Tom Cruise is to obtain a BFI Fellowship, the best honor bestowed by the UK’s lead group for movie.
The award might be offered to Cruise on the BFI Chair’s dinner in London on Monday 12 May, hosted by BFI Chair Jay Hunt. The day earlier than, Cruise will participate in an onstage In Conversation session on the BFI Southbank the place he’ll talk about his decades-long profession.
The Fellowship presentation would be the centerpiece of a month-long retrospective of Cruise’s movie profession on the BFI. A season of 27 movies that includes Cruise will display screen on the BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX all through May 2025.
Cruise is at the moment filming Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment’s untitled Alejandro G. Iñárritu film within the UK and his subsequent Mission Impossible movie might doubtlessly debut on the Cannes Film Festival, which will get underway the day after his Fellowship presentation.
“I am truly honored by this acknowledgment,” Cruise stated in an announcement. “I’ve been making films in the UK for over 40 years and have no plans to stop. The UK is home to incredibly talented professionals — actors, directors, writers, and crews, as well as some of the most stunning locations in the world. I’m grateful for all the BFI has done to support UK filmmaking and this incredible art form we share.”
As talked about in his assertion, Cruise has a longstanding relationship with the UK movie trade. Many of his Mission: Impossible movies, together with the most recent, Mission: Impossible 8, have been shot in Britain. The veteran actor additionally famously spent a few years residing within the UK taking pictures Stanley Kubrick’s closing movie Eyes Wide Shut within the late Nineties. A choice of Cruise’s different former collaborators consists of Francis Ford Coppola, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Martin Scorsese, Barry Levinson, Oliver Stone, Ron Howard, Rob Reiner, Sydney Pollack, Neil Jordan, Brian De Palma and Cameron Crowe, Paul Thomas Anderson, Steven Spielberg, Michael Mann, J.J. Abrams, Robert Redford, Brad Bird, Doug Liman, Joe Kosinski, Christopher McQuarrie, and Alejandro González Iñárritu.
“We are thrilled to be honoring Tom Cruise with a BFI Fellowship,” BFI Chair Jay Hunt stated in an announcement. “Tom has brought so much to the UK as a producer through choosing to make many of his films on our shores, where he is welcomed by our crews who step up to help make his cinematic visions a reality. In doing so, he also supports our studios and puts our locations on a world stage, in the process creating jobs and inspiring the next generation of film talent.”
Hunt added: “He is, of course, also simply one of the world’s great actors and a true movie star, delighting audiences as the action hero and romantic lead and then surprising us with brave, leftfield roles where his versatility and talent shine through.”
Previous Fellowship honorees embrace Spike Lee, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, Satyajit Ray, Tilda Swinton, David Lean, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Steve McQueen, Akira Kurosawa, Nicholas Roeg, Orson Welles, Ridley Scott, Ousmane Sembène, Bernardo Bertolucci and Souleymane Cissé.