‘Wicked: For Good’ tipped for best picture of 2025

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo also backed for individual awards following trailer drop…

Following the release of its trailer -which you can see below – Wicked: For Good is 10/1 with Casino Beats to win the Best Picture award at the Oscars for 2025.

In addition to Best Picture, Cynthia Erivo is priced at 5/1 to win Best Actress, while Ariana Grande is 7/1 for Best Supporting Actress. The film is also well-fancied in technical categories, sitting at 6/4 for Best Costume Design and 2/1 to win Best Production Design. The sequel is currently odds-on at 1/3 to outgross the first Wicked film, while priced at 9/4 to fall short. It’s also an 8/1 shot to be the highest-grossing film of 2025.

Last year’s global cinematic cultural sensation, which became the most successful Broadway film adaptation of all time, now reaches its epic, electrifying, emotional conclusion in Wicked: For Good. Directed once again by Jon M. Chu and starring returning cast, led by Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, the final chapter of the untold story of the witches of Oz begins with Elphaba and Glinda estranged and living with the consequences of their choices.

The first Wicked movie proved a box office hit / UPI Media / Universal Pictures

Elphaba (Erivo), now demonized as The Wicked Witch of the West, lives in exile, hidden within the Ozian forest while continuing her fight for the freedom of Oz’s silenced Animals and desperately trying to expose the truth she knows about The Wizard (Jeff Goldblum). Glinda, meanwhile, has become the glamorous symbol of Goodness for all of Oz, living at the palace in Emerald City and revelling in the perks of fame and popularity. Under the instruction of Madame Morrible (Michelle Yeoh), Glinda is deployed to serve as an effervescent comfort to Oz, reassuring the masses that all is well under the rule of The Wizard.

As Glinda’s stardom expands and she prepares to marry Prince Fiyero (Olivier award winner and Emmy and SAG nominee Jonathan Bailey) in a spectacular Ozian wedding, she is haunted by her separation from Elphaba. She attempts to broker a conciliation between Elphaba and The Wizard, but those efforts will fail, driving Elphaba and Glinda only further apart. The aftershocks will transform Boq (Tony nominee Ethan Slater) and Fiyero forever, and threaten the safety of Elphaba’s sister, Nessarose (Marissa Bode), when a girl from Kansas comes crashing into all their lives.

As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their singular friendship now the fulcrum of their futures, they will need to truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to change themselves, and all of Oz, for good.

The movie also stars Bowen Yang and Bronwyn James as Glinda’s fawning assistants and Sharon D. Clarke as the voice of Elphaba’s childhood nanny, Dulcibear.

Wicked: For Good – Odds

To be the highest grossing film of 2025 8/1

To gross more than Wicked:

Yes 1/3

No 9/4

Cynthia Erivo – Best Actress (2025 Oscars) 5/1

Ariana Grande – Best Supporting Actress (2025 Oscars) 7/1

Best Picture (2025 Oscars) 10/1