After 40 Years: Tom Cruise Wins His First Academy Award at Governors Ceremony
After more than 40 years in film, Mission: Impossible star Tom Cruise has finally won his first Oscar, but it is not a performance award. It is an Honorary Oscar Award recognizing his contributions to the film industry.
During the 16th annual Governors Awards ceremony yesterday, Tom Cruise was presented with the Honorary Oscar Award in recognition of his commitment to the filmmaking community, the theatrical experience, and the stunts community. The award was presented by two-time Oscar-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman, The Revenant). Iñárritu specifically praised Cruise's precision in every expression, action, and line delivery in his performances, as well as his professionalism and kindness when participating in filmmaking. In his acceptance speech, Tom Cruise first thanked the other three honorees of the night for their contributions: Golden Globe Best Actress winner Debbie Allen (Fame), production designer Wynn Thomas (a frequent Spike Lee collaborator), and singer Dolly Parton (star of the Emmy-winning TV movie Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square). He then thanked every film worker and everyone he has collaborated with.
Tom Cruise has been nominated for an Academy Award four times:
Best Actor for Born on the Fourth of July.
Best Actor for Jerry Maguire.
Best Supporting Actor for Magnolia.
Best Picture (as a producer) for Top Gun: Maverick.
Although he has never won a competitive Academy Award, he did win three Golden Globes for the first three performances listed above. In terms of box office, Cruise has recently focused on collaborating with director Christopher McQuarrie, starring in three Mission: Impossible films directed by him, as well as Top Gun: Maverick, which McQuarrie co-wrote. These four films have collectively grossed over $3.4 billion, with Top Gun: Maverick being the highest-grossing film of Cruise's career.
Tom Cruise’s next starring role is a comedy directed by the same director who presented his award, Alejandro González Iñárritu. Early reports indicate the film will follow the world's most powerful man embarking on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's savior before the disaster he caused destroys everything. This will be Cruise's last non-action leading role since Rock of Ages thirteen years ago. Five of Iñárritu's past seven films have resulted in acting Oscar nominations for his performers, including Leonardo DiCaprio winning Best Actor for The Revenant. This raises the question of whether Tom Cruise might finally secure another Oscar nomination, or even his first competitive Oscar win, with this project.
The film will star Tom Cruise alongside:
Two-time European Film Award winner Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann, Anatomy of a Fall)
Golden Globe Best Actor winner John Goodman (Roseanne)
Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me By Your Name)
Cannes Best Actor winner Jesse Plemons (Kinds of Kindness)
Sophie Wilde (Talk to Me)
Emmy Best Actor winner Riz Ahmed (The Night Of)
Emma D'Arcy (House of the Dragon)
Robert John Burke
Burn Gorman (Pacific Rim: Uprising)
Three-time consecutive Oscar winner for Best Cinematography, Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity, Birdman, The Revenant), will reunite with the director to serve as the film's Director of Photography.
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