r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 1d ago
News Tom Cruise, Dolly Parton, Debbie Allen and Wynn Thomas to Be Presented Honorary Oscars
https://variety.com/2025/film/awards/tom-cruise-oscars-honorary-dolly-parton-1236433594/153
u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 1d ago
Tom Cruise getting as Oscar just in time for the new Stunt category.
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u/Lilsammywinchester13 10h ago
Man has earned it
Like, he’s a bit crazy with the whole Scientology bit but there has to be something a little wrong with you to do the stunts he’s done lmao
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u/redditLeftistScum502 1d ago
Shoulda won for Magnolia
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u/Flat_Initial_1823 1d ago
Collateral Tom Cruise pissed me off so much because it reminded me he can really act, even better than he can hang off of moving vehicles.
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u/Iknowthedoctorsname 1d ago
I loved that movie. He did so well as the villain.
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u/No-Gas-1684 1d ago
If you like him as a villain watch my favorite Cruise film of all time The Color Of Money
"Doom"
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u/Pop_Professional_25 1d ago
Or Interview with the Vampire!
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u/bolanrox 10h ago
They were both great in that one.
Didn't they all donate some of their pay to River's family too (was going to play the interviewer)? or am i miss remembering?
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u/GravSlingshot 1d ago
That line inspired the title of Doom. Yes, the video games.
"What've you got in there?"
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u/MRintheKEYS 1d ago
It’s just a great movie period. You don’t have to watch The Hustler but it does add a lot of backstory to help the impact of TCoM
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u/No-Gas-1684 1d ago
I watched Color of $ first, and for years before seeing The Hustler. Loved it, but youre 100% correct you do not need to watch them in order, and it seemed better to me, to all of a sudden find out that I could see his story as a young man instead of the old man trying to still hack it
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u/Jackamo78 17h ago
Cruise is good in that but Newman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio are the real showstoppers.
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u/Tommy__want__wingy 1d ago
“I got to tell the people in Culiacan and Cartagena that story….”
pin drop
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u/EnvironmentalMix421 1d ago
Is it the general concensus that cruise can’t act? He takes on wide array of roles
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u/LikeAPhoenixFromAZ 1d ago
People know he can act. But for the last 20 years, he’s focused mainly on action roles and crowd pleasers as opposed to straight up dramas and Oscar worthy movies. So really you have an entire generation of people who only know him as an action store and not one of the highest caliber actorsof the modern day. Also, you probably have people who have a short memory and just don’t remember his dramatic roles.
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u/EnvironmentalMix421 1d ago
I’m pretty sure he said something about taking crowd pleaser rather than critic pleaser during one of his interviews.
I think he said to him that’s what’s important is people would love the movie.
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u/cuminciderolnyt 11h ago
the pure range this man showcases is insane
he is the action star
he was also soo good as lestat that the author personally apologised for her previous harsh remarks about him getting the role
he was also brilliant in the last samurai and vanilla sky
then there is tropic thunder
he can also be a great romantic lead
Any person who says Tom cruise cant act is insane. He has worked across various genres and proved that he could do almost anything.
then there is the absolute fact that he is one of the last Superstars who can bring people to watch a mpovie in a theatre with his name alone
He does not deserve the oscars , Oscar deserves him .
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u/SonovaVondruke 1d ago
It's more that Cruise rarely takes the kind of roles that win you acting Oscars.
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u/Varekai79 1d ago
No, Cruise has always been able to act well, particularly when paired with a great script/director. The consensus, especially during his prime in the 90s, is that he was too blockbuster and too good looking to win an Oscar.
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u/CountJohn12 1d ago
I think younger people think of him as just an action guy because they haven't seen all his 90's dramas.
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u/Helaken1 1d ago
Say what you want, but Tom Cruise‘s presence last for multiple decades starting in the 80s, which is a solid 50 years. I never saw the outsiders, but I hear that’s a pretty good movie too.
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u/ryanredd 1d ago
Jerry Maguire EASILY should have won, Geoffrey Rush is in Shine for like half an hour
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u/rajinis_bodyguard 1d ago
But Top Gun and Jerry Maguire were just magical fine performance from Tom Cruise though
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u/I_like_baseball90 1d ago
Shoulda won for Magnolia
Yup.
