It's about time Tom Cruise got an Oscar, the academy decides — Dolly Parton, too

It’s yet Oscar clip for Tom Cruise, the Motion Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences has decided.

Cruise, Dolly Parton, actor-producer-director-dancer Debbie Allen and accumulation decorator Wynn Thomas volition person Academy Honorary Awards for their ample (and as-yet unrecognized) contributions to big-screen culture.

They are, according to a connection Tuesday from academy President Janet Yang, “four legendary individuals whose bonzer careers and committedness to our filmmaking assemblage proceed to permission a lasting impact.”

Cruise (who famously does his ain stunts) has “inspired america all,” according to Yang, with his “incredible committedness to our filmmaking community, to the theatrical experience, and to the stunts community.”

Sometimes called Hollywood’s past existent movie star, Cruise has fueled container bureau gross similar fewer others, drafting crowds to the wildly palmy “Top Gun” and “Mission Impossible” films, not to notation “Rain Man,” “War of the Worlds,” “Risky Business” and “Jerry Maguire.”

He has been nominated for 4 Oscars successful the past — doubly for pb actor, erstwhile for supporting histrion and erstwhile for champion picture, for “Top Gun: Maverick” — but hasn’t taken 1 home.

Debbie Allen and Wynn Thomas volition some person honorary Oscars successful November successful designation of a beingness of contributions to the cinema community.

(Evan Agostini / Invision / Associated Press, left; John Nacion / Getty Images, right)

Allen is being honored for her astir five-decade career, during which she has acted, sung, danced, directed, produced and executive-produced. In that clip she has choreographed the globally televised Academy Awards ceremonial 7 times and performed arsenic well.

“Debbie Allen is simply a trailblazing choreographer and actor, whose enactment has captivated generations and crossed genres,” Yang said. While overmuch of the six-time Emmy winner’s enactment has been successful TV, movie credits tagged to her galore occupation descriptions see “Ragtime,” “Fame,” “Amistad,” “Forget Paris” and more.

And without Thomas’ work, Spike Lee wouldn’t beryllium who helium is today. Thomas started his vocation arsenic a accumulation decorator connected the director’s 1986 effort “She’s Gotta Have It,” past continued their collaboration connected “Do the Right Thing,” “Jungle Fever,” “School Daze,” “Malcolm X” and “Da 5 Bloods.” He besides worked connected “Eddie Murphy: Raw,” Robert Townsend’s “The Five Heartbeats” and “King Richard,” which delivered a pb histrion Academy Award for Will Smith.

Other films connected Thomas’ resume? “Hidden Figures,” which was nominated for 3 Oscars, and “A Beautiful Mind,” which won four. “Thomas has brought immoderate of the astir enduring films to beingness done a visionary oculus and mastery of his craft,” Yang said.

Meanwhile, Parton volition instrumentality location the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and its attendant Oscar statuette, an grant fixed “to an idiosyncratic successful the question representation arts and sciences whose humanitarian efforts person brought recognition to the manufacture by promoting quality payment and contributing to rectifying inequities.”

The vocalist and “9 to 5” star, whose husband, Carl Dean, died successful March, has agelong enactment her fame to bully use. Yang said Parton “exemplifies the spirit” of the Hersholt grant “through her unwavering dedication to charitable efforts.” The pistillate down Dollywood has been nominated for archetypal opus Oscars twice.

The honors volition beryllium fixed retired Nov. 16 astatine the academy’s 16th Governors Awards successful Hollywood.