January 24, 2026 — 6:00am
He’s a motor-mouthed, egotistical monomaniac. His pathological obsession with becoming the world’s best table tennis player is so all-consuming that he betrays, manipulates and deceives everyone in his orbit, including his mother and his pregnant girlfriend. He steals, he cheats and even semi-inadvertently sets people on fire.
He doesn’t sound like a good person, certainly not someone you’d want to spend time with, right? Yet, this is precisely the person American audiences have flocked to watch on screen, for 2½ hours, since December. He is, of course, Marty Mauser, Timothée Chalamet’s character in Josh Safdie’s Oscar-nominated chaotic dramedy Marty Supreme.
People can’t seem to decide whether to love or hate Timothée Chalamet’s scheming scoundrel Marty Mauser in Marty Supreme. AP So popular is this character that the film has become A24’s highest-grossing movie in North America, beating the Academy Award-winning Everything Everywhere All At Once, and has earned four Oscar nominations including for best picture and best actor.
The duplicitous sociopath has already won Chalamet a Critics’ Choice Award and a Golden Globe, and on Friday morning (AEDT) it was nominated for Academy Awards in the best director, best actor, best picture and best writing (original screenplay) categories.
It’s not quite that simple, though. Yes, some cinema-
Read More