With all the eye that A Full Unknown has been getting, it is simple to neglect that Timothée Chalamet will not be solely a possible Oscar winner however has additionally been taking part in one. Being primarily a musician above all else, Bob Dylan has been concerned with movies just a few instances in his profession however gained his sole Academy Award for Greatest Unique Tune in 2000. As a mirrored image of his profession, “Occasions Have Modified” recaptures the folks music Dylan was first recognized for whereas additionally acknowledging his present standing in musical tradition. For Dylan himself, the Oscar was a spotlight of his profession, one which later helped him set a uncommon awards document for the primary time in eighty years.

A number of Music Artists Have Gained Oscars in Current Years

Not like actors, who usually cross between numerous codecs both on the stage or display, musicians are sometimes utterly separate. Most musical scores stay the work of composers, however typically movies will rent distinguished musicians for a specific monitor. Consequently, Greatest Unique Tune would possibly typically be the one alternative for singers and songwriters to win an Academy Award, making it one of the crucial in style of the technical Oscar classes. Over the previous forty years, artists like Willie Nelson, Lionel Richie, and most just lately Billie Eilish have all earned the award, with Eilish doing so twice. Others have earned a number of nominations, together with Dolly Parton, Phil Collins, and Paul McCartney, amongst many others.

Into the combo falls Bob Dylan, who has been a quiet contributor to the film business over time. Along with documentaries and live performance movies, the counterculture icon has recorded his personal songs in numerous movies, together with Pat Garrett and Billy the Child in 1973 and the title monitor for Band of the Hand in 1986, collaborating with the late Tom Petty for the latter. Nonetheless, it was solely within the 12 months 2000, nicely into the twilight of his profession, that Dylan acquired his first and solely Oscar nomination. The nod in query was “Issues Have Modified,” a monitor he wrote for the forgotten movie Marvel Boys that 12 months. Though it was acquired nicely by critics and had an amazing Rotten Tomatoes rating, the film was neglected even on the time of launch, being a field workplace bomb and incomes solely three nominations on the Academy Awards. Of those, the win by Dylan was the only victory the movie had that night time, nevertheless it was however an enormous win for the songwriter, who remained gracious as ever in his acceptance speech.

What Makes “Issues Have Modified” So Distinctive?

On the time of his Oscar win in 2000, Dylan would possibly nonetheless have been lively, however he was arguably now not in his prime. There’s a cause why A Full Unknown focuses solely upon a brief span within the early 60s on the expense of all the things else, since his cultural affect couldn’t have been extra profound. By the 2000s, Dylan himself had lengthy shifted from folks music to rock and roll, which itself had since change into each mainstreamed and redefined by a youthful era. Basically, such a distinction truly makes “Issues Have Modified” right into a nostalgic throwback, reminding folks why they grew to become so captivated by Dylan and his folks music within the first place. In some ways, it feels as if Dylan inverted the theme in “The Occasions, They Are-A Changin” to suit his personal present place within the music world, and he even speaks to his personal previous self in the course of the music video to hammer the purpose dwelling. The track might have flown underneath the radar together with the movie itself, however “Issues Have Modified” serves as an ideal inflection level for a musician who was all the time a maverick, maybe now greater than ever.

How Bob Dylan Made Historical past With His Oscar Win

By itself, the Oscar Dylan earned is a noteworthy achievement, nevertheless it’s what got here years afterwards that makes it so memorable. In later years, Dylan would proceed to write down songs and obtain but extra awards, together with a pair extra Grammys and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016. That very same 12 months, nevertheless, Dylan earned one award that largely outshined the others, that being a Nobel Prize. For his songwriting efforts, he was rewarded within the discipline of literature, turning into the primary musician to win in that class.

That alone is admirable, nevertheless it additionally let Dylan make historical past in one other method. Due to his win, Dylan stays one in all solely two folks to safe each an Oscar and a Nobel Prize and the primary in virtually eighty years. The one different case was when creator George Bernard Shaw gained an Oscar for Greatest Screenplay in 1938 for writing the variation of his novel Pygmalion, having additionally gained a Nobel Prize for Literature a couple of years earlier. Regardless of the historic nature of his win, the reclusive Dylan remained true to his fame and by no means even confirmed as much as the awards ceremony.