Universal's WICKED Films - News & Discussion Thread — Page 126

QueenAlice said: "Angels in America and Perestroika were written and performed as two separate works on stage in a single season...."

Not exactly.  Angels In America: Part One is called Millennium Approaches and Angels In America: Part Two is called Perestroika. They had been presented as one play by the Eureka Theater Company in San Francisco in May of 1991, though Perestroika was only given a staged reading.  Millennium Approaches was then produced by the Royal National Theatre in January of 1992.  Parts One and Two were then presented in LA at the Mark Taper Forum in November of 1992, with plans announced for it to open on Broadway the following spring.  There were three cast replacements in between (Harper, Joe and Belize) and with an eye on successive Tonys it was decided to open Part One in time for the 92-93 awards and save Part Two for the 93-94.  Each play did in fact win its seasons Best Play Tony (deservedly), but the revivals at the Signature in 2010-11 and on Broadway in 2018 treated Parts One and Two as one play (as I believe it had been categorized on the West End as well). 

It was a slick if crafty move.

Interestingly, Stephen Spinella (Prior) won the Best Featured Actor Tony in 1993 while Ron Leibman (Roy) won Best Actor.  Leibman was not nominated in 1994 and Spinella then won Best Actor.  In 2018, Andrew Garfield won Best Actor for playing Prior and Nathan Lane won Best Featured Actor for playing Roy when the plays were presented as one work.

 

Updated On: 1/23/26 at 12:32 PM

Bette's Turban said: "TheOtherOne2 said: "Why on earth should any of them have been nominated two years in a row for the same production? They suckered millions of dollars out of people. They don't need Oscars, too."

Well.. they didn’t sucker anything out of anybody. And the expectation was that Ariana would be nominated . Don’t act like a know it all. "

As the “know it all” in question here, I’d like to say that I thought Wicked had the potential to be one excellent movie and was disappointed in the results of it being stretched into two. I don’t think I’m alone or even a minority in this, so its lack of Oscar nominations didn’t offend me, especially considering that most of its potential nominees were nominated last year. For what it’s worth, I also expected Ariana to be a nominee. She managed to be great in both films and I was surprised that she wasn’t nominated. 

 

Updated On: 1/23/26 at 01:49 PM

So, I just looked to see Amy Madigan was nominated in Supporting. She was great, but she didn’t have a big long journey that made me tear up like Ariana. I would have nominated Ariana over her, but I guess since Weapons was the better movie, they figured Amy deserved it more. That’s usually how the Best Costume winner works. Not all the time, but usually, the Academy just votes most for the costumes in the film that was also nominated for Best Picture, even when other nominated costumes are clearly better.

And speaking of costumes, everyone wore different costumes in For Good than the ones they had in Part One, save for the ones in the end like the pink dress, and I think Yeoh wore one previous costume in like one scene. So I don’t agree they should not have been nominated for For Good.

Updated On: 1/24/26 at 09:29 AM

^Agree completely, ColorTheHours048! 

Can we just talk about the amount of performances up for consideration in all four acting categories is insane. So many of them were honestly win competitive in any other year and each of the four categories had at least two or three actors left off nominations that could easily have been nominated and win competitive in any other year… (Paul Mescal, Ariana Grande, Odessa A’zion, Joel Eggerton, Amanda Seyfried, Tessa Thompson, Chase Infiniti…to name a few*). 
 

For a year with five films that were locks + four foreign language films that could have been nominated across the board; this really turned out to be an exceptional year for film and will be remembered as such with time. (But Wicked: For Good was not one of those films. Sorry, Not Sorry).

TheOtherOne2 said: "^ Don't forget Jesse Plemons. "

Absolutely! There’s a handful+ I left off but Jess’s one I absolutely would have listed and if the edit option wasn’t somehow blocked from my (forced new) account I would have edited to add him 100%…

And they won the GRAMMY for "Defying Gravity".

Kinda wild they beat the KPOP Demon Hunters juggernaut. 

As a fan of Next Best Picture, I get to vote for the nominations and winners for their annual film community awards. Nominating ballots are due before February 14th. To those who'd like to nominate Wicked: For Good in any category, you can do so here.
https://nextbestpicture.com/the-2025-nbp-film-community-award-nomination-ballots/

Jeffrey Karasarides said: "Brian Rowe of The Awards Contender has recently published a video on why Wicked: For Good flopped at the Oscars.

BrodyFosse123 said: "Jeffrey Karasarides said: "Brian Rowe of The Awards Contender has recently published a video on why Wicked: For Good flopped at the Oscars.

Updated On: 2/10/26 at 10:56 AM