Tom Cruise is one of the richest, wealthiest and most respected actors in the world. From his breakout role in Risky Business to leading the entire Mission: Impossible franchise, the Syracuse, New York, native took his movie career to the highest of heights by performing his own wild stunts and producing some of Hollywood’s biggest box office hits in history. Naturally, fans were convinced that Tom had won at least one Oscar until he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award at the 2025 Governors Awards.

During his acceptance speech, Tom recalled when his cinematic dreams began at a young age, and how movies motivated a “hunger for adventure, a hunger for knowledge, a hunger to understand humanity, to create characters, to tell a story, to see the world” in him.

“The cinema, it ta

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