Tom Cruise collected an honorary Oscar on the sixteenth Governors Awards on Sunday evening (November 16), delivering a passionate deal with during which he lavished reward on his Hollywood collaborators and the artwork of cinema and declared: “Making movies just isn’t what I do, it’s who I’m.”
Cruise has by no means gained an Academy Award – he has been nominated 3 times as an actor and most lately in 2023 as a producer of the worldwide smash High Gun: Maverick – though that didn’t cease Alejandro González Iñárritu from making a prediction as he welcomed Cruise to the stage at Ovation Hollywood.
“This can be his first Oscar, however from what I’ve seen and skilled, it is not going to be his final,” Iñárritu stated. The Mexican filmmaker and Cruise are at the moment in post-production on an motion journey for Warner Bros and Legendary Leisure that’s scheduled to open in 2026.
Cruise acquired a protracted standing ovation when he took to the Ray Dolby Ballroom stage. “Cinema takes me around the globe and it helps me to understand and respect variations,” he stated. ”It reveals me additionally our shared humanity, how alike we’re in so some ways. Irrespective of the place we come from, in that theatre we chortle collectively, we really feel collectively, we hope collectively, we dream collectively. That’s the energy of this artform and that’s the reason it issues to me.”
The A-lister added: ”I’ll all the time do the whole lot I can to assist this artform […] hopefully with out too many extra damaged bones.”
Cruise paid tribute to the night’s different honorees: manufacturing designer Wynn Thomas, choreographer, actor and producer Debbie Allen, and Dolly Parton, the 2025 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient who was unable to attend as a result of well being points.
