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Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Joe Tippett, Eriko Hatsune, Scoot McNairy | Written by James Mangold, Jay Cocks, Elijah Wald | Directed by James Mangold

The biopic has been a genre around since the early days of filmmaking, and over the course of more than 100 years, it has changed drastically with every passing decade. In the early 2000s the genre, in particular the musical biopic, hit somewhat of a snag. It got caught up in formulaic storytelling and became a parody of itself. So much so that the 2007 film Walk Hard made fun of the formula so much it ruined the genre forever. However, some films still missed the joke and went ahead and followed the formula anyway, such as 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody. The formula itself reduced the artist’s life to their Wikipedia page. Often opening with the film’s subject ready to take the stage of one of their famous performances,...

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...

A Complete Unknown is heading to streaming. Timothée Chalamet fans will soon be able to stream his Oscar-nominated performance as Bob Dylan on Hulu.

Per Deadline, the Searchlight biopic arrives on the streamer on March 27 after a 92-day theatrical window. Directed by James Mangold, A Complete Unknown is based on the 2015 biography for Bob Dylan, Elijah Wald's Dylan Goes Electric!. The movie focuses mostly on Dylan's rise in folk music by utilizing electric instruments, with the title coming from the lyrics of "Like a Rolling Stone," one of the singer's most popular songs. The movie is widely considered to be among the best film releases of 2024, and it earned over $109 million at the box office.

For his performance in A Complete Unknown, Chalamet won the SAG Award for Best Actor, beating out fellow nominees Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Daniel Craig (Queer), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), and Ralph Fiennes (Conclave...

A Complete Unknown Worldwide Box Office: Hits A New Milestone (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Timothee Chalamet might have lost the Oscar but won hearts with his sweet Pda with Kylie Jenner. Meanwhile, his A Complete Unknown movie is enjoying a post-Oscar boost at the global box office. The film has been in the theatres for months, and this is probably its final milestone at the box office. Scroll below for the deets.

It is the biopic of music legend Bob Dylan, who has been a prominent figure in popular culture over his 60-year career. He is also one of the best-selling musicians of all time. It has been directed by James Mangold and is based on the 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald. The film portrays Dylan from his earliest folk music success until the momentous controversy over his use of electric instruments. Chalamet features in the titular role with Edward Norton,...

Conclave screenwriter Peter Straughan is now an Academy Award winner. The honor comes after Straughan picked up wins at the BAFTAs, Golden Globes, and Critics' Choice Awards.

At the Academy Awards on Sunday night, Straughan was announced as the winner for Best Adapted Screenplay. This is the second nomination for the writer, but the first time he has picked up the win. He was nominated for the 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which managed to get him a win at the BAFTAs and other awards shows, but he came up short at the Oscars. The screenwriter is now getting his flowers, and it is clear from his Oscar win acceptance speech how proud he feels to have gotten the honor.

#Peter_Straughan wearing #Ukrainian_flag 🇺🇦 on his lapel.Best Adapted Screenplay for #Conclave#Oscars #Oscars2025 pic.twitter.com/QvLgnecyA6— Malainine (@CHM_iNEWS) March 3, 2025

To win the Oscar,...

Best Director gets more attention at the Oscars, but this millennium has shown the writing categories are potentially more important. In the past 15 years Argo (2012), Green Book (2018), and Coda (2021) won Best Picture without directing noms — but no film since Titanic (1997) has won without a writing nom. That could be good news for many of this year's nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay. Four of the five are also up for the top prize. Here is our breakdown of the race as it stands today.

SEEHow Kieran Culkin could end this 12-year Oscar streak Frontrunner: Conclave, by Peter Straughan

Only one film in this category earned writing nominations from the BAFTAs, Critics Choice Awards, USC Scripter Awards, and Golden Globes, and Conclave is it. The screenplay also managed to win all of those awards, including the Golden Globe, which was a shared category with original screenplay contenders. That means Conclave not only...

Actor Timothee Chalamet is now a Screen Actors Guild Award winner. He's looking at this big win as the next step in his journey to one day be seen as one of the greatest actors of all time.

