What is the best Timothée Chalamet movie role?

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Chalamet's joyful 2023 musical prequel performance imagining the young, idealistic origins of Roald Dahl's eccentric chocolatier genius.

6

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)

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)

Chalamet's 2019 Netflix historical drama as a dissolute young prince transformed by reluctant kingship into Henry V on the eve of Agincourt.