Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
The elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill, Douglas received his Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His early acting roles included film, stage, and television productions. Douglas first achieved prominence for his performance in the ABC police procedural television series The Streets of San Francisco, for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations.
Tom Cruise Is ‘Over the Moon’ About Oscars Recognition for ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ — and Pal Andrea Riseborough’s Nomination
usmagazine.comRecognition from his peers! Tom Cruise has had a long and storied career in Hollywood — but the awards season recognition for Top Gun: Maverick is a new high.“Tom is over the moon that he’s been nominated as a producer by both the Oscars, and especially the Producers Guild,” an insider exclusively reveals of the Mission: Impossible actor, 60, in the new issue of Us Weekly.The action star recently accepted the David O.
Selznick Achievement Award — which recognizes a producer for their “extraordinary body of work in motion pictures” — at the 2023 Producers Guild of America Awards.
Past honorees include Clint Eastwood, Jerry Bruckheimer, Steven Spielberg and Michael Douglas.“Filmmaking for Tom these days is all about creating the whole package and making it work and make money, as opposed to having that one scene in the film where he cries or yells and generates the perfect ‘Oscars clip,'” the source adds. “Tom has grown out of caring about that stuff, and in the process has grown into an absolutely killer businessman and producer — and that’s the real thing he’s intent on celebrating this awards season.”The War of the Worlds star praised his fellow filmmakers while accepting his Producers Guild trophy on February 25, saying that he was “rooting” for their success.“I know that things don’t just happen.
I know it’s not just luck. You have to create that luck,” Cruise told the crowd. “You have to will it into existence. I want you to know that I’m always rooting for you.
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