Tom Cruise Nominated for West Point "Academy" Award


Rogers and Cowan announces actor Tom Cruise has been nominated for the annual Cadet Choice Award by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for his role in his latest film, the WWII thriller "Valkyrie."
Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) January 20, 2009 -- Tom Cruise has been nominated for the Cadet Choice Award, or the "academy" awards of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The awards recognize movie characters that exemplify the leadership of West Point cadets.
Cruise's nomination comes from his role as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg in the film "Valkyrie." The movie portrays the true story of a group of high-ranking German officers, lead by Stauffenberg, who set in motion the last known plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
This year's nominees, apart from Cruise, including Bruce Wayne in "The Dark Knight," played by Christian Bale, Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr. in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," played by Harrison Ford, Harvey Milk in "Milk," played by Sean Penn, Lohn Hancock in "Hancock," played by Will Smith, and James Bond in "Quantum of Solace," played by Daniel Craig.
All members of the Corps of Cadets will vote and announce their choice mid-February. The winner will receive an invitation to West Point for a formal awards presentation of the Tarbucket, or the tall black-and-gold hat that cadets wear during their parades.
Link: http://www.westpoint.edu/Dcomm/PressReleasesbd/nr05-09cadet_choice_awards_announced.html
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Tom Cruise Nominated for West Point "Academy" Award - Yahoo! News

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman.

JC;
Well Tom Cruise may have been in a few boring and inconsequential films alright... He just made up for all that with "Valkyrie".
JeffinMNUSA

PS.A JeffinMNUSA oscar to Tom Cruise for his performance in "Valkyrie".

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Well that would all be based on personal opinion. I personally do not think much of him and many of his movies annoy me, I don't even think I own any, now Brad Pitt, that is another story did you ever see the movie 'Troy"?

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Robert,

Cruise was pretty good in Valkyrie. Commendable indeed.

So was the guy who played Hitler..he got his bizarre mannerisms right. (at least how I've read it)

Tom Cruise in my opinion did not earn or is worth the 21 million. He did not do a lousy job but I don't think it was great or even good. I still say he was miscast as von Stauffenberg. Will he show up? Don't know and don't care.

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It's pretty hilarious that the movie is breaking even now, mostly because of Cruise's ridiculous salary.

Im in agreement with Tomcat and PzJgr. Tom Cruise does not impress me at all.

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman.

That movie was bad.

Has anyone noticed that not a single German officer wore a Nazi band around their arm? All they had was a small pin!!!!

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Historically incorrect huh?

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For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for the want of a shoe the horse was lost, for the want of a horse the rider was lost, for the want of a rider the battle was lost, For want of a battle the kingdom was lost, and all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

Robert,

The the director supposedly wanted to point out the fact that not all Germans were Nazis....

Unfortunately for him, just because certain officers or generals didnt always agree with Hitler, did not mean that they were not Nazis.

Claus von Stauffenberg was indeed a Nazi.

More Nazi apologia for you.

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler