He’s feeling dune with Hollywood.
After the 2025 Oscar nominations had been introduced on Thursday, Josh Brolin went on a rant slamming the Academy for snubbing his “Dune” director, Denis Villeneuve, and snarked that in response, he’ll “give up performing.”
Brolin, 56 posted an Instagram Story following the announcement of this 12 months’s nominees.
“Simply need to say congratulations to the Dune finest image nomination, to Greig Fraser for cinematography, for finest visible results, particular results, for Patrice [Vermett] for manufacturing design and for sound, I imagine,” the “Goonies” star addressed the digital camera.
“Apparently, I’m going to give up performing as a result of Denis Villeneuve didn’t get nominated. That is simply how this factor works. It is mindless to me,” the “No Nation for Previous Males” star went on. “That’s okay. [Editor] Joe Walker, Denis Villeneuve, you deserve it. It’s a tremendous movie. I feel it was even higher than the primary one.”
Brolin was referring to an interview he did with Selection in November 2024, the place he first stated that he believed Villeneuve, 57, was snubbed by the Academy when he didn’t get a “finest director” nod for the primary “Dune,” which got here out in 2021.
“If he doesn’t get nominated this 12 months, I’ll give up performing,” Brolin informed the outlet in November, referring to the second “Dune” film.
“It was a greater film than the primary one. Once I watched it, it felt like my mind was damaged open. It’s masterful, and Denis is considered one of our grasp filmmakers. If the Academy Awards have any that means by any means, they’ll acknowledge him.”
Brolin co-starred in each “Dune” films, together with Zendaya, Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Austin Butler and Florence Pugh.
The sci-fi epic, which relies on the 1965 novel of the identical identify by Frank Herbert, did get nominated for Oscars – it’s within the “finest image” race, together with “A Full Unknown,” “The Substance,” “The Brutalist,” “Depraved” “Anora,” “Conclave,” “Emilia Perez, “I’m Nonetheless Right here” and “Nickel Boys.”
As a substitute of Villeneuve, “finest director” nominations went to Sean Baker (“Anora”), Brady Corbet (“The Brutalist”), James Mangold (“A Full Unknown”), Jacques Audiard (“Emilia Perez”) and Coralie Fargeat (“The Substance”).
A 3rd film primarily based on Herbert’s novel “Dune Messiah” is within the works.
The 2025 Oscars air Sunday, March 2, at 7 p.m. ET on ABC.