All I want from tomorrow morning’s reciting of the 2025 Oscar nominations is a couple of shocking omissions or unexpeceted inclusions…please. At least give me that.

I’d greatly appreciate The Apprentice‘s Sebastian Stan winding up with a Best Actor nomination; ditto Jeremy Strong for Best Supporting Actor.

And Queer‘s Daniel Craig…please! Oh, wait…such an outcome would first require that many if most Academy members have actually sat down and seen Luca Guadagnino‘s trippy period film.

Anora‘s Mikey Madison is in for Best Actress, of course, but how about including Marianne Jean-Baptiste of Hard Truths?

I know Conclave‘s Stanley Tucci won’t make the Best Supporting Actor cut (a shame) but Anora‘s Yura Borisov…well, of course!

Here’s hoping for slightly fewer Emilia Perez and Brutalist nominations than generally anticipated. Too bad the Brutalist AI controversy didn’t break a couple of weeks earlier.

Any serious surprises at all will suffice. Thank you.

Here are the Gatecrashers predictions on a category-by-category basis.

And here are mine, which of course aren’t predictions but personal choices.

Bowen Yang (Saturday Night Live, Wicked) and Rachel Sennott (Saturday Night, The Idol) will announce the nominations live on Thursday at 8:30 am Eastern / 5:30 am Pacific.

[5:30 am NYC update: The Los Angeles-based Yang and Sennott are almost certainly asleep at this moment in separate locations. Their smartphone alarms are most likely set for 3 am, although Sennott’s hair and makeup team are almost certainly up and preparing as we speak.]

Should I post some kind of live-blog reactions? On the fence about this. I don’t think there’s all that much of an edge-of-the-seat vibe out there.