If you will be an enigma, it’s important to decide to the bit. Bob Dylan will get it. Regardless of being within the glitziest highlight doable on Sunday evening (March 2) on the 2025 Academy Awards ceremony the place the biopic about his adolescence, A Full Unknown, was nominated for (and misplaced) eight Oscars, Dylan was nowhere to be seen.

In response to The Hollywood Reporter, nevertheless, the “Like a Rolling Stone” singer was invited to current and carry out on the printed, however seemingly selected to let one other rock legend do the honors.

Dylan’s identify got here up a number of instances, nevertheless, together with in host Conan O’Brien’s opening monologue, the place he famous that Timothée Chalamet was nominated for his spot-on portrayal of Dylan within the field workplace smash. “Bob Dylan needed to be right here tonight… however not that badly,” O’Brien quipped in regards to the legendarily hard-to-pin-down singer/songwriter who famously skipped out on his 2016 Nobel Prize ceremony.

In a shock 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 not making the scene. “A lot as I like doing it, I wasn’t the primary selection. The producers actually needed Bob Dylan to do that. However Bob Dylan received’t do it as a result of he mentioned the most effective songs in a film this yr had been in A Full Unknown,” Jagger joked earlier than doing his greatest Dylan impression. “Bob mentioned, ‘It is best to discover anyone youthful.’” Jagger, 81, joked about his 83-year-old elder. “Hey, I’m youthful than Bob Dylan!”

With out citing a supply, THR reported that Dylan was invited to current the Oscar for greatest unique music — received by “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez — in addition to carry out on the present, however seemingly turned down the chance. The no-show from Dylan got here just some days after the Rock and Roll Corridor of Famer confounded his followers as soon as once more by posting, with out remark, a 2016 video of rapper Machine Gun Kelly acting at Park Ave. CDs in Orlando, FL in 2016.