Josh Brolin Says Denis Villeneuve Not Getting A Best Director Oscar Nod For ‘Dune’ Is ‘Flummoxing’

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When it comes to awards snubs, Josh Brolin has Denis Villeneuve’s back. Earlier this week, the nominees for the 2022 Academy Awards were announced, and “Dune” got plenty of love, earning 10 nominations, including for Best Picture. READ MORE: Jimmy Kimmel Is Not Happy About ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home”s ‘Unforgivable’ Oscars Best Picture Snub But left out of the running was Villeneuve in the Best Director race, and in a video on Twitter, Brolin expressed his confusion at the oversight. “Hey, I just want to say congratulations to legendary Warner Bros., everybody who got nominated for ‘Dune’: editing, cinematography, score, music, writing, pretty much everything,” the actor said. “And the unbelievable, almost numbing, flummoxing, I feel, for Denis Villeneuve not being nominated for Best Director.

It’s just one of those things where you go, ‘Huh? What?!’” READ MORE: Steven Spielberg Makes Oscars History As He Becomes First Person To Earn Directing Nominations Across Six Decades Brolin continued, “I don’t know how you get 10 nominations and then the guy who has done the impossible with that book doesn’t get nominated.

It makes you realize that it’s all amazing and then it’s all f**king totally dumb. So congratulations for the amazing accomplishments that these incredibly talented people have been acknowledged for, because it’s all really, really dumb.” Nominated in the Best Director category this year are Paul Thomas Anderson for “Licorice Pizza”, Kenneth Branagh for “Belfast”, Jane Campion for “The Power of the Dog”, Ryusuke Hamaguchi for “Drive My Car” and Steven Spielberg for “West Side Story”.