Chalamet was nominated at the SAG Awards on Sunday for his role as real-life music icon Bob Dylan in the biopic filmA Complete Unknown. He picked up the win, overcoming fellow nominees Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Daniel Craig (Queer), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), and Ralph Fiennes (Conclave). During his acceptance speech, he stressed how he's looking for "greatness" in his career.

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"I know we’re in a subjective business, but the truth is, I’m really in pursuit of greatness," he said. "I know people don’t usually talk like that, but...

The writers behind the feature film Conclave and TV series Say Nothing took home top honors at the USC Scripter Awards, which were handed out Saturday night.

The Scripter Awards honor the best adapted projects of the year. Both the original authors and the screenwriters share the award.

Conclave was adapted by Peter Straughan from the novel by Robert Harris.

Say Nothing was honored for the episode “The People in the Dirt,” written by Joshua Zetumer. The show is based on the nonfiction book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe.

The finalists and winners were determined by a jury chaired by USC professor and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences vp Howard Rodman. The awards were presented at the 37th annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards ceremony, a black-tie affair held at the Town & Gown ballroom on the campus of USC.

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...

A Complete Unknown has made its impact as a charming and honest look at Bob Dylan's (Timothée Chalamet) early career. The movie is based on the 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald. A Complete Unknown follows Dylan's journey from being an up-and-coming musician in New York City and highlights the people like Pete Seeger (Edward Norton) and Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro) who influenced him along the way.

Anora kept up its impressive run to the Oscars on Saturday, adding the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay to its considerable haul. The win for the the Sean Baker film came a week after Anora swept the Directors Guild of America and Producers Guild of America top prizes, cementing itself as the frontrunner heading into the Academy Awards on March 2.

RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes‘ script forNickel Boys, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, scored for Best Adapted Screenplay at the WGA Awards, which honor the best writing in movies, television, news, and radio.

The key WGA categories of Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay are seen as a bellwether for the impending Academy Awards, though the nominees rarely match up. Scripts produced outside the guild’s collective bargaining agreement or written by a non-union member are deemed ineligible. This year, six...

With last year’s ceremony taking place in the shadow of the 2023 strikes and this year’s function in the aftermath of the Southern California wildfires, the 2025 WGA Awards have a lot of work to do when it comes to lifting the spirits of the entertainment industry. Thankfully, good writing always has.

As is tradition, events for the east and west coast branches of the Writer’s Guild are held concurrently today at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles and the Edison Ballroom in New York City. LA’s affair is hosted by actor/comedian Joel Kim Booster and kicks off at 4:30pm Pt. For those who want to tune in at home, you can watch the west coast soiree via livestream at that time.

While under normal circumstances, tonight’s results wouldn’t necessarily carry much water when it comes to the Oscars, this year’s awards race...

Timothée Chalamet opened up about how playing Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown” influenced his own experience with fame and activism, saying that he learned from the folk legend to “be wary of any savior-like figures.”

During a packed press conference at Berlin Film Festival on Friday, Chalamet was asked about how Dylan — who penned several iconic protest songs — has influenced his view on political issues like war and the rise of the far-right. Though the moderator redirected the question to the film as “opposed to a personal political point of view,” Chalamet said: “I don’t think that’s necessarily a political question.”

He continued, “I think it’s in the nature of his music, the warnings against cult-like figures. And I think that Bob was very true to — I won’t speak for him because he’s alive and well in Malibu — but my interpretation is just be...

Timothée Chalamet didn’t even know if “A Complete Unknown” would ever get made.

The actor, who is now Oscar-nominated for portraying Bob Dylan in the biopic, told W that he thought the film was “cursed” because of its production delays. The feature was originally titled “Going Electric,” and was adapted from Elijah Wald’s 2015 biography “Dylan Goes Electric.” Writer/director James Mangold announced the film in 2020 — a bad time to start production — and the feature was shelved amid the Covid-19 pandemic. It was released in 2024.

“Originally, I thought I had no time to prepare, but there were delays,” Chalamet said for W’s Directors Issue alongside his “Dune” auteur Denis Villeneuve and David Lynch’s original Paul Atreides, Kyle MacLachlan. “I began to think the film was cursed, but the five years it took to get the cast and movie finally together ended up being a good thing.”

