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With less than a week till the 2025 Oscars, the esteemed award show has created buzz among fans and the audience as guesses and speculations are on about who will take home one of the Academy Awards. As 2024 ended on a busy note for cinema, the nominations for the award season saw diversity this year. Biographies, musicals, indie films, and body horror- all the genres seemed to have found a place at this year's Oscars.
Like always, the nominations have not seen any decline in criticisms as well. Multiple Oscar snubs were reported by fans and the audience as worthwhile performances were left out or appreciated less. To exacerbate the situation, a recent interview with four anonymous Oscar voters has revealed there to be an error in their judgments as they confessed to not even having gone through Timothee Chalamet's Dune: Part Two.
Entertainment Weekly spoke to four anonymous voters, a director, a writer, a publicist and a casting director, who revealed the reasons that drove them to choose certain projects and performances over the others.
The director, who voted for the Conclave over the other nominations for Best Picture, revealed that a driving force behind their voting decision was that they did not sit through two of the films in the category.
"I'm bummed because I haven't seen The Substance or I'm Still Here yet. The first Dune, I couldn't get through; I'm not rushing for another three hours of Dune."
The publicist, casting director and the writer added that they too, didn't watch the sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s masterpiece, and hence abstained from ranking it. The publicist said,
"I’d seen the David Lynch version of Dune, and I saw [Denis Villeneuve’s] first one, which I was super bored by. I place it on myself; when I walked into the theater, I wasn’t in the right headspace. It wasn’t compelling to me. I’m open to sci-fi, but I think it had something to do with whatever I’d gone through that day"
What does this mean for Dune: Part Two at the Oscars this year?
It's safe to say that the interview cements speculations that Dune: Part Two has slimmer chances of grabbing an award this year, seeing as it was also nominated for only five awards, with four of them being dedicated to technical areas.
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Chalamet's role in the film and Denis' direction were widely considered by many to be worthy contenders for this year's Oscars. Regardless, the Academy is full of surprises and may drop a bombshell decision on fans despite popular speculation.
The 2025 Oscars will air on Sunday, March 2 at 7 p.m.
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