After the star's surprise SAG win, viral acceptance speech and attention-grabbing campaign, could he pip Adrien Brody to the post to win the best actor prize?

Lobbying the public to attract the votes of the academy is an odd practice — but you can’t say Chalamet hasn’t excelled at it.

Timothée Chalamet won the SAG Award for best actor, his first major acting award, for his portrayal of Bob Dylan in "A Complete Unknown."

Saltzman taught actor Timothée Chalamet how to play guitar for the role of Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown.” In turn, Chalamet earned a best actor nomination and the film is also up for best picture at the Academy Awards on Sunday.

Saltzman generally likes teaching actors more than common folk, in part because there's a specific goal: They need to learn certain songs to inhabit a particular character.

A Complete Unknown, directed by James Mangold, recounts Bob Dylan’s rapid rise to fame in the early 1960s as a pioneering singer-songwriter who later went on to redefine American music and culture. Starring Timothée Chalamet as Dylan,