Chalamet has been building his Bob Dylan for so long that he’s been seen playing Dylan songs while in costume as Willy Wonka and on the set of “Dune.” His “Dune” co-star, Oscar Isaac (who famously played a fictional Dylan-adjacent folk musician in “Inside Llewyn Davis”), said, ”My first thought, it sounded like a really bad idea.”

Timothée Chalamet recreates Bob Dylan's 2003 Sundance outfit for biopic premiere

Various locations in New Jersey dressed up as 1960s Greenwich Village are the backdrop for “A Complete Unknown,” about the rise of Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet). Searchlight Pictures Share The road to the Oscars in the last two decades has often traveled through films about 20th century entertainment figures.