Tom Cruise to obtain AFI Life Achievement Award for contribution to cinema

Los Angeles: Hollywood celebrity Tom Cruise will obtain the American Movie Institute’s (AFI) 52nd Life Achievement Award, the organisation’s highest honour for a movie profession.

The award will probably be introduced to the ‘Mission: Inconceivable’ star throughout a gala tribute on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 24, 2027, the AFI Board of Trustees introduced.

“Tom Cruise is a worldwide icon,” stated Kathleen Kennedy, chair of the AFI Board of Trustees.

She added, “As an actor and producer, he brings a rare dedication to all the pieces he does. What I particularly admire is his deep perception in motion pictures and their capability to carry individuals collectively. That keenness has made him a rare ambassador for American movie all over the world.”

Cruise, 64, has loved a profession spanning greater than 5 many years as an actor and producer. His movies have earned almost 13 billion {dollars} on the worldwide field workplace, in keeping with the AFI.

The actor is understood for movies reminiscent of ‘High Gun’, ‘Rain Man’, ‘A Few Good Males’, ‘Jerry Maguire’, ‘Minority Report’, ‘The Final Samurai’ and the ‘Mission: Inconceivable’ franchise.

Cruise obtained Academy Award nominations for ‘Greatest Actor’ for ‘Born on the Fourth of July’ and ‘Jerry Maguire’ and for ‘Greatest Supporting Actor’ for ‘Magnolia’. He was additionally nominated as a producer for ‘Greatest Image’ for ‘High Gun: Maverick’ on the 2022 Oscars. In 2025, he obtained an honorary Oscar on the Academy’s Governors Awards in recognition of his contributions to cinema.

Cruise is at present starring in ‘Digger’, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and is about to return as Cole Trickle in ‘Days of Thunder 2’.