“I will win it Oscar!,” Job men said while accepting the best director for “Evil“At 2025 Critics Choice Awards. “I’m not nominated, I’m not nominated,” he said, waving a laughing audience.
The director is still on his way to the Academy Awards in March, where his high-acting Broadway-musical adaptation is nominated for best image and nine more categories. But Chu’s Obvious guy for best director Went to his profit on criticism – usually a landmark along the yellow brick road to the Oscars – the big surprise of the night. Star stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo Cheered for Chu from their table and backstage, he emphasized the passion he knows for the universe created by their entire artistic team.
“You don’t get many times to celebrate when you make a movie. Nittifem percent of the time, you torture yourself and you have your role and crew every day that pulls you forward and builds another bridge to get over the next thing,” said chu. “So when a movie comes out and you see the world embrace it, it’s all for us as a storyteller.”
He continued, “It means the world to me personally and to this movie I think it deserves to be seen. I think it deserves to be loved and famous in every way – because it is thousands of people’s work, of human hands that build every set and all the girl’s work. It has been my life’s journey to witness it personally. “
Continued its Q&A after acceptance, Chu described the benefits and challenges of editing the upcoming “wicked” sequel (expected in November this year) while I campaign for awards with the first film. He said: “I live two timelines right now because I have been in the editing all week. So in the morning I literally screen the movie for our internal crew to just get a sense of how it plays and then I skip to here to celebrate A movie that is already made with all the same actors and a lot of the same things and you are just like-it is a astonishing thing to go through it. ”
CHU still said that the parallel experiences have been most advantageous for “wicked: for good.” The director explained to get involved with his audience from last year’s film on the reason for Oscars has affected his decision for the next payment. Knowing what “evil” viewers are aware of has enabled CHU to be more subtle with some narrative elements while expanding and emphasizing others, he said.
“It absolutely affects everything we do,” he said. “I didn’t think it would, but actually get into the cut, I feel that I’m more in the main space where the fans are – while before we had to cover our bases a little more for everyone.”
The director went on to emphasize the importance of “wicked” for his fans, who have strongly linked to its emotional bow at a turbulent time. Chu teased an even more compelling and intense encore from Grande and Erivo in the second half, before advocating for The power of music.
“It is the crucial American genre of films that have lasted for all times and keeps going – and I think that when you only have a limited amount of musicals that are done, you will not get the whole notch of everything you can do with music,” CHU said, and Hoped that he hopes that “Wicked” encourages more filmmakers to Naje his mark on the genre.
He continued, “It’s the best type of movie to do. It’s so fun and it’s as fun as it looks, and yet it’s as complicated as it looks too. We make it look simple. “
