Dune stood out as an event movie in 2021, a film that begged audiences to see it on the big screen after years of viewing movies on smaller televisions. It got fans and critics buzzing, leading to a successful night at the Academy Awards. However, despite winning six awards, Dune‘s Denis Villeneuve was left off the ballot entirely when it came to Best Director. And that didn’t sit quite right with Josh Brolin.
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Brolin, who played Gurney Halleck in the film, spoke about what he feels is a clear snub in a recent interview with Collider about his Amazon Prime series Outer Range.
“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,” said Brolin.
He went on to theorize that the lack of a nomination might have come from “post-pandemic mentality” (which he did not define or clarify) and confirms that the film was the complete brainchild of Villeneuve.
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Perhaps the Academy is simply waiting along with audiences for the second half of the Dune experience. Brolin confirmed in the same interview that he was still a part of the sequel despite his name not appearing online in some places.
“When somebody mentioned to me that it wasn’t on IMDb, I actually went out of my way to call Liz [his publicist] and say, ‘Can you please put that on IMDb?’ Because it’s a proud moment for me, man.”
