Bob Dylan Reportedly Invited to Provide at Oscars

If you’re going to be an enigma, it’s a must to decide to the bit. Bob Dylan will get it. In spite of being within the glitziest highlight conceivable on Sunday evening (March 2) on the 2025 Academy Awards rite the place the biopic about his early lifestyles, A Entire Unknown, was once nominated for (and misplaced) 8 Oscars, Dylan was once nowhere to be observed.

In keeping with The Hollywood Reporter, on the other hand, the “Like a Rolling Stone” singer was once invited to give and carry out at the broadcast, however apparently selected to let some other rock legend do the honors.

Dylan’s identify got here up a number of instances, on the other hand, together with in host Conan O’Brien’s opening monologue, the place he famous that Timothée Chalamet was once nominated for his spot-on portrayal of Dylan within the field administrative center destroy. “Bob Dylan sought after to be right here this night… however now not that badly,” O’Brien quipped concerning the legendarily hard-to-pin-down singer/songwriter who famously skipped out on his 2016 Nobel Prize rite.

In a wonder look, Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger wowed the bejeweled crowd on the Dolby Theatre on Sunday as a substitute, the place he additionally joked about Dylan now not making the scene. “A lot as I like doing it, I wasn’t the primary selection. The manufacturers in reality sought after Bob Dylan to try this. However Bob Dylan received’t do it as a result of he mentioned the most productive songs in a film this 12 months had been in A Entire Unknown,” Jagger joked ahead of doing his perfect Dylan affect. “Bob mentioned, ‘You will have to to find someone more youthful.’” Jagger, 81, joked about his 83-year-old elder. “Hello, I’m more youthful than Bob Dylan!”

With out bringing up a supply, THR reported that Dylan was once invited to give the Oscar for perfect unique track — received through “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez — in addition to carry out at the display, however apparently grew to become down the chance. The no-show from Dylan got here only a few days after the Rock and Roll Corridor of Famer confounded his lovers as soon as once more through posting, with out remark, a 2016 video of rapper System Gun Kelly functioning at Park Ave. CDs in Orlando, FL in 2016.