American actor Tom Cruise has an established career spanning decades, which includes films such as Jack Reacher, Top Gun: Maverick, Mission: Impossible, and many more. The actor needs no separate introduction; his name is enough. However, he is not just an actor, his contributions to the world of cinema extend beyond that. On November 16, 2025, the actor received the Academy Honorary Award at the Governors Award ceremony. While giving the speech, the actor got emotional and explained a little bit about his journey.
Tom Cruise Receives The Honorary Oscar
After accepting the award, Tom Cruise shared a few words explaining his feelings. He said, “The cinema 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.” He further added, “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.”
Tom Cruise continued, “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.” The actor further explained how a hunger for adventure and a hunger for knowledge sparked within him that he wanted to tell stories and create characters.
He concluded by saying, “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. And that beam of light opened a desire to open the world, and I have been following it ever since.”
The actor was presented the award by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, who is the director of Tom Cruise’s upcoming untitled movie. The Top Gun: Maverick actor has been nominated four times at the Oscars.
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