2025 Oscars Best Picture Series - WICKED

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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It's Oscars season! The Cine-Files hosts John Rocha and Steve Morris continue their exploration of the 2024 Best Picture nominees in their Oscars Best Picture Series with this conversation and review of WICKED. The JON M. Chu directed film is based on the book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and the hit Stephen Schwarz and Winnie Holzmand Broadway musical. It stars Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh and Jeff Goldblum. Steve and John discuss the film overall including the acting, direction, writing, production design, score and cinematography and its Oscars chances, Don't forget to vote in our First Annual Oscars show by signing up for our Patreon as a free or paying member. Everyone gets to vote and we will announce the winners on our live The Cine-Files Oscars show on March 1st!

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0:43.2	where John Roka, me, and my co-host, Steve Morris,
0:47.0	break down one best picture nominee with every one of these episodes.
0:50.7	And today, we are tackling Wicked, this adaptation of the smash Broadway musical,
0:58.3	directed by John M. Chu, starring Cynthia Revo, Ariana Grande, Jeff Goe, Michelle, Yo, Jonathan Bailey,
1:05.4	Peter Dinklage, and a host of other fantastic young and up-and-coming actors, and one great
1:10.0	SNL actor in Bowen-Yang.
1:12.1	We're going to break this thing down and talk about it all and get into some of the
1:15.8	Oscar nominations attached to the movie and our overall thoughts on why we think this is
1:20.8	nominated and how it will do overall in the Oscars.
1:24.4	So, Steve, we've had fun kicking off the series of two fantastic films.
1:29.3	What are your thoughts on Wicked and the massive pulp culture juggernaut that it has become
1:35.9	since its release? So I, so first of all, I should say the first books I was ever obsessed
1:42.7	with were the Oz books.
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