Tom Cruise Gets Emotional On Receiving Academy Honorary Award: Cinema Takes Me Around The World

Tom Cruise is receiving all the love for his latest release, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. It is the sequel to the 2023 film Dead Reckoning Part One and has taken over the box office. Tom Cruise was

presented with an Academy Honorary Award during the Nov. 16 Governors Awards, and his speech has taken over the internet.

Tom Cruise Accepts Honorary Oscar With Emotional Speech

The actor received the honor from Alejandro G. Iñárritu, who is directing his next project. While receiving the award, Cruise delivered an emotional speech paying tribute to all of the people who make films possible. He said, "The cinema, it takes me around the world." Further, he added, "It helps me to appreciate and respect differences. It also shows me 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 matters, that is why it matters to me. So making films is not what I do, it is who I am."

Tom Cruise Gives Emotional Speech

"My love for cinema began at a very early age, as early as I can remember. I was just a little kid in a darkened theater, and I remember that beam of light just cut across the room, and I remember looking up, and it seemed to be just exploded on the screen. Suddenly, the world was so much larger than the one that I knew," he shared. Concluding the speech, Tom quoted, "And entire cultures and lives and landscapes all unfolded in front of me, and it sparked something. It sparked a hunger for adventure, a hunger for knowledge, a hunger to understand humanity, to create characters, to tell a story, to see the world. It opened my eyes. It opened my imagination to the possibility that life could expand far beyond the boundaries that I then perceived in my own life. And that beam of light opened a desire to open the world, and I have been following it ever since."