Nominated for 9 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Timothée Chalamet), Best Director (Josh Safdie), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing!
Loosely inspired by the life of American table tennis player Marty Reisman, Timothée Chalamet stars as Marty Mauser, a charismatic but deeply flawed 1950s New York shoe salesman obsessed with becoming the world's greatest table tennis champion, leading him into frantic hustles, an affair with a movie star, and schemes to fund his high-minded ambitions, ultimately exploring themes of ego, performance and the messy pursuit of greatness.