Every year, we do the discourse dance around the nominees for the major acting awards. Every year, there’s the early frontrunners (Chalamet for Marty Supreme), the legacy nominees (Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon), the pleasant surprises (Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent) and the performances from the Best Picture standouts (Jordan and Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle After Another). This year, Chalamet dominated the discussion early for his unconventional Marty Supreme press tour, in which he blatantly told the world he wanted an Oscar, badly, attested to his own greatness, and performed his ambition loudly, proudly, and clumsily. Sure, it turned some people off, but The Oscars has awarded many a men people don’t like (see: Sean Penn). Closer to Hollywood’s biggest night, Chalamet made comments that pundits swear “lost” him the Oscar. In an interview with Matthew McConoughey during a CNN and Variety town hall, posted on February 24, Chalamet said “no one cares” about ballet and opera and that he wouldn’t want to be involved in art forms with less eyeballs than movies.