Hmmm… has it been 15 minutes yet? In a random twist of fate (???), the winners of the Timothée Chalamet and Glen Powell lookalike contests from this past fall have made it to the 2025 Golden Globes.
Max Braunstein and Miles Mitchell made their Golden Globes red carpet debut on Sunday night, complete with signs that read: “I won a lookalike contest and now I'm at the Golden Globes.” Alright, then.
Mitchell was the winner of New York City's Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest in October 2024, the original lookalike contest that then spawned dozens of others across the nation for other famous actors and Internet boyfriends. (Jeremy Allen White, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, et cetera, et cetera.)
The 21-year-old college senior from Staten Island won the contest in a Willy Wonka costume. “Halloween is around the corner, I thought, I might as well wear this [Wonka costume] to the contest," he told Teen Vogue, who was on the ground that day in Washington Square Park. (See more photos here). "I brought candy to make it more interactive.”
One month later, in November 2024, a Glen Powell lookalike contest was held in the actor's hometown of Austin, Texas. The winner was Braunstein, a physician's assistant who won wearing an outfit inspired by Powell's role in Top Gun: Maverick. “I did tell people I was going to win," Braunstein told People after he took home the prize. “I did mention that to my friends that sent it to me.”
Ahead of the contest — which was judged by Powell's parents — the Hit Man actor released a video announcing that the winner, who would ultimately be selected as Braunstein, would “[win] their parents, or any family member of their choice, a cameo in my next movie.”
“I am completely serious," Powell said in the video. "This is a cash-value prize of $6 billion.”
Mitchell also got the opportunity to connect with his celebrity doppelgänger — the lookalike met the real Timmy at a New York screening of his Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown in December 2024. “LIFE IS NOT REAL GUYS😂 #timotheechalamet #grateful #blessed #putmeindune3,” Mitchell wrote in the caption of his Instagram video capturing the interaction.
We're not entirely sure how the two celeb lookalikes have managed to extend their extremely brief moments in the spotlight to airtime on the Golden Globes red carpet, but… we guess we're happy for them. Congratulations are in order for these two dudes who look like other dudes.
