Among the six Oscar nominations received by Top Gun: Maverick, there is one for Best Picture which recognizes the work done as a producer by Tom Cruise.
Is he or isn’t he the definitive Hollywood star of our times? Personality, charisma, artistic talent and production skills, Tom Cruise owns them all. Something has always been part of him, something he has acquired over time. The sequel to Top Gun he was adamant not to do it for years, until a good one came along that could conceivably extend the original story. Then he was adamant about freezing Top Gun: Maverickwith continuous postponements pending an improvement in the pandemic situation, so that only the cinema hall was the only place to show the film to viewers.
For 40 years he has been an actor on the crest of the wave with a precise focus of what the cinematic experience is and how he knows how to create it together with other talented people. Everyone in career has ups and downs and Tom Cruise he was no less, but after the downturn in popularity he was able to raise his star again by offering the public what the public wants: a great and exciting show.
Tom Cruise: only 4 career nominations for him, the last of which as a producer
The nominations for Oscar 2023 brought him his fourth career nomination, which recognizes his dedication as a producer to the motion picture industry. Top Gun: Maverick was nominated in six categoriesincluding the one for Best Film which, in case of victory, would reward Cruise and other manufacturers Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison e Jerry Bruckheimer. At this point we realize that the last nominations for the star date back to a long time ago.
These are those years in which he was nominated for theOscar as lead actor for Born on the fourth of July (1989) e Jerry Maguire (1996) and as a supporting actor for Magnolia (1999). Tom Cruise today has 60 years and, beyond meticulous preparation for roles in the saga of Mission: Impossible in which he does all sorts of stunts, he always remains a very good actor and it is legitimate to expect great performances from him when he enters his old age. And maybe other nominations at theOscar.