Chalamet added of his prep,...

A new movie produced by Live Nation Productions and starring two alums from The Officewill feature a plot inspired by alternative rock/punk powerhouse Green Day. Per Variety, the film, titled New Years Rev, is a comedic coming-of-age story of three friends who travel to Los Angeles and believe (mistakenly) that their band is opening for the legendary Green Day on New Year’s Eve (so no worries about waking up Billie Joe Armstrong before September ends).

The three friends who think they are opening for Green Day, which consists of Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool will be played by Mason Thames (who also stars in the upcoming live-action How to Train Your Dragon), Kylr Coffman, and Ryan Foust. It will also star Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey, who played Pam Halpert (nee Beesly) and Angela Martin respectively duringThe Office’sentire run from 2005 to 2013. The pair currently host the Office Ladies Podcast.

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The award season has begun, and Timothee Chalamet’s performance as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown is gaining attention, as are its box office achievements. The movie has recently crossed a significant milestone at the box office in North America—it is the tenth musical biopic to cross this milestone. Keep scrolling for more.

The movie, about the legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, was made on a reported budget of $70 million and is based on the 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald. It has secured eight nominations at the 97th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Timothee Chalamet, Best Supporting Actor for Edward Norton, and Best Supporting Actress for Monica Barbaro.

According to Luiz Fernando’s report, Bob Dylan’s biopic, A Complete Unknown, collected a solid $3.1 million on 5th three-day weekend,...

For James Mangold, Thursday morning was like any other, aside from the fact he woke up to three Academy Award nominations for his Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown — for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay (shared with cowriter Jay Cocks) and Best Picture. All things considered, not too shabby. And while the showing was hardly shocking, the filmmaker tells Gold Derby, “I’ve been doing this a long time, and you learn very well not to expect anything. Just be open and let it happen. Obviously the results are thrilling.”

The veteran director had two previous Oscar bids, for adapted screenplay in 2018 (Logan) and picture in 2020 (Ford v Ferrari). There has been some backlash against the Searchlight Pictures feature for allegedly taking of liberties with Dylan’s story by condensing timelines, conjoining separate incidents, and fictionalizing key elements. Even so, Mangold doesn’t see the movie’s eight nominations as...

The screenplays of A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing and The Wild Robot, as well as the source material from which they were drawn, are nominated for the USC Scripter Award for best film adaptation, and the teleplays for episodes of Baby Reindeer, Ripley, Say Nothing, Shōgun and Slow Horses, as well as the source material from which they were drawn, are nominated for the USC Scripter Award for best TV adaptation, the USC Libraries revealed on Wednesday.

The winners — which will be determined by a jury chaired by USC professor and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences vice president Howard Rodman, as were the nominations — will be announced at the 37th annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards ceremony, a black-tie affair in the Town & Gown ballroom on the campus of USC, on Saturday, Feb. 22.

Here is a full list of the film adaptation finalists:

James Mangold and...

The screenplays for “A Complete Unknown,” “Conclave,” “Nickel Boys,” “Sing Sing” and “The Wild Robot,” and the original works on which they were based, have been chosen as finalists for the USC Libraries Scripter Awards, the USC Libraries announced on Wednesday.

The Scripters have been given out since 1988 and are awarded to the writers of adapted screenplays and the authors of the works that were adapted. The unusual decision to reward original authors means that “A Complete Unknown” writers James Mangold and Jay Cocks share their nomination with Elijah Wald, who wrote the book “Dylan Goes Electric!”; “Conclave” screenwriter Peter Straughan is joined as a nominee by novelist Robert Harris; “Nickel Boys” writers RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes are nominated alongside author Colson Whitehead; “Sing Sing” writers Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin and John “Divine G” Whitfield are nominated with Esquire magazine journalist John H. Richardson; and “The Wild Robot...

The 2025 finalists for the USC Libraries Scripter Awards have been announced by the USC Libraries. The annual event is held in honor of the writers of the year’s most accomplished film and episodic series adaptations, as well as the authors of the works on which they are based.

