Ariana Grande Addresses Cynthia Erivo's Awards Season Snubs

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When Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo work in tandem, the result is pure magic. However, this awards season has been looking a lot more pink than green. Erivo has surprisingly lost out on some key nominations for Wicked: For Good, which has her co-star feeling some type of way about getting her own recognition. Grande recently broke her silence about Erivo’s unexpected snubs during the 2026 awards season.

Movie fans were shocked when Erivo was not nominated for both the Critics’ Choice Awards and the Actor Awards (previously called the SAG Awards) this year, especially since she had been nominated at both ceremonies last year for her role as Elphaba in Wicked. While Erivo was shut out, Grande did manage to get nominations from both bodies for Wicked: For Good, the same the she ...