LOS ANGELES >> I just saw James Mangold’s Bob Dylan-goes-electric history lesson “A Complete Unknown,” the music biopic that wears its subject’s impenetrable nature as its raison d’etre. And after reading all about star Timothée Chalamet’s commitment to becoming Dylan — performing the songs live on set, asking that he be called “Bob Dylan” on the call sheet and forbidding family and friends from visiting (but whom would they be calling on? Timothée’s not here, maaaaaan) — Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” started playing on a loop in my head, only with different lyrics, reflecting what I had just watched and learned.

Timée’s on the soundstage

Goin’ on a rampage

Listen to that accent

They tell me that he’s hellbent

Look out kid

It’s something you did

You called him Tim

Now he’s feeling kinda grim

He’s Dylan on the call sheet

Listen to the drumbeat

Watch out for the p.a.

They’re sendin’ you back to L.A.

Is Chalamet going to be the latest actor to win an Oscar for playing a music legend, a not-always-proud tradition that goes back to James Cagney’s energetic portrayal of entertainer George M. Cohan in the 1942 film “Yankee Doodle Dandy”? Maybe. Combing through the list of winners — a record too lengthy to include in full but one that encompasses most recently Renée Zellweger playing Judy Garland in “Judy” and Rami Malek’s magnetic Freddie Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody” — you can easily be persuaded that this might be Chalamet’s year. Mangold directed Reese Witherspoon to an Oscar and Joaquin Phoenix to a nomination for portraying June Carter and Johnny Cash in “Walk the Line,” after all.

And, despite the best efforts of the filmmakers behind “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,” which smartly punctured music biopic tropes and made subsequent movies in the genre (such as “A Complete Unknown”) feel a little silly, we haven’t reached the point where voters are ready to say “Enough.” Maybe that will come in 2027 when Sam Mendes plans to release four separate, interwoven movies about the members of the Beatles, each told from the perspective of a different band member. If they’re successful, will we get a sequel about the Fifth Beatle? The estate of Murray the K is waiting by the phone.

Meanwhile, barring some simple twist of fate, I don’t have to think twice about including Chalamet among the likely lead actor nominees for the 2025 Oscars. And that’s all right. He’s convincing, the best part of a pretty good movie. Who might be joining him? So glad you asked.

Last year, this category went heavy on the great-men biopics with Cillian Murphy winning for “Oppenheimer” and Colman Domingo and Bradley Cooper earning noms for playing civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and conductor Leonard Bernstein, respectively. Voters almost certainly will nominate Domingo again, this time for his performance in “Sing Sing,” a deeply moving drama about a theater program at the eponymous prison.