The following article is a List of awards and nominations received by Tom Cruise.
Tom Cruise is an American actor known for his leading film roles. Over his career, he has received several awards, including three Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for four Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1986, the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film and the David Special in 2005, the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2022, and the BFI Fellowship in 2025.
Cruise was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Actor playing Sergeant Ron Kovic in the biographical anti-war film Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and a sports agent in the romantic sports drama Jerry Maguire (1996) and Best Supporting Actor playing a chauvinist motivational speaker in the epic drama Magnolia (1999). He was also nominated as a producer on the action drama Top Gun: Maverick (2022).
He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for Born on the Fourth of July (1989), the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Jerry Maguire, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for Magnolia (1999). He was Globe-nominated for playing a high school student in the coming-of-age comedy Risky Business (1983), a lawyer in the legal drama in A Few Good Men (1992), a soldier in the epic The Last Samurai (2003), profane studio executive in the war comedy Tropic Thunder (2008), and Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in the action film Top Gun: Maverick (2022).
He won the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures from the Producers Guild of America Awards in 2023. He received three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Jerry Maguire (1996) and Magnolia (1999). He received three Critics' Choice Super Awards for Best Actor in an Action Film for Top Gun: Maverick (2022), Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (2023), and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025).
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Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1990 Best Actor Born on the Fourth of July 1997 Jerry Maguire 2000 Best Supporting Actor Magnolia 2023 Best Picture Top Gun: Maverick 2026Academy Honorary Award
BAFTA Award Year Category Nominated work Result British Academy Film Awards1991 Best Actor in a Leading Role Born on the Fourth of July
Critics' Choice Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Critics' Choice Movie Awards 1997 Best Actor Jerry Maguire 2015 Best Actor in an Action Movie Edge of Tomorrow 2016 Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation 2023 Best Actor Top Gun: Maverick Critics' Choice Super Awards 2023 Best Actor in an Action Movie Top Gun: Maverick 2024 Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One 2025 Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Golden Globe Awards On May 10, 2021, Cruise returned all three of his Golden Globes to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association due to its many controversies, particularly for its lack of diversity, specifically no black members, and ethical questions related to financial benefits to some of its members. Year Category Nominated work Result 1984 Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Risky Business 1990 Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Born on the Fourth of July 1993 A Few Good Men 1997 Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Jerry Maguire 2000 Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Magnolia 2004 Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama The Last Samurai 2009 Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Tropic Thunder 2023 Best Motion Picture – Drama Top Gun: Maverick
Screen Actors Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1997 Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role Jerry Maguire 2000 Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role Magnolia Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture
