Cruise, ‘Everywhere’ take producer award

Tom Cruise was honored for his nearly 30 years of work as a producer, while “Anything Goes” took home the top prize at Saturday night’s Producers Guild of America Awards, cementing its status as an Oscar winner. Best Picture frontrunner status.

“We love you! We love you!” Ke Huy Quan, another Oscar winner and one of the film’s stars, yelled joyfully on stage as Jonathan Wang and the rest of the multiverse show’s producers accepted Best Drama film awards.

As it turns out, the award may be the best indicator of the Oscar’s top honors, with four of the past five PGA winners and 11 of the past 14 PGA winners winning Best Picture.

The PGA’s last year’s “CODA” and 2021’s “Nomadland” were the frontrunners before winning Best Picture.

Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards show promises to be a big night, which could further mark “Everywhere” as the best picture winner at the Academy Awards on March 12.

Actor Cruise caused a sensation inside and out when he performed at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, but his production career began with “Mission: Impossible” in 1996, which earned him the PGA’s David O The Selznick Award, a lifetime achievement honor previously received by Steven Spielberg, Kevin Feige, Mary Parent and Brian Glazer.

“My whole life I’ve wanted to be in movies,” said Cruise, who wore a tuxedo and wore his hair the same length as he wore in “Mission: Impossible 2.” “I want to travel the world and go on adventures.”

Cruise talks about his debut in 1981’s “Taps” when he was 18, and how producer Stanley Jaffe involved him in every part of the process.

“I’m sure it’s something I want to do for the rest of my life,” he said.

Cruise thanked Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of the original 1986 Top Gun and his production partner on last year’s Top Gun: Maverick, which was also nominated for the PGA’s top award, and Potentially a contender for Best Picture at the Oscars.

“You opened doors for me,” Cruise told Bruckheimer. “You welcomed me in and I will be forever grateful.”

Since the first Mission: Impossible, Cruise has been a frequent producer on films he has starred in, including Vanilla Sky, The Last Samurai, Reacher and the character in Mission: Impossible. five other films. Impossible” franchise.

He honored the acceptance of many other mentors and partners, including Spielberg and former Paramount CEO Shirley Lansing, who presented the award.

“You all let me live the life of adventure I wanted,” he said.

Cruise finished with a shout out to the entire audience, “All the audience, I work for them first, thank you for letting me entertain you.”

Other films awarded by the PGA include “Navalny,” which won Best Documentary Feature, “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” which won Best Animated Feature, and “Till,” which won a Stanley Kramer Award for a A production or producer that illuminates and illuminates and develops. Raise public awareness of important social issues.

In the PGA’s television category, “The Bear” won Best Comedy, “White Lotus” won Best Drama, “Lizzo’s Beware the Big Bad” won Best Reality or Competition Series, and “Stanley Tew “Weird: Finding Italy” won for a non-fiction series, “The Dropout” won for best limited series and “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” won for best made-for-TV movie.

Mindy Kaling Receives Norman Lear Television Achievement Award for Programs That Include “The Mindy Project,” “Sex Lives of College Girls,” “I Never Had,” ” Velma” and “The Office”.

“I’m the child of immigrants, and this unexpectedly became my secret weapon,” Carlin said.

BJ Novak, her former “The Office” co-writer and co-star, presented Kaling with the award, saying she “cared about characters that other people didn’t care about to be on TV, they cared about what other people were doing on TV.” Do not care.”