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Tom Cruise has been presented with an Academy Honorary Award during the Nov. 16 Governors Awards. The award was presented by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, who is directing Cruise in an upcoming, as-yet-untitled film set to be released in Oct. 2026. Upon accepting the award, Cruise gave an emotional speech as he thanked everyone who is dedicated to the art of film. He also reminisced about the moment that led him to become an actor.

In his acceptance speech, Tom Cruise said, "The cinema, it 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. 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."

The Mission Impossible star further added, "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. And entire cultures and lives and landscapes all unfolded in front of me, and it sparked something."

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"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. And that beam of light opened a desire to open the world, and I have been following it ever since," he went on to state.

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Tom Cruise has racked up four Oscar nominations: Best Actor for Born on the Fourth of July and Jerry Maguire, Best Supporting Actor for Magnolia, and Best Picture as a producer of Top Gun: Maverick.

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