Tom Cruise (1989), Cruise received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and his first Academy Award for Best Actor nomination. In the 1990s, Cruise starred with Jack Nicholson in the legal drama "A Few Good Men" (1992) and starred in a number of box office hits including "The Firm" (1993) and "Interview with the Vampire" (1994), before starring as IMF agent Ethan Hunt in the action spy thriller "" (1996), the first of a commercially successful six-film series. In 1996, Cruise also starred as the title character in the romantic comedy-drama "Jerry Maguire", earning him the Golden
Tom Cruise name, which became the fourth highest-grossing film of the year with US$591.4 million worldwide. Also in 2005, he won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Movie Star, and the MTV Generation Award. Cruise was nominated for seven Saturn Awards between 2002 and 2009, winning once. Nine of the ten films he starred in during the decade made over $100 million at the box office. In 2006, he returned to his role as Ethan Hunt in the third installment of the "Mission Impossible" film series, "". The film was more positively received by critics than the previous films in the