Here’s When You Can Expect ‘A Complete Unknown’ on Streaming Platforms
Timothée Chalamet is everywhere these days. He's interviewing Kendrick Lamar for the Super Bowl halftime show in New Orleans, performing somersaults for Nardwuar in Canadian record stores, and even flashing his Beyblade collection on Hollywood red carpets. Soon, the A Complete Unknown star will be on your TV as well. Chalamet's Oscar-nominated Bob Dylan biopic is headed to streaming later this month, just in time for the annual awards show.
I wouldn't count A Complete Unknown out of the race. I may not have seen the film as many times as Club Chalamet, but I still believe the Dylan film could walk away as the dark horse Best Picture winner. In classic Bob Dylan fashion, the singer agrees. “There’s a movie about me opening soon called A Complete Unknown (what a title!)” Dylan wrote on X in December. “Timothée Chalamet is starring in the lead role. Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me. Or a younger me. Or some other me.”
Thankfully, A Complete Unknown is almost available to stream digitally at home. The biopic picks up with Dylan at an oft-mythologised point in his life: when the young musician transplanted from Minnesota to New York City at just 19 years old. From there, the film introduces a few of the most important figures in Dylan’s ascent, including Pete Seeger (Edward Norton), Sylvie Russo (Elle Fanning), Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro), and Johnny Cash (Boyd Holbrook). A Complete Unknown nears an impressive $100 million at the box office as we head into mid-February—and the film’s run, which likely will include significant time in the awards-season trenches, is just ramping up.
When Is A Complete Unknown Streaming?
So when can we hear the sweet sounds of Timothée Chalamet’s Dylan at home? Disney’s Searchlight Pictures just announced that the film is headed to the usual video on demand platforms—Prime Video, Apple TV, etc.— in the US on 25 February, so hopefully we'll get it around the same time.
The film is nominated for eight awards at the upcoming Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Chalamet is up for Best Actor, while Edward Norton is nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Monica Barbaro is up for Best Supporting Actress. James Mangold is also up for Best Director.
No matter what, you won’t want to skip A Complete Unknown—it sees Chalamet give what just might be the greatest performance of his young career. “I really saw him change over the five years,” A Complete Unknown director James Mangold told Esquire US. “His seriousness, his ability to articulate what he was looking for in a scene or out of himself, his absolute relentless focus.”
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