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.

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 is as popular in Hollywood as he’s ever been, with more than one role in the Marvel universe, an Academy Award nomination under his belt, a recent popular TV series wrapped, a comedy hit film that’s streaming,

Part Two.” In an interview with Variety, the actor, who plays Paul Atreides’ combat mentor Gurney Halleck in the sci-fi epic, issued a threat about what he will do if the film’s director Denis Villeneuve once again isn’t nominated for Best Director at the Oscars.

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,