Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” earns 8 Oscar nominations

MINNEAPOLIS — “A Full Unknown,” the biopic chronicling the swift pop-cultural ascent of Minnesota native Bob Dylan within the early Nineteen Sixties, has been nominated for eight Academy Awards.

Timothée Chalamet, who performs Dylan, acquired a Finest Actor nomination. Monica Barbaro and Edward Norton, who respectively performed people music icons Joan Baez and Pete Seeger, have been additionally nominated for his or her supporting roles.

Dylan, who’s now 83, was born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth and raised in Hibbing. He studied for a 12 months on the College of Minnesota in Minneapolis, the place he entrenched himself in people music. He began acting at a Dinkytown espresso store and embraced his new moniker earlier than transferring to New York Metropolis in 1961, the place the movie begins.

Though Minnesota itself is not featured in “A Full Unknown,” Chalamet visited Duluth and Hibbing in January 2024 whereas making ready for the movie, and stunned college students in Hibbing Excessive Faculty’s drama division.

Chalamet then visited with followers at an advance screening of the movie in December in Minneapolis, the place he spoke to the press concerning the significance of Dylan’s transient time within the metropolis and his Minnesota roots.

“I believe he is very pleased with his Minnesota heritage, and I believe in some methods the way in which I relate to it’s I believe the iron ore in his songs and the iron ore in his voice,” Chalamet stated. “As a New Yorker, a 28-year-old New Yorker, I do not assume my path actually would’ve introduced me out right here, ever. So the primary time I bought right here I assumed, ‘Wow, what a present, Bob Dylan, being this man’s worldview.'”

“A Full Unknown” can also be nominated for Oscars within the director, tailored screenplay, costume design and sound classes.

The crime musical “Emilia Pérez” acquired essentially the most nominations with a complete of 13. See the total listing of Oscar nominations for 2025 Academy Awards.

NOTE: The unique airdate of the video hooked up to this text is Dec. 5, 2024.