What is the best Timothée Chalamet movie role?

By YPB Team

From fragile coming-of-age intensity to sci-fi hero and musical whimsy, Timothée Chalamet has packed more range into a short career than most manage in a lifetime. Which role is his best?

  1. Elio (Call Me by Your Name) — ranked #11
    Elio (Call Me by Your Name)
    Chalamet's Oscar-nominated 2017 breakthrough as a precocious teenager experiencing a transformative first love with an older graduate student in 1980s Italy.
  2. Paul Atreides (Dune) — ranked #22
    Paul Atreides (Dune)
    Chalamet's 2021 Denis Villeneuve epic as the young nobleman who must lead a desert people's destiny across two visually spectacular films.
  3. Laurie (Little Women) — ranked #33
    Laurie (Little Women)
    Chalamet's winning 2019 Greta Gerwig performance as the charming, impulsive boy next door who loves the March sisters and struggles with rejection.
  4. Lee (Bones and All) — ranked #44
    Lee (Bones and All)
    Chalamet's raw 2022 Luca Guadagnino romance as a gentle young cannibal navigating a road-trip love story across Reagan-era America.
  5. Willy Wonka (Wonka) — ranked #55
    Willy Wonka (Wonka)
    Chalamet's joyful 2023 musical prequel performance imagining the young, idealistic origins of Roald Dahl's eccentric chocolatier genius.
  6. Nic Sheff (Beautiful Boy) — ranked #66
    Nic Sheff (Beautiful Boy)
    Chalamet's devastating 2018 portrayal of a real-life young man's destructive spiral into methamphetamine addiction alongside a desperate father played by Steve Carell.
  7. Kyle Scheible (Lady Bird) — ranked #77
    Kyle Scheible (Lady Bird)
    Chalamet's scene-stealing 2017 Greta Gerwig cameo as a cool, bookish teenage boy who romantically disappoints the film's fiercely independent protagonist.
  8. Prince Hal (The King) — ranked #88
    Prince Hal (The King)
    Chalamet's 2019 Netflix historical drama as a dissolute young prince transformed by reluctant kingship into Henry V on the eve of Agincourt.

Comments

Wonka took $634.5 million worldwide around a part Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp had already played. Eight roles here, and the chocolatier is the outlier: https://youpick.best/articles/chocolate-ranked-many-ways

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