‘Wicked’ just won a huge award — it could spell bad news for Oscars
nypost.comthe big-budget adaptation of the Broadway show its top film of the year.Adding to the haul, the film’s Jon M. Chu won best director.His stars, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, meanwhile, did not take home best actress and supporting actress (those respectively went to Nicole Kidman for “Babygirl” and Elle Fanning for “A Complete Unknown”).
Instead, the green-and-pink duo got a combined special award for “Creative Collaboration.”Before you hop on a Swifter and start belting “Defying Gravity,” there’s just one problem with these honors — statistically, they’re curses.
The group’s record is spotty, to say the least.NBR’s best picture winner has only gone on to win the top Academy Award three times in the past 24 years: “No Country For Old Men” (2007), “Slumdog Millionaire” (2008) and “Green Book” (2018).
That’s barely a 12% success rate since Y2K.The same number applies to their rocky best director Oscars overlap: Steven Soderbergh (“Traffic,” 2000), Ang Lee (“Brokeback Mountain,” 2005) and Martin Scorsese (“The Departed,” 2006).
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