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For anyone who follows the news, the story will sound eerily familiar: migrant workers rounded up by immigration officials, put on a plane and transported to a deportation center and, ultimately, Mexico. The shocking twists, however, are the year it happened — 1948, in Fresno County, California — and the tragedy that ensued: The aircraft crashed, killing everyone onboard, including the 28 workers.

A month later, Woody Guthrie immortalized the horrific incident with a basic sketch for a song that, in the late Fifties, became “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)” after Colorado folksinger...

A new collection of previously unheard Woody Guthrie home recordings will soon see the light of day. Woody at Home – Volume 1 & 2 arrives August 14th on Shamus Records and includes 22 previously unreleased tracks, among them a rendition of “This Land Is Your Land” featuring new verses.

The contents of Woody At Home were recorded from 1951 to 1952 in his Gravesend, Brooklyn home. Of the 22 tracks, 13 of them were only ever recorded at this New York residence. Guthrie employed one microphone and a reel-to-reel tape machine to capture the collected songs.

Steve Rosenthal transferred and produced the album while Jessica Thompson handled mixing and mastering duties. The duo utilized “pioneering software and antique tape machines to de-mix and mix the voice and guitar,” on Woody At Home to achieve a homespun but clearer sound.

“For Woody, to be at home producing his music at his leisure allowed a different focus and sense of safety,...

Steven Keene, a New York singer-songwriter, challenges fans of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen to identify as many of the creative giants’ lyrics as they can in his rollicking new song “Thesaurus.”

Just shy of four minutes, there’s nonetheless a lot to digest in Keene’s word-packed song, which he sells with his own Dylan-like delivery. Some references are easily identifiable to casual fans — he calls out “First We Take Manhattan” and “Highway 61” in the first 30 seconds — but others, like “He not busy being born is busy dying,...

Liz Meriwether has cast two key roles in her upcoming Hulu series.

Variety has learned that both Lola Petticrew and Scott McNairy are now set to star in the untitled series, which is loosely inspired by the 1987 movie “Black Widow.” Emmy Rossum is also attached to star in the drama, which was originally announced in March. In addition, Brian Kirk has boarded the series as director and executive producer.

The official logline states, “An FBI agent uses the secrets from a female serial killer’s past to try and find her.” Rossum will star as the FBI agent. Petticrew will play Catherine, who is described as “a killer with a complicated past targeting wealthy men and running from the NYPD and FBI.”

McNairy will play Danny, said to be “An NYPD Homicide Detective who’s been at it too long. Danny’s sharp, tired, and emotionally tangled in ways he...

Time fades away, but Neil Young never does. He’s been on a like-a-hurricane live roll lately with his ferocious new band the Chrome Hearts, who make their studio debut on Talkin to the Trees. The band came together fast last year, after Neil’s amazing spring tour with his old outlaw pals in Crazy Horse. Since Ralph Molina and Billy Talbot are both over 80, Neil was one of the youngest dudes in his own band — he’s still a spring chicken of 79. Health issues ended the tour early, almost exactly a year ago,...

When Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello took the stage at Boston Calling Music Festival on Sunday evening, his solo set featured a pointed message. On the screen behind him, a graphic compiled nearly two dozen buttons that read and spelled out “Fuck Trump,” labeled the president a “tyrant,” and referred to him as the “Hater in Chief.” Addressing the crowd, Morello said: “Welcome, brothers and sisters, to the last big event before they throw us all in jail.”

Morello used the performance to join the legion of musicians...

In the opening shot of the music video for his song “Full Time Papi,” the Spanish artist Álvaro de la Fuente wields a leather whip to the camera. The takes that follow: throuples making out, homoerotic mud fights, and spectacular displays of muscle, all of which erupt into a chorus of other shirtless men, hanging from a rope and chanting, “Yo seré tu full time papi, full time papi, full time papi.”

“Full Time Papi” is the first single off of de la Fuente’s forthcoming album, Spanish Leather, and...

Exclusive: Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried (Mank) and Scoot McNairy (A Complete Unknown) are set to topline The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd, a new prison break thriller written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson.

Currently in production in Georgia, the film follows a teacher in an abusive marriage who takes a job at a maximum security prison, where she falls for a charismatic inmate. The disastrous consequences call into question not only the nature of punishment and retribution, but the very limits of our humanity.

