‘Dune 2’ is designed to sweep in the Oscars. That finally is not going to do it is the best radiography of the current Hollywood

Josh Brolin already caught attention to the subject When the 2025 Oscar nominations: Denis Villeneuve, director of the mastodontic ‘Dune: Part 2‘He had not been nominated. Brolin knew what he was talking about: it is no longer just a displacement to the Canadian director. It is also the sign that the Oscars are ninging the Warner Blockbuster, because without the support of that nomination, it would be very strange that the film takes the Oscar to the best film or goes beyond a few technical recognition.

A good Oscar’s pan … minors. ‘Dune: Part 2 ‘can be taken, however, a good amount of Oscar important technicians. It is nominated in five categories: best sound, better photography, best production design, better visual effects and, of course, best film. Denis Villeneuve is not only missing in the category of Director, but also, as a coguionist with Jon Spaihts, in a better adapted script, where the first installment of the saga of adaptations of Frank Herbert’s novels was nominated.

One year for small movies. We have already commented so much about ‘Anora‘like’The Brutalist‘That the 2025 Oscar seem among their favorites to the smallest films:’ Anora ‘is pure indie cinema, and’ The Brutalist ‘has been shot with an absolutely tiny budget for what is stilate in Hollywood. They are not the only ones: ‘Nickel Boys’,’The substance‘And’ I’m still here ‘have very limited budgets, and even medium movies like’A complete stranger‘ either ‘Conclave‘They seem to make a certain visual modesty and approach their flag.

It is stipulated indie. It is not an isolated phenomenon this year, you just have to check most of the winning films of the last editions: ‘All at once everywhere‘(2022),’Coda‘(2021),’Nomadland‘(2020) or’Parasites‘(2019). All of open indie style or, at least, regardless of mainstream Hollywood. The only exception took place last year, with ‘Oppenheimer‘, which we can consider a clearly isolated case when coming from Christopher Nolan, one of the few blockbusters that are considered to have an author’s stamp. This year, only ‘Dune: part two’ and ‘Wicked’ follow their wake.

New times for the blockbuster. If we go back to previous years we will see how more Hollywood blockbusters (large distributions, large budgets) were combined with more independent cut films, but there were no such clear gusts. The year hinged in that sense was 2003 with ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King‘, with his eleven nominations … that he won entirely. An absolute hatching of the blockbuster model that left a certain sense of satiety. Behind her, as we say, films such as’ Million Dollar Baby ‘(2004),’ Slumdog Millionaire ‘(2008),’ The artist ‘(2011), ’12 years of slavery’ (2013) or ‘Moonlight’ (2016) have occurred.

The Syndrome ‘The Return of the King’. Our partner Pedro Gallego points, very reasonablythat the possible none of ‘Dune 2’ is due to the fact that the syndrome of the aforementioned ‘The Return of the King’ has suffered and its total sweep in the Oscars of 2003. It may, why it is ‘Dune: Part 2’, the academy prefers to wait for Villeneuve to put an end point to his trilogy (let’s not forget that this second part ends in a ‘continues’ will continue to give him the recognition. If this year ‘Dune’ sweeps, what do we leave for the third?

Not everything is Blockbusters. In Xataka we have spoken on numerous occasions how sequelae, franchises and blockbusters seem to have flooded the box office, without leaving space for other options. The Oscars seem to be replicating that fganthasma at the box office, proposing alternatives, which undoubtedly receive a pushing of fame and income thanks to the advertising of the awards. Undoubtedly, an interesting dilemma, just that Marvel seems to have definitely abandoned his absolute prereminence at the box office and that films like ‘The Brutalist or’ The substance ‘manages to raise much more than expected. Normality and diversity has returned to cartekleras, and the Oscars are the reflection.

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