Dune: Part Two star Josh Brolin has made his opinion about next year's Oscar nominations well known in advance.

Hollywood mainstay Josh Brolin recently made the surprising claim of quitting acting if the Oscars 2025 decide to snub Dune 2 director Denis Villeneuve. The one-time Academy Award nominee returned to the Dune franchise this year,

Josh Brolin has a bone to pick with the academy. The actor, 56, shared that the Oscars got it wrong when they failed to nominated his “Dune” director Denis Villeneuve for the 2021 sci-fi movie. This year, Villeneuve is up for consideration for the award again for “Dune: Part Two.”

Villeneuve was nominated for Best Director in the past, for his 2016 sci-fi drama Arrival, which earned one Oscar win, for Best Sound Editing, from a total of eight nominations. D

Josh Brolin certainly has a flare for the dramatics. The actor threatened to “quit acting” if “Dune: Part Two” director Denis Villeneuve doesn’t get nominated for a best director Oscar for the second installment.

Josh Brolin is immensely proud of his work in Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epics Dune and this year's Dune: Part Two. With Oscars nominations less than two months away, Brolin, like countless others in the entertainment industry,

Conspicuously missing from that capacious list was, of course, Best Director — a truly mystifying omission on the part of the Academy considering Villeneuve pulled off the impossible by successfully adapting Frank Herbert's supposedly "unfilmable" book.

Josh Brolin has laid all of his cards out on the table. The Avengers: Endgame actor hinted that his future in show business was riding on the hope that his collaborator lands an Oscar nomination this year.