Tom Cruise Receives First Oscar at 2025 Governors Awards: “Making Films Is Who I Am”

“Making films is not what I do, it is who I am,” Tom Cruise said while accepting an honorary Oscar at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 16th Governors Awards on Sunday Night. Cruise was one of four film artists selected for this year’s ceremony, held at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood, the seventh produced by Jennifer Fox.

Cruise was feted alongside actress/singer/songwriter Dolly Parton—who collected, in absentia,