"Prepare for one of cinema's most electrifying confrontations. This reel features the iconic ""You can't handle the truth!"" ...

(NEXSTAR) — This week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced screen legend Tom Cruise would receive an honorary Oscar at the Academy’s 16th Governor’s Awards next year.

But back in 1996, what made a young Tom Cruise, red hot in Hollywood thanks to hits like A Few Good Men and Interview with the Vampire, board the spy thriller?

Tom Cruise discusses filming A Few Good Men ’s famous courtroom scene with Jack Nicholson. Going toe-to-toe with an Oscar-winner may not have been as dangerous as jumping out of an airplane, but ...

Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding Jr. reunited on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival in France The two actors previously appeared in Jerry Maguire and A Few Good Men together ...

Actor and producer Tom Cruise, choreographer and actor Debbie Allen, and production designer Wynn Thomas will receive ...

Lionel Hahn/Getty Images Cruise and Gooding's acting history started in 1992 when they worked on A Few Good Men, but their careers haven't crossed paths as of late.

From the high-flying action of Top Gun and Mission: Impossible to dramatic masterpieces like Rain Man and A Few Good Men, his filmography reads like a greatest hits of modern Hollywood.

Cruise and Gooding Jr. first starred together in 1992's A Few Good Men, in which the Cruise plays hotshot Navy lawyer Daniel Kaffee, who must prove that two U.S. Marines charged with murdering a ...

TOP GUN, Val Kilmer, Tom Cruise, 1986, (c) Paramount/courtesy Everett Collection On acting alongside Jack Nicholson and the famous courtroom scene in A Few Good Men. “He was finding his character.

CRUISE: (As Vincent) Man, you were going to drive me around tonight and never be the wiser, but we're into Plan B. Yeah. We got to make the best of it - improvise, adapt to the environment.