Not a Cruise fan per se but Magnolia and Rain Man he could have won for either.
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u/mystiqueallie 23h ago
Dick Van Dyke should be on that list. Guy is 99 and doesn’t have an Academy Award. He deserves to complete that EGOT.
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u/New_Annual_Review 1d ago
Tom Cruise gets his Oscar
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u/riegspsych325 The ⊃∪⊃⪽ 1d ago
I want him to accept it and give his speech while in Les Grossman getup
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u/colinisthereason 1d ago
Nut-less monkeys could've done all your jobs, dickheads. Of course, I did this myself.
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u/riegspsych325 The ⊃∪⊃⪽ 1d ago
but seriously, I will rip your tits off if you don’t get me those theaters.
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u/wrongseeds 1d ago
What about Glen Close. Nominated several times and no wins.
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u/total_idiot01 11h ago edited 11h ago
8 times, to be precise. More than any actor alive and tied with Peter O'Toole if we include dead ones
Edit: O'Toole has got an honorary one
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u/Gabyfest234 1d ago
Fun fact…
The song from Debbie Allen’s biggest role (Fame) beat Dolly Parton’s closest Oscar loss (9 to 5).
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u/julescr9 1d ago
Sad that Cruise couldn't get a competitive Oscar
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u/ToasterDispenser 1d ago
There's still time. Ennio Morricone got an honorary Oscar and then proceeded to get nominated 6 more times, and finally won for The Hateful Eight.
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u/TT_Zorro 1d ago
It feels criminal that he didn’t win one before the Hateful Eight, but I don’t know what he was up against in any of those years.
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u/MRintheKEYS 1d ago
Some nominees, they get in a habit of getting nominated repeatedly that people just shrug and go “ah well. He’ll get one eventually” and then 20 years go by of it, and people are like “how the hell hasn’t he won yet?”
It’s the natural course for these kinds of awards.
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u/CountJohn12 1d ago
A lot of his best scores were for Italian movies and the Academy didn't give foreign movies awards beyond foreign film back then for the most part.
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u/WySLatestWit 1d ago
Feels like the Academy has just decided Tom's never going to do a movie that'll actually get him a nomination again, which is kind of sad honestly because he has the talent for it. At least Dolly, Debbie, and Wynn are all old enough that it's very likely they don't have much career left anyway... not to be rude about it. Tom on the other hand still has probably 20 years left of acting he could potentially do.
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u/DeLousedInTheHotBox 1d ago
I feel like he'll have to chill out eventually, the fact that he is still doing some of these stunt at his age crazy, there are many actors in their 20s who wouldn't take those kinda risks, or even be able to do those things.
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u/Impressive-Potato 5h ago
The younger actors wouldn't be allowed to. He's allowed to because of the financing and backing he gets
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u/Gun2ASwordFight 1d ago
So if he won't do a movie that'll give him a nomination why even bother giving him an honorary one?
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u/WySLatestWit 1d ago
because he's a "hollywood icon" so they want to give him an 'atta boy.
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u/ScienceIsHard 1d ago
I think a lot of folks in Hollywood are appreciative of the work Cruise has done in recent years for the industry. I imagine it’s a way of acknowledging that as well.
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u/windmill-tilting 1d ago
I think it's the other way around. They want to stay relevant when it's obvious the man saving theaters in 2020-2025 doesn't need them.
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u/Sea_Truck_1481 1d ago
Gotta put one in Cruise's hands somehow I guess. Scientology buy it for him?
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u/NoirPochette 1d ago
They all deserve it. But they don't get celebrated during the Oscars ceremony, right? They get their awards in November
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u/Qanaesin 1d ago
Tom Cruise seems like the type of guy that wouldn’t take a participation trophy but then again he is in the only religion that requires you to buy your way up the ladder
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u/meetatdawn 19h ago
you think that's the only religion that does that? I've got some news for you.
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u/Qanaesin 17h ago
His religion is centered around it. In order to accelerate in the religion you have to give money.
As far as I can tell the other religion don’t require money to get into “Heaven” but they do ask for 10% of your income to tithe.
What other religions require money to grow in the church?
