Timothee Chalamet’s strained exchange with his girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, at the Oscars has been exclusively decoded by a lip reader for the Daily Mail.
The 30-year-old was an early Best Actor favorite for Marty Supreme – the Josh Safdie picture based on the life of a real underground ping-pong player in 1950s New York.
However, his pomposity in interviews eventually led to a souring of public opinion about him, with sources exclusively telling the Daily Mail about a ‘Stop Timmy’ campaign gathering steam ahead of the Academy Awards.
Chalamet, whose mother and sister both trained in ballet, then poured fuel on the backlash by remarking that ‘no one cares about’ ballet and opera.
Oscar night turned into a brutal humiliation for Chalamet, who was repeatedly mocked over the comment and then lost the coveted Best Actor award to Michael B Jordan for Sinners.
Now a clip has surfaced of Chalamet sitting in the audience with a rictus grin plastered on his face as he had a conversation with Jenner, via E! News – but lip-reader Nicola Hickling has revealed what was really said.
While keeping the smile firmly in place, Chalamet told Jenner: ‘I hate this,’ and she replied: ‘We’re all right, okay?’ to which he said: ‘Yeah.’
‘I hope so,’ said Jenner, whom Chalamet has been dating for three years and thanked on stage when he won at the Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice Awards.
‘Tonight – I need a big cuddle,’ said Chalamet.
Chalamet looked visibly disappointed when 2025 Best Actor winner Adrien Brody read out Jordan’s name instead of his.
He offered Jordan polite applause and appeared to mouth ‘yay’ as the stunned Sinners star leaned over to hug his mother, Donna, before heading on stage.
This year’s Best Actor category was stacked, and also included Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another), Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon) and Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent).
Jordan, who is now a first-time Oscar-winner, was tearful during his acceptance speech as he thanked the audience and voters by saying: ‘Thank you, everybody in this room and everybody at home for supporting me over my career. I feel it.
‘I know you guys want me to do well, and I want to do that because you guys bet on me, so thank you for keeping betting on me.’
‘And I’m going to keep stepping up and I’m going to keep being the best version of myself I can be,’ added Jordan. Sinners also won Best Screenplay for director Ryan Coogler.
While Chalamet dominated the early season with Best Actor wins at the Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice Awards for playing table tennis player Marty Mauser, the momentum shifted after Jordan won at the Actor Awards, formerly known as the SAG Awards, earlier this month.
Adding to the tension, the Oscars arrived on the heels of Chalamet’s controversial comments about ‘no one’ caring about opera and ballet, which sparked a wave of backlash from the arts community, including legendary director Steven Spielberg.
Chalamet made the unfiltered remark while talking to Interstellar co-star Matthew McConaughey about his hopes of movie theaters being able to survive.
He then added, ‘I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera or, you know, things where it’s like: “Hey, keep this thing alive,” even though no one cares about this anymore,’ in an interview for Variety’s Actors on Actors.
Conan O’Brien, who returned as host of the Academy Awards for the second consecutive year, kicked off his opening monologue with a jab at Chalamet’s controversial remarks.
‘Security is extremely tight tonight. I’m just going to mention that,’ tuxedo-clad O’Brien said to the crowd inside Los Angeles’ iconic Dolby Theatre.
He then quipped, ‘I’m told there’s a concern about attacks from both the opera and ballet communities.’
The camera then quickly cut to Chalamet, who could be seen nervously smiling beside his busty girlfriend, Kylie Jenner.
‘They’re just mad you left out jazz,’ O’Brien jokingly added.
O’Brien tried but failed to make amends with Chalamet later in the night as he told the crowd he and the Marty Supreme star were ‘vibing’.
‘We’re vibing, right?’ he asked Chalamet, whose reply wasn’t picked up by the event’s microphones. ‘He doesn’t think so.’
The mocking of Chalamet began even before the start of the ceremony as he arrived on the red carpet with a stoic expression – and without girlfriend Jenner by his side.
Chalamet posed for photographers in an all-white ensemble of a suit and tie, which clashed against a massive pair of black shades.
Fans roasted the outfit choice on X, formerly Twitter, where one groused: ‘He doesn’t deserve to come near that Oscar due to this atrocity of a fit.’
Another wondered: ‘Dear lord Timmy, what on earth inspired this monstrosity,’ as one observer joked that the young movie star resembled a ‘milkman.’
One dismissed the getup as a ‘mess,’ while another, in a nod to his romance with Jenner, said: ‘He needs fashion lessons from the Kardashian/Jenner clan.’
