One in every of our most anticipated occasions on the 2025 film schedule needs to be the launch of Tom Cruise’s Mission: Unimaginable – The Closing Reckoning, as will probably be an action-packed and stunt-heavy attainable conclusion to the franchise after Cruise has been blowing our minds for practically 30 years. Nonetheless, this week’s information that The Academy has added a stunt class on the Oscars has followers furious for the actor (and Mission: Unimaginable’s achievements), given the timing of the entire thing.
As introduced on Thursday by The Academy’s Board of Governors, a brand new award for “Achievement In Stunt Design” will formally debut on the one hundredth Oscars ceremony going down within the yr 2028 for 2027 releases. Understanding that The Closing Reckoning is coming two years earlier than that has followers all labored up, as this individual posted on Twitter:
well-deserved and lengthy overdue and i’m elated for the hard-working stunt individuals….. however it’s soooo humorous to introduce this the yr after the Mission: Unimaginable franchise ends
@electrolemon
After I consider stunts, it’s just about unimaginable (pun meant) not to consider Tom Cruise’s work throughout the final three a long time. His work, and particularly the motion in Mission: Unimaginable, has pushed the boundaries of what we predict is feasible in movie.
From Cruise’s Fallout halo leap to his climb up the Burj Khalifa in Ghost Protocol to that bike cliff leap in Lifeless Reckoning or aircraft grasp in Rogue Nation, the actor and his staff have pulled off mind-boggling stunts again and again.
Followers are understandably hurting on behalf of Cruise concerning the timing of the entire thing. Right here’s one other one:
Tom Cruise realizing he has to make Mission Unimaginable 9 now, so he can win a Stunt Oscar. pic.twitter.com/PV65cqQ2v5April 10, 2025
Although Tom Cruise is among the largest Hollywood stars and most beloved actors, he’s in some way by no means received an Oscar, regardless of being nominated 4 instances. Most not too long ago, his work on Prime Gun: Maverick was in rivalry for Finest Image (together with 5 different nominations, certainly one of which the film received for Finest Sound), however he selected to not attend the ceremony.
If this class was launched just a few years in the past, the actor most actually would have been in rivalry and even received for Mission: Unimaginable, but it surely looks like he’s simply missed the boat. And we’re all bummed about it, as this fan wrote:
[Tom Cruise, learning that the last Mission: Impossible won’t be eligible for the forthcoming Best Stunts Oscar category] pic.twitter.com/pPtIWu7bI3April 11, 2025
It feels legitimate that followers of Tom Cruise and his motion pictures are furious, particularly since requires the class have been in dialog for therefore lengthy. As one other Twitter consumer wrote:
The audacity of them to introduce this in 2027, when one of the best stunts of the final decade have been in 4 of the Mission Unimaginable movies that might be ineligible for this
@cattbutt
Whereas one fan even commented that it’s not “too late to delay” the upcoming Mission: Unimaginable to 2027 simply to see the film win an Oscar, a 3rd Prime Gun film continues to be in growth. That might probably place Tom Cruise within the Oscars sport for this award sooner or later. Plus, I am certain that even when The Closing Reckoning is the final time we see Ethan Hunt, the actor won’t go away motion behind.
Even so, as one other Twitter consumer mentioned, it’s simply too unhealthy The Academy is “robbing” Cruise of 1 for this yr.
Robbing Mr. Cruise of his Oscar for Mission: Unimaginable – The Closing Reckoning, I see.
@Cade_Onder
We’ll be ready three years for the stunt class on the Oscars to debut, however motion pictures beginning in 2027 will get to acknowledge stunt groups and performers, and that in itself is a big win.
Stunt groups danger their lives to make the scenes we watch on display as immersive, entertaining and surprising as they’re, and we will’t wait to see them lastly get the popularity they deserve on the one hundredth Oscars!