Tom Cruise missed the 2023 Oscars on Sunday – with his film Top Gun: Maverick taking home the award for Best Sound.
The actor, 60, whose Top Gun sequel was credited for saving cinema by Steven Spielberg, was absent from cinema’s biggest night due to him being back on set overseas for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part II in the UK, reported ET.
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer had been primed to accept the award should Top Gun: Maverick have won Best Picture – but Everything, Everywhere All At Once won the Oscar.
The movie starring Cruise was nominated for Best Picture along with Elvis, Avatar: The Way of Water, All Quiet On The Western Front and The Fabelmans.
The film was also nominated for Writing (Adapted Screenplay), Film Editing, Sound, Music (Original Song) and Visual Effects.
Iconic: Tom Cruise missed the 2023 Oscars on Sunday – with his film Top Gun: Maverick taking home the award for Best Sound
Lady Gaga performed nominated single Hold My Hand, from the film’s soundtrack.
Everything Everywhere All At Once nearly won everything, everywhere as the film led the pack with seven wins at The Oscars 2023 as it earned top honor Best Picture with individual recognitions for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis while Brendan Fraser completed his incredible career comeback with a Best Actor win.
The American absurdist action comedy-drama film was the biggest winner of the night as it earned Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Editing, and Best Original screenplay.
At the end of the night Daniel Kwan was joined by his co-director Daniel Scheinert – AKA The Daniels – as they thanked the entire cast and crew: ‘We’ve said enough tonight. Thank you so much to everyone here. You have all inspired me. One of the things that I realized growing up is that one of the best things we can do for each other is shelter each other from the chaos of this crazy world.
‘Thank you to the storytellers here who did that for me. The world is changing rapidly and I fear our stories aren’t keeping at pace and I sometimes it’s a little scary knowing that movies move at the rate of years and the world on the internet is moving at the rate of miliseconds, but I have great faith in our stories.
‘These stories have changed my life and they have done that for generations. Have a great night, guys, thank Thank you, everyone, have a great night. Thank you for watching!’
The film beat out quite the field incluiding: All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Banshees of Inisherin, Elvis, The Fabelmans, TÁR, Top Gun: Maverick, Triangle of Sadness, and Women Talking.
Before that Brendan Fraser completed his incredible career comeback as he took home top honor Best Actor for The Whale.
Incredible: Everything Everywhere All At Once nearly won everything, everywhere as the film led the pack with seven wins at The Oscars 2023 as it earned top honor Best Picture with individual recognitions for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis
The 54-year-old actor had tears running down his eyes as he accepted his well earned award as his speech began: ‘Thank you, thank you. So this is what the multiverse looks like. Oh. My goodness. I thank the academy for this honor and for our studio a-24 for making such a bold film. And — I’m grateful to Darren for throwing me a creative lifetime and hauling me aboard the good ship The Whale.
‘It was written by Samuel D. Hunter who is our lighthouse. Gentlemen, you laid your whale-sized hearts bare so that we could see into your souls like no one else could do and it is my honor to be named alongside you in this category. I want to tell you that only whales can swim at the depth of the talent of Hong Chau, and I started in this business 30 years ago, and things — they didn’t come easily to me, but there was a facility that I didn’t — I doesn’t appreciate at the time until it stopped.
‘And I just want to say thank you for this acknowledgement, because it couldn’t be done without my cast, it’s been like I’ve been in a diving expedition at the bottom of the ocean and the air on the line to the surface is on a launch being watched over by some people in my life, like my sons, holden and Leland and griffin. I love you. My manager Joann, Jennifer plant, and my best first mate, Jeanne. Thank you, again, each one and all. I’m so grateful to you. Good night.’
Just before that the Top Gun franchise has finally earned an Oscar.
The Tom Cruise led sequel Top Gun: Maverick won the Academy Award for Best Sound on Sunday during a ceremony which the 60-year-old leading man skipped.
The king: Brendan Fraser completed his incredible career comeback as he took home top honor Best Actor for The Whale at The Oscars on Sunday
The action flick’s sound team of Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon, and Mark Taylor were recognized as Nelson accepted the honor saying: ‘Thank you, Academy. And thank you to everyone who saw and heard this film. Together, in theaters.