For example, on the film side, recent Golden Globes Best Screenplay winner Peter Straughan is nominated alongside Robert Harris, the author of “Conclave.” The finalist can also be the same person on both ends, with “Baby Reindeer” creator/star Richard Gadd being nominated for adapting his play of the same name into the Emmy-winning hit Netflix series.

The award has become a trusty predictor for what film will win the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, with “American Fiction” filmmaker Cord Jefferson being the most recent example. Other past winners include “Women Talking,” “Call Me by Your Name,” “Moonlight,” “The Big Short,” and “The Imitation Game,...

Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Joe Tippett, Eriko Hatsune, Scoot McNairy | Written by James Mangold, Jay Cocks, Elijah Wald | Directed by James Mangold

The biopic has been a genre around since the early days of filmmaking, and over the course of more than 100 hundred years, it has changed drastically with every passing decade. In the early 2000s the genre, in particular the musical biopic, hit somewhat of a snag. It got caught up in formulaic storytelling and became a parody of itself. So much so that the 2007 film Walk Hard, made fun of the formula so much it ruined the genre forever. However, some films still missed the joke and went ahead and followed the formula anyway, such as 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody. The formula itself reduced the artist’s life to their Wikipedia page. Often opening with the film’s subject ready to take the stage...

Warning: This article contains Spoilers for A Complete Unknown!

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...

The Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America East have chimed in with their selection of the best writing among television and film offerings of 2024. The 2025 WGA Awards nomination announcement was delayed a week due to the devastating fires that hit Los Angeles and scorched more than 40,000 acres. The guild currently plans to stick with its Saturday, February 15th date for the awards ceremony.

Ceremonies will take place in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton and in New York City as the Edison Ballroom.

WGA Awards 2025 Nominees

Original Screenplay

A Real Pain, Written by Jesse Eisenberg; Searchlight Pictures

Anora, Written by Sean Baker; Neon

Challengers, Written by Justin Kuritzkes; Amazon MGM Studios

Civil War, Written by Alex Garland; A24

My Old Ass, Written by Megan Park; Amazon MGM Studios

Adapted Screenplay

A Complete Unknown, Screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks, Based on the Book Dylan Goes Electric!

While Hollywood continues to reel from the devastating L.A. wildfires, the WGA is honoring some of the film industry’s best and brightest by announcing the 77th annual Writers Guild Awards nominees. The yearly celebration of excellence in film, TV, new media, news, radio, and promotional writing is always a highlight of the year, as the event brings attention to many hard-working individuals across a broad spectrum of entertainment.

Anora, A Real Pain, Challengers, Civil War, and My Old Ass are among the films nominated for the Original Screenplay category, while shows like The Boys, The Diplomat, Fallout, Mr. & Mr.s Smith, and Shōgun compete for Drama Series excellence.

The WGA plans to announce the winners on February 15 in New York at the Edison Ballroom and in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton.

Here are the nominees for the 77th annual Writers Guild Awards:

Screenplay

Original Screenplay

A Real Pain,...

Hit Man and My Old Ass join awards heavyweights Anora, A Real Pain and Dune: Part Two in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) nominations announced on Wednesday after being delayed due to the ongoing LA wildfires.

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Challengers and Civil War are included in the original screenplay category, while Wicked, Nickel Boys and A Complete Unknown are in contention for adapted screenplay.

Vying for documentary honours are Jim Henson: Idea Man, Kiss The Future, Martha, and War Game.

Eligibility rules excluded The Brutalist, Conclave,Emilia Perez,All We Imagine As Light,Hard Truths, andThe Outrun.

The...

Anora, A Complete Unknown, Challengers, Hit Man, and Wicked are among the 2025 Writers Guild of America Awards nominees.

In Best Original Screenplay, Anora and Challengers are up against A Real Pain, Civil War, and My Old Ass. The Best Adapted Screenplay lineup features A Complete Unknown, Dune: Part Two, Hit Man, Nickel Boys, and Wicked.

The nominations were announced Wednesday, a week after the guild postponed its scheduled Jan. 9 announcement due to the Los Angeles wildfires.

