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Timothée was mocked at the Oscars(Image: David Fisher/Shutterstock)

Spare a thought for Timothée Chalamet at the 98th Academy Awards. What should have been a celebration of his Oscar nomination for Marty Supreme descended into a cringe-fest of epic proportions.

We were barely moments into the three-hour broadcast when host Conan O’Brien unceremoniously roasted him in front of his peers. “Security is extremely tight tonight,” host O’Brien said. “I’m told there’s concerns about attacks from both the opera and ballet communities.”

The camera duly panned to Timothee squirming in his seat and looking like he wanted the earth to swallow him whole. The pain continued for the actor who had drawn criticism from the arts community in recent weeks for saying “no one cares” about ballet

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Timothee Chalamet and Kylie Jenner at Oscars 2026

Alexandre Singh, one of the directors of the best live action short winner, also took aim. “We believe that art can change people’s souls. Maybe it takes 10 year’s time, but we can change society through art, through creativity, through theater and ballet,” he said.

While Timothee was having a bad night, Michael B Jordan was having a very good one. He arrived backstage clutching his newly-won Oscar for dear life, as the decimal levels were cranked up to ten.

Everywhere he turned, well-wishers were wildly cheering or whooping, and the smile on his face said it all. I can’t remember a more popular winner among his acting peers, or for that matter, the world’s assembled media.

The latter afforded him a hero’s welcome as he entered the interview room to a cacophony of noise. And it was clear he was clearly moved by the reception as he struggled at times to find the right words.

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Winner Michael was given a hero’s welcome(Image: WireImage)

All week I had been told that Michael was staging a late bid for Oscars glory, and that the momentum was all his. His dignified response to the shameful scenes at BAFTA, in which he was heckled with a racist term, was cited as having galvanised the Academy’s members to vote for him.

There is no doubt that those disgraceful scenes generated an extraordinary amount of sympathy. It was a situation made even worse by the BBC’s shambolic failure to edit the offending word out of the broadcast.

But it would do him a grave disservice to suggest this was the overriding reason for his victory on Sunday night. His performance in Sinners – in which he expertly played two characters – was a masterclass and worthy of any Best Actor accolade.

In the same way that Jessie Buckley was totally deserving too. Touchingly – and rather endearingly too – Michael paid tribute to all those who believed in him, including all the lowly assistants who forwarded his emails as he tried to break Hollywood.

“I’ve been doing this for 25 years and here’s a lot of people who’ve seen me grow up in this industry, grow up in this town, and they’ve looked out for me when they didn’t have to,” he said. After Sunday night, it’s fair to say those emails won’t go unanswered again…

SOURCE: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/i-saw-timothee-chalamet-squirm-36872789