Tom Cruise Is Lastly Getting His Academy Award

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Earlier this 12 months, The Academy of Movement Photos Arts and Sciences made headlines when it introduced it will be including a Finest Stunt Work class to the ceremony, main many to need Tom Cruise to make one other Mission: Unimaginable film with the intention to lastly win his Oscar. Because it seems, he’s not going to wish to.

This week, the Academy introduced that Tom Cruise — alongside Dolly Parton, manufacturing designer Wynn Thomas, and actor-choreographer Debbie Allen — shall be receiving Honorary Oscars on the 2026 Academy Awards.

Cruise has been beforehand nominated for Academy Awards 3 times: Finest Actor in 1990 (Born on the Fourth of July) and 1997 (Jerry Maguire), and Finest Supporting Actor in 2000 (Magnolia).

He and the opposite three Governors Award recipients will recieve the honors on the sixteenth annual Governors Awards on the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood on November 16.

“This 12 months’s Governors Awards will rejoice 4 legendary people whose extraordinary careers and dedication to our filmmaking neighborhood proceed to go away a long-lasting impression,” Janet Yang, Academy President, mentioned in an announcement.

“The Academy’s Board of Governors is honored to acknowledge these sensible artists. Debbie Allen is a trailblazing choreographer and actor, whose work has captivated generations and crossed genres. Tom Cruise’s unbelievable dedication to our filmmaking neighborhood, to the theatrical expertise, and to the stunts neighborhood has impressed us all. Beloved performer Dolly Parton exemplifies the spirit of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award by her unwavering dedication to charitable efforts. And manufacturing designer Wynn Thomas has introduced a number of the most enduring movies to life by a visionary eye and mastery of his craft.”

Earlier this summer season, Cruise starred in Mission: Unimaginable – The Last Reckoning. Studies point out that the subsequent movie he shall be starring in is Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s still-untitled October 2026 movie alongside Jesse Plemons, Sandra Hüller, Riz Ahmed, Sophie Wilde, Emma D’Arcy, Robert John Burke, Burn Gorman, Michael Stuhlbarg, and John Goodman.