Tom Cruise filmography Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In 1992, he starred opposite Jack Nicholson in the legal drama "A Few Good Men", an adaptation of the Broadway play of the same name also written by Aaron Sorkin. Cruise next appeared in "The Firm" (1993), a film adaptation of the John Grisham legal thriller of the same name, and in the same year also made his directorial debut by directing an episode of the anthology television series "Fallen Angels". Three years later Cruise starred as IMF agent Ethan Hunt in the
Into the Sun (1992 film) Into the Sun (1992 film) Into the Sun is a 1992 action comedy film starring Michael Paré and Anthony Michael Hall. Most of its aerial footage are taken from Iron Eagle movie stock (hence its Israeli Air Force camouflage, but USAF roundel). Paul Watkins (Michael Paré) is an American pilot stationed in the Middle East, who is taken off his normal duties to show an actor about being a pilot in US Air Force. Tom Slade (Anthony Michael Hall) is an actor who wants to "get the feeling" before he plays the part in a movie about fighter pilots. But