If you’re hoping for Wicked to win Best Picture at next year’s Academy Awards, you may desire to sit down.
The smash-hit adjustment of the Broadway musical remarkably took home the National Board of Review’s Best Film award on Wednesday, which puts Wicked well in line to land a Best Picture election next month.
Most of the NBR’s current winners, sans 2020’s Da 5 Bloods and 2014’s A Most Violent Year, over the last years haveactually gone on to get chosen in the Oscars’ greatest classification.
However, just one movie because 2008 has really won Best Picture after winning the NBR’s Best Film honor: 2018’s Green Book.
That puts Wicked at a historic drawback, as the NBR’s Best Film award is a rather curious note of bad luck for any Best Picture competitor.
The honor just lined up with the Academy in Best Picture throughout the 2000s on 2 events: 2007’s No Country for Old Men and 2008’s Slumdog Millionaire.
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