Tonight (Wednesday) Tom Cruise received the BFI’s highest honour, the BFI Fellowship, at the annual BFI Chair’s Dinner, hosted by BFI Chair Jay Hunt at the Rosewood London. The BFI Fellowship was presented to Tom by his close collaborator Christopher McQuarrie, who has worked with Cruise for almost 20 years on films including Edge of Tomorrow, Jack Reacher and since 2015, the Mission: Impossible franchise.
The BFI Fellowship recognises Cruise’s achievements as an extraordinary, versatile actor and his huge contribution to the UK film industry as a producer who has chosen to shoot numerous films on location in the UK, supporting significant growth of our film industry and infrastructure, showcasing and investing in British craft expertise and bringing a huge influx of jobs, skills, and training to people across the country.
Film industry guests and famous faces in attendance with BFI Chair Jay Hunt and BFI Chief Executive Ben Roberts included Christopher McQuarrie, Angela Bassett, Simon Pegg, Hayley Atwell, Samantha Morton, Idris Elba, Jerry Bruckheimer, Hannah Waddingham, Esai Morales, Tramell Tillman, Pom Klementieff, Greg Tarzan Davis, Edgar Wright, Terry Gilliam, Graham Norton, Edith Bowman and more…