Only two sequels have ever won the Best Picture Oscar and Wicked: For Good won’t be the third after being snubbed when the nominations for Tinseltown’s Red Carpet night on 15 March were revealed this week.
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Wicked, Emilia Pérez and more – Which musical movies will come out top at the Academy Awards 2025?
Two musicals, Wicked and Emilia Pérez, made the final ten for Oscars night on 2 March after nominations for Hollywood’s big night were eventually announced last week.
Ariana DeBose is named Best Supporting Actress for West Side Story at the Oscars
Sixty years ago West Side Story swept the board at the Academy Awards, winning ten Oscars, a record number for a musical that still stands. But Steven Spielberg’s reimagining of the Bernstein-Sondheim-Laurents-Robbins masterpiece, nominated for seven this year, had to settle for just one on Sunday night. As expected, hot favourite Ariana DeBose took the […]
Oscars Preview: Will West Side Story’s Ariana DeBose walk away a winner?
The red carpet rolls out for Hollywood’s big night on Sunday when all will be revealed at the 94th Oscars and the good news for lovers of musicals is that the fat lady is ready to sing for West Side Story’s Ariana DeBose. She’s the hottest of favourites in the Best Supporting Actress category for […]
Oscar nominations for West Side Story and tick, tick… Boom!
Seven Oscar nominations for Steven Spielberg’s re-imagining of West Side Story, the show that changed the face of musical theatre in the late 1950s and became a record-breaking movie in 1962. And two for tick, tick… Boom! whose star, Andrew Garfield, is one of the favourites for the Best Actor gong. That was the news […]
La La Land at the Oscars – Hurwitz, Pasek and Paul win Best Song
Feelgood musical La La Land may have been involved in the biggest mix-up in Oscar history when it was mistakenly named Best Picture at Sunday’s ceremony, but the tuneful love note to Los Angeles still took home six trophies. Composer Justin Hurwitz won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the movie […]
