Tom Cruise receives honorary Oscar at 2025 Governors Awards
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The actor, 63, received an Academy Honorary Award on the evening of Nov. 16 and was presented the gong by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, who is directing Cruise in an upcoming, as-yet-untitled film set to be released in Oct. 2026, El.kz reports citingPeople.
Taking to the stage, the movie legend used the opportunity of his speech to pay tribute to all of the people who make movies as well as touching upon the unifying power of cinema.
“The cinema, it takes me around the world,” Cruise said. “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 continued: "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.”
The Mission Impossible star, who wore a black tuxedo for the occasion, then touched on his own childhood and where his love for film came from.
“My love for cinema began at a very early age, as early as I can remember,” he said. “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."
"Entire cultures and lives and landscapes all unfolded in front of me, and it sparked something. It sparked a hunger for adventure, a hunger for knowledge, a hunger to understand humanity, to create characters, to tell a story, to see the world. It opened my eyes. It opened my imagination to the possibility that life could expand far beyond the boundaries that I then perceived in my own life."
In one video shared on Instagram by producer and DJ D-Nice, Cruise and Allen could be seen facing each other on the dance floor and boogying, as they both laughed and smiled.
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