Julie Buck, Nelson, Ryan Bartecki, Miles David Romney, and Billy Hines are producing, with Christopher Hines and Gary Levinsohn exec producing. Co Created Media, V42, and Nelson’s Red Barn Films are the production companies. WME, V42, and D Squared Films are co-repping domestic rights.

“I feel deeply fortunate to be able to tell this story with such an extraordinary lead cast,” Nelson said.

Johnny Rodriguez, the first country star of Mexican American descent known for such recordings as “You Always Come Back (To Hurting Me)” and “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico,” died Friday after entering hospice care. He was 73. His daughter confirmed Rodriguez’s death in a social media post.

“It is with profound sadness and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved Johnny Rodriguez, who left us peacefully on May 9th, surrounded by family,” she wrote. “Dad was not only a legendary musician whose artistry touched millions around the world,...

Warren Zevon’s son isn’t sure how his late father would feel about finally getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. “By now he’d be 78,” Jordan Zevon tells Rolling Stone. “How would 78-year-old pop react to it? He could have been the crankiest, get-off-my-lawn-guy on the planet, or he might’ve morphed into the story-time grandpa with hard candy in his pocket and think it’s delightful. We just don’t know.”

Music fans love to complain about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s many snubs,...

There’s an apocryphal story about John Prine deciding to start his Oh Boy Records after wearying of record label struggles. In 1981, the tale goes, Prine went out into the desert, put his hand on a rock, and declared, “I am a record label.” In 2020, Dave Hause did something similar, and, along with his younger brother Tim and agent Alex Fang, started Blood Harmony Records. Three years later, they upped the ante in Philadelphia, putting their hands on the statue of Rocky Balboa that guards the city’s Museum of Art,...

The American Music Honors, an annual event organized by the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center, took place Saturday at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, this year honoring Smokey Robinson, John Fogerty, Emmylou Harris, Tom Morello, and Joe Ely.

Every honoree with the exception of Joe Ely was on site to receive the award, as well as perform their classic songs with help from Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, Bruce Springsteen, and surprise guests Jackson Browne, Nils Lofgren, Nora Guthrie, and Darlene Love. In other words, an...

As they get more expensive, widely seen and complicatedly filmed, movie milestones are getting hit all the time. Usually, they’re the movies you’d expect: the blockbusters that sweep all the awards and land on top 10 lists for years to come. Sometimes, though, a little nothing movie can show up, make history and leave before anyone notices.

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1983’s Rock & Rule was notable for two things: 1) somehow snagging voice talents like Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and Debbie Harry; and 2) having suspiciously good animation for a low-budget Canadian cartoon. In fact, the tale of nuclear rat-like creatures using rock music to summon the forces of evil was the first animated movie to use CGI. Unfortunately, none of that helped it to recoup even a fraction of its budget at the box office.

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By 2004, we had an entire Lord of the Rings series, so it’s...

James Mangold’s acclaimed Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is now streaming on Hulu as of March 27th.

Starring Timothée Chalamet as a young, emerging Bob Dylan throughout the early and mid-1960s, A Complete Unknown tracks the events leading up to Dylan’s infamous electric Newport Folk Festival set in 1965 as well as his relationships with fellow folk figures Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro), Pete Seeger (Edward Norton), Sylvie Russo (Elle Fanning), and Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy).

The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards at the 2025 Oscars, including Best Actor for Chalamet, ultimately winning none. But starting on March 27th, Hulu subscribers will be able to stream A Complete Unknown and see for themselves whether Chalamet should have edged out Adrian Brody for Best Actor or not.

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Timothée Chalamet stars as the folk legend in this Oscar-nominated biopic, now streaming on Hulu.

I love a good biopic — especially when it digs into music history. There’s just something about tracing the roots of a sound or an artist that hits deeper than your average rise-and-fall story. “A Complete Unknown” is the latest to do just that, turning the early days of Bob Dylan into a full-on cinematic experience. Directed by James Mangold and starring Timothée Chalamet as Dylan himself, this one zeroes in on the moment he shocked the folk world by plugging in and going electric. Whether you’re a Dylan diehard or just here for the awards buzz, “A Complete Unknown” is worth queuing up. You can stream it starting Thursday, March 27 on Hulu.

