Dune Director’s Oscar Snub is Asinine & Bizarre, Says Josh Brolin
Josh Brolin was baffled by Denis Villenueve's snub for Best Director for Dune at this year's 94th Academy Awards. Brolin played the role of Gurney Hallack in the Warner Bros. sci-fi epic, released in October 2021 to rave reviews and box office success. He is confirmed to reprise his role as Gurney for the eventual Dune 2, with Villenueve returning to direct.
Dune, based on Frank Herbert's influential novel of the same name, was nominated for 10 Oscars and ended up winning six, including with Best Cinematography and Best Original Score. Although it was nominated for Best Picture (and lost to CODA), Villenueve not receiving a Best Director nomination was widely considered to be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, Oscar snub of 2021. So it would make sense why Brolin, one of Villenueve's regulars, would also be understandably puzzled by the snub.
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Brolin recently sat down with Collider to discuss various topics including his latest Amazon series Outer Range, the development of Deadpool 3, and, of course, Dune andDune 2. Brolin believes that due to the vision Villenueve had for Dune, a snub should've been an impossibility. When asked how Best Director could have been left out of all 10 Oscar nominations, Brolin had the following to say:
«It's the most asinine, bizarre… I mean, that's why snubs are such a thing and that's why we all talk about them, but that's a snub, of a snub, of a snub that I just thought was an impossibility. But given everything about the Academy Awards, there are many impossibilities that actually materialized. So it's all part of the game right now. I don't know.
»Is it post pandemic mentality? Whatever it is, I
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