Sunday Night’s Governor Awards came as the bearer of good news for Tom Cruise’s fans. The Mission Impossible actor bagged an honorary Oscar presented by Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu, who is also collaborating with Cruise on an untitled project scheduled for release in October 2026.
While accepting his first Academy Award, Cruise delivered an emotional speech, saying,“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,” he told the audience (via Variety).
“…making films is not what I do, it is who I am,” Cruise concluded.
Cruise is a four-time Academy Awards nominee: Best Actor for Born on the Fourth of July (1990) and Jerry Maguire (1997), Best Supporting Actor for Magnolia (2000), and Best Picture as a producer for Top Gun: Maverick (2023)
This year, Tom Cruise reprised his coveted role of Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible franchise’s supposed last installment titled Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. The film was widely regarded as a critical and commercial success, crossing $500 million mark worldwide.
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