As previously reported, dozens of scripts — including several top Oscar hopefuls — were ineligible for consideration this year. A screenplay is ineligible if it’s produced outside of the WGA’s collective bargaining agreement or written by a non-union member.

The ineligible adapted scripts were Golden Globe champ Conclave (by Peter Straughan), Emilia Pérez (by Jacques Audiard), I’m Still Here (by Walter Salles), Inside Out 2 (by Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein with a...

Despite having to postpone its announcement due to the turmoil currently being faced in Los Angeles as a result of the Southern California wildfires, the Writers Guild of America has now released its nominations for the 2025 WGA Awards.

The Writers Guild of America West (Wgaw) and Writers Guild of America East (Wgae) have revealed nominations for outstanding achievement in screenwriting, television, new media, news, radio/audio, and promotional writing for work released in 2024.

Screenplays for “A Real Pain,” “Anora,” “Challengers,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Wicked,” and “Nickel Boys” were all featured among the nominees. Surprise nods include Glen Powell and Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man,” Alex Garland’s “Civil War,” and Megan Park’s “My Old Ass,” boosting their chances as Oscar voting wraps up.

For those confused as to why some films aren’t represented amongst the nominations, “All We Imagine As Light,” “The Brutalist,” “A Different Man,” “Dídi,” “Hard Truths,...

Anora, Challengers, A Complete Unknown, Nickel Boys and Wicked are among the feature film screenplay nominees for the 77th annual Writers Guild Awards, which revealed its nominees Wednesday to honor the year’s best in film, TV, new media, news, radio and promotional writing.

Winners will be announced February 15 during concurrent ceremonies in New York at the Edison Ballroom and Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton.

Today’s nomination comes after the WGA delayed its announcements from last week due to the impact of the devastating wildfires across Los Angeles last week. Several groups delayed their noms announcements in order to extend voting deadlines including the Oscars.

Last year’s WGA Awards saw The Holdovers and American Fiction win the top film awards at the strike-delayed ceremony, which came after the Oscars were handed out and Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction won the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay.

Here’s...

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has unveiled its nominees for the 2025 WGA Awards, highlighting a mix of familiar Oscar frontrunners, unexpected entries, and the creative reshuffling prompted by ineligible contenders.

Sean Baker’s critically acclaimed “Anora” is leading the original screenplay list, which many consider the Oscar frontrunner in this category. Another strong contender is Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain,” a personal, semi-autobiographical drama that has been a critical favorite this season.

The inclusion of Justin Kuritzkes’ “Challengers” — a romantic sports drama starring Zendaya — is significant. After its high-profile shutout at the BAFTA Awards, this nomination could rejuvenate its awards season momentum. Adding variety to the category is Alex Garland’s bold post-apocalyptic thriller, “Civil War,” and Megan Park’s sweet yet irreverent comedy, “My Old Ass.” Park, who won praise for her directorial debut “The Fallout,” is also a DGA nominee for first-time director.

The adapted screenplay...

“Anora,” “A Real Pain,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Wicked” and “Nickel Boys” are among the films that have been nominated by the Writers Guild of America in the feature film category, the WGA West and WGA East announced on Wednesday.

In the Original Screenplay category, “Anora” and “A Real Pain” were nominated alongside “Challengers,” “Civil War” and “My Old Ass.” In Adapted Screenplay, “A Complete Unknown,” “Nickel Boys” and “Wicked” will be up against “Dune: Part Two” and “Hit Man.”

Eligibility for the Writers Guild Awards is restricted to screenplays that were written under the guild’s Minimum Basic Agreement or under related agreements from affiliated international guilds. That rule made many of the year’s likeliest Oscar nominees ineligible for Writers Guild nominations, including the original scripts “The Brutalist,” “The Substance,” “Hard Truths,” “September 5” and “All We Imagine as Light,” as well as the adaptations “Conclave,” “Sing Sing,”“Emilia Pérez” and “I’m Still Here.

The 2025 Writers Guild Awards nominations have finally been revealed.

The original screenplay nominees are A Real Pain, Anora, Challengers, Civil War and My Old Ass. The adapted screenplay nominees are A Complete Unknown, Dune: Part Two, Hit Man, Nickel Boys and Wicked.

