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Tom Cruise gets honorary Oscar
The Straits Times
|November 19, 2025
How does a person summarise the 45-year career of American actor Tom Cruise in a four-minute speech?
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“Mission impossible,” said Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu on Nov 16, as Hollywood celebrated the movie star with an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards.
Inarritu, who directed Cruise in an untitled film set for release in October 2026, introduced his leading man and said Cruise’s talent extended beyond the dangerous stunts which have made him famous.
“It is not how far he runs or how high he jumps,” Inarritu, 62, said. “It’s how precisely he decides to move, those tiny calibrations.”
This story is from the November 19, 2025 edition of The Straits Times.
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