Warner Bros. remains to be submitting Dune 2’s rating for Academy Awards consideration.
Final month, it was introduced that Hans Zimmer’s rating for Dune 2 wouldn’t be eligible for Academy Awards consideration on condition that the film’s music surpasses the Academy’s restrict on pre-existing music and is ineligible to be nominated within the Finest Unique Rating class.
“In instances reminiscent of sequels and franchises from any media, the rating should not use greater than 20% of pre-existing themes and music borrowed from earlier scores within the franchise,” the Academy rule states.
Regardless of this, per Selection, Warner Bros. has submitted Zimmer’s Dune 2 rating for Oscar consideration in hopes that “ his progressive contributions to the movie will meet the necessities and earn a nomination.”
What did Denis Villeneuve say about Dune 2’s rating?
“I don’t assume that is over but… I used to be there when Hans wrote the music, and he did an incredible quantity of music,” Villeneuve stated. “Half Two is a brand new rating. I don’t settle for this as a result of it’s one of the vital stunning scores Hans has ever written, and I’d like it, not less than, to be thought of.”
Villeneuve and Zimmer additionally stated that Dune: Half Two just isn’t a direct sequel to 2021’s Dune; relatively, they view it as a continuation that completes Frank Herbert’s novel.
“The story begins the second we end the primary film,” he stated. “We’re nonetheless inside that story, these characters, and it might be silly and fully uncinematic to go and write new themes for the characters as a substitute of enlarging the theme.”
The Oscar nominations will probably be introduced on Friday, January 17, 2025, whereas the ceremony will probably be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025.
Dune: Half Two — which stars Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Austin Butler, and extra — is presently streaming on Max.