Top awards contenders The Brutalist, Conclave, Emilia Pérez, Sing Sing and The Substance were not eligible for the WGA Awards’ adapted or original screenplay nominations.

On the TV side, Fallout, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Shogun and The Simpsons all lead with three nominations each, followed by two nominations apiece for The Bear, Bob’s Burgers, English Teacher and Hacks.

The guild was originally set to announce this year’s nominees on Thursday, Jan. 9, but the announcement was delayed twice amid the wildfires that have burned large areas of Los Angeles. The WGA originally set Monday as its new announcement date before again delaying the news “until further notice.” The...

A lot of great movies, actors, and screenplays fall through the cracks during awards season as the Oscars race typically narrows to a handful of expected nominees. That's why it's fun to see what earns attention with some of the other more niche awards bodies. The Writers Guild of America...

Elle Fanning brought the spirit of spring early to the 2025 National Board of Review Gala, hosted by Willie Weist at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.

She embraced the delicate and soft hues of the season, radiating a youthful charm in a pastel Valentino dress and pumps as she accepted the Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance in the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown.

Elle Fanning receives the Best Supporting Actress Award in a Valentino pastel gown and pumps at the 2025 National Board of Review Awards Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City (Credit: Janet Mayer / INSTARimages)

Also nominated for Best Film, A Complete Unknown is based on Elijah Wald’s 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric. It chronicles the life of Bob Dylan, played by Timothee Chalamet, from his early success in folk music to the historic controversy surrounding his use of electric instruments at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

A Complete Unknown North America Box Office: 3rd Thursday Update(Photo Credit – Instagram)

Bob Dylan’s biopic A Complete Unknown, featuring one of the most talented actors of the current generation, Timothee Chalamet, is heading towards a significant milestone in North America. The film surpassed Tupac’s biopic All Eyez on Me on Wednesday. It earned a decent number again on Thursday, inching closer to an interesting feat for musical biopics ever in the United States. Scroll below for its latest box office updates.

The musical biopic surpassed All Eyez on Me’s $44.9 million domestic haul on its third Wednesday to become the #14 highest-grossing ever at the US box office. The 2024 release is based on the 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald; the film portrays the legendary singer through his earliest folk music success until the considerable controversy over his use of electric instruments at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

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.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series shining a spotlight on the scripts behind the year’s buzziest awards-season movies continues with Searchlight’s A Complete Unknown, James Mangold’s micro-biopic of Bob Dylan that stars Timothée Chalamet. Mangold adapted the script with two-time Oscar-nominated screenwriter Jay Cocks, working from Elijah Wald’s book Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties.

The film hit theaters December 25 and grossed $31.7 million over the holiday frame. It has also been racking up nominations on the awards circuit, with Best Picture, Best Actor (for Chalamet) and Best Supporting Actor (for Edward Norton) nominations from the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards.

In addition to Chalamet, the film stars Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Norton as Pete Seeger, Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie and Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash.

The focus of the story...

Emmy-winning actor Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) is getting some high praise from The Boss himself, Bruce Springsteen, for his performance in the biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere. In the film, which is reportedly due out this year, the former Shameless actor plays Bruce Springsteen, and the Grammy-winning musician says he’s done a great job with his iconic songs for the movie.

“He sings well. He sings very well,” Springsteen said, per The Wrap, during an appearance on Sirius Xm’s E Street Radio. Springsteen continued, “You know, and Jeremy Strong and Odessa Young, you know, it’s a tremendous cast of people. They cast the film beautifully, so it’s very exciting.”

The musician has been able to visit the set of the movie based on the book of the same name by Warren Zanes and follows the musician as he makes his sixth studio album, Nebraska, which...

Here’s the thing. James Mangold completely understands why Bob Dylan has not seen “A Complete Unknown” and may never see it. And it’s not personal. As Mangold reveals, “I’m told by his team management team that he’s never even seen the other movies that have been made about him, documentary or otherwise. Even ones where he’s participated in.” Why would this case be any different?

