Tom Cruise Delivers Emotional Speech at Governors Awards, Watch the Video

Tom Cruise introduced down the home on the Governors Awards Sunday night time, delivering an emotional acceptance speech concerning the very factor he does finest — making films!

The enduring actor was given an Honorary Oscar throughout the present on the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood by Alejandro G. Iñárritu … who occurs to be directing Tom in his subsequent movie, an untitled undertaking slated to be launched in October 2026.

When Tom stepped onstage, he gave Iñárritu an enormous hug and soaked within the rousing applause from the celeb-studded crowd earlier than launching into his speech.

Tom kicked all of it off by thanking a few of his greatest movie inspirations, together with Dolly Parton and Debbie Allen. He then pivoted to his love for cinema from an early age, which opened his eyes and creativeness to the chance that life may broaden past his personal little world.

He additionally touched upon how cinema takes him across the globe, serving to him admire and respect our variations from different cultures, whereas exhibiting our shared humanity and “how alike we’re in so, so some ways.”

Tom went on … “And regardless of the place we come from, in that theater, we chortle collectively, we really feel collectively, we hope collectively, and that’s the energy of this artwork kind. And that’s the reason it issues, that’s the reason it issues to me. So making movies will not be what I do, it’s who I’m.”

A few of Hollywood’s greatest names have been there to see the massive speech … Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lopez, Kristen Stewart, Cynthia Erivo, Sydney Sweeney, Ariana Grande, Dwayne Johnson, Michael B. Jordan, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Lawrence, Austin Butler, and Jacob Elordi.