Girlfriend, a "Complete Unknown" was small and alternative enough to prove Timothy as a potential award winner, but it did not quite deliver much and Timothy is losing momentum. Not to mention "Little Women", "A Beautiful boy", "Bones and all", or even "The French Dispatch" were quite small yet failed to establish Timothy as an award titan.
For some reason we want to see him winning awards now and so he can prove everyone what the hype is all about and that the "Call me by your name" explosion was not just a one-trick pony thing.