Eye Candy Predix Pt 2: Will "Wicked" be crowned again in Costume Design?
Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 3:49PM by Nathaniel R
WICKED FOR GOOD
I cheered when Paul Tazewell won Best Costume Design and Nathan Crowley won Production Design for Wicked and yet I also felt a sense of dread. One of my great popculture fears in this franchise era is that the Oscars will one day lose their identity and become something akin to the Emmys with the same achievements winning again and again. Naturally then I'm excited to see new variations on the pinks and greens and golds and blacks of Wicked's color palette in Wicked For Good but also don't want to see it win back to back Oscars in the eye-candy categories, since it's essentially one long film, split into two. (It's the same reason I rolled my eyes that the Academy felt the need to nominate Stuart Craig and Stepheni McMillan for a full half of the Harry Potter franchise films even though their work was strong).
So what might oppose total Wicked dominance in the eye-candy categories come Oscar time? Specifically costume design...