Tom Cruise Receives His First Oscar Movierulzz

Tom Cruise has been nominated for several Academy Awards, both as an actor and a producer. But he never won a competitive Oscar over the course of his hugely successful 40-year career. But now he can call himself an Oscar winner, having received an honorary Academy Award “for the legacy of his work” at this year’s Governors Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Cruise received his award over the weekend at a ceremony that also honored Debbie Allen, production designer Wayne Thomas and Dolly Parton.

As part of a long, heartfelt speech, Cruise talked about why he loves movies so much…

[Cinema] It helps me appreciate and respect differences. It also shows me our shared humanity, and how similar we are in so many ways. And no matter where we come from, in this theater, we laugh together, we feel together, we hope together, and that is the power of this art form. That’s why it’s important, and that’s why it’s important to me. So filmmaking is not what I do, it is who I am.

You can watch Cruz’s acceptance speech in full below:

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Once upon a time, honorary Oscars like Cruise’s award were handed out at the actual Academy Awards ceremony in February or March. But since people always complain that the Oscars are too long, the Academy created a separate event called the Governors Awards in the fall.

I think it’s good that Cruise accepted his award and took all the time he wanted to thank all the people he worked with who inspired him. His speech was really good, and had it been broadcast on TV it would have certainly sparked complaints about its length on social media. But… Tom Cruise getting his first Oscar seems like something people might want to see, right? loves, on Stream the Oscars?

I understand why they stopped giving these awards during the actual Oscars, but this doesn’t seem ideal to me at all.