Consider the following Oscar nominees:
- Paul Newman, The Color of Money
- Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man
- Jack Nicholson, A Few Good Men
- Holly Hunter, The Firm
- Cuba Gooding, Jr., Jerry Maguire
- Ken Watanabe, The Last Samurai
- Jamie Foxx, Collateral
I'm not saying that Paul Newman owes his Oscar to Tom Cruise, but it does appear that if you act in a movie with Tom Cruise, you have a reasonably good chance of getting an Academy Award nomination. Something to think about during the montages tonight.
