It’s “in” right now to hate on the Oscars. Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Rogen, and now Josh Brolin have slammed the Academy Awards this past week, all for different reasons. Rogen just thinks the awards are dumb in general, Kimmel had beef that Spider-Man: No Way Home didn’t get a Best Picture nomination, and pondered why all Oscar nominations have to be serious.
And then Brolin? Well, he was extremely upset that ‘Dune‘ director Denis Villeneuve failed to receive a nomination for Best Director.
It was perhaps one of the bigger snubs this year. After all, Dune was nominated for 10 Oscars, including Best Picture, but for some reason Villeneuve didn’t get nominated for Best Director. It’s a bit of a head scratcher, considering the film earned nominations in every individual crafts category.
Brolin posted a video to Instagram to speak out against the snub…
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?!’ 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.
Yikes. You have to wonder how the crew feels about this, you know, the ones who were actually nominated. The Academy can be petty, so what if Brolin’s comments hurt their chances of winning? Maybe he should have raised hell after the ceremony.
But it’s out there now. It’s super hot to hate the Oscars right now. Join the party!