Legendary musician Bob Dylan, who’s the topic of the Academy Award-nominated biopic A Full Unknown, was invited to carry out and current on the 97th Academy Awards, however handed on the possibility.
What can we find out about Bob Dylan’s Oscars 2025 invitation?
Based on a current report from THR, the musician was invited to be part of the continued Oscars ceremony, however declined the possibility to take action. The choice was really joked about on the published, as Mick Jagger — who introduced the Finest Unique Track award — famous that the producers needed Dylan to do it, “however Bob didn’t wish to,” earlier than joking that Dylan needed them to search out somebody youthful, zeroing in on Jagger.
Conan O’Brien, the host of this 12 months’s awards, additionally kicked off the present with a joke about Bob Dylan purposely deciding to not attend the present. “Dylan needed to be right here tonight, however not that badly,” joked the comic.
Regardless of not being on the present, Bob Dylan is effectively represented on the Oscars. The movie primarily based on his life, A Full Unknown, is nominated for eight awards in whole, together with Finest Image, Finest Director, Finest Actor, Finest Actress, and Finest Supporting Actress.
A Full Unknown was directed by James Mangold from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jay Cocks primarily based on writer Elijah Wald’s ebook titled Dylan Goes Electrical. The solid contains Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, Edward Norton as Peter Seeger, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Money, Nick Offerman as Alan Lomax, and P.J. Byrne as Harold Leventhal. Producers are Fred Berger, Mangold, Alex Heineman, Bob Bookman, Peter Jaysen, Alan Gasmer, Jeff Rosen, and Chalamet. It’s govt produced by Dylan together with Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Andrew Rona.
(Supply: The Hollywood Reporter)
