Josh Safdie is nominated for Best Director for Marty Supreme. It is his first solo feature since The Pleasure of Being Robbed in 2008. Everything in between — Good Time, Uncut Gems — was made with his brother Benny. They split in 2024. Benny called it a natural progression. Josh responded by making the highest-grossing A24 film in North American history.
Marty Supreme has nine nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actor for Timothee Chalamet. Chalamet is now the youngest male actor to reach three acting nominations since Marlon Brando in 1954. The screenplay nod goes to Safdie and Ronald Bronstein, his longtime co-writer.
The project started when Safdie's wife bought him a copy of table tennis champion Marty Reisman's autobiography in 2018. He brought the idea to Chalamet the same year. Seven years later, the film has grossed $162 million worldwide and carries a 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
The race has been rough — shut out at BAFTAs, shut out at SAG, whisper campaigns in the trades. But nine Oscar nominations do not care about narratives. They care about the work.