Right here’s the plot: Widespread 56-year-old actor threatens the voting physique behind essentially the most revered award in cinema along with his retirement in the event that they fail to ship on his desired nomination. Whereas which will sound like an A24 darkish comedy ready to occur, it’s truly Josh Brolin’s actuality, as he has threatened to by no means act once more if director Denis Villeneuve doesn’t obtain an Oscar nomination for Dune: Half Two.
Talking with Selection, Brolin, who performs gritty soldier and constant mentor Gurney Halleck, doesn’t see any logical cause why Villeneuve’s 166-minute epic sequel to 2021’s Dune shouldn’t garner him some Oscar nominations. He believes it so strongly, he’s prepared to place his profession on the road for it. “If he doesn’t get nominated this yr, I’ll stop performing,” Brolin says. “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 one among our grasp filmmakers.”
Not solely is his profession in jeopardy, however so, as Brolin sees it, is the integrity of the Academy Awards. “If the Academy Awards have any that means in any way, they’ll acknowledge him,” Brolin stated. Whereas the stakes of Brolin’s present Oscar wager are increased, his supply of it’s a lot tamer than that in a video he posted just a few years in the past when Villeneuve did not obtain a directing nomination for the primary Dune, regardless that the movie acquired ten. In that video, posted to his private Instagram web page, Brolin was very near calling the whole award silly.
“I don’t know the way you get 10 nominations after which the man who has achieved the not possible with that guide doesn’t get nominated. It makes you understand that it’s all superb after which it’s all fucking completely dumb.”
This yr’s Oscar nominations are set to be revealed on January 17. In line with Brolin’s IMDB, he has two movies in manufacturing, Weapon and The Operating Man, and can greater than doubtless seem within the third Dune movie. So, both the Academy will get it proper, or else we riot.