Hans Zimmer On Academy Disqualification For ‘Dune: Part Two’ Score: “A Stupid Rule”

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Hans Zimmer opened up about the Academy disqualification of his Dune: Part Two score for Oscars consideration, calling the ruling “stupid.” In a conversation with Josh Horowitz on his Happy Sad Confused, the storied film composer said the decision was not “a sore point,” but rather a foolish one in his opinion. “You know something?

It’s not really a sore point,” he began. “It’s just such a stupid point — how can it be a sore point?” The two-time Oscar winner continued, “I got disqualified because I was using material from the first movie in the second movie, but it’s not a sequel.

It is the completion, both movies are one arc. So was I supposed to go and take all the character themes away and write new character themes and develop them?

It’s just a stupid rule. What I didn’t want to do is go and bitch about it.” Late last year, an Academy independent review found that Zimmer’s inclusion of thematic elements from 2021’s Dune violated the organization’s eligibility requirements, which maintain that a score for an eligible film must comprise a minimum of 35% of the total music in the film.