The actor and film producer was honored at the annual BFI Chair’s Dinner in London on May 12 Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023 and covers ...

Tom Cruise was honoured with the British Film Institute Fellowship in London on Monday. The Hollywood megastar was in the UK gearing up to premiere "Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning." The BFI Fellowship award recognises an "extraordinary acting and producing career,

George MacKay, Maria Bakalova, Stephen Graham, Rory Kinnear, and Rupert Everett also feature in the annual spotlight on features for distributors and festival programmers by the BFI and British Film Council.

In video footage obtained by Discussing Film, the 62-year-old actor could be seen standing on the roof of the BFI IMAX building in London — one of the largest cinemas in the United Kingdom — on Sunday, May 11. Deadline confirmed from sources close to the star that the man standing on the roof was indeed Cruise.

Tom Cruise said being honoured with the British Film Institute’s most prestigious accolade, a BFI fellowship, is “absolutely extraordinary”. The Hollywood actor, 62, was recognised at the annual BFI Chair’s Dinner in London on Monday for his acting career and contribution to the UK film industry.