How to watch ‘A Complete Unknown’ When: Thursday, March 27, 2025, at 12:01 a.m. Et TV: Hulu Stream: Watch with a subscription...

On a night when half a dozen people made jokes about this being the last-ever Mark Twain Prize, Conan O’Brien made sure the ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ended on a high note.

O’Brien accepted the award for lifetime achievement in comedy Sunday night while acknowledging the backstage turmoil that hangs over the future of the cultural center in Washington, D.C.

O’Brien, 61, was named the 26th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize in mid-January, about three weeks before President Donald Trump upended the Kennedy Center by ousting longtime president Deborah Rutter and board chairman David Rubenstein. Trump dismissed the board of trustees and replaced them with loyalists, who then elected him chairman.

On Sunday, O’Brien specifically thanked Rubenstein and Rutter — drawing an extended round of applause — and also Kennedy Center staffers who, he said, were “worried about what the future might bring.

The ending of Sadie Sink’s O’Dessa is a bittersweet one of a hero(ine) who finds herself alone, yet loved by the masses. O’Dessa tells the story of the titular character, who goes on a journey to “Satylite City” after her mum passes away from an illness. At the age of 19, all O’Dessa has known is the farms that have been poisoned by plasma in a dystopian future. But she also knows that she holds the title and burden of being the “seventh son,” a chosen one, in a prophecy foretold 7 generations earlier. With a guitar made from a burning willow tree will rise a hero who will be “the one” and save all of mankind. In this typically sci-fi dystopian story, there’s a lot more romance than you’d expect.

See, O’Dessa finds herself enthralled by a young man named Euri, who sings...

Tantalized by the buzz around James Mangold‘s historical rock drama A Complete Unknown? By the end of the month all you’ll need to see it is a Hulu subscription. It’s been announced for a March 27 streaming debut. The title itself is referring to its subject, Bob Dylan…one of the most iconic rock and roll artists of all time, and certainly not an unknown person. Yet there was a time when nobody knew who Dylan was. He arrived in 1961 New York at just nineteen, hailing from Minnesota, and he knew no one either. As luck would have it, he would not only land bigger and bigger gigs but form friendships along the way with other future music stars, like Pete Seeger and Joan Baez. Timothée Chalamet stars as Bob Dylan, alongside Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Boyd Holbrook...

With Timothée Chalamet’s next big film A Complete Unknown which arrived in theaters Christmas Day, many may be curious about the actors work and preparation for portraying musician Bob Dylan in the film as well as the film’s story parameters.

An ensemble cast will accompany Chalamet and portray musicians and other important figures in Bob Dylan’s life. For everything we know about A Complete Unknown, read on.

When did A Complete Unknown come out in theaters?

The musical biopic arrived in theaters December 25, 2024, or Christmas Day.

Is A Complete Unknown streaming?

Not quite yet, but the film will be available to watch on Hulu starting March 27.

What is A Complete Unknown about?

The film’s screenplay is based on Elijah Wald’s book Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan and the Night That Split the Sixties. The story follows iconic troubadour Bob Dylan as he creates...

Hulu has announced that A Complete Unknownwill be available for streaming on March 27. The movie featuring Timothée Chalametas Bob Dylan was recently nominated in multiple categories at the Academy Awards, and it's finally time for audiences to experience the emotions of this journey in the comfort of their homes. The cast of A Complete Unknown also featured Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez and Edward Norton as Pete Seeger. The point of the movie was to depict the formative years that transformed Bob Dylan into a music icon.

After a 92-day theatrical window that is hearty for an independent movie, Searchlight’s Oscar-nominated A Complete Unknown will hit Hulu on March 27.

The James Mangold-directed Bob Dylan biopic received eight Oscar nominations including Best Actor for Timothée Chalamet as Dylan, Best Picture, Best Director for Mangold, Best Supporting Actress for Monica Barbaro, Best Supporting Actor for Edward Norton, Best Adapted Screenplay for Jay Cocks and Mangold, as well as Best Sound and Costume Design.

Chalamet won Best Actor at the SAG Awards.

