“The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Has Voted to Present Actor/Producer Tom Cruise, Actress/Producer/Choreogr. Honorry Awards, and Actress/Singer-Singer Dolly Parton with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 16th Annual Governors”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The Honorees-Whose Selection Was The Final Decision Made by the 55 Governors Who Served on the Academy’s Board During the 2024-2025 Term, Including the Likes of PAM ABDY, Jason blum, Ruth E. Carter, AVA Duvernay, Marlee Matlin, Jason Reitman an Eric Roth -Will be farted at a black-tie ceremony at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Oination Hollywood in Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 16.
“This Year’s Governors Will Celebrate Four Legendary Individuals Whose Extraordinary Careers and Commitment to Our Filmning Community Continue to LEAING, A LASTING IPACT Janet yang SAID IN A STATEMENT. “The Academy’s Board of Governors Is Honored to Recognize These Brilliant Artists. Debbie Allen Is A Trailblazing Choregrapher and Actor Cruise’s Incredible Commitment to Our Filmmaking Community, To Theatrical Experience, and To The Stunts Community Has Inspired US All. Humanitarian Award Through Her Unawavering to Charitable Efforts.
The Board Annuly Bestows Honoryary Awards for Lifetime Achievement. (Previous Recipients Include Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Louis B. Mayer, Greta Garbo, Cary Grant, Federico Fellini, Sidney Poitier, Steve Martin, Gena Rowlands and, Last Year, Quincy Jones.) On Occasion, It Also Chooses to Present the Irning G. Thalberg Memorial Award, WHICH RECOGNIZES OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF Darryl F. Zanuck, David O. Selznick, Jack Warner, Kathleen Kennedy an Frank Marshall and, Last Year, Bond Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson) and/or the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, Celebring Remarkable Service to Other (Honorees Have Included Frank Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Oprah Winfrey and, Last Year, Richard Curtis). Each of the TESE HONORS NOW come in the form of an oscar Statuette.
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Cruise, 62, Who Is of Fen Descripted As “The Last Movie Star,” Has Consistently Been A Top Box-Office Draw for Longer Than Anyone Else in History. His popularity-built on the back of his all-american, Boy-next-door Smile and swagger, as Well As Real Acting Chops and Tireless Boosterism of His Own Projects-Has Spanned Risky Business Through 2025’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoninga period of 42 years, with two chart-topping Top Gun MOVIES, 36 YEARS APART, INBETWEEN, THE LATER OF WHICH, IN THE VIEW OF NO LESS Authority than Steven Spielberg“Saved Hollywood’s Ass” in the Wake of the Global Pandemic.
Cruise Spent The First Half of His Career Working MOSTLY IN FILMMAKER-DRIVEN PROJECTS. HE WAS DIRECTED BY Barry Levinson (1988’s Rain ManWHICH Won The Best Picture Oscar), Francis Ford Coppola (1983’s The Outsiders) Martin Scorsese (1986’s The Color of Money) Oliver Stone (1989’s Born on the Fourth of Julyfor whohh he recevened the first of his four oscar noms), Rob Reiner (1992’s A few good men) Sydney pollck (1993’s The FIRM) Cameron Crow (1996’s Jerry MaguireOscar Nom #2, and 2001’s Vanilla Sky) Stanley Kubrick (1999’s Eyes Wide Shut) Paul Thomas Anderson (1999’s MagnoliaOscar Nom #3), Spielberg (2002’s Minority Report) and Michael Mann (2004’s Collateral).
He has spent the Second Half Working MOSTLY IN ACTION-ORIENTED FLicks of Varying Quality, But Fairly Unnewavering Popularity, In Wich HE Famously Toes Many of His Own Stunts. Among Them: Eight Mission: Impossible Films (1996, 2000, 2000, 2011, 2015, 2018, 2023 and 2025), The FIRST OF WHICH ALSO Marked His Debut Production Credit (He Also Has Produced Every Subsequent Installment), Plus Plus. The Last Samurai (2003), The War of the Worlds (2005), Jack reacher (2012, Also A Producer), Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016, Also A Producer) and Top Gun: Maverick (ALSO A PRODUaker, Resulting in Oscar NOM #4).
