Will Tom Cruise be at the 2023 Oscars?

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is up for Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards, but Tom Cruise won’t be in attendance should the film take home the honor.

Why Tom Cruise won’t be at the Academy Awards

Cruise won’t be in attendance for Sunday’s 95th Academy Awards as he is already back in the U.K. working on ‘Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning Part Two’.

That means that should ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, which is up for six Oscars, win Best Picture, producer Jerry Bruckheimer will be tasked with accepting the award.

Cruise is clearly keen to do all that he can to make ‘Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning Part Two’ a hit, with the film scheduled to hit theaters on June 28, 2024.

However, the first instalment, ‘Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning Part One’ will likely give the box office a jolt before then when it is released on July 14, 2023.

There were even rumors that Cruise might intro the Best Actress category at the ceremony, but those were shot down last week.

Cruise out, Lady Gaga in

Although Cruise won’t be at Sunday’s Oscars, Lady Gaga will be. The news comes after it was reported the singer wouldn’t be able to attend the ceremony due to her filming schedule for ‘Joker: Folie à Deux.’

Instead, it’s now reported that she will be in attendance, and that she will be performing her Oscar-nominated song ‘Hold My Hand’ from ‘Top Gun: Maverick’.

With Gaga performing, it means that all of the Best Original song nominees will perform at the ceremony.

This includes Rihanna (‘Lift Me Up’), Sofia Carson and Diane Warren (‘Applause’), Stephanie Hsu, David Byrne and Son Lux (‘This Is a Life’) and Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava (‘Naatu Naatu’).

Meanwhile, Glenn Close will not be presenting at the the ceremony after testing positive for COVID-19.

Close was slated to present alongside her ‘Air Force One’ costar Harrison Ford. The film earned two Oscar nominations, for Best Sound and Best Film Editing, back in 1998.