Timothée Chalamet knows you don’t become a movie star by showing up in flops: Careers are fueled by hits.

So far, Chalamet, who turns 30 Saturday, has been both a star since he was 22 and a Best Actor Oscar nominee for the coming of age, gay romance “Call Me by Your Name.”

His hits include “Dune” and its sequel and “Wonka.” As Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown,” he earned a second Best Actor Oscar nomination.

He looks certain to add another Oscar nod with this week’s Christmas gift to the nation as the star and producer of “Marty Supreme.”

An intense tour de force about a young Jewish hustler breaking out any way he can from his stifling Queens, New York, existence of selling shoes, “Marty Supreme” already has earned him a Critics Choice Best Actor nomination along with a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy.

Marty, in this strait-laced 1950s setting, is determined to be the table tennis king of the universe. It’s a journey that will take him to London and ultimately Japan, through an affair with a married former movie star (Gwyneth Paltrow) and a humiliating punishment from the only man willing to back him financially.

As producer and star of “Marty,” Chalamet is betting that fans of “Complete Unknown” will be equally entranced by someone so relentless and desperate.

“Marty is never in an ‘off’ mode,” noted co-writer-director-producer Josh Safdie. “There are scenes where the energy does come down but this young man’s desire is to keep this dream alive at every moment. Marty uses his Jewishness as a super power.

“The Jewish themes of the movie are informed by the Holocaust.”

Safdie and his co-writer Ronald Bronstein do not consider Marty an anti-hero.

“Ronnie and I don’t believe in that,” Safdie said in a virtual press conference with Bronstein. “We are filled with deep admiration and love for every character in our film. Particularly with Marty! We have to love him and the exuberance he has to inspire.”

“Josh and I believe to get into something universal you need to be as micro as possible,” Bronstein said. ‘Whether Jewish or not, everyone can relate to the idea of where they come from and who they want to be.

“Marty’s struggle is against what has been ordained for him just by the nature of being born in a specific culture. His mother and uncle want him to have domestic security working in a shoe store, raising a family.

“Marty rails against that and wants to be something self-made where he can create his own value system. That’s the tension of the movie. Hopefully, we get at something universal.”

“Marty Supreme” opens Thursday

Timothée Chalamet, right, in a scene from “Marty Supreme.” (A24 via AP)