With FEW Exceptions, The MOST NOTable Being 2008’s Tropic ThunderCruise Has, Over The Last 20 Years, Consisteient Played A Version of Cruise, or at Least his Well-Establized Screen Persona, Which Audiences Still Love. Unlike Other A-Listers, You Won Se See Him Playing A Superhero in A Comic Book Adaptation-He Turned Down to Tony Stark-Because in His Movies He, Not The Character HES, IS The STAR; and you won’t see him on a streaming service or on tv, because he is a Movie Star, WHICH IS WHY HA ALSO FEROCIUSLY DEFENSS OF THE THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE.
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Allen, 75, is not only a trailblazing artist, but also a champion of arts education – on Screen (Her Mist Famous Role Is Dance Teacher Lydia Grant in the 1980 Film FAME and it television adaptation that Ran from 1982 1982 1987, WHICH She ALSO Choreographed) and Off (Through Her Debbie Allen Dance Academy in La and Other Activities).
Her Stage and TV Credits Are Extensive – She was ben nominated for two tonys and 21 primetime emmys, Winning Five of The Latter, and The TV Academy Presented Her in. Television Academy Hall of Fame in 2022. Her Standout Work in Film Has Been More Limited – Beyond FAMEshe also acted in 1981’s Ragtime; Produced 1997’s Amistad with Steven Spielberg; and Choreographed 2024’s The Six Triple Eight.
Allen, Who Also Choreographed Seven Oscars Telecasts, Previously Has Been The Recipient of the National Medal of Arts, A Kennedy Center Honor and Many of Major Prizes.
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Thomas, WHO GOTH HIS START IN THE NEW YORK Theater, is a revered Production Designer Who is Best Known for His Extension Collaboration with Spike LeeWHICH ENCOMPASSESS 11 FILMS Over 35 Years, Spanning Lee’s Feature Directorial Debut, 1986’s She’s Gotta Have ItThrough 2020’s DA 5 Bloodsand Also Includes Lee’s Most Celebrated Films, 1989’s Do the right thing and 1992’s Malcolm X.
Thomas have worked with Numeros Other A-List Filmmakers Including Francis Ford Coppola (on 1984’s The Cotton Club) Robert de niro (1993’s A Bronx Tale) Ron Howard (On 2001 Best Picture Oscar Winner A Beautify Mind and 2005’s Cinderella Man) Barry Levinson (1997’s Wag The Dog) and TIM BURTON (1996’s Mars Attacks!), and on Hit Films Such As 1999’s Analyze this2016’s Hidden Figures and 2021’s King Richard.
The First African American Production Designer to Join The Art Directors Guild, He Won Two Adg Awards (For Hidden Figures an DA 5 Bloods) and was the recipient of the adg’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024. The adg Decklared at the time Approach and Commitment to Storytelling.
Thomas Also Served on the Academy’s Board of Governors from 2017 Through 2023, and Was Its Vice President and CAIR OF ITS EDUCATION AND OUTREACH Committee from 2020 Through 2023.
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Parton, One of the MOST Popular Country Music Stars of All Time, Made Her Mark on the Movies As An Actress (most memorably in 1980 9 to 5 and 1982’s The best Little Whohouse in Texasfor WHICH She RECEIVED GOLDEN GLOBE NOMS) and as A Singer/Songwriter (Garnering Best Original Song Oscar Noms for “Nine to FIVE” from 9 to 5 and “Travelin ‘Thru” from 2005’s Transamerica). But Her Greatest Legacy May Be Her Philanthropy.
Indeed, The Daughter of A Man Whover Learned to Read Has Spen Millions of Dollars to Give Away More than 277 Million Books to Children, Aiming to Inspire A Lifelong of Reading. It’s All Done Through Her Dollywood Foundation, Which Sheeled in 1988 with the Aim of Helping to Eduacate Kids from Her Home State of Tennesse, and The Dolly Parton’s Imagination, and Who Later, Parton’s Organization Mails Millions of Free Books Every Month to Pre-Schoolers in All Fifthty States, As Well As in Canada, The UK, Ausralia and Ireland.
Beyond that, she was also been an an an anoxpoken ally of the lgbtq community and a pivotal Supporter of Medical Research – As in, $ 2 Million in Donations to The Vanderbilt University Medical Center Stages of Development of the Moderna Vaccine that Saved an untold Number of Lives During the Early Days of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
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On June 9, Thr PUBLISHED A PIECE Suggesting 100 Worthy Candidates for Governors Awards. It Included Parton (#3) and Cruise (#16).