‘Nervous’ Timothée Chalamet thanks Kylie Jenner as he wins best actor prize at Critics’ Choice Awards

“You made a story about the relatable dream and you didn’t preach to the audience about what’s right and wrong. I think you should all be telling stories like that, so thank you for this dream,” he said.

Chalamet also thanked his girlfriend, makeup mogul Kylie Jenner, who rose to fame alongside her family in the long-running reality TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

"Thank you to my partner of three years,” he told Jenner. “Thank you for our foundation. I love you. I couldn't do this without you."

Gwyneth Paltrow and Timothée Chalamet at the Los Angeles premiere of 'Marty Supreme' (Photo: Getty Images)Getty Images

Marty Supreme is a drama loosely based on the Jewish American legendary table tennis champion player Marty Reisman who rose to fame in the early 1950s. Chalamet’s performance as Marty Rauser, inspired by Reisman, has been championed by critics across the board.

The JC’s critic John Nathan said, “Chalamet delivers a performance that is as minutely detailed as it is monumental. With a star of David glinting around his neck the Jewishness of his Marty – a character inspired by real-life 1950s table tennis champion Marty Reisman – is both defining and lightly worn.”

The Evening Standard declared the actor a shoo-in for Academy success, publishing its review under the headline: Timothée Chalamet smashes his way to likely Oscars victory.

In its five-star review, the outlet said: “The last major player to enter the arena smashes their way onto the Oscars podium with the brazen guile of a contender so high on their own myth that any [other films] couldn’t possibly stop them.”

The Standard‘s reviewer added: “With the steamroller audacity of his character, Chalamet has staked a massively confident claim for his first Oscar. If you must gamble, lay it all on Chalamet. Now.”

Other publications including Empire magazine agreed that Chalamet’s performance was Oscar-worthy.

Chalamet is Jewish on his maternal side. His mother Nicole Flender, a Jewish third-generation New Yorker, has posted pictures of the younger Chalamet and the family celebrating Chanukah and Pesach on social media.

Before he started dating Kylie Jenner, Chalamet was reportedly spotted in search of a Jewish date on a members-only dating app The Lox Club that bills itself “for Jews with ridiculously high standards”.