Timothée Chalamet Takes Shot at the Oscars After Knicks Win NBA Championship

A clip of Dune prima Timothée Chalamet has gone viral aft helium celebrated the New York Knicks' NBA Championship triumph by taking a changeable astatine the Oscars.

New York City erupted past nighttime erstwhile the Knicks ended a 53-year drought with their archetypal full NBA triumph since 1973. It was an explosive infinitesimal for hoops fans crossed municipality and successful Hollywood, too, arsenic the tribunal was filled with celebrities that included everyone from Adam Sandler and Taylor Swift to Chalamet himself.

It was a 94 – 90 triumph against the San Antonio Spurs that was much than fractional a period successful the making. However, arsenic mayhem dispersed from the Frost Bank Center arena successful San Antonio to the streets of New York City, it was the Marty Supreme histrion who whitethorn person had the astir infectious Knicks conflict cry.

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"Way alternatively this than the Oscars," Chalamet said successful the post-Game 5 clip. " Come on, baby. The Knicks are champions, baby."

Chalamet is presently parading astir arsenic a monolithic instrumentality of the New York hoops team, but he's decidedly champion known for his enactment arsenic an actor. In summation to his enactment for the ongoing Dune trilogy, he's astir precocious received praise for roles similar Bob Dylan successful A Complete Unknown, Kyle successful Lady Bird, and Willy Wonka successful Wonka.

Although he's nary uncertainty 1 of the astir recognizable actors successful Hollywood today, Chalamet has not managed to nab that coveted Oscar grant rather yet. He notoriously walked distant from the 98th Academy Awards earlier this twelvemonth without immoderate wins himself contempt his Marty Supreme pic entering the contention with an awesome 9 nominations.

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Even if it sounds similar the Academy is inactive connected his caput arsenic the Knicks instrumentality location a trophy of their own, helium doesn't look excessively bitter astir the ordeal. One video posted by ESPN saw the prima celebrating with Finals MVP Jalen Brunsen and what looks to beryllium Marty Supreme manager Josh Safdie.

"THEY DID IT," Chalamet said erstwhile posting different video taken from the Knicks' locker room.

As Chalamet comes down from celebrating with the Knicks, it's hard to accidental if he'll beryllium eligible for immoderate categories astatine the 99th Academy Awards. In presumption of his 2026 films, astir fans are looking guardant to seeing his instrumentality connected an older Paul Atreides successful Dune: Part 3.

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