Josh Brolin has a bone to choose with the Academy.
The actor, 56, first shared that the Oscars obtained it improper once they did not nominated his “Dune” director Denis Villeneuve for the 2021 sci-fi film. This yr, Villeneuve is up for the award once more for “Dune: Part Two.”
The sequel ended up getting higher critiques than the unique movie, with Brolin reprising his position of Gurney Halleck, a mentor to Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides.
“If he doesn’t get nominated this year, I’ll quit acting,” Brolin informed Selection in an interview printed Thursday. “It was a better movie than the first one. When I watched it, it felt like my brain was broken open. It’s masterful, and Denis is one of our master filmmakers. If the Academy Awards have any meaning whatsoever, they’ll recognize him.”
Nevertheless, Villeneuve, 57, is ready to be acknowledged on the IndieWire Honors 2024 and can obtain the Director Tribute on the Gotham Awards. However Oscar nominations is not going to be unveiled till early 2025.
“Dune: Part One” gained the second highest variety of nominations on the 94th Academy Awards with 10 nods, however Finest Director was not within the combine.
Brolin mentioned in a Twitter video on the time that the director not being nominated was “unbelievable, almost numbing, flummoxing.”
“It’s just one of those things where you go, ‘Huh? What?!’” the actor continued. “I don’t know how you get 10 nominations and then the guy who has done the impossible with that book doesn’t get nominated. It makes you realize that it’s all amazing and then it’s all fucking totally dumb. So congratulations for the amazing accomplishments that these incredibly talented people have been acknowledged for, because it’s all really, really dumb.”
In March, Brolin gushed over the movie on social media.
“‘Dune 2’ is a train that’s tapped into a need we all have to be told great stories. Stories about perception, coming to terms with ourselves, the importance of ecology and what it means to fall in young love and have to navigate a life in spite of it. ‘Dune’ touches, like the great films and books did us as kids,” he defined on Instagram.
“We have let fear and contraction turn us cold, so when something that comes around to remind us of our bravery, our challenges, our soft hearts and our abilities to prevail keeping always the bigger picture in mind, we toast it, emotionally. Thank you, Denis Villeneuve for reminding us through your humanitarian perspective. Thank you, Frank Herbert for providing for us the real within your fantasy. Entertainment that nourishes. The imagination’s nectar. ‘Dune 2’ hit the center of a need and humanity wins again.”
However no matter “Dune’s” magic, Villeneuve has admitted he doesn’t create for the sake of profitable awards.
“As a filmmaker, you’re a lonely wolf. When your work is appreciated by the community, it feels like you’re part of a family. That’s what truly matters to me,” he informed Selection earlier this month. “Making movies means being away from your family for months. Every time I finish a film, I sit down and ask myself if the flame is still there because I’ll never make a film without that fire inside me.”
One other snub Villeneuve has saved in thoughts all these years? Amy Adams not being Oscar-nominated for her position in his 2016 sci-fi function “Arrival” — regardless of incomes a Finest Director nod himself.
Villeneuve referred to as the end result a “big disappointment.”