A Complete Unknown minted $74.7 million at the domestic box office and $131.9M worldwide. Stateside, it was a bright spot for an adult-skewing specialty title at the Christmas box office, opening to a five-day of $23.2M alongside Focus Features’ Nosferatu, which did $40.8M over five days.

A Complete Unknown is set in New York in 1961. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval,...

Break out the acoustic guitars and tambourines: “A Complete Unknown” will be streaming on Hulu starting next week. The Timothée Chalamet-fronted Bob Dylan biopic has finally set a streaming release date of March 27, when it will be available for all Hulu and Hulu/Disney+ subscribers.

Nominated for eight Oscars including Best Actor and Best Picture, the film charts the early years of Bob Dylan’s rise in the New York City folk scene of the 1960s. The movie chronicles Dylan’s popularity and stardom, and eventual pivot to electric that left many in the folk community feeling burned. His relationship with mentor Pete Seeger (Edward Norton) is a particular focus of the film.

Chalamet prepared to play this role for years and does all his own singing and guitar playing in the film, which earned him many positive notices and a SAG award for Best Actor. Monica Barbaro also...

The 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards celebrated the best performances of the year in both movies and television.

Celebs from all around the world gathered for the annual event on Sunday (February 23) at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Wicked led the nominations this year with five nods and Shogun led the television categories, also with five nominations.

Make sure to see photos of Every celeb on the red carpet at the SAG Awards. You can also take a look at our list of the Best Dressed stars of the night.

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Movie Nominations:

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Adrien Brody / László Tóth – “The Brutalist”

TIMOTHÉE Chalamet / Bob Dylan – “A Complete Unknown” – Winner

Daniel Craig / William Lee – “Queer”

Colman Domingo / Divine G – “Sing Sing”

Ralph Fiennes / Lawrence – “Conclave”

Outstanding Performance...

Based on Elijah Wald’s hour-by-hour countdown Dylan Goes Electric!, James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown is a quirky, engaging and (thankfully) never reverential biopic that tracks the journey of Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) from acoustic folk to rock amplification. Its main concern is music and mimesis: to showcase Chalamet performing the Dylan songbook with a fidelity to the original beyond the vocal range of the lip-synching Larry Parks in The Jolson Story (1946) or Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).

The imitations are all, as it were, pitch perfect, but they tend to submerge the political dimension to Dylan’s decision to crank up the volume at the Newport Folk Festival on July 25, 1965. The gesture was not about electricity but autonomy, the desire of the artist to free himself from the restrictive meters and themes of an agit-prop folk tradition. Heard retrospectively, “It Ain’t Me Babe” is no longer just...

The Academy Award-nominated film A Complete Unknown will be available to stream online ahead of the 97th Oscars.

Starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan and Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, the music biopic is currently available for digital pre-order ahead of its Feb. 25 release on premium VOD platforms (PVOD) including Apple TV and Prime Video.

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Directed by James Mangold, A Complete Unknown chronicles the early ’60s Greenwich Village folk scene and the friction caused by Dylan rejecting his acoustic roots. The film is up for eight Oscars, including best picture, best directing, best actor for Chalamet, best supporting actor for Edward Norton (who plays musician...

Before this past Christmas, Bob Dylan’s “Song to Woody” was far from one of his most-streamed songs; neither are most of the tracks from Dylan’s 1962 debut album. But all that changed over the holiday season, when “Song to Woody” jumped from an average of 4,000 streams a day to a robust 55,000. And that’s merely one example of what you might call the Chalamet Effect on Dylan’s catalog.

Long before filming on A Complete Unknown even began, those involved in Dylan’s records and publishing wondered what impact...

“A Complete Unknown,” a musical biopic starring Timothée Chalamet as “Like a Rolling Stone” composer Bob Dylan, has cemented a box office milestone, notching $100 million in global ticket sales.

After seven weeks on the big screen, “A Complete Unknown” has grossed $70 million in North America and $30 million internationally for a grand total of $100 million. The R-rated film ranks as Searchlight’s sixth-highest grossing domestic release of all time and is expected to pass “Sideways” ($71.5 million) to crack the top five in the coming weeks.

