraphrased it as him basically saying he will be an Oscar winner 'by next summer'.
- Timeline snark: one post joked we should check on him by March because voters might withhold it precisely because he wants it so badly.
- Tone policing: one person asked why he was 'talking like Kanye'.
Why this landed weird
The timing makes it extra spicy because earlier this year, Chalamet was praised for almost the exact same energy. In February, he won the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for playing Bob Dylan in James Mangold's 'A Complete Unknown'. On stage, he didn't do the humble-brag thing. He flat-out said he's in pursuit of greatness, that the role consumed five years of his life, and that he wants to be remembered among the greats. He even name-checked Daniel Day-Lewis, Marlon Brando, and Viola Davis alongside athletes like Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps as inspirations. At the time, that directness played as refreshingly honest. Now, with 'Marty Supreme', it's being read as cocky. Same ambition, very different reception.
So what's actually going on?
Strip away the fan fury and you've got a big swing: a young star publicly saying he believes his new A24 sports comedy-drama can clean up — possibly including him. That's unusual only because most actors stay superstitious and vague. He didn't. If you like when stars stop pretending they don't care about trophies, this is catnip. If you think awards should be earned quietly, it's nails on a chalkboard.
We'll see who's right soon enough. 'Marty Supreme' hits theaters December 25, 2025.