The 2025 Academy Awards were wickedly good! From Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo’s performance that defied gravity to Kieran Culkin’s hilarious speech and “Anora’s” historic night, Access Hollywood is breaking down the top moments of the night.

Behind the Wizard of Oz in the two-part “Wicked” movies were people actually pulling the strings. They set the table for the hit double-punch movies long before the cameras ever rolled out: The casting directors, helped pick who made it to Oz.

“Our job is to know the actors that are out there or know how to find the actors that we don’t know,” says Bernard Telsey, one of the heavy hitters in the world of casting, who, with Tiffany Little Canfield, populated both “Wicked” movies.

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