Tom Cruise To Receive Honorary Oscar In Career First

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Tom Cruise, a Hollywood veteran, will receive an honorary Oscar before the 2026 Academy Awards, according to the organisers on Tuesday.

Along with choreographer Debbie Allen and production designer Wynn Thomas, Cruise was chosen to receive a statuette for his contributions to film.

The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, which Dolly Parton won for her decades-long humanitarian work, will also be presented at the Academy’s 16th Governors Awards ceremony in November.

Despite achieving world notoriety for his roles in the action movies “Mission: Impossible” and “Top Gun,” Cruise, 62, has received four Oscar nominations but has never received the honorable distinction.

The Academy said in a statement that Tom Cruise’s extraordinary dedication to the film industry, the theater, and the stunt industry has inspired everyone.

On August 11, 2024, US actor Tom Cruise descends from the roof in front of one of the stadium’s entrances during the Stade de France, near Paris, to celebrate the conclusion of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. (Franck FIFE/AFP photo)

It praised him as “one of the most admired and highest-grossing actors of all time” and praised his commitment to performing all of his own stunts.

Allen, 75, was honored for her five-decade career, which included working on films like the 1995 rom-comedy “Forget Paris” and choreographing the Academy Awards ceremony seven times.