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Set between 1961-1965, “A Complete Unknown” is adapted from Elijah Wald’s novel “Dylan Goes Electric!” and follows the music icon from his earliest days as a fresh-faced folk singer (portrayed by Timothée Chalamet) in New York City.

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In a year when the Amy Winehouse movie Back to Black showed just how wretched musical biopics can sometimes be, most critics and ticket-buyers seem pleased with James Mangold’s look at Bob Dylan’s early years in A Complete Unknown. The project is nothing but a big swing, daring to take on one of the biggest myths of 20th century culture — a transformative artist who sold 125 million albums, has won Grammys, an Oscar, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Nobel Prize in Literature, the only musician ever to do so. (Apologies to Heinrich Böll, singing in the shower does not count.) You would think that the most ardent Dylan fans would be celebrating.

However, the Timothée Chalamet–led picture, written by Mangold and Jay Cocks, is not a court document. There are tweaks to the historical record from pretty much the first frame. The young Minnesotan Robert Zimmerman...

Warning: Some Spoilers lie ahead for A Complete Unknown!A Complete Unknown director and star explain how the discovery of Johnny Cash's letters to Bob Dylan led to a departure from source material. Adapted from Elijah Wald's Dylan Goes Electric, which documents Dylan's pivotal 1965 performance at the Newport Folk Festival, James Mangold's 2024 musical biopic focuses on the musical aspect of Dylan's (Timothée Chalamet) life from 1961 to 1965 and those who helped him along the way, which originally excluded Cash (Boyd Holbrook).

Mangold and Holbrook talk about how the discovery of letters between Dylan and Cash led to the inclusion of Johnny Cash in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. Holbrook reveals he was cast for potential roles, but the role of Johnny Cash only came up after "some research with Bob [Dylan]," when Mangold discovered that the two musical icons were "pen pals." The director, who once tackled Cash's life...

Elijah Wald, author of the book that A Complete Unknown was based on, provides a guide to the factuality of various scenes from the movie.

Wald, who wrote the 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties that inspired A Complete Unknown, according to a credit at the beginning of the film, enjoyed the Bob Dylan biopic that took from his book. The film is surprisingly accurate to the true story of Dylan's rise to fame, but that doesn't mean that director James Mangold didn't take liberties. Wald provides a guide to the truth--and fiction--as sourced from Variety. Mangold said that the film was “not a Wikipedia entry” and that he didn't feel the need to always be loyal to the facts--he wasn't making a documentary, after all. However, he did take a lot, not only from Wald's book but from lengthy discussions with Bob Dylan himself.

A Complete Unknown is no longer completely unknown, because it is rocketing to box office success. With a budget of approximately $60 million, the movie follows Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) through the earliest days of his career. It was directed by Logan's James Mangold and is based on Elijah Wald's book, Dylan Goes Electric. Alongside Chalamet, Edward Norton (Pete Seeger), Elle Fanning (Sylvie Russo), Scoot McNairy (Woody Guthrie), and more major figures serve as stars.

According to a report by Deadline, the biopic is expected to become an instant hit in its opening weekend. It is projected to earn a 3-day total of $11.8 million and a 5-day total of $23.3 million. That would mark Searchlight's greatest opener since Disney acquired 20th Century Fox in early 2019.

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Timothee Chalamet’s latest acting venture is the much-anticipated biopic on music icon Bob Dylan. The movie “A Complete Unknown” is based on Elijah Wald’s 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric!. James Mangold wears the director’s cap for this film. The movie follows pop icon Bob Dylan’s early years as a rising star to the infamous controversy of his using electrical instruments at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. “A Complete Unknown” has been one of the most awaited releases of 2024. Now that the movie has finally been released, there is an added curiosity about whether it will meet its expectations.

How much will Timothee Chalamet’s “A Complete Unknown” earn on its opening weekend?

“A Complete Unknown” was released in the US theatres on December 25, 2024. After the film’s release, industry experts predicted how much the movie would earn over the weekend. The...

Timothée Chalamet’s turn as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown earned praise from critics, including Rolling Stone’s David Fear, but like any biopic, some details and facts get left out or rearranged. The notoriously mercurial Dylan, who had input in the James Mangold biopic, even slipped a made-up scene into the movie.