James Mangold (“Walk the Line”) directed the movie, which reportedly cost between $60 million to $70 million to produce. Since movie theater owners get to keep roughly half of ticket sales, “A Complete Unknown” likely won’t turn a profit in its theatrical run. But still, it’s no small feat these days for specialty fare to crack the $100 million mark.

Searchlight opened “A Complete Unknown” on Christmas Day,...

Props from “A Complete Unknown” will go on display at the Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie Centers in Tulsa, Okla., as part of a new exhibit, “Stepping Into the Unknown,” opening on Feb. 28. It’s the first exhibit to run concurrently at both centers.

The exhibit, presented in partnership with Searchlight Pictures, will “illuminate the deep bond between the two hugely influential American songwriters.” One of the first scenes in the Timothée Chalamet biopic sees Dylan visiting Guthrie (Scoot McNairy) in the hospital immediately upon his arrival in New York City.

Among the props from the James Mangold-directed film are Guthrie’s harmonica; Dylan’s letter to Guthrie; Johnny Cash’s letters to Dylan; “Blowin’ in the Wind” lyrics handwritten on a cocktail napkin; and a handful of fabricated album covers featuring the actors (like Chalamet and Elle Fanning’s rendition of “Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan”).

“As moviegoers learned from ‘A Complete Unknown,...

Perhaps the secret to modern-day success in the entertainment business is to name your project the opposite of what you want to happen to it. Example: the top-rated new series on Netflix in 2024 was called “Nobody Wants This.” There’s also this new indie movie distributed through Searchlight called “A Complete Unknown,” and despite that name, knowledge of its existence is rapidly becoming common. So is the Oscar buzz.

The title itself is referring to its subject, Bob Dylan…one of the most iconic rock and roll artists of all time, and certainly not an unknown person. Yet there was a time when nobody knew who Dylan was. He arrived in 1961 New York at just nineteen, hailing from Minnesota, and he knew no one either. As luck would have it, he would not only land bigger and bigger gigs but form friendships along the way with other future music stars,...

The filmmakers behind Best Picture nominee “A Complete Unknown” will be the first ones to tell you that any portrayal of musician Bob Dylan comes with an extreme level of difficulty, so the stakes were high filming the opening sequence, which IndieWire can share in an exclusive clip above.

“‘Song to Woody’ is meant to be Bob’s tribute — it’s both an audition and a heartfelt expression of gratitude to his hero,” said star Timothée Chalamet of the scene where his Dylan goes into Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital to meet and perform the song for his idol Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy) and Pete Seeger (Edward Norton.)

Chalamet’s portrayal of Dylan, an icon of multiple genres and disciplines, has earned him his second Oscar nomination for Best Actor, as well as his own tribute at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, where past collaborators provided their endorsement of the...

Having partnered with such A-list musicians as Madonna for decades, costume designer and self-described visual artist Arianne Phillips is no stranger to the music world. Her latest work on James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, marks Phillips’ fourth Academy Award nomination for best costume design and her sixth collab with Mangold. The two first teamed up for Girl, Interrupted in 1999, while their work on Walk the Line, which focused on Johnny Cash’s life and career, in 2005 is revisited through the Cash-Dylan friendship depicted in A Complete Unknown. For the film, which landed eight Oscar nominations, Phillips and her bicoastal team of 42 created approximately 8,000 costumes, including 67 wardrobe changes for Timothée Chalamet in the starring role.

“So much happens in the first four years of Bob’s career that it was really thrilling, as a costume designer, to guide the audience through his dramatic style evolution,” Phillips tells The Hollywood Reporter.

A Complete Unknown has made a big splash with its many accolades and awards nominations. The Bob Dylan biopic has also managed to pick up some of the biggest recognitions in the film industry with Academy Award nominations in Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. Now the James Mangold film is set to come home with a 4K Blu-ray release set for April 1. Blu-ray.com reports on the announced details for the movie that stars Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Edward Norton, Monica Barbaro, and Boyd Holbrook.

The description reads,

“New York, 1961. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. He forges intimate relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking and controversial performance that reverberates worldwide.

Here’s some good news for music fans and cinephiles alike: the Timothée Chalamet-led Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown will be available for digital purchase on February 25th, with the physical release following on April 1st.

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Pre-orders for the digital release of A Complete Unknown are available now through Amazon and Apple TV. For those who want a physical copy, it will be available on 4K Uhd Blu-ray and standard Blu-ray.