‘Thank you to our incredibly collaborative filmmakers, our director and our producers. Thank you to the sound artists who share this award with us at Skywalker sound and soundbyte studios in London. And to our families. We did it!’
The blockbuster film beat out stiff competition including: Viktor Prášil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Lars Ginzel, and Stefan Korte – All Quiet on the Western Front, Julian Howarth, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, and Michael Hedges – Avatar: The Way of Water, Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray, and Andy Nelson – The Batman, and David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson, and Michael Keller – Elvis.
Flying: The Tom Cruise led sequel Top Gun: Maverick won the Academy Award for Best Sound on Sunday during a ceremony which the 60-year-old leading man skipped
Absent but presence felt: The film is centered around Cruise’s character Capt. Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell thirty years after the original film as he is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN’s elite graduates on a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to fly
The film is centered around Cruise’s character Capt. Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell thirty years after the original film as he is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN’s elite graduates on a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to fly it.
Ke Huy Quan completed his incredible career comeback while Jamie Lee Curtis got emotional while talking about her legendary actor parents as they earned Best Supporting Actor and Actress, respectively, for Everything Everywhere All At Once at The Oscars on Sunday.
The 51-year-old Hollywood veteran Quan – who took a decades long hiatus from acting – got emotional as he hit the podium to accept the highest honor in his career.
He concluded the speech by tearfully telling all the struggling actors to not give up on their dreams as he said: ‘Dreams are something you have to believe in. I almost gave up on mine.
‘To all of you out there, please keep your dreams alive. Thank you, thank you so much for welcoming me back. I love you. Thank you, thank you, thank you!’
Quan beat out an impressive field including: Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin, Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway, Judd Hirsch – The Fabelmans, and Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin.
Epic: Ke Huy Quan completed his incredible career comeback while Jamie Lee Curtis got emotional while talking about her legendary actor parents as they earned Best Supporting Actor and Actress, respectively, for Everything Everywhere All At Once at The Oscars on Sunday
Swept the board: Producer Jerry Bruckheimer had been primed to accept the award should Top Gun: Maverick have won Best Picture – but Everything, Everywhere All At Once won the Oscar
Elvis, by Baz Luhrmann, has eight nominations, including one for Austin Butler.
Best Actress at the Oscars will be a toss-up between Cate Blanchett in Tar and Michelle Yeoh, who won the award at the Golden Globes for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Ana De Armas also earned a nomination for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in Blonde.
While Cruise missed out on a nomination for Best Actor, Austin Butler (Elvis) Brendan Fraser (The Whale) and Bill Nighy (Living) all received nods.
All Quiet On The Western Front, a German-produced film, earned multiple nominations, as did Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, including Best Original Song.
Angela Bassett is nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and as is Jamie Lee Curtis for Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Winners will be voted on by the roughly 10,000 actors, producers, directors and film craftspeople who make up the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The academy added more women and people of color to its ranks after the #OscarsSoWhite uproars of 2015 and 2016, and it increased membership from outside the United States.
This year, seven of the 20 acting nominees were people of color including Yeoh’s Everything Everywhere All At Once castmates Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Quan.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences will surely celebrate a best-picture field populated with blockbusters; according to data firm Comscore, their collective domestic box office of $1.574 billion is the most ever at the time of nominations.
Last year’s awards had been looking like a comeback edition before ‘the slap’ came to define the ceremony. In the aftermath, the academy banned Will Smith from attending for the next 10 years.
Though he could have still been nominated, Smith’s performance as a runaway slave in Emancipation didn’t catch on with voters.
Notorious: Last year’s awards had been looking like a comeback edition before ‘the slap’ came to define the ceremony. In the aftermath, the academy banned Will Smith from attending for the next 10 years
But larger concerns are swirling around the movie business. Last year saw flashes of triumphant resurrection for theaters, like the success of Top Gun: Maverick, but less stellar results for most dramas.
Partially due to an inconsistent stream of major releases, ticket sales for the year recovered only about 70percent of pre-pandemic business.
Stocks for streaming services, meanwhile have plunged as Wall Street looked to streaming services to earn profits, not just add subscribers.
Last year’s Oscar broadcast drew 16.6 million viewers, according to Nielsen, up from the record-low audience of 10.5 million for the pandemic-marred 2021 telecast.