Tom Cruise Accepts Honorary Oscar: ‘Making Films Is Not What I Do, It Is Who I Am’

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Tom Cruise is now the proud winner of an Academy Award. The Mission Impossible actor accepted an honorary Oscar on Sunday night at the Governors Awards, giving an emotional speech that paid tribute to his history with movies. The award was presented by Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu, who is directing Cruise in an upcoming film set for release next October. It marks Cruise’s first Oscar , although he has previously been nominated four times, including for Best Actor for Born on the