Tag Archives: Oscars

Tom Cruise Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol Co-Star Jeremy Renner At Academy Awards

As the team at TomCruise.com reported earlier in the year, Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol co-star Jeremy Renner was nominated for an Academy Award owing to his work on the heist movie, The Town. While Renner wound up not winning the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role – his second Academy nomination in two years – he …


Mission: Impossible III Composer Michael Giacchino Wins Oscar!

From the Official www.TomCruise.com: Michael Giacchino, the composer for the Tom Cruise movie Mission: Impossible III, won an Oscar last night for Best Original Score for his beautifully nostalgic composition in the animated film Up! Giacchino thanked his family and the people in his life who encouraged his creativity, and offered words of inspiration for audience members at home: “If you’re …


Knight and Day Co-Star Cameron Diaz at the Academy Awards!

From the Official www.TomCruise.com: Cameron Diaz, co-star of the new Tom Cruise movie Knight and Day, was on the red carpet at the Academy Awards! She was one of the evening’s Oscar presenters. When asked to choose her pick for Best Picture, she answered, “I just think…all of them are so wonderful. I loved Avatar, but I loved Hurt Locker…” Find …


How are Academy Award Winners Chosen?

The 82nd Academy Awards will crown a new Oscar winner for Best Picture, as well as hand out statues for achievements in film direction, acting, writing, animation, cinematography, art direction, costume design, editing, makeup, sound editing, visual effects and more. But how are these winners decided? How do the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences choose …


Knight and Day Co-Star Peter Sarsgaard’s Film Up for Oscar!

From the Official www.TomCruise.com: Peter Sarsgaard, one of Tom Cruise’s co-stars in the upcoming action comedy Knight and Day,  stars in a movie nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture! This year’s Oscars include 10 nominations (in previous years, there have been only 5 nominated films) for Best Picture, with Sarsgaard’s An Education among the nominees. Based on a memoir …


Tom Cruise Video: Rain Man

What if you found out you had a long lost brother? What if it turned out that brother was brilliant, but mentally challenged? What if you had to hear the word “Wapner” over and over and over and over… ‘Rain Man‘ is the story of Charlie Babbit (Cruise), a selfish yuppie type who finds out he’s been left out of …