Josh Brolin has a bone to pick with the academy.

The actor, 56, said the Oscars got it wrong when they failed to nominate his “Dune” director Denis Villeneuve for the 2021 sci-fi film. This year, Villeneuve is again up for the award for “Dune : Part Two.”

The sequel received better reviews than the original film, with Brolin reprising the role of Gurney Halleck, a mentor to Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides.

“If he doesn’t get nominated this year, I’ll quit acting,” Brolin told Variety in an interview published Thursday. “It was a better movie than the first one. When I watched it, I felt like my brain had been cracked open. It’s masterful, and Denis is one of our master filmmakers. If the Academy Awards have any meaning, they will recognize him.”

Villeneuve, 57, will be recognized in the 2024 IndieWire Honors and will receive the director’s tribute at the Gotham Awards. But the Oscar nominations won’t be announced until early 2025.

“Dune: Part One” received the second-highest number of nominations at the 94th Academy Awards with 10 nods, but Best Director was not among them.

Brolin said in one Twitter video at the time the director was not nominated was “incredible, almost numbing, astounded.”

“It’s just one of those things where you’re like, ‘Huh? What?!’ the actor continued. “I don’t know how you get ten nominations and the man who did the impossible with that book doesn’t get nominated. It makes you realize that it’s all wonderful and that it’s all completely stupid. So congratulations on the amazing achievements that these incredibly talented people are being recognized for, because it’s all really, really stupid.

In March, Brolin raved about the film on social media.

‘Dune 2’ is a train that responds to the need we all have to hear beautiful stories. Stories about perception, coming to terms with ourselves, the importance of ecology and what it means to fall in love at a young age and still have to live a life. ‘Dune’ accents, like the great movies and books did to us as kids,” he explained on Instagram.

“We have allowed fear and anxiety to chill us, so when something happens that reminds us of our courage, our challenges, our soft hearts and our ability to triumph, always keeping the bigger picture in mind, we toast to that emotionally. Thank you, Denis Villeneuve, for reminding us from your humanitarian perspective. Thank you, Frank Herbert, for giving us reality in your imagination. Entertainment that nourishes. The nectar of imagination. ‘Dune 2’ hit the center of a need and humanity wins again.”

But regardless of the magic of “Dune,” Villeneuve said he doesn’t create to win awards.

“As a filmmaker you are a lone wolf. When your work is appreciated by the community, it feels like you are part of a family. That’s what’s really important to me,” he told Variety earlier this month. “Making films means being away from your family for months. Every time I finish a film, I sit down and ask myself if the flame is still there, because I will never make a film without that fire in me.”

Another stupid one that Villeneuve has kept in mind all these years? Amy Adams was not nominated for an Oscar for her role in his 2016 sci-fi film “Arrival,” despite earning a Best Director nod herself.

Villeneuve called the outcome a ‘major disappointment’.