Work on the film began in 2019 amidst Mangold's release of "Ford v Ferrari," but the shoot was held back due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes.

“In ‘A Complete Unknown,’ Timothée Chalamet and James Mangold have beautifully captured Dylan’s emergence in 1960s New York, not just as an artistic evolution, but as a meditation on the necessity of change,” said Jeffrey Sharp, executive director of The Gotham.

The Bob Dylan biopic has finally screened. We assess the Oscar chances for James Mangold's movie, led by Chalamet as the folk icon.