Tom Cruise was presented with the Screen Icon Award of the National Movie Awards in London. See the video.

Tom Cruise is a movie star who is also a very good actor. He is one of the most under-rated actors in today's films. He has been a very good actor, for a very long time in a number of different film roles. He has not won an Oscar, though he has been nominated. The number of Oscars an actor wins is a popular measurement used to judge the ability of movie actors. The Oscar, the Academy Award, is an over rated tool. Great actors of the past, some nominated, some not, never won Oscars.

Tom Cruise suffers from the Cary Grant affliction. Cary Grant was a popular actor, a great actor, a movie star, and an icon, who never won an Oscar. Why because he was Cary Grant. He had good looks. He had no trouble getting a movie part. He had no real need for an Oscar, right?

Well, it seems that male movie idols rarely win Oscars, until they are old. The great Paul Newman had to wait until he was old to win an acting Oscar. Check out movie history and you will see that in only in very rare cases does the hot movie idol win. Robert Redford never won an acting Oscar. Richard Burton never won.an Oscar. Clark Gable won, that was a rare case. Jimmy Stewart won, but he wasn't a hot movie idol. He was the nice boy who was somebody's cousin.. When he was a young man, Jimmy Stewart played sort of odd and / or goofy characters. The stars with the box office heat, the ones who the ladies adored, had to settle for the box office and for the popularly voted popularity awards. Any acting and movie related award Tom Cruise receives is deserved.