Tom Cruise For Oscars: Will The Revenant Director Help Him Like He Helped DiCaprio?
Cruise's eagerness to collaborate with Iñárritu has secured him a role in the director's highly anticipated project, igniting hopes for his long-awaited Academy Award.
Summary:
- Tom Cruise, born on July 3, 1962, began his acting career at a young age, appearing in films in the early 1980s
- Known for his dedication to performing his own stunts, Cruise solidified his status as an action star with roles in films like Top Gun and the Mission: Impossible franchise
- Cruise is one of the highest-grossing actors of all time, with his films collectively earning billions of dollars worldwide
- Still, he is yet to land an Academy Award
Seven full-length films by Alejandro González Iñárritu earned 33 Oscar nominations, so viewers should hardly be surprised that the director’s new project has generated great interest in Hollywood.
Warner Bros and Legendary studios want to provide financing for the film, and the first member of the acting team is Tom Cruise. The project will be the filmmaker's first English-language feature film since The Revenant — the 2015 box-office hit.
It is known that over the past few weeks, Iñárritu has held meetings with selected actors, and Cruise was one of the first.
According to Deadline, the actor was "hungry to find that next project" and having the chance to play in Iñárritu's new big film and was approved for the role right after a first conversation with the director.
Nothing is known about the plot so far, it is some kind of original story. Iñárritu will direct the upcoming film from a script that he wrote in 2023 together with Sabina Berman, Alexander Dinelaris, and Nicholas Giacobone.
The same team worked on The Revenant and Birdman. This will be Cruise's first project under the strategic partnership he signed with Warner Bros. last month.
At 61, Cruise remains one of Hollywood's top stars, a status only bolstered by 2022's Top Gun: Maverick, which grossed $1.5 billion worldwide. But Cruise wants more than just action-stardom: he would like to shift his focus and go back to author's cinema. At the beginning of his career, Cruise starred in Spielberg, Scorsese and Kubrick movies, but then he moved on to action blockbusters.
Working with Iñárritu allows him not only to reveal his acting potential, but also to attract additional attention from the American Film Academy, since Cruise hasn't been nominated for an Oscar as an actor since appearing in Anderson's 1999 drama Magnolia.
If we reminisce on the glorious Oscar-garnered year when Iñárritu's film helped Leonardo DiCaprio win his first, but long-deserved award, we can't help ourselves but hope that Cruise will receive his coveted golden man as well.
Source: Deadline