The Vern's Accurate Oscar Predictions 2025

 

Here it is gang, my 100 % acurate predictions on the 2025 Academy Awards.  The ones, yours truly know will take home the gold statue this Sunday night. For other people's opinions that are not as good but are worth your time.  Please subscribe to either, Next Best Picture , InSession Film or Mike Mike and Oscar.  I’m not going to describe my picks in every single category because honestly a lot of these are just my best guesses, but you can hear about them in the bonus podcast episode

Wicked(2024) Written Review.

 

Wicked

Cast: Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Yeoh

Writers: Winnie Holzman,Dana Fox(Screenplay) Stephen Schwartz, Winnie Holzman(Musical), Gregory Maguire(Novel)

Director: John M Chu

*** out of Five *'s

 

In the magical land of Oz long long before Dorothy ever dropped a house on a certain someone.  There lived two young ladies studying the art of witchcraft and magic at Shiz University. Imagine Hogwarts if different colored cupcakes landed everywhere and no one decided to clean it up.   Glinda… sorry, Galinda Upland(Ariana Grande) is the most popular girl and not just in school but everywhere it seems.  Imagine Regina from Mean Girls but with a lot more power and you get the idea.  When Elphaba Thropp(Cynthia Erivo) enters on her first day.  Almost everyone is put off by her appearance because she has….wait for it… green skin.  There are talking animals in this world but a girl with green skin is just way too strange for everyone. After an incident causes Miss Thropp to display her powers unwillingly or in a slight homage to Brian Depalma's Carrie(ask your parents about it)  Head Mistress Madame Morrible(Michele Yeoh) takes special interest in and believes she would be a good candidate to work alongside the great and powerful Oz(Jeff Goldblum). Galianda channeling her inner Cher from Clueless vibes(Ask your parents kiddos) feels bad for making fun of the new green skinned girl.  She decides to do some good and comes up with a few ideas to make her a bit more popular to the other students.