Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise has finally won an Oscar. The 63-year-old actor was given a special award Saturday. Mr Cruise was nominated an Oscar four times the Academy Awards, but he never won. Academy president Janet Yang explained why Cruise got his Oscar. She said he is one the most famous and biggest money-earning actors all time. She added that Cruise's "incredible commitment to filmmaking, to the theatrical experience, and to the stunts community has inspired us all". Cruise is famous doing all his own stunts. Many them are very dangerous. Hollywood actor Ethan Hawke predicted Cruise would get four more Oscars the next 20 years.
Tom Cruise was very happy to get an Oscar. his acceptance speech, he said he felt very lucky to be a part movies and cinema. He said: "Making films is not what I do, it is who I am." He added: "My love cinema began a very early age — as early as I can remember. I was just a little kid a darkened theatre, and I remember that beam light just cut across the room... Suddenly, the world was so much larger than the one that I knew." He said: "Cinema takes me the world. No matter where we come , in the [movie] theatre, we laugh together, we feel together, we hope together. And that is the power this art form." Cruise is most famous the Mission: Impossible and Top Gun films.