How to Watch a 'A Complete Unknown': Bob Dylan Biopic Lands on VOD

Timothee Chalamet picked up the Best Actor trophy at the SAG Awards for his role as Bob Dylan, and, with eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, there’s been plenty of buzz around the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. If you missed it in theaters, it’s now available to rent or buy on digital platforms like Apple TV, Fandango at Home, and Prime Video. That means you can stream the movie before this weekend’s Oscars ceremony.

How to Watch A Complete Unknown on Streaming

The movie is available to rent for $24.99 or buy for $29.99 from Apple TV, Fandango at Home, and Prime Video. Following the film’s digital release, it’ll be available on 4K UHD Blu-Ray and HD Blu-Ray on Apr. 1.

It’s likely to land on Hulu in the near future, though no date has been announced. The film was distributed by Searchlight Pictures, which, like Hulu, is owned by Disney.

James Mangold directed the film, which stars Timothee Chalamet as Dylan, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo (inspired by Suze Rotolo), Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, and Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez. Chalamet, Barbaro, and Norton were nominated for Academy Awards for their performances.

Chalamet was Rolling Stone’s December cover star, and he discussed preparing for the role of Dylan, including the ways he related to Dylan in his own career, saying “I related to the feeling that my talent could be my talent. I could draw the picture of an unconventional upbringing. I grew up in arts housing, Manhattan Plaza, which is a funky way to grow up. I could try to paint it negatively to you. I could try to paint it positively, but it’s a bit of everything. It’s nuanced.”

The film is based on Dylan Goes Electric!, which chronicles Dyaln’s plugged-in 1965 Newport Folk Festival performance that signaled a clear shift away from his politically focused acoustic folk music and a turning point in the culture of the ’60s.

Chalamet sings the songs performed in the film, and his renditions were released as a soundtrack, including on vinyl.

In the Rolling Stone review, critic David Fear singled out Chalamet’s performance, writing, “The movie is as much a tribute to the actor’s abilities to modulate the mannerisms and gestures — the nasal-sneer sarcasm, the vocal loop-de-loops, and the blend of hard-shell cockiness and soft-underbelly sensitivity — in a way that simultaneously conjures man and myth as it is to Dylan.”