[Archias]

Lifetime Gross $2,871,844,825... Average Tom Cruise film makes $95,728,161. Somebody is watching.

I think Cruise is under-rated. I find it interesting the number of Oscar nominations and wins for Cruise movies, yet he's never received one, though he received a couple of nominations. I'm not saying most of his performances deserved an Oscar, but neither is any actor's average performance an Oscar winner.

2004 Collateral got 2 Nominations, none for Cruise
2003 The Last Samurai got 4 noms, none for Cruise
1999 Magnolia got 3 noms, 1 for Cruise as supporting actor
1996 Jerry Maguire got 6 noms, 1 for Cruise as best actor
1993 The Firm got 2 noms, none for Cruise
1992 A Few Good Men got 4 nominations, none for Cruise
1989 Born on the 4th of July got 7 noms, 1 for Cruise as best actor
1988 Rainman got 8 noms, none for Cruise
1986 The Color of Money got 4 noms, none for Cruise

Other Oscar nominations went to these Cruise films, but were only in technical areas (sound, makeup, effects, etc) Minority report(1), War of the Worlds(3), tropic Thunder(1), Vanilla Sky(1), Interview w/ Vampire(2), Days of Thunder(1), Legend(1), Top Gun(4)

That's 54 Oscar nominations for Cruise's films total!

I find Rainman to be the most interesting Oscar snub considering this WON for best picture, best director, best actor and best screenplay, but Cruise wasn't even nominated.

I dont count myself as a Cruise fan particularly, but I admit he was absolutely awesome as Vincent in Collateral. One of my favorite movie moments



It would be interesting to see a Top Gun 2 for the fact maybe he would actually play someone in his age bracket. He needs to move on from playing younger slick action heroes. Id love to see him in more villan roles like John Travolta has done.