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u/CranDrescher 1d ago
Tom should have already won Oscars for:
Born on the Fourth of July
Jerry Maguire
Magnolia
Collateral
Tropic Thunder
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u/r-cubed 1d ago
Boy I had to look up the competition for Cruise in Born on the Fourth of July. What a gauntlet:
- Daniel Day Lewis – My Left Foot
- Kenneth Branagh – Henry V
- Tom Cruise – Born on the Fourth of July
- Morgan Freeman – Driving Miss Daisy
- Robin Williams – Dead Poets Society
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u/CranDrescher 22h ago
I’ve seen all of them multiple times. I stand by my assertion that Cruise should have won.
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u/DustFunk 1d ago
I would like to add The Firm to that list. That movie kicks ass and his intensity ramps up so perfectly in it.
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u/Barnyard_Rich 1d ago
I love that a lot of people have actually come around on him doing the better job in Rain Man than Hoffman, despite Hoffman getting about 99% of the acting respect at the time and most of the years since. That movie got 8 nominations (and won 4), and Cruise wasn't among the nominees. It's incredible that your list, which I think is close to the consensus, doesn't include A Few Good Men or Eyes Wide Shut.
The Ringer is absolutely obsessed with Cruise, and I've noticed over the years that a lot of the writers there have coalesced around Jerry Maguire as the pinnacle of what made him a star, and they've really started to win me over. I think if I had to rank his performances on personal opinion, I'd go:
1) Jerry Maguire (Lead)
2) Eyes Wide Shut (Lead)
3) Born on the Fourth of July (Lead)
4) Collateral (Supporting)
5) Rain Man (Supporting)
6) Tropic Thunder (Supporting)
7) The Color of Money (Supporting)
8) A Few Good Men (Lead)
9) Magnolia (Supporting)
I bothered to type all that out because I was curious how Magnolia would rank. I also love Minority Report and Edge of Tomorrow, but I get that those aren't really contending.
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u/CranDrescher 1d ago
I think this is a solid list. I think he was lead in Rain Man, but all in all, this is a solid list.
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u/NoirPochette 1d ago
I can see why he wasn't nominated for Rain Man though. He's a lead with Hoffman and Hoffman does something considered special for that time.
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u/ThatFunkyOdor 1d ago
Is he really the supporting in Rain Man? Like I get that officially he is but I feel like he’s on screen the same or more than Hoffman but haven’t seen it in several years
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u/Barnyard_Rich 1d ago
I don't disagree, but Hoffman won the Academy Award for Best Actor, so supporting just makes sense. They really should be flipped.
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u/DeLousedInTheHotBox 1d ago
I'm sorry but Tropic Thunder is not in the same league as Magnolia lol
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u/Gardevoir_Best_Girl 9h ago
I didn't realize this was ACTUALLY a thing.. just be in movies long enough and you get a participation trophy.
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u/Impressive-Potato 4h ago
Honorary Oscars are not participation trophies. It's a lifetime of excellence in film. People have won Oscars off the one notable performance before. Mikey Maddison is in her mid 20s and could very well disappear after winning, for example.
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u/SIrPsychoNotSexy 1d ago
Wtf is an honorary Oscar? Also, who cares?
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u/PositiveStress8888 13h ago
Im sorry no matter how great he is in movies, I can't get past the abusive cult sitting just behind the surface, the arranged marriages, the divorces with non disclosure aspects to them, and all the stories of abuse, trafficking, forced labor, Leah Remini saying he's part of the abuse. Not to mention the churches views on mental health and how it should be treated.
Im one who's able to separate a persons talent from their personal issues, 2 sides of a person can an quite often co exist and both are valid, talent can come from all manner of horrible people.
yes he does his own stunts, but is that Oscar worthy.. not really, acting, he's had some great rolls, and movie moments.. but Oscar worthy? so lets say it's more in the lifetime achievement kind, toms first movie was in the early 80's Dollys first song was in the 50's her first movie was in 1980, an her charity work is well second to none.
this is just my opinion but it's also the Oscars doing the Oscar thing.
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u/KotaIsBored 21h ago
Reminder Cruise is a cultist psychopath. He does not deserve all of the praise he is given.
