Last Sunday, exactly one week before the Oscars, all eyes turned to Timothée Chalamet as he approached the SAG Awards stage to accept a somewhat unexpected trophy for his performance in A Complete Unknown. What came next was an even more unexpected but almost universally praised speech about his genuine desire to become one of the greats. But if you’re someone who’s been in the chronically online trenches for the last few years, then your third eye—your more enlightened internet eye—opened wide to stare in an equally but oppositely essential direction: toward Timmy’s most prolific and beguiling fan account, Club Chalamet.
For 59-year-old Los Angeles resident Simone, who runs the most notorious Timothée Chalamet fan account on the internet, the difference between being a fan of Timothée Chalamet and being Club Chalamet boils down to the passionate crunching of numbers. Two hundred and seventy-eight days may mean little to you and me, but to Club Chalamet, a stan/STEM account, it makes all the difference in this final sprint toward the Oscars. Moments after Timothée won his SAG award, Club Chalamet tweeted out her much anticipated congratulations—and also reminded the onslaught of onlookers that Timothée Chalamet is the youngest Best Actor winner in SAG history. On the Twitter Spaces she assembled after the SAGs, she kept her eye on an even bigger prize: becoming the youngest person to ever win Best Actor at the Oscars. Currently, that old hack Adrien Brody holds the distinction, though Simone was ever so quick to note that while Brody was technically also 29 when he won his Oscar, he was a mere three weeks from turning 30, whereas Timothée “just turned 29, like, 65 or 66 days ago.”
The particulars matter to Miss Club, as she’s respectfully referred to by her own fans. She knows that these 278 days of being 29 years old are one of the many things that could lift Timothée Chalamet toward his goal of becoming one of the greats, a prophecy foreseen by Club Chalamet well before his SAGs speech, her powers of twink prophecy rivaled only by Luca Guadagnino himself (please don’t tell her I said that).
Simone could have chosen any lithe brunette actor to throw her substantial stanning aptitude behind—she could have chosen Adrien Brody, with his one foot in the grave and the other on an AI accent—but she didn’t. She chose Timothée. (Well, according to internet rumors, first she chose Michael Fassbender, then when he didn’t become the youngest man to win a Best Actor award—and also when he got married—she chose Timmy.) Club Chalamet is a rare internet main character who doesn’t relish being a main character—she only wishes to shine the spotlight onto her chosen main character, Timothée Chalamet. Simone bought Timmy stock early, following his Call Me By Your Name breakout, at which point she claims—in what can only be called a manifesto that just so happens to also address how Timothée did not ignore her at a 2018 event—she received judgment for being a mature Timothée fan. “I greatly respected his talent demonstrated in CMBYN, and as far as I was concerned, our 29 year age gap meant nothing when it came to just being a fan,” she wrote. And by spring of 2018, “I felt it was in my best interest to just create Club Chalamet so that I could host a place where like minded fans can engage with other older and mature fans to discuss Timmy and his career.” Ever since, Club Chalamet has discussed and promoted Timothée Chalamet with the wisdom and know-how of someone who’s wrapping up her sixth decade of life, and who, not for nothing, narrowly avoided working in the Twin Towers on 9/11 (just a little piece of the limitless Club Chalamet lore to whet your whistle) due to a “bad gut feeling.” Getting her nod of approval—like Nikki Glazer did—is the ultimate Hollywood blessing, while earning her ire is not suggested.
Longtime devotees of Miss Club know that her own tweets—her preferred form of stan comms—get anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand likes, while tweets about her can run in the sextuple digits. For her onlookers, as for her, the joy is in the observation of a unique talent. Waiting for Timothée—and then Club’s—next move. Anticipating how the public—and then Club—will respond to it. No one, including Club Chalamet, though she’s loath to admit it, expected Timothée Chalamet to show up to his own look-alike contest in the middle of Manhattan, ultimately sparking an IRL town square trend that defined 2024. But Club Chalamet’s response to such an astonishing move from Timmy was equally intoxicating: “This benefits me in ways you can’t imagine.”
And you know what? She was right. She always is! Timothée’s prolific and bespoke press tour for A Complete Unknown—and Club Chalamet’s even more prolific and sphinx-like reaction to his every zig and zag—made their next moves so deeply watchable that on the night that Timmy won his SAG (notably, with his mother by his side; this will come up later), chronically online culture vultures waited breathlessly for her reply, refreshing her Twitter until the reminder that Adrien Brody was old as shit when he won his Oscar finally came through. That does indeed seem like part of the plan for someone who only hopes to keep an endless parasocial cycle of attention for our (figurative) generation’s hottest young actor. If all eyes are on Club, then all eyes are inevitably on Chalamet. And increasingly, vice versa.
