Tom Cruise receives top prize at Producers Guild Awards for 'Top Gun'

During the 34th annual Producers Guild of America Awards, Tom Cruise, producer of "Top Gun: Maverick," received a career achievement award.

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The sci-fi thriller expanded its lead as the front-runner for best picture after winning the night's highest honour at the producers awards event.

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The PGA is frequently used as a proxy for the Oscars.

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Losing the prize may have dashed the best picture aspirations for "Top Gun: Maverick" at the Oscars on March 12.

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Cruise, 60, received the David O. Selznick Achievement Award from former Paramount CEO Sherry Lansing.

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"Over 42 years later, despite phenomenal success, Tom Cruise is still that very same person," said Lansing.

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The 1996 film "Mission: Impossible," which launched Cruise's producing career, received approval from Lansing.

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As a young actor, Cruise recalls working on "Taps" alongside Sean Penn and Timothy Hutton.

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Jerry Bruckheimer, Cruise's co-producer on the eagerly anticipated "Maverick" sequel as well as his producer of the original 1986 "Top Gun," was acknowledged by the actor.

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"You’ve all enabled me the adventurous life that I wanted,” he said.

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