Tom Cruise was presented with an Academy Honorary Award during the Nov. 16 Governors Awards, and it\u2019s no surprise that the larger-than-life movie star had a blockbuster acceptance speech.<\/p>\n
The award was presented by Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, who is directing Cruise in an upcoming, as-yet-untitled film set to be released in Oct. 2026.<\/p>\n
More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Upon accepting the award, Cruise gave an emotional speech paying tribute to all of the people who make films possible, as well as the unifying power of cinema.<\/p>\n \u201cThe cinema, it takes me around the world,\u201d Cruise said. \u201cIt 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 that matters, that is why it matters to me. So making films is not what I do, it is who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n Cruise has been nominated for four Oscars in the past: Best actor for \u201cBorn on the Fourth of July\u201d and \u201cJerry Maguire,\u201d best supporting actor for \u201cMagnolia\u201d and best picture for his role as a producer on \u201cTop Gun: Maverick.\u201d<\/p>\n Earlier in the ceremony, Cynthia Erivo presented choreographer Debbie Allen with an honorary Oscar. Production designer Wynn Thomas also received a statue celebrating his lifetime of work. The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award was presented to Dolly Parton, who wasn\u2019t able to attend the show in person because of health concerns<\/a>, so she sent a pre-taped speech.<\/p>\n The Governors Awards red carpet<\/a> drew scores of actors eager to get set foot into the awards season race this year, including Jennifer Lawrence, Michael B. Jordan, Sydney Sweeney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dwayne Johnson, Emma Stone and many more.<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tom Cruise was presented with an Academy Honorary Award during the Nov. 16 Governors Awards, and it\u2019s no surprise that the larger-than-life movie star had a blockbuster acceptance speech. The award was presented by Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, who is directing Cruise in an upcoming, as-yet-untitled film set to be released in Oct. 2026. More from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2161169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[373106,365842,414374,414358,33293],"class_list":["post-2161168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-academy-honorary-award","tag-acceptance-speech","tag-alejandro-g-inarritu","tag-governors-awards","tag-tom-cruise"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tom-Cruise-Accepts-Honorary-Oscar-With-Emotional-Speech-at-Governors.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2161170,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161168\/revisions\/2161170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2161169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/span><\/div>\n