Directed by James Mangold, A Complete Unknown stars Chalamet as a 19-year-old Bob Dylan arriving in New York City. During his rise, the artist comes across other iconic singer-songwriters like Pete Seeger (Edward Norton), Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro), Johnny Cash (Boyd Holbrook), and Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy).

In addition to Best Picture, the film landed Oscar nominations for Best Director (Mangold), Best Actor (Chalamet), Best Supporting Actor (Norton), and Best Supporting Actress...

Directed by Academy Award nominee James Mangold, A Complete Unknown offers an intimate portrayal of Bob Dylan’s transformative years in the early 1960s. Academy Award nominee Timothée Chalamet delivers a captivating performance as Dylan, capturing his evolution from a burgeoning folk artist to a cultural icon.

The film delves into Dylan’s relationships with contemporaries like Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy), Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro), and Pete Seeger (Edward Norton), whose influence shaped his early sound and whose reaction to Dylan’s electric set at Newport became the stuff of legend.

Featuring live renditions of Dylan’s most celebrated songs and a stellar ensemble cast, audiences can get Searchlight Pictures’ A Complete Unknown with never-before-seen bonus extras when the film arrives on digital platforms on February 25.

Additionally, fans can bring home the film in breathtaking 4K Ultra HD Dolby Vision along with Atmos audio delivering an unforgettable home theater experience with jaw-dropping visuals and immersive,...

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Although Edward Norton never did get to mingle with the Avengers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe after only a single outing as Bruce Banner/The Hulk, his career certainly hasn’t slowed down one bit. Last week, he received his fourth Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Pete Seeger in the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown. He may be up against some heavy hitters like Kieren Culkin in A Real Pain and Guy Pierce in The Brutalist, but if there was ever a more appropriate time for him to finally earn an Oscar win, it'd be now. In the film, Norton completely vanishes into his performance of Seeger, providing his own singing voice and perfectly capturing the...

Final voting is February 11-18. The 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2, and air live on ABC at 7 p.m. Et/ 4 p.m. Pt. We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.

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The Best Costume Design nominees are “A Complete Unknown,” “Conclave,” “Gladiator II,” “Nosferatu,” and “Wicked,” which is the favorite. However, “A Complete Unknown” the surprise entry, could be a dark horse.

Jon M. Chu’s “Wicked” tells the origin story of Elphaba/the Wicked Witch (Oscar-nominated Cynthia Erivo) and Galinda/Glinda the Good Witch (Oscar-nominated Ariana Grande). Costume designer Paul Tazewell’s approach to Elphaba and Glinda’s costumes was to create intentional differences and highlight the juxtaposition of dark and light, textured versus refined, using a connection with nature for Elphaba and a floating sensibility for Galinda.

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Timothée Chalamet will be pulling double duty on Saturday Night Live this weekend, as both host and musical guest. Since the actor’s music career so far only consists of playing Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, seemingly he will be performing on SNL as Dylan. Sadly, he’s a month too late to do a snarling cover of “Must Be Santa.”

But long before Chalamet was booked on the show, Bob Dylan himself appeared on SNL for the first and last time in October of 1979. Dylan performed three songs from his Christian-themed album Slow Train Coming.

The host of the episode was Eric Idle, who claimed to be ill. The Monty Python star performed his monologue from a stretcher, following a cold open in which Buck Henry asks Lorne Michaels to put him in as the host instead. In a Reddit Ama, Idle revealed that it wasn’t just...

Just months after delivering what many fans dubbed as his career best performance as Paul Atreides in Dune: Part II, Timothee Chalamet is back impressing audiences and further showcasing his range. In this long awaited biopic, Chalamet plays singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in the early 1960’s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives in the West Village with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. Previously advertised with the title ‘Going Electric’, the film not only follows Dylan’s rise to fame but the disappointment of his fans when he ditched his acoustic guitar and solo presence for an electric guitar and a band. Superbly acted by a talented ensemble helmed flawlessly by Chalamet, A Complete Unknown is a competent biopic that puts music front and center, but loses focus on its character development in the process.

