Nearly nine months have passed since the premiere of Dune: part two in cinemas around the world and as a result, many moviegoers are likely to forget about it during the final grand prix circuit. But today, it is almost improbable to imagine a gala where the rest directed by Denis Villeneuve does not win the majority of technical awards at the 2025 Oscars. In fact, its predecessor won six statuettes, becoming the most awarded feature film at the 2022 edition. The sequel was screened on the global billboard. last March 15obtaining unanimous applause from specialist critics and, incidentally, bringing in $714 million at the box office. For all these advantages, Josh Brolin He explained in a final interview that if they do not recognize the Canadian’s work as a director, will leave the interpretation.
Whether joking or completely seriously, the first Dune entered the list of stories selected for compete for the Oscar for best film. On the other hand, it did not consider the director for the award for best director in a category in which he appeared. Kenneth Branagh by Belfast, Paul Thomas Anderson by Licorice pizza, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi by Drive my car, Steven Spielberg with West Side History and Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog, which would ultimately win the prize. Only the BAFTAs and the Golden Globes have awarded Gentilly for the distinction focused on the work of filmmakers. In fact, it is not that the Academics have been very aware of Villeneuve’s performance throughout his career, which is why Josh Brolin’s pride led him to highlight in his last interview a bet that we we don’t know very well if he will realize it. : If Villeneuve does not opt for the Best Director category at the 2025 Oscars, will leave the profession to which he has devoted himself for over 40 years.
Josh Brolin bets on Villeneuve
There is still a long way to go to find out what it will be about. the final drift of nominations at the 2025 Oscars, but Josh Brolin believes it’s not an absence in the director’s Best Director nomination. Dunes 2 That would be totally amazing. Something on which, on the other hand, he has already expressed his opinion when, with the first part of the adaptation of Frank Herbert, the mastery of the man who is clearly one of the greatest representatives of science fiction in current cinema was not taken into account.
In a video on X (at the time it was still called Twitter), the American described Villeneuve’s absence as “Incredible, almost paralyzing, disconcerting”: “It’s one of those things that makes you think ‘What?’ I don’t know how you get 10 nominations and the guy who did the impossible with this book doesn’t get nominated. It makes you realize that everything is incredible and everything is absurd. So congratulations on the incredible achievements that these incredibly talented people have been recognized for, because this is all very, very stupid.
For this reason and remembering these words, Brolin went further and explained to Variety yes for Dunes 2 there was no cure for not having named him in the first, he would be gone forever the film set: “If he is not nominated this year, I will stop playing. It was a better film than the first. When I saw it, it felt like my brain had opened. It’s masterful and Denis is one of our great filmmakers. “If the Oscars have any meaning, they will recognize it.”
Date of Oscar nominees 2025
You will have to wait January 17 2025 to know the final list of nominees for the most famous awards in the celluloid industry. So far, Villeneuve has only been nominated for the Best Director Oscar thanks to arrival. A distinction which seems sufficient if we consider that it is the man who led proposals such as Fires, Prisoners, Blade Runner 2049 either Enemy. In 2026, he will return one last time to Arrakis to close Paul Atréides’ trilogy with Dune: Messiah.
We can see Brolin next year in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and the Persecuted remake. Among the big favorites to win the Oscar for Best Director are names like Sean Baker by Anora, Édouard Berger with Conclave And Brady Corbet by The Brutalist.
