Well, it’s already not looking good for one of our 2026 celebrity predictions. While predicting “Timothée Chalamet’s Marty Supreme performance isn’t even nominated for an Oscar. He disappears for three years” was a bit of a longshot, it’s looking DOA now that awards season has kicked off with old Timmy winning the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Actor.
I’m not an awards season analyst, just a mere enthusiast, but the momentum that generates at these earlier shows often is an indicator of what happens at the later ones—for example, last year Adrien Brody won the Best Actor Critics’ Choice Award and then the Oscar for The Brutalist. If history repeats itself, well, we’re about to have a hypebeast best actor.
And you know what else we might have? The first-ever KarJenner thanked in an Oscar speech. Last night, Chalamet thanked his “partner of three years,” Kylie Jenner: “I love you. I couldn’t do this without you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart,” he said. Honestly, very cute. But also: unusual. The once-fairly-private couple has been very public about their relationship since the Marty Supreme press junket began, what with the matching outfits (which queen and king Megan Stalter and Paul Downs copied, down to accessories, on the Critics’ Choice red carpet) and Kris Jenner posting two different Instagram stories cheering on the movie. Is boosting their relationship part of Timmy’s Oscar campaign??
I’m still holding out hope that it fails, so that one of our other 2026 predictions can come true: Michael B. Jordan, Oscar winner. He maintained a perfectly neutral smile during Chalamet’s speech, but I want more for him!
In other highlights, Jessie Buckley won Best Actress and made Paul Mescal blush, saying, “I bloody love you man” and cackling, “tough shit” to the “loads of other women” who do too. She also managed to make saying “I could drink you like water” sound not sexy. (The end of that sentence was “working with you everyday,” and fair enough, you should not make sexy comments about your colleagues. However, Paul, if you’re reading this, I could drink you like water, in a sexy way.)
Other highlights: Jacob Elordi won his first major award (Best Supporting Actor for Frankenstein). One Battle After Another won Best Feature and Paul Thomas Anderson won Best Director (and Best Adapted Screenplay), so I think we can prepare for an Oppenheimer-style sweep of the coming awards. And with that, we’re off to the awards season races!
- Megan Thee Stallion is now a Popeyes franchise owner. [Complex]
- It sounds like Mickey Rourke has never paid rent on the house he moved into in March. [Los Angeles Times]
- On Friday, Angelina Jolie visited Rafah Crossing and toured a warehouse of humanitarian aid that Israel has refused to let into Gaza. [CNN]
- I honestly thought Chloe Fineman’s med-spa selfies were fake. What are y’all doing to your faces?! [EW]
- Lewis Hamilton went to Kate Hudson‘s New Year’s Eve party in Aspen. (So did Kim Kardashian and her brand new cheek and lip filler). [Deux Moi]
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