Why Tom Cruise Won’t Be Attending Oscars 2023 Despite ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Nominations: Details
usmagazine.comCelebrating from a distance. Tom Cruise wasn’t in attendance at the 2023 Oscars on Sunday, March 12, despite Top Gun: Maverick receiving six nominations.Cruise, 60, didn’t attend the awards show because he is filming Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part II overseas, Us Weekly can confirm.
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer is expected to accept the Best Picture award if their film wins while the actor is in the U.K. (Glenn Powell also confirmed via Instagram that he wouldn’t be at the awards show.)Although Cruise and Powell, 34, had to skip the ceremony, his costars Jennifer Connelly, Jay Ellis, Miles Teller and Lewis Pullman were in attendance at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.Fans of the action-drama film are also in for a surprise with Lady Gaga‘s planned musical appearance after it was originally announced that she would not be able to attend — or perform — at the Academy Awards.In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies“We have great relationships with Lady Gaga and her camp [but] she’s in the middle of shooting a movie right now, and here we are honoring the movie industry and what it takes to make a movie,” Oscars producer Glenn Weiss said on Wednesday, March 8, during the Oscars Creative Team press conference, referring to Gaga’s role in the Joker sequel Folie à Deux. “After a bunch of back and forth, it didn’t feel like she can get a performance to the caliber that we’re used to with her, that she’s used to and all that stuff.”Hours ahead of the Oscars, ABC confirmed that the actress, 36, was in the building for the awards show after all.
Gaga’s song “Hold My Hand,” which she collaborated on with BloodPop and Benjamin Rice, is nominated for Best Original Song.
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