"Making films is not what I do. It's who I am." Those are the words spoken by 63-year-old actor Tom Cruise, who accepted his first-ever Academy Honorary Award during this year's Governors Awards. While Cruise has made a name for himself with high-octane action films grounded in dangerous, practical stunt work, the actor has also taken on plenty of dramatic roles that don't involve him hanging off planes. Much earlier in his career, the actor had worked with iconic filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, and Paul Thomas Anderson. It was with the last filmmaker that Cruise also delivered one of his most moving and heartbreaking performances in the 1999 film Magnolia.

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