Rotten Tomatoes' Biggest Award Goes To $714M Movie With 92% That Just Lost Big At The Golden Globes

Rotten Tomatoes has now awarded a movie that was shut out at the Golden Globes ceremony. The review aggregator web site has presented their Golden Tomato Awards to the best-reviewed titles of the year annually for the past quarter-century. Previous picks for their biggest prize, Best Movie, have included 2023's Best Picture Oscar winner Oppenheimer, 2022's Top Gun: Maverick, 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home, 2020's Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and 2019's Avengers: Endgame, representing an eclectic mix of big-budget blockbusters and well-regarded arthouse cinema.

In 2025, Rotten Tomatoes is presenting the 26th annual Golden Tomato Awards, honoring the best movies and television shows of 2024. This comes relatively early in the 2024-2025 awards season, sandwiched between the Golden Globes ceremony on January 5 and the 2025 Oscar nominations, which will be announced on January 19 after a two-day delay amid the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires.

Dune: Part Two Has Been Awarded By Rotten Tomatoes

The Movie Was Just Snubbed By The Golden Globes

Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi sequelDune: Part Two has been awarded by Rotten Tomatoes. Although Dune: Part Two reviews earned the movie a Certified Fresh 92% score and its global box office total hit $714.4 million, making it the fifth highest-grossing movie of 2024, it only received two Golden Globe nominations, for Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Original Score. It proceeded to lose in both categories, to The Brutalist and Challengers respectively.

Dune: Part Two follows Paul Atreides attempting to help the Fremen defend their home planet of Arrakis and features a star-studded cast that includes Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, and Stellan Skarsgård.

Rotten Tomatoes has now announced the winners of their 2024 Golden Tomatoes Awards. Dune: Part Two has earned the honor of becoming their overall Best Movie of 2024 via their weighted ranking, which compares a movie's overall Rotten Tomatoes score with the number of reviews it received. Dune: Part Two also won in the Best Wide Release Movies and Best Sci-Fi Movies categories. Below, see all of the Top 10 titles in the Best Movies category:

Rank	Title
#1	Dune: Part Two
#2	Anora
#3	Challengers
#4	Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
#5	Hit Man
#6	Inside Out 2
#7	Love Lies Bleeding
#8	The Substance
#9	Wicked
#10	The Wild Robot

What This Means For Dune: Part Two

Critics Love The Sci-Fi Movie

Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica dressed in the uniform of the Reverend Mother in Dune Part Two

While Rotten Tomatoes' awards do not tend to be major predictors of what movies will win or be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, Dune: Part Two winning this award could be an indicator that it still has some steam left in its awards run after its Golden Globes shutout. The movie has won a variety of other accolades, including an AFI Award and a Gotham Award, so the fact that critics' love for the movie had not paled by the end of the year could indicate that the voting body of the Academy may feel the same way.

Source: Rotten Tomatoes