Born on the Fourth of July portrays the true cost of war, following a soldier’s transformation from patriotic Marine to ...

But as Roger Ebert wrote in 1989, "nothing [Tom] Cruise has done will prepare ... which is now streaming on Netflix, Cruise plays Ron Kovic, who fought in Vietnam and came home paralyzed from ...

Tom Cruise is no different here in his first Academy Award-nominated role was as Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. Cruise expertly gives credence and perspective to Kovic’s memoir, which the film ...

Tom Cruise's first Oscar nomination was in one of the best war movies ever made—Born on the Fourth of July. The biographical anti-war movie follows the true story of Ron Kovic, whose patriotism ...

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3 ... He won a Golden Globe Award for portraying Ron Kovic in the latter. He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Based on the true story of Ron Kovic (Cruise, in an Oscar-nominated performance), an idealistic young American proudly enlists during the Vietnam War and returns home a paraplegic. Struggling to ...