Tom Cruise is finally getting an Oscar — as will Dolly Parton, Debbie Allen and Wynn Thomas

(From left to proper) This mix of photographs reveals choreographer Debbie Allen, actor Tom Cruise, entertainer Dolly Parton and manufacturing designer Wynn Thomas.
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Twenty-five years after Tom Cruise obtained his first Oscar nomination, he’s lastly getting a trophy. It’s not for his death-defying stunts, both. At the least, not completely.

Cruise, choreographer Debbie Allen and “Do The Proper Factor” manufacturing designer Wynn Thomas have all been chosen to obtain honorary Oscar statuettes on the annual Governors Awards, the movie academy mentioned on Tuesday (June 17, 2025). Dolly Parton can even be acknowledged with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her decades-long charitable work in literacy and schooling.

“This 12 months’s Governors Awards will have a good time 4 legendary people whose extraordinary careers and dedication to our filmmaking group proceed to go away a long-lasting impression,” Academy President Janet Yang mentioned in an announcement.

Most recipients of the prize traditionally haven’t but received a aggressive Oscar themselves. Cruise, 62, has been nominated 4 occasions, twice for finest actor in “Born on the Fourth of July” and “Jerry Maguire,” as soon as for supporting actor in “Magnolia” and as soon as for finest image with “Prime Gun: Maverick.” He’s additionally championed theatrical moviegoing and big-scale Hollywood manufacturing by means of the coronavirus pandemic.

Yang spotlighted Cruise’s “unimaginable dedication to our filmmaking group, to the theatrical expertise, and to the stunts group.”

Allen, 75, has by no means been nominated for an Oscar. However the multi-hyphenate entertainer — she additionally acts and produces — has performed an integral position within the Oscars present, having choreographed seven ceremonies through the years. 4 of these have been nominated for prime-time Emmy awards.

A nomination had additionally eluded Thomas, a number one manufacturing designer whose movies have typically gone on to finest image nominations and even one win, for Ron Howard’s “A Lovely Thoughts.” Thomas is most identified for his long-term collaboration with filmmaker Spike Lee, from “She’s Gotta Have It” and “Malcolm X” by means of “Da 5 Bloods.”

Parton has been nominated twice for finest unique track, for “9 to five” and, in 2006, “Travelin’ Via” from the movie “Transamerica.” However her honor celebrates her humanitarian efforts through the years, by means of organizations just like the Dollywood Basis and the literary program “Dolly Parton’s Creativeness Library.”

Yang mentioned Parton “exemplifies the spirit” of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

The awards might be handed out throughout an untelevised ceremony on Nov. 16 on the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles. Final 12 months’s recipients included the late Quincy Jones, Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, filmmaker Richard Curtis and casting director Juliet Taylor.

Recipients of the prizes, which honor lifetime achievement, contributions to the state of movement image arts and sciences and repair to the academy are chosen by the movie academy’s board of governors.