Timothée Chalamet is apparently no longer feeling the sting of his shock Best Actor loss at the Academy Awards. All it took was for his favorite NBA team to win in an upset of its own.
“Way rather this than the Oscars! Come on, baby! The Knicks are champions, baby!” Chalamet exulted to the ESPN cameras in the moments after the New York hoops squad defeated the heavily favored San Antonio Spurs in a series-sealing Game 5 win Saturday night to end a 53-year championship drought.
The Marty Supreme star, of course, famously lost the Oscar this year despite being the clear favorite for most of the race in the Gold Derby odds, falling to onetime long-shot Michael B. Jordan. So he obviously appreciated the Knicks accomplishing a feat similar to Jordan’s and rattling the prognosticators. The Kalshi prediction market had the Spurs as a 64% favorite going into the series, while the Las Vegas line was Spurs at -205, or a nearly 68% chance. At the height of his Oscar campaign, Chalamet had a 79% chance to win Best Actor before a late-season freefall coincided with Jordan’s ascension.
Chalamet was part of an all-star, awards-worthy contingent of Knicks fans who got nearly as much face time as the team during the playoffs. Aside from Chalamet and girlfriend Kylie Jenner, the faithful included Spike Lee, Ben Stiller, Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Jimmy Fallon, John Turturro, Tracy Morgan, Michael J. Fox, Mariska Hargitay, Julianne Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Keke Palmer, Jeremy Strong, Rainn Wilson, Nas, Fat Joe, Alana Haim, Este Haim, and, for one game, even Taylor Swift.
While Chalamet has lost Best Actor for two consecutive years — for Marty Supreme and A Complete Unknown — there’s a good chance he’ll be back again in 2027 thanks to Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three. Although the saga-capper doesn’t arrive in theaters until December, it’s already stirring Oscar buzz.
