Warner Bros. remains to be submitting Dune 2’s rating for Academy Awards consideration.
Final month, it was introduced that Hans Zimmer’s score 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 resembling 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 Variety, Warner Bros. has submitted Zimmer’s Dune 2 rating for Oscar consideration in hopes that “ his modern 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 suppose that is over but… I used to be there when Hans wrote the music, and he did an incredible quantity of music,” Villeneuve mentioned. “Half Two is a brand new rating. I don’t settle for this as a result of it’s some of the lovely scores Hans has ever written, and I might like it, at the very least, to be thought of.”
Villeneuve and Zimmer additionally mentioned that Dune: Part Two just isn’t a direct sequel to 2021’s Dune; fairly, they view it as a continuation that completes Frank Herbert’s novel.
“The story begins the second we end the primary film,” he mentioned. “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 an alternative 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 at present streaming on Max.
