Efter mere end fire årtier på film og som en af Hollywoods helt store navne har Tom Cruise endelig fået en Oscar. Og han behøver ikke engang vente til næste forår for at modtage den, da han i weekenden fik overrakt en Honorary Academy Award under Governors Awards.
Prisen, ifølge Variety, blev overrakt af Alejandro G. Iñárritu, som arbejder sammen med Cruise på en film, der forventes at udkomme næste oktober. Cruise sagde: "The cinema, it takes me around the world. It helps me to appreciate and respect differences. It shows me also our shared humanity, how alike we are in so, so many ways."
"And no matter where we come from, in that theater, we laugh together, we feel together, we hope together, and that is the power of this art form. And that is why it matters, that is why it matters to me. So making films is not what I do, it is who I am" fortsatte han. "My love for cinema began at a very early age, as early as I can remember. I was just a little kid in a darkened theater, and I remember that beam of light just cut across the room, and I remember looking up, and it seemed to be just exploded on the screen. Suddenly, the world was so much larger than the one that I knew."
Cruise har leveret nogle fremragende præstationer gennem sin karriere, men han er ikke en, der ofte går efter "Oscar-bait"-dramaer. I stedet er han et af de få navne tilbage i Hollywood, som alene kan få folk i biografen på grund af sit navn.