Tom Cruise Wins Risk Taking in Film Award
Tom Cruise won a German Film award for being courageous in his acting.
U.S. actor Tom Cruise has won a German film award for his willingness to take risks in his films, media company Hubert Burda Media said on Wednesday.
The ‘courage’ award will be presented during the 59th annual Bambi Awards ceremony in the northern city of Duesseldorf on Thursday.
The prize committee said Cruise has pursued brave projects that otherwise would not have been made, including his newest film, "Valkyrie", which details the failed Operation Valkyrie plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
Cruise plays Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who tried to assassinate Hitler with a briefcase bomb on July 20, 1944.
"Tom Cruise is making an international public familiar with a story that has never before been the theme of a major Hollywood production: the German resistance against the Third Reich," the competition jury said in a statement.
Some resistance to Cruise’s work in "Valkyrie" has come from inside German government ministries. The Defence Ministry tried to ban Cruise from filming at the "Bendlerblock" complex in Berlin where the conspirators were executed.
They relented after filmmakers persuaded them the movie would honour Stauffenberg. Cruise filmed at the Bendlerblock and elsewhere in Berlin this autumn.
Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung initially said he did not want Cruise to film at the site because the actor is a Scientologist, which the German government describes as a cult. The ministry later said they were concerned about preserving the dignity of the site.
The German media awards are named after the deer statuette winners receive. The daughter of one of the first winners said the figurine looked like the children’s storybook character Bambi.
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8 opinions for Tom Cruise Wins Risk Taking in Film Award
Libraesque2007
Nov 28, 2007 at 6:35 pm
well….he’s in good company!!!!
Sandra Bullock won….Goldie Hawn won….OH and Heidi Klum!!!!!
Balletmama
Nov 28, 2007 at 11:29 pm
How much did he pay for it? Can we say that Cruise is trying for an OScar and buying Awards in the process to make himself look good!
Tia
Nov 29, 2007 at 8:53 am
So the Germans like him after all. lol
Balletmama
Nov 29, 2007 at 9:46 am
Poor KH. Everyone around her is getting perks and awards and she is still just a trophy. Even her friends and Cruise’s ex are getting their own fashion lines and magazine spreads and she isn’t. Someone better talk to Tom about that contract promise to make her famous. Maybe Cruise should buy an award for Katie. Oh forgot, the trophy must be Suri!! She is certainly paraded around as one.
Katie didn’t even make the list as a sexy preggo women. That is her claim to fame isn’t it : that she was the one that got knocked up by Cruise. Angelina Jolie did make the list and all she did was show in black stretch clothes to take her kid to school.
smartgurl23
Nov 29, 2007 at 10:38 am
Tom is a great actor
valentinebride
Nov 29, 2007 at 3:43 pm
I saw a pic of Tom and Katie at the Bambi Awards on TMZ and Katie looked awful! She looked too harsh.
Libraesque2007
Nov 29, 2007 at 4:01 pm
yea, that hair……yiiiikes she looks like an asian hooker
smartgurl23
Nov 30, 2007 at 8:40 am
Tom’s a great actor
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