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For the impressive filmography actor Tom Cruise has acquired, it’s surprising to find that the actor has only been nominated three times for an Academy Award.
In 1990, Cruise earned his first nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role when he played a disabled Vietnam veteran in Born on the Fourth of July. Then, in 1997, he received another nod for the same category for his role in Jerry Maguire.
Tom’s last visit to the Academy Awards as a nominated actor was as Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Magnolia. Unfortunately for Mr. Cruise, he has yet to win one of the coveted prizes, but for Forbes magazine’s most powerful celebrity of 2006, tomorrow’s always another day.
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For the impressive filmography actor Tom Cruise has acquired, it’s surprising to find that the actor has only been nominated three times for an Academy Award.
In 1990, Cruise earned his first nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role when he played a disabled Vietnam veteran in Born on the Fourth of July. Then, in 1997, he received another nod for the same category for his role in Jerry Maguire.
Tom’s last visit to the Academy Awards as a nominated actor was as Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Magnolia.
Unfortunately for Mr. Cruise, he has yet to win one of the coveted
prizes, but for Forbes magazine’s most powerful celebrity of 2006,
tomorrow’s always another day.Check out out all 40+ photos of Tom Cruise on the red carpet in the gallery!
wickedorchid | February 10, 2009 at 8:36 am
I’m not surprised about the lack of nominations. He isn’t seriously considered one of the great actors of our time – or is he? I’ve never thought so. He’s kind of like Will SMith and Bruce Willis and they make action packed WOW movies that draw big crowds on a Friday night movie date. The acting is more left to Tom Hanks, Colin Firth, Clooney, etc.
William | February 10, 2009 at 11:27 am
It seems as though the governors of popular culture are starting to take another look at him vis a vi his acting credentials. I would agree with this. Twenty-five years is an unrealistically long time for someone operating solely on good looks and charisma to stay at or near the top of the Hollywood A-list. It took those advantages to climb to the top, no doubt, but longevity such as his is inarguably a function of talent, as well. How many attractive young celebrities have come and gone that were supposed to have been the next Tom Cruise? How many award-caliber actors have worked with the slate of directors that he has? Spielberg, Kubrick, Crowe, Mann, Woo, Redford, Singer, De Palma, for starters, sometimes on multiple projects. I concede the element of box-office draw, but the package in total just doesn’t speak to a deficit of talent, no matter how it’s wrapped. If anything, it’s the massive image that has haunted him all these years, particularly at awards season. In a day and age when the Academy is handing statuettes to Julia Roberts and George Clooney, of all people, the fact that it couldn’t get over Cruise’s pretty-boy factor to hand one over for his astounding turn in Magnolia speaks far more to their conservative short-sightedness than his merit as an actor. Watch it, if you haven’t, and Collateral, if I may recommend further viewing.
SARKOZY STARTS RACE WARS | February 10, 2009 at 10:11 pm
It’s interesting how two of his films are somewhat connected. “Born on the 4th of July” and “Jerry Maguire.”
The strange connection is that the man that “Jerry Maguire” is based on likely directly caused the shooting of Vietnam wars protesters at Kent State University. The students and public were entering negotiations that were headed by “Jerry Maguire” character, Leigh Steinberg.
Leigh Steinberg seems to have triggered the shooting of American students by the police or military on campus. One should wonder if Leigh told the students to go onto the campus to protest or if he told the police that the students needed to be treated harshly.
But, of course, Hollywood is controlled by Freemason Jews who portrayed Leigh, who is Jewish, as just your average kind of guy who has a jones for making black athletes rich.
Interesting how Hollywood’s cabal plays down the evil Freemason deeds that Jews do and amps what little good they do.
SARKOZY STARTS RACE WARS | February 10, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Freemason Jew bankers financed WWII and Vietnam. They were faux wars designed to make Jew bankers enormous financial prophets, or rather profits.
This came after the Jew bankers destroyed the Germany economy by following Lenin’s Marxist economic blueprint – robbing the middle class workers of leading nations and then, robbing them again and if possible murdering them in mass through a faux war based on “beliefs in invisible men in the sky who created the Universe in 7 days.”
Freemasons also pulled off the 9/11 attacks. Interestingly Hollywood is controlled by Freemason Jews and that poster that Tom is standing behind looks like a view from a top window of the Solomon Building at the WTC with a tower engulfed in smoke to the left and two planes crashing into the towers to the right. Tom looks like a cubical worker in mismatched cubical worker clothing. A picture’s worth a thousand words and faux wars make Freemasons trillions of dollars in money stolen from cubical workers and all middle class workers of the world.
If you want to know the honest Truth.
Sally | February 11, 2009 at 8:52 am
He has been in alot of movies and has only received 3 nods because he is a crappy actor! He always plays the same over-the-top character.
Maria Angela | February 11, 2009 at 6:40 pm
He’s received several awards, including Golden Globe awards and the high honor in Italy for the Italian equivalent of the Oscars. Anyone saying he is a crappy actor doesn’t have the skills to judge acting and is saying that based on some feelings toward the man.
He’s was simply great in Born on the Fourth of July, Interview with the Vampire, Magnolia, Jerry Maguire, Collaterol, Tropic Thunder and more. I personally think he doesn’t make a wrong move in his acting. I’m a huge film buff, have seen tons of films and find that he doesn’t give a bad performance. There are lots of talented actors in Hollywood. He’s just one of many. He may or may not receive an Oscar, as is the case with many actors.
If you haven’t seen his movies, you can’t say he’s a crappy actor and think that cuts it. It doesn’t. You sound a bit dumb or like you have some axe to grind.