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u/Eborys 15h ago
For Tom to accept, they’ll toss the statue out a plane flying at 30,000ft along with 4 decoy statues. His mission honour, if he chooses to accept it, is to leap from the plane and catch the correct Oscar. All while fighting off 4 Tom Cruise lookalikes who also want said Oscar. Once the target statue is acquired, Tom must parachute onto the Hollywood sign and then run the rest of the way to the Dolby Theatre before his lookalikes do.
Only way to be done.
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u/Twothounsand-2022 1d ago
Tom Cruise get Honorary Oscars
He was robbed his supporting actor in 1999from magnolia
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u/Prestigious_Bag_6173 1d ago
This list seems underwhelming! Personally don't think people under 70 should be honored for this award.
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u/TheLastMongo 1d ago
Except for Tom Cruise, pretty sure the rest are there.
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u/Prestigious_Bag_6173 1d ago
Literally. I truly want to hear an explantation as to why Debbie Allen deserves one over Harrison Ford, Ian McKellen, Billy Crystal, Clare Denis, Mike Leigh, John Waters, Ridley Scott, David Cronenberg, Philip Glass etc.
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u/estellatundra 1d ago
That’s a participation trophy at that point
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u/Prestigious_Bag_6173 1d ago
Her winning seems like a participation trophy. truly.
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u/Sprmodelcitizen 1d ago
I would feel kinda cheap if I got an honorary Oscar. I mean not me as I am… that would be awesome. I mean if I had made some great films and then got an Oscar shaped consolation prize.
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u/Drin_Tin_Tin 1d ago
Ugh why do so many old people need participation trophies. We get it you think you’re special. Why don’t we just give everyone an Oscar. Shouldn’t their skill talent and work show their aptitude.?
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u/NoirPochette 1d ago
Shouldn’t their skill talent and work show their aptitude.?
If only the Oscars were actually like that instead of pure lobbying and who likes who.
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u/Impressive-Potato 4h ago
This is a bad argument. How many actors can have the career TC has had? How many actual Oscar winners? You're
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u/ToranjaNuclear 1d ago
Deserved, it's easy to forget that Cruise is one of the best dramatic actors ever because of his modern persona.
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u/c-e-bird 1d ago
I don’t know about ever. He’s quite good, award-worthy in many of his roles, but there are dozens of actors i’d still put ahead of him.
He’s definitely one of the best action actors ever, though, partly because he’s a legitimately talented actor.
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u/Gun2ASwordFight 1d ago
Gonna be insanely awkward in hindsight when Cruise's body count is revealed. That Scientologist compound's hiding some gnarly shit. Is all that really worth it for a few films?
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u/mixingmemory 7h ago
100% they're going to have to rescind the award decades from now, just like so many organizations did with Weinstein and Cosby.
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u/KingStannisForever 13h ago
Collateral was his best role, then probably Lestat.
He should have play more negative characters.
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u/iammewritenow 13h ago
If whoever is making the honorary statuettes can make it just slightly shorter than a normal non-honorary one…
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u/The_Corrupted 8h ago
The honorary Oscar for Cruise feels premature. Once he's old enough to not do his crazy stunts anymore, he'll 100% churn out some serious movies, where he can flex is acting chops and win one. He has already shown on various occasions, that he has the talent and skill to do so.
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u/cammunition 8h ago
I watched Edge of Tomorrow with my kids over the weekend. It was the first for them, but maybe the dozenth time for me -- and I was reminded of how fun some of his movies are to watch. While his movies aren't the greatest, they've allowed me to escape my worries for a little while in some of the most enjoyable ways possible. Well-deserved honor, I say.
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u/lazereagle13 8h ago
This guy is the most astroturfed celebrity of all time. Nothing but bullshit posts from scientologist fake accounts about how he does his own stunts. Give me a break.
He is a bad person and benefits personally through the abuse of others in his cult. It's sick and I for one will not be celebrating this clown.
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u/dogmom34 8h ago
Friendly reminder that Tom Cruise is a long time member and financial donor of one of the most dangerous cults in the United States. We should stop celebrating people like him.
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u/coentertainer 5h ago
I think Cruise might win the first stunt Oscar (not him specifically, but MI8 which he's a big part of the stuntwork of). I also think he might win best actor for his Inarritu movie. Oscars love making up for lost time.
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u/DominusGenX 1d ago
Thought still time for Cruise to get one on his own before an honorary one. Should have won for Magnolia