Mission Impossible: Why Tom Cruise took so long to get an 'Oscar'
Now, at sixty-three, he finally holds an Oscar, and it arrives not as a competitive victory but as an honorary acknowledgement, a quiet admission that the Academy cannot ignore the architecture he built around modern moviegoing. The question, however, is not why Cruise accepted the award with the grace that has always defined him, but why it took Hollywood four decades to offer it in the first place.
Now, at sixty-three, he finally holds an Oscar, and it arrives not as a competitive victory but as an honorary acknowledgement, a quiet admission that the Academy cannot ignore the architecture he built around modern moviegoing. The question, however, is not why Cruise accepted the award with the grace that has always defined him, but why it took Hollywood four decades to offer it in the first place.