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James Mangold’s hit musical biopic A Complete Unknown tells the legendary story of Bob Dylan’s transformation from niche folk poet to mainstream rock star in the mid-1960s. In doing so, it introduces other music legends like Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and Johnny Cash to a whole new generation of Dylan fans by characterizing them as stepping stones on the singer’s journey to stardom.

The movie draws extensively from Elijah Wald’s non-fiction book Dylan Goes Electric! as well as other real-world sources, including Dylan’s actual written correspondence with Johnny Cash. It’s also clear that D. A. Pennebaker’s 1967 documentary Don’t Look Back heavily inspired A Complete Unknown. But it takes more than historical documents to render a compelling dramatization on the big screen. That’s why Mangold and his co-screenwriter Jay Cocks have turned...

“A Complete Unknown” is the rare Hollywood movie that has inspired a reckoning. Everywhere, on social media, in mainstream media, or simply on the part of so many who have seen the film, a tingling conversation is taking place — a kind of collective meditation/investigation into who Bob Dylan was, who he is, what he meant back then and what he means now. What’s striking is that very little of this is Dylan nostalgia — i.e., the boomers getting misty-eyed with self-importance about “their” beloved icon. And if that’s what it was, it would be lame. (No one would hate it more than Dylan.)

The Dylan conversation that’s been ignited is very present tense and alive, and very exploratory. It’s about the movie, but it’s bigger than the movie. It’s about everyone who has seen “A Complete Unknown,” or everyone who simply grew up with Dylan,...

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A Complete Unknown leaves Pete Seeger’s trial vague, brushing over everything but the sentencing speech, but the actual story is more fascinating than what’s depicted. Although Bob Dylan is the star of the 2024 biopic, multiple other characters in A Complete Unknown have a significant impact on his journey from a newbie to one of the world’s best songwriters. One of the most influential is Pete Seeger, a folk singer who gained fame alongside his friend Woody Guthrie.

Because the narrative centers on Bob Dylan’s life in the early 1960s, Seeger’s backstory is only really told when it directly impacts the main character. The one exception to this comes early in A Complete Unknown when Pete Seeger appears in a courtroom for the sentencing of his trial. He mentions one of his songs being deemed “UnAmerican,” offering to sing it,...

The 2024 Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, leaves out one amusing detail about the singer’s life in the 1960s that is entertaining to look back on. Over the past six decades, he has become known as one of the best songwriters of all time, winning a Nobel Prize in Literature for his lyrics. Because of his prolific effect on the folk and rock ‘n’ roll genres, many filmmakers have produced movies about Bob Dylan.

Director James Mangold directed and co-wrote the 2024 film A Complete Unknown, which outlines the musician’s life in the early 1960s. The film was lauded for its performances, cinematography, and entertainment value. However, A Complete Unknown makes numerous big changes to Bob Dylan’s story that could be called into question. Not every change has a significant impact on the story, though. The Bob Dylan biopic leaves out one funny detail that’s narratively insignificant but entertaining to think about.

A Complete Unknown has passed a major milestone, breaking a box office record for star Timothée Chalamet. Chalamet plays folk icon Bob Dylan in the music biopic, which was directed by Walk the Line's James Mangold and also stars Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Elle Fanning as the lightly fictionaized Sylvie Russo, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, and Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie. The theatrical release of A Complete Unknown kicked off on Christmas Day in 2024, becoming the second highest-grossing debut movie that weekend behind Nosferatu.

Per Deadline, as of Sunday morning, A Complete Unknown is projected to add a 3-day total of $5 million by the end of its third weekend in domestic theaters. In addition to seeing the movie land at No. 7 on the domestic chart for the weekend, this will bring its cumulative gross to $50.8 million. This marks the first time that a...

Warning: Spoilers ahead for A Complete Unknown!James Mangold’s new biopic of Bob Dylan, A Complete Unknown, charts the singer’s rise from a fledgling folk singer inspired by the musical traditions of Woody Guthrie to a full-blown rock superstar. With the instruments to match, naturally, A Complete Unknown's soundtrack is memorable. The movie plays heavily on the mythology surrounding Dylan’s visit to the Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital as a 20-year-old, where he found his hero Guthrie incapacitated by Huntington's disease. According to A Complete Unknown, Guthrie then gave his harmonica to Dylan, only for the young singer to return with it four years later.

