Bob Dylan's rich legacy of more than 50 albums is a counterpoint to "narcissistic" modern music focused on "me, me, me", the director of the recently released biopic about the singer told AFP.

"A Complete Unknown," the biopic chronicling the swift pop-cultural ascent of Minnesota native Bob Dylan in the early 1960s, has been nominated for eight Academy Awards.

Bob Dylan famously wore denim, so denim was my thread throughout this movie,” says Arianne Phillips, the costume designer behind A Complete Unknown, the biopic directed by James Mangold that tells the story of four to five wildly intense years in the musician’s life,

A Complete Unknown” is the rare Hollywood movie that has inspired a reckoning. Everywhere, on social media, in mainstream media, or simply on the part of so many who have seen the film, a tingling conversation is taking place - a kind of collective meditation/investigation into who Bob Dylan was,

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with actor Timothee Chalamet and director James Mangold about their new movie A Complete Unknown.