"In a statement before the event, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas) president Janet Yang cited Cruise's incredible commitment to our film-making community, to the theatrical experience, and to the stunts community has inspired us all. Recalling his efforts to shoot the seventh Mission: Impossible in 2020, Yang added that Cruise helped to usher the industry through a challenging time during the Covid-19 pandemic."
"I remember that beam of light just cut across the room. I remember looking up and seeing the image just exploding on the screen, and suddenly the world was so much larger than the one that I knew. Entire cultures, lives, landscapes. It sparked a hunger, a hunger for adventure, a hunger for knowledge, a hunger to understand humanity, to create characters, to tell a story."
"Saying that writing a four-minute speech to celebrate Tom Cruise's 45-year career is what is known in this town as Mission: Impossible, Inarritu then described the actor's work as meticulously choreographed but feeling completely improvised, structured like a clockwork, but flowing like gas. His onscreen intensity, Inarritu said, was also present off screen: he once witnessed Cruise downing chilli peppers like they were popcorn, while I, a proud Mexican, was crying with just one bite."
Tom Cruise received an honorary Academy Award at the Governors Awards in Los Angeles recognizing lifetime achievement and contributions to filmmaking, the theatrical experience, and stunt work. Shooting the seventh Mission: Impossible in 2020 helped usher the industry through the Covid-19 pandemic. Cruise had previous Oscar nominations for Best Actor (Born on the Fourth of July, Jerry Maguire) and Best Supporting Actor (Magnolia). Cruise described first falling in love with film, recalling a beam of light and images exploding on the screen that expanded his world and sparked a hunger for adventure, knowledge, and storytelling. Alejandro González Iñárritu introduced Cruise and praised his meticulously choreographed yet seemingly improvised work.
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