Club Chalamet is so excellent at her job—not her day job, which is one of the only remaining mysteries about Simone, but her chosen mission to support and bring attention to Timothée Chalamet—that she often almost convinces me that this model-handsome New York City child of an artist who went to the school from Fame and dated Madonna’s daughter (and then Johnny Depp’s daughter, and then Kris Jenner’s daughter) is an underdog. Someone we must protect from the Hollywood vultures who seek to make him more rich and more famous. I think about Timothée Chalamet’s career so much more because of how publicly she thinks about it. Club Chalamet promotes Timmy in a way that cannot be ignored, even by her—even when it possibly should be. As Simone was evacuating her Altadena home during the L.A. fires, in between posting actual photos of it burned down to the bricks, she was still dutifully doing spon for A Complete Unknown (mostly retweets, but still). If you’re someone who respects earnestness and dedication to craft, who’s never wavered on Anne Hathaway, who loves Sally Field’s Oscars speech as a tearful acceptance of the Hollywood ecosystem rather than a mockable meme, then you’re probably rooting for Timothée Chalamet to win an Oscar harder than ever before following his impassioned SAGs speech. But if you’re Club Chalamet, you’re simply rooting the same amount, because if she rooted any harder, at any point, she’d risk blowing a hole in the ozone layer. For Miss Club, the entire Oscars, the entire awards season, has always lived and died on its relation to Timothée Chalamet, future great. And yet, following the SAG win, which makes us statistically more likely to see a Timothée Chalamet Oscar win—and a resulting Club Chalamet Twitter Space—the stakes have never been higher. Anything and everything could benefit—and harm—Timmy’s shot at the Oscar. In ways that absolutely no one but Club Chalamet could—or would!—ever imagine. Heading into the Oscars, these are the story lines that Timothée’s no. 1 fan (and her legion of fans) are tracking.
What Role Will Ageism Play With the Oscars Voting Body?
As a 59-year-old woman proudly and loudly supporting young Timothée Chalamet on main, Club Chalamet is big on anti-ageism. But it’s more complicated than you think …
Going into the 97th Academy Awards, it’s important to understand that Simone believes there is a dangerous ageism problem in Hollywood. The voting bodies of most of the major awards refuse to award (checking my notes here) men under 30 for their excellence, simply because of their young age and gender. And much of this problem (?), she believes, is to do with the precedent set by the mean old Oscars who are clearly biased against youth, after which all of the other awards’ voting bodies follow suit.
So it’s a good sign that Timothée’s acting peers (although CC would ask that I also point out Timmy is a producer now too), the largest body voting body in the Academy, have already awarded Timothée for his performance in A Complete Unknown. But we’re not out of the woods yet. In her post-SAG Twitter Spaces, CC referenced the anonymous ballot pieces that are often published in the trades in the week ahead of the Oscars. “One of the ballot people said Timothée was good in A Complete Unknown, ‘but there’s still time for him,’” she paraphrased. “WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?! None of us have tomorrow guaranteed! Who the hell says that?!” Actors should be judged on the merit of their performance, Club Chalamet believes, not on their proximity to death.
But according to Club Chalamet, there is one thing going for Timothée. Timothée was originally cast as Bob Dylan when he was 24, so if not for COVID delays, and the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes of 2023, he would have been running this Oscars campaign at an even younger and more disadvantaged age. Thanks … goodness … for … COV—
Is Adrien Brody a Lock to Win Best Actor?
Fuck Adrien Brody!
No, wait. No. It’s not like that. Club Chalamet respects Adrien Brody. She’s watched many of his films since The Pianist, the role for which he won an Oscar as an elderly 29-year-old, a much older 29-year-old than 29-year-old Timothée Chalamet.
We acknowledge that Brody delivers an excellent performance in The Brutalist, and that many experts have declared him the front-runner in the category he shares with Timmy. But have you ever considered that Adrien Brody already won? For a similar performance and role, according to Club Chalamet? Timothée’s performance should be judged on merit, and not his age, but maybe Adrien Brody’s performance should be judged on how he’s already lived for so long, and that he’s actually already got an Oscar for a good performance so maybe he doesn’t need another one.
And while, of course, we don’t begrudge him a little AI accent enhancement that he probably had no control over, have you ever thought about how Timothée Chalamet learned 40 Bob Dylan songs and sang and performed them live on both acoustic and electric guitars? CC points out that the intel about AI enhancements in The Brutalist did “unfortunately” leak before SAG or Oscar voting commenced, suggesting that both groups may have been influenced, which means—and again, this is all so unfortunate—that we may see a similar result on Sunday. Adrien Brody may be a worthy (if old) adversary for Best Actor—but Timothée learned to play the harmonica without robot assistance.
