By Famed filmmaker Denis Villeneuve has taken issue with the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences and their decision to render Hans Zimmer’s score for Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” ineligible at the upcoming Oscars.
Villeneuve, who has been Oscar nominated three times, spoke with SlashFilm recently about his film’s disqualification from the Best Original Score category. The reasoning given by AMPAS has been the film featured too much music from the 2021 first “Dune” film.
Speaking about the sequel’s soundtrack being out of the running, he says:
“I am absolutely against the decision of the Academy to exclude Hans, frankly, because I feel like his score is one of the best scores of the year. I don’t use the word genius often, but Hans is one.”
He then goes on to say the soundtrack is understandably “rooted in Part One, of course, because there is a continuity” and the films are “one big movie that is cut in half.” He also says: “I’m not here to complain. The soundtrack is really a continuity of Part One.”
Zimmer won the Best Original Score Oscar for the first “Dune” and was nominated for Best Original Score at Sunday’s Golden Globes for the second film’s score.
Villeneuve will start filming the franchise’s third installment, based on the novel “Dune Messiah,” in late 2025 or 2026.
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