Tom Cruise wins two

Awards are distributed almost every weekend during award season from January until the Oscars. Among the many pre-Oscar events this past weekend was the Saturn Awards, honouring achievements in action and sci-fi, fantasy, horror, etc. So if we’re talking about action, there’s one movie star who runs longer, flies higher, leaps farther, and lands harder than anyone else: Tom Cruise, obviously.

He won the Saturn for best actor and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning won for best action/adventure movie. Not a surprise, the whole promo for the show was basically him.

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And here he is with his trophies, alongside Christopher McQuarrie, who has directed him for a straight decade (at least it feels like it) and Esai Morales.

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I’m curious, if we could crystal ball ourselves to 2027, how we might be talking about Tom a year from now. Because his next major release is Alejandro G Iñárritu’s Digger, which is due in October and is expected to be a contender next award season. This will be Tom Cruise in a black comedy, playing a character who is not a pure one-dimensional hero. It’s been a while, a long while, and there’s a lot of anticipation…

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves, especially since it’s actually Oscar week proper, and there’s been some talk about whether or not we might see Tom at the Oscars. He was awarded an honorary Oscar late last year, and Oscar organisers have been vague when asked whether or not he’ll be involved in this year’s broadcast.

Tom’s name has not appeared on the most recent list of Oscar presenters and so far, aside from Robert Downey Jr, there’s no one who jumps out as being the most obvious Best Picture Oscar presenter, the big award at the end of the night. That said, if Tom does have a presence, it may not even be in a presenting capacity at all. I’d be happy if he delivered Conan O’Brien to the Dolby on the back of his motorcycle by swinging it out of the rafters. Let’s see what the effect of that will be on Conan’s hair.