After their debut, Wicked and Gladiator 2 enter the competition for the 2025 Oscar

Wicked and Gladiator 2 debuted together in American movie theaters, in an event that became known as Glickeda reference to the phenomenon Barbenheimerunion of titles Barbie and Oppenheimerwhich brought thousands of people to cinemas in 2023.

Premiering simultaneously, both the story inspired by the Broadway musical and the epic Ridley Scott began to be listed for the Oscars 2025appearing in several categories in the list of predictions of Variety.

Depending on the vehicle, Wickedcan lead the list of nominations appearing in 12 categories: Best Film, Best Director (John M. Chu), Best Actress (Cynthia Erivo), Best Supporting Actress (Ariana Grande), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Costumes, Best Editing, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Sound and Best Visual Effects.

Already Gladiator 2, blockbuster starring Paul Mescal (Aftersun), appears with chances in eight categories: Best Film, Best Director (Ridley Scott), Best Actor (Paul Mescal), Best Supporting Actor (Denzel Washington), Best Production Design, Best Costumes, Best Sound and Best Visual Effects.

The update on the race towards the Oscars also adds the first comments on the performance of Timothée Chalamet in the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Strangermaking the star one of the main candidates for the Best Actor statuette, alongside Adrien Brody (The Brutalist) and Ralph Fiennes (Conclave).

Brazil remains with great chances of being nominated in the Best International Film category with the drama I’m Still Herefrom Walter Salleswith Fernanda Torres (Foreign Land) and Selton Mello (The Auto da Compadecida). In the preview, the film is one of the five mentioned, alongside Emilia Pérez (France), Dahomey (Senegal), Kneecap (Ireland) and The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany).

Rolling Stone Brazil film special

Cinema is the theme of the new printed special from Rolling Stone Brazil. In a magazine dedicated to lovers of the seventh art, we interviewed Francis Ford Coppolawho turns 85 amid the release of his new film, Megalopolisa bold and million-dollar undertaking financed by himself.

Unshakable in the face of controversial reactions to the novelty, which took around 40 years to get off the ground, the filmmaker defends the cinema industry’s boldness in being creative and opens up, in plain Portuguese, about Brazil’s influence in his new film: “Alegria” .

The special also features conversations with Walter Salles, Fernanda Torres and Selton Mello on I’m Still Herea chat about soundtracks with maestro João Carlos Martins, an exclusive list with the 100 best films in history (50 national, 50 international), another list with the 101 greatest soundtracks in the history of cinema, a warm-up for the Oscars 2025 and the launch radar for Globoplay, Globo Filmes, O2 Play and O2 Filmes for the coming months.

The movie special Rolling Stone Brazil It is now available on newsstands, but can also be purchased at the Perfil publisher’s store for R$29.90. Check it out:

SOURCE:Variety

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• The Snow Society
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Poor Creatures
• The Boy and the Crane
• Dune: Part 2
• All of Us Strangers
• Godzilla and Kong: The New Empire
• Civil War
• Inside Out 2
• Bandit: Number One
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• The Substance
• The Girl of the Time
• The Room Next Door
• Venom: The Last Round
• Megalopolis
• All the Time We Have
• I’m Still Here
• Gladiator II
• Wicked