Could Demi Moore Really Win Best Actress After All These Years?
She can, and she must. Club Chalamet is not so consumed by her admiration for Timothée’s talent that she can’t be honest. She’s had no trouble expressing that she didn’t much care for the Timmy-adjacent films Lady Bird or The French Dispatch, and in her Top 10 of 2024, she boldly ranked The Substance over A Complete Unknown, a film starring SAG award winner Timothée Chalamet. And that is because she sees The Substance as a powerful tale “about a beautiful, hard-working older woman dealing with ageism … trying to be younger to please people who don’t value older people and their contributions.”
So, you see: A win for Demi Moore is a win for anti-ageism, is a win for older people and their contributions to society, is a win for Timothée Chalamet and any unnamed (or even similarly named) older people who may or may not be contributing to his ongoing success if you just pay attention to them.
Should We Expect Emilia Pérez to Continue Its Controversial Path to the Oscars?
Given that ageism against young white men is perhaps the only thing not unearthed in Karla Sofía Gascón’s old tweets, Timothée is probably in the clear on any involvement in the inevitable Emilia Pérez story lines (category: drama) coming out of the Oscars.
Will Kylie Jenner Attend the Oscars With Her Boyfriend Timothée Chalamet?
I’ve avoided it long enough. We have to talk about how Club Chalamet’s assessment of whether Timothée Chalamet will win on Sunday has—at least a little—to do with the Italian chain restaurant the Olive Garden. Let me explain: While she’ll no longer admit to it publicly, Club Chalamet has historically believed that the biggest threat to Timothée Chalamet’s Oscar win is—and always has been—whether he brings with him Kylie Jenner, his very real girlfriend, who cannot be denied in the year of our lord Kardashians, 2025.
It all started in September 2023 when Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner were spotted making out at Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour, hard launching their then-rumored relationship. This sent Club Chalamet into a deluge of non sequitur statements so absurd that it catapulted her into another stratosphere of notoriety (which may be tough for Club Chalamet to bear, the fact that the growth of her platform and its purpose is forever linked to Kylie Jenner). First, in response to the photo of her famous fav kissing another famous person, she posted a text block stating: “If you’re feeling distressed by the video, it’s ok. But please take care of yourself. Step away from social media for a few days.” But Simone did not heed her own advice. Instead, she hosted a Twitter Spaces where she suggested that Timothée must have been smoking cigarettes because he was nervous around Kylie, and that Kylie couldn’t possibly be a suitable girlfriend because “we’ve never even seen them go to Olive Garden—he loves Italian food, I mean why not just go to Olive Garden, or something like that?”
The most generous interpretations of Club Chalamet’s fear of Kylie Jenner’s presence in Timothée Chalamet’s life is that she sees any distraction from his career—including love, but not Italian food—as a possible roadblock for his now self-proclaimed goal to become one of the greats, a goal Miss Club knew about before we, or he, did. The more likely reason is misogyny. Which is, generally, alive, well, and welcome at the Oscars! But after some backlash and toxic turmoil within the fandom, Simone has finessed her language from not supporting Timmy’s relationship with Kylie to just supporting all of the other women in his life much more, and especially suggesting that it’s a good idea for Timothée to bring his mother as a date to these events because she calms his nerves and “has been there since day one.” And while I do not personally support this extreme #boymom energy … statistically speaking … Club Chalamet’s notoriously trusty (if also toxic) gut instincts are pretty on the ball with this one.
Can This Oscars Benefit Club Chalamet in Ways Both Imagined and Unimaginable?
On the day of the SAGs, Club Chalamet was so nervous for Timothée’s category that she could only stomach a cup of tea and a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios. When the Oscars roll around on Sunday, she has assured us that, while she doesn't ever do drugs, she will continue not doing drugs because she would be entirely too nervous until the Lead Actor envelope is opened. And also, she wouldn't be able to drive home from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, where she’ll be watching the ceremony, knowing that she’s done all she can to publicly promote and support Timothée Chalamet, a young man she does not know, but in whose talent she does believe, and who does need to be protected from the anti-youth ageism that runs rampant in Hollywood. And if Timmy doesn’t win: “I’m not gonna cry, I’m not gonna break anything. I’ll be bummed out, but this is life. … I’ll probably hold a Twitter Spaces.”
On her personal account, Simone once tweeted: “I am the greatest living example of how to be patient. I believe all good things come to those who wait.” At 29 years old—278 days younger than Adrien Brody when he won the Oscar—Timothée Chalamet has waited long enough. But if it doesn’t go his way, I know that Club Chalamet will keep waiting, assured in the knowledge that Timothée Chalamet’s day will come. And she will benefit from it in ways we kind of can imagine.