The film shows folk legend Pete Seeger also visiting the hospital as Dylan plays his "Song to Woody", a tribute he wrote for Guthrie and his first song of any significance, upon first meeting his idol. The youngster certainly earns his stripes,...

Warning: Spoilers ahead for A Complete Unknown.

Bob Dylan had a historic and controversial electric performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival in real life and in the new biopic A Complete Unknown. Starring Timothée Chalamet as the legendary folk singer/songwriter, A Complete Unknown was released in threats on Christmas Day 2024. The cast of A Complete Unknown also features Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Dan Fogler, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, and Edward Norton as Seeger. While the film is a biopic of the icon's rise to fame, A Complete Unknown changes several true story details about Bob Dylan's real life.

Directed by James Mangold of Ford v. Ferrari and Logan acclaim, A Complete Unknown has one of the best performances of 2024. With a Rotten Tomatoes score of 79% and an audience score of 95%, A Complete Unknown was nominated for three Golden Globes and four SAG Awards. The film follows Bob Dylan's...

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There’s a priceless moment early in “A Complete Unknown” when folk icon Pete Seeger returns to the cabin where he lives with his family after offering a young singer named Bob Dylan a place to sleep for the night. Seeger shows Dylan around the house, proudly displaying the modern amenities of the rustic abode. But when he talks about how the wondrous new composting toilet doesn’t even stink, his kids chime in from the next room: Yes, Dad, it does!

The moment is quintessential Pete Seeger, a man who wore the same gentle smile whether he was leading sing-alongs or facing adversity that included a lengthy period in the 1950s where he was blacklisted after being at the height of his popularity with the folk group The Weavers. Seeger’s essential goodness always stood out, wrote Elijah Wald in “Dylan Goes Electric!,” the book that served as the inspiration for “A Complete Unknown.

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The Screen Actors Guild wisely opted to cancel its in-person 2025 SAG Awards nominations announcement as fires raged throughout Los Angeles. The list of film nominees, representing the best work by actors in 2024, is led by Wicked with five nominations. A Complete Unknown and Emilia Pérez each earned four, and Anora picked up three nominations. Conclave and The Last Showgirl were nominated for two SAG Awards.

Shōgun leads all television nominees with five, followed by The Bear (coming off a disappointing season) with four and The Diplomat with three. 12 series tied with two nominations each.

Winners will be announced during the 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards streaming on Netflix on Sunday, February 23, 2025 at 5pm Pt/8pm Et.

SAG Awards Motion Picture Nominees

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

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The 2025 SAG Award nominations are in!

The 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will stream live globally on Netflix Sunday, February 23, 2025, at 8 p.m. Et / 5 p.m. Pt from the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall. Kristen Bell returns as host.

Joey King and Cooper Koch were supposed to announce the nominees live this morning, but the event was canceled due to the devastating fires happening in California right now.

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Movie Nominations:

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Adrien Brody / László Tóth – “The Brutalist”

TIMOTHÉE Chalamet / Bob Dylan – “A Complete Unknown”

Daniel Craig / William Lee – “Queer”

Colman Domingo / Divine G – “Sing Sing”

Ralph Fiennes / Lawrence – “Conclave”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Pamela Anderson / Shelly – “The Last Showgirl”

Cynthia Erivo / Elphaba – “Wicked”

Karla SOFÍA GASCÓN / Emilia/Manitas – “Emilia PÉREZ”

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Nominations for the 2025 SAG Awards were unveiled this morning, after the group’s scheduled in-person announcement was canceled amid the unfolding wildfire tragedy in Los Angeles. See the full list below, followed by a breakdown of noms by film and TV show..

Vying for the marquee film ensemble category are the casts of A Complete Unknown, Anora, Conclave, Emilia Pérez and Wicked.

Up for the lead actor prize are Golden Globe winner Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown), Daniel Craig (Queer), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing) and Ralph Fiennes (Conclave).

The lead female actor race is among Pamela Anderson (The Last Showgirl), Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez), Mikey Madison (Anora) and Golden Globe winner Demi Moore (The Substance).

Overall, Wicked leads the film field with five nominations, followed by A Complete Unknown with four and Anora and Emilia Pérez with three each.

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