After a 2022 which saw the biggest movie of his career at the box office, and the top grossing movie of the year with Top Gun: Maverick ($718.7M, $1.49 billion), Tom Cruise accepted the David O.
Selznick honor tonight at the PGA awards. Before he took the stage after a glowing introduction by former Paramount Pictures boss Sherry Lansing, the 60-year old Cruise teared up off the exec’s exclamation, “Quite simply every day is better because of you.” Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick is also up for the top film at the PGAs tonight in addition to being nominated for six Oscars including Best Picture.
Lansing shared her early days with the actor in 20th Century Fox’s Taps, and also how he wanted to take his first stab at producing with 1996’s Mission: Impossible.
The studio boss had her doubts about Cruise in an ensemble, but better a little Cruise than none at all, she thought at the time.
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