Miscellaneous awards Organizations Year Category Project Result David di Donatello Awards 1990 Best Foreign Actor () Born on the Fourth of July Empire Awards 2000 Best Actor Eyes Wide Shut 2003 Minority Report 2005 Collateral Golden Raspberry Awards 1989 Worst Actor Cocktail 1995 Worst Screen Couple Interview with the Vampire 2001 Worst Remake or Sequel Mission: Impossible 2 2006 Most Tiresome Tabloid Targets Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Oprah Winfrey's couch,the Eiffel Tower, and "Tom's baby" Tom Cruise and his anti-psychiatry rant Worst Actor War of the Worlds 2018 The Mummy Hasty Pudding Theatricals Awards 1994Hasty Pudding Man of the Year MTV Movie & TV Awards 1993 Best On-Screen Duo Far and Away Most Desirable Male A Few Good Men Best Male Performance 1994 Most Desirable Male The Firm Best Male Performance 1995 Best Villain Interview with the Vampire Best On-Screen Duo Most Desirable Male 1997 Best Male Performance Jerry Maguire 2001 Mission: Impossible 2 2004 The Last Samurai 2005 Generation Award Best Villain Collateral 2012 Best Fight Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Best Gut-Wrenching Performance 2023 Best Performance in a Movie Top Gun: Maverick Best Hero Best Duo MTV Movie Awards – Mexico 2004 Funniest American in Japan The Last Samurai MTV TRL Awards 2003 Biggest Friggin Star to Ever Appear on TRL Award Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards1997 Favorite Movie Actor Mission: Impossible 2001 Mission: Impossible 2 Wannabe Award 2012 Favorite Butt Kicker Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol 2023 Favorite Movie Actor Top Gun: Maverick People's Choice Awards 1987 Favorite Motion Picture Actor N/A 1990 N/A 1994 Favorite Actor in a Dramatic Motion Picture The Firm 2004 Favorite Male Movie Star N/A 2017 Favorite Movie Icon N/A 2018 Male Movie Star of 2018 Mission: Impossible – Fallout Action Movie Star of 2018 2022 Male Movie Star of 2022 Top Gun: Maverick Action Movie Star of 2022 2024 The Male Movie Star of the Year Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One The Action Movie Star of the Year Producers Guild of America Awards 1997 Most Promising Producer in Theatrical Motion Pictures Mission: Impossible 2004 Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures The Last Samurai 2023Top Gun: Maverick Rembrandt Award2012 Best International Actor (Beste Buitenlandse Acteur) Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Satellite Awards 1997 Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Jerry Maguire 2000 Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Drama Magnolia 2004 Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama The Last Samurai 2023 Top Gun: Maverick Saturn Awards 1995 Best Actor Interview with the Vampire 2002 Vanilla Sky 2003 Minority Report 2004 The Last Samurai 2005 Collateral 2006 War of the Worlds 2007 Mission: Impossible III 2009 Valkyrie 2012 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol 2015 Edge of Tomorrow 2019 Mission: Impossible – Fallout 2022 Top Gun: Maverick 2026 Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning ShoWest Convention 1987 Special Award Box Office Star of the Year Teen Choice Awards 2000 Choice Movie Actor Mission: Impossible 2 Choice Summer Movie Wipeout 2005 Choice Movie Villain Collateral Choice Movie Actor – Drama 2006 Choice Movie Actor – Action Mission: Impossible III 2012 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol 2013 Choice Movie Actor – Sci-Fi/Fantasy Oblivion 2014 Choice Movie Actor – Action Edge of Tomorrow Yoga Awards 1994 Worst Foreign Actor The Firm
Honorary awards Organizations Year Notes Result American Cinema Awards 1991 Distinguished Achievement in Film Taormina Film Fest 2000 Career Award Scientology 2004 Freedom Medal of Valor British Academy Britannia Awards 2005 Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film Broadcast Film Critics Association 2005 Distinguished Career Achievement in Performing Arts Award David di Donatello2005 Lifetime Achievement Award (David Special) David di Donatello 2005:
Hubert Burda Media2007 Bambi Courage Award Living Legends of Aviation 2010 Top Aviation Inspiration and Patriotism Award National Movie Awards 2010 Screen Icon Award Empire Awards 2014 Empire 25th Award: Legend of our Lifetime Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation 2018 Pioneer of the Year Award Cannes Film Festival 2022 Honorary Palme d'Or Producers Guild of America Award 2023 David O. Selznick Achievement Award Aero Club of France 2025 Great Medal British Film Institute 2025 BFI Fellowship Governors Awards 2025 Academy Honorary Award for Lifetime Achievement
State honors + Name of country, year given, and name of honor Country Year Honor France 2005 Medal of Honorary Citizen of Marseille 2022 Honorary Member of the Patrol of France by French Air and Space Force 2024 Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Government of France Ireland 2013 Certificate of Irish Heritage from the Department of Foreign Affairs South Korea 2013 Honorary Citizen of Busan United States 1986 Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (Motion Picture category) 2020 US Navy's 36th Honorary Naval Aviator 2024 US Navy's Distinguished Public Service Award
See also Tom Cruise filmography Living Legends of Aviation
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