r/entertainment • u/Puzzled-Tap8042 • 5h ago

Tom Cruise will receive the 52nd AFI Life Achievement Award, joining a past roster of honorees that includes Hollywood greats from Bette Davis and Gregory Peck to Meryl Streep and Francis Ford Coppola

https://deadline.com/2026/10/tom-cruise-afi-life-achievement-award-1237169872/
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u/Top_Shame_7016 3h ago

Hollywood was really trying to make this Tom Cruise year with him winning an Oscar to cap it off. Guess those plans shit the bed pretty hard. Well, here's another different lifetime achievement award Tommy

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u/NordicTRex 5h ago

Fuck Scientology

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u/Existing-Thing9934 4h ago

his religion is awful but he’s made his mark on movie making for sure

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u/Just_Candle_315 1h ago

That's a little generous to call a 70 year old cult started by a drug and alcoholic a religion, but I grant you scientology is JUST as real as all other organized faiths.

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u/TheRealThordic 3h ago

Strong argument for the biggest movie star of his generation.

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u/Existing-Thing9934 2h ago

Who else is in his generation? Kevin Bacon? John Travolta? I don’t know ages off hand. Harrison Ford is probably in an older one. He also comes to mind as someone who left a mark for sure

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u/-Nightopian- 2h ago

Bacon and Travolta had their time in the A list but they have both faded.

Tom has been a genuine star for the past 4 decades. Not many actors have remained relevant for that length of time. Cruise is truly deserving of his lifetime achievement award.

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u/TheRealThordic 1h ago

For Cruise his closest competition would be folks like Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Russell Crowe.

Bacon, Travolta, Oldman, Gibson are a bit older. Bacon and Travolta were never stars quite like Cruise anyway, and Oldman is a phenomenal actor but not a movie star in the normal sense of the term. Gibson is definitely a comparable star.

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u/RTwhyNot 4h ago

Beat me to it.

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u/jayhawkjoey65 4h ago

Tom, where is Shelly Miscavige?

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u/wdomeika 2h ago

He's the John Wayne of this era...

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u/lectroid 4h ago

Yeah. Digger obviously won’t be the Oscar bait he was hoping for, but I don’t begrudge the guy some industry recognition. He’s a weird dude, but he loves making movies, runs his sets professionally, and isn’t an enormous asshole to his fellow actors and crew. And he clearly puts butts in seats, Digger notwithstanding. I’m ok with giving him a nice ‘attaboy for an impressive career.

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u/AirbagOff 4h ago

Coppola might have to give his award back after “Megalopolis”.