Oscars 2025 Countdown: Ariana Grande-ology

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As “Ology” posts go, this may be the easiest one we’ve ever written. There’s certainly no mystery surrounding Wicked star and Best Supporting Actress nominee Ariana Grande’s awards season game plan. She all but announced it when she presented at last year’s Oscars. Glinda cosplay was the order of the day, to our eternal chagrin. But it may surprise you to note that she didn’t actually spend the entire year in poofy pink gowns. Sometimes she wore poofy green ones and sometimes they were pink and not poofy at all. For good or for ill, she opted to stick pretty closely to method dressing all year long.

At the WSJ Innovators Awards in Vivienne Westwood
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At the Academy Museum Gala in Pierre Balmain Couture
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At the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards in Louis Vuitton
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At the National Board of Review Gala in Loewe
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At the Golden Globes in Vintage Givenchy Couture
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At the Critics Choice Awards in Dior Couture
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At the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in Armani Privé
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At the BAFTA Awards in Louis Vuitton
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At the SAG Awards in Loewe
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To be fair, she managed to work some interesting variations on the theme. We’re opposed to theme-dressing generally because it’s not about style, it’s about marketing. But in her case, we’re especially opposed to it because – irony of ironies – she happens to look terrible in pink. As for predictions, well, there’s the obvious one. It remains to be seen if she’s going to go that route or if she’s going to break out of this rut. One thing’s for sure: she’ll be sporting one tight-ass ponytail.

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[Photo Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for WSJ. Magazine Innovators Awards, Noam Galai/Getty Images for WSJ. Magazine Innovators Awards, Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Palm Springs International Film Society, Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Palm Springs International Film Society, Presley Ann/Getty Images for Palm Springs International Film Society, Faye’s Vision/Cover Images, Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for National Board of Review, Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for National Board of Review, Stewart Cook/CBS, Phil McCarten/CBS, Jennifer Bloc/Future Image/Cover Images, Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association, MediaPunch/INSTARimages, Abaca Press/INSTARimages, Carla Van Wagoner/Future Image/Cover Images, Cover Images, Robert Smith/INSTARimages]

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