{"id":676009,"date":"2025-06-19T03:15:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-oscars-finally-fell-in-love-with-tom-cruise-its-about-time\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T03:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:15:24","slug":"the-oscars-finally-fell-in-love-with-tom-cruise-its-about-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-oscars-finally-fell-in-love-with-tom-cruise-its-about-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oscars Finally Fell in Love With Tom Cruise. It\u2019s About Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tCongratulations are clearly in order. After decades of being overlooked, underestimated and sometimes just flat-out ignored, a Hollywood mainstay is finally getting some richly deserved recognition. Bravo!<\/p>\n

\n\tNo, not to Tom Cruise for that honorary Oscar \u2014 to the Academy for making sure the world\u2019s last remaining movie star will turn up for their next broadcast.<\/p>\n

\n\tLet\u2019s face it, at this point the Oscars need Cruise more than Cruise needs an Oscar, particularly an honorary one, which frequently go to stars of more mature vintage (Mel Brooks got one last year, at 97). In recent times, the show\u2019s numbers \u2014 to say nothing of its cultural relevance \u2014 have been on the same spiraling trajectory as that biplane Cruise dangled from in the latest Mission Impossible movie. Viewership has fallen some 66 percent since its peak in 1998 (Titanic<\/em> year), with only about 20 million tuning in these days, about the same audience that turns out for a run-of-the-mill midseason NFL game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Cruise, at 62, continues to draw arena-sized crowds to his tentpoles. The most recent Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part 2<\/em>, grossed $500 million worldwide last month, while Part 1 grossed $550 million in 2023. And then there\u2019s 2022\u2019s Top Gun Maverick<\/em>, the film that proved the pandemic hadn\u2019t entirely crushed the theatrical business. It grossed a stratospheric $1.5 billion, Cruise\u2019s personal best.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe dramatic flip here is almost as jaw-dropping as one of Ethan Hunt\u2019s mask-pulling reveals. \u00a0For decades, the Academy seemed to keep Cruise at a vaguely disdainful distance, dismissing him as more of an action figure than a serious ack-TOOR. Sure, they\u2019d occasionally toss him a polite nomination \u2014 in 1989 for Born on the Fourth of July<\/em>, in 1996 for Jerry Maguire<\/em> and in 1999 for Magnolia<\/em> \u2014 but they never invited him up to the podium to collect a statuette. He\u2019d always remain stuck in the audience with the other losers, gamely flashing that famous 500-watt smile for the reaction shot.<\/p>\n

\n\tHonestly, the honorary Oscar announced this week feels like too little too late. Because over the years, when he wasn\u2019t climbing Burj Khalifa or jumping motorcycles off cliffs, Cruise has turned in some truly nuanced, brave and definitely Oscar-worthy performances. And we\u2019re not just talking about the roles the Academy deigned to nominate \u2014 at least one of which, by the way, probably should have won (how Michael Caine\u2019s largely unremarkable performance in Cider House Rules<\/em> beat Cruise\u2019s unforgettable turn as the toxically masculine \u201crespect the cock\u201d motivational speaker in Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s underrated 1998 drama Magnolia<\/em> is a mystery for the ages).<\/p>\n

\n\tThere were also Cruise\u2019s unnominated but award-worthy performances in Rain Man<\/em> (opposite Dustin Hoffman), in Interview with a Vampire<\/em> (opposite Brad Pitt) and in the late Stanley Kubrick\u2019s final film, Eyes Wide Shut<\/em> (opposite some actress named Nicole Kidman). A reasonable argument could even be made that Cruise\u2019s fat-suited, Diet Coke-swilling, profanity-spouting studio exec in Tropic Thunder<\/em> \u2014 the scene-stealing Les Grossman \u2014 was a performance worthy of some sort of award (at least the Golden Globes gave it a nom).<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for why it\u2019s taken the Oscars so long to pay Cruise his due, one can only speculate. Perhaps it\u2019s all that gleaming charisma \u2014 he\u2019s always been too smooth, too slick, too commercial<\/em> for the Academy\u2019s insular voters. Maybe it was Cruise\u2019s unabashed embrace of movie stardom over methody self-flagellation. Or maybe the Academy just couldn\u2019t bring itself to hand a gold statue to someone who once made a movie called Cocktail<\/em>. Whatever the reason, the Oscars can no longer afford the luxury of snobbery.<\/p>\n

\n\tBecause at this point, Cruise doesn\u2019t need an Oscar to cement his legacy. But the Oscars might just need him to save theirs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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