The Oscars 2025 nominations are set to drop on January 17, but it’s already clear that Hans Zimmer, the two-time Academy Award-winning German composer, won’t be in the running for Best Original Score this year. His amazing work on Denis Villeneuve's Dune 2 has been overlooked. According to SlashFilm, Denis isn’t too happy about the Academy’s choice.

What Denis said

Denis expressed strong disapproval of the Academy's choice to leave Hans out, stating that he believes Hans' score is among the year's finest. "I rarely call someone a genius, but Hans definitely fits that bill," he remarked during a Dune 2 screening at the Directors Guild of America in New York. He added with a laugh that he wasn't there to complain, but he pointed out that the Dune 2 score is deeply connected to the first film, as the franchise feels like "one big movie split into two parts."

Denis was highlighting the Academy's guideline that a composer can only be nominated for Best Original Score if at least 80% of the music is original. While Dune 2 features some new compositions, like the love theme "A Time Of Quiet Between The Storms," a significant portion of the score draws from the original film's music, which came out in 2021.

Hans is no Oscar virgin

Hans has been nominated for the Academy Awards a whopping 12 times since 1989, all in the same category. Some of his notable nominations include Barry Levinson's 1988 road film Rain Man, Penny Marshall's 1996 holiday classic The Preacher's Wife, James L. Brooks' 1997 rom-com As Good As It Gets, Dreamworks Animation's 1998 musical The Prince of Egypt, Terrence Malick's 1998 war film The Thin Red Line, Ridley Scott's 2000 historical action flick Gladiator, Guy Ritchie's 2009 mystery movie Sherlock Holmes, Christopher Nolan's 2010 sci-fi masterpiece Inception, his 2015 hit Interstellar, and his 2018 war drama Dunkirk.

He snagged Oscars for Disney's 1994 animated hit The Lion King and Dune.

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