The movie is based on the 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric!, which documents Dylan’s pivotal 1965 performance at the Newport Folk Festival. His plugged-in performance of “Like A Rolling Stone” was controversial among festival attendees, who expected an acoustic set.

Plot: Four years in the life of Bob Dylan (Timothee Chalamet), from his discovery by Pete Seeger (Edward Norton) through his eventual rise to fame as a folk singer, through his controversial decision to go electric on the eve of the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

Review: It’s hard to accurately sum up just how much of a profound effect Bob Dylan had on pop culture. One of the greatest songwriters of all time, for sixty years now, Dylan’s been sitting at the top of the pantheon of music greats, but oddly enough, outside of Todd Haynes’s impressionistic ode to his legend – I’m Not There, and a series of documentaries by Martin Scorsese, no one’s ever tried to tell his story as a traditional biopic until now. Sporting an impeccably assembled cast, James Mangold’s made an excellent companion piece to his own Walk the Line in that...

“How does it feel?” is one way by which to measure a movie. But if you’ve seen “A Complete Unknown,” the Bob Dylan biopic that opened on Christmas Day, you may have left the theater singing to yourself (to the tune of “Like a Rolling Stone”): How much is reeeaaallll?

The short response is: A lot. But the long answer involves acknowledging director James Mangold’s film taking liberties in terms of a condensation of timelines, the conjoining of separate incidents, fictional character names in a couple of cases, and moments of sheer imagination and fictionalization. It’s certainly possible to enjoy “A Complete Unknown” without stressing too much over which parts are fact and which are fanciful. But for those who want to take a deep dive into how much the movie aligns with the known historical record, we looked to several Dylan experts to help sort it out.

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2024 has come to an end, and while this year wasn’t the greatest year for films or Hollywood after the disastrous pandemic and the Writers’ and Actors’ strike, it did see the release of some great films. From the much-anticipated sequel of the sci-fi film Dune to the superhero buddy-comedy film no one thought would ever happen, Deadpool & Wolverine. So, lets find out which films that were released in 2024 you should not miss out on.

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A Real Pain is a buddy comedy-drama film written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg. The 2024 film follows American Jewish cousins David and Benji as they embark on a tour of Poland to honour their grandmother’s memories while exploring their family history. Still, their polar opposite personalities get in the way. A Real Pain stars Jesse Eisenberg,...

Cinematographer Phedon Papamichael breaks down his work in James Mangold's film 'A Complete Unknown,' starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, in theaters Dec. 25, 2024, from Searchlight Pictures. Papamichael has been the Dp for the films While You Were Sleeping, Sideways, 3:10 to Yuma, The Pursuit of Happyness, and more.

Based on the 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald, 'A Complete Unknown' portrays Bob Dylan through his earliest folk music success until the momentous controversy over his use of electric instruments at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

James Mangold is entering the awards race at the perfect time with A Complete Unknown. The biopic, which follows the early stages of Bob Dylan’s career, has been making awards noise and is set to impress audiences this Christmas. Ahead of the film’s release, we had the chance to participate in a press conference with stars Timothée Chalamet, Monica Barbaro, Edward Norton, and more.

In my review of A Complete Unknown, I wrote that Chalamet blew me away by embodying the musical icon. Mangold crafted the film to make fans of Dylan happy while also introducing him to a new generation. Toss in the stunning cinematography, incredible ensemble, and great song selections, and A Complete Unknown was fantastic.

Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown | image: Searchlight Pictures James Mangold, Timothée Chalamet, Monica Barbaro, and Edward Norton discuss A Complete Unknown.

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The five years between Bob Dylan’s arrival in New York and his performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival marked a huge shift in popular culture. It wasn’t just the songs Dylan wrote and performed. The politics he espoused, relationships he formed, causes he endorsed, even the clothes he wore were critiqued and copied by a growing number of acolytes and fans. Dylan helped shape the culture in ways few other artists could match. Based in part on Elijah Wald’s book Dylan Goes Electric!, director James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown follows Dylan as he finds and develops a voice and […]

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