Like the rest of the fans, Léa Seydoux is also wondering why action legend Tom Cruise still hasn’t taken home an Oscar award. The Mission: Impossible star has been nominated four times, and two of them were in the Best Actor category.
It remains a puzzle of what could be the reasons why the prestigious award continues to evade Cruise. The actor has a lot of movies under his belt, and he’s quite the most dedicated actor out there as evident in his willingness to perform his own stunts.
Léa Seydoux Campaigns For Tom Cruise To Win An Oscar
In an interview with Konbini, actress Léa Seydoux professed her admiration for Tom Cruise and his filmography. She expressed dismay at the thought that the actor still hasn’t gotten his own Oscar statuette.
I’m a big Tom Cruise fan. To do something as subtle as “Eyes Wide Shut” and to also make an action film like this one, it’s mind-blowing. He’s a major actor. It’s very strange to me that he has never won an Oscar.
The French star believes that Cruise is “the biggest star in the world” and that “there’s more of a mystery to him” than actors like Brad Pitt, a fellow Hollywood A-lister. The Bond girl even said that No Time to Die actor Daniel Craig is no match for Cruise in a fight.
The 62-year-old actor received four Academy Award nominations. He got two Best Actors nods for 1990’s Born on the Fourth of July and 1997’s Jerry Maguire. He also earned a Best Supporting Actor for 2000’s Magnolia, and a Best Picture nod for 2023’s Top Gun: Maverick, where he served as a producer.
In a post from Yahoo! News, the outlet enumerated the reasons why Cruise has never won an Oscar. Apart from doing a lot of mainstream movies, people only remember his popular works and not the ones where he collaborated with the likes of Martin Scorsese and Paul Thomas Anderson. The Oscars rarely look into blockbuster franchises.
Aside from his professional work, his personal life is also a factor according to the article. His involvement in Scientology does not really appeal to the Oscar voters. His divorce battles against Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes also proved to be a stain in his career.
Fans Support Tom Cruise’s Long Overdue Oscar Win
In spite of all the controversies in Cruise’s life and career, it does not take away the fact that he’s one of the most devoted actors in Hollywood. Fans believe he deserves to finally have his own Oscar-winning moment. Check out their reactions below:
Happy 62nd birthday to Tom Cruise, here's the role he really should have won an Oscar for at the time. pic.twitter.com/GSNLfet6VH
— All Things Movies (@ThatMoviePage) July 3, 2024
Happy birthday, Tom Cruise, who should’ve won an Oscar for his spectacular performance in Magnolia pic.twitter.com/xnCmBx47Nq
— Brian Rowe (@mrbrianrowe) July 3, 2024
#FilmTwitter: Which actors and actresses in Hollywood should be next in line to win their first Oscar, ie who is most overdue?
— Jason Kline (@jaskline2007) March 18, 2024
I’ll start:
Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise carried that movie, he should have been nominated and win at the oscars not just Dustin Hoffman
— Pablo RC (@jpab666) December 17, 2023
i swear one of these days i’m gonna stand outside the academy awards people’s office with huge ass sign that says “give tom cruise his fckn oscar”… this movie is something else but like i can of at least 6 of his movies which imo deserved an oscar too…
— ellie (@delellu) August 4, 2023
Cruise’s career remains active, and both Mission: Impossible and Top Gun franchises continue to rake in money. Perhaps he might want to venture into other projects that would explore his range in terms of acting. Who knows? It could be his best shot at getting that Oscar!
