Tom Cruise Deserves an Oscar for ‘Saving Hollywood’s Ass’
Tom Cruise in the 2022 blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick. (Paramount Pictures via Alamy)
Our last great film star should get his first Academy Award—not just for producing ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ but for bailing out the movie industry.
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Tom Cruise turned 60 last summer, just as Top Gun: Maverick was becoming the biggest blockbuster of 2022. Maverick brought audiences back to movie theaters after the pandemic years, giving them the joy of a cathartic military and moral triumph. It also gave Hollywood hope for the future, even as it lost more than 2,000 movie screens during the lockdowns…
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