Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer who made his film debut with a minor role in the 1981 romantic drama Endless Love . His breakthrough role was in the coming-of-age comedy Risky Business (1983), which garnered Cruise his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy . In 1986, Cruise played a Naval Aviator in the Tony Scott -directed action drama Top Gun (the highest-grossing film that year), and also appeared with Paul Newman in the Martin Scorsese -directed drama The Color of Money . Two years later, he starred with Dustin Hoffman in the Academy Award for Best Picture -winning drama Rain Man (1988), and also appeared in the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture -winning romantic drama Cocktail (1988). In doing so Cruise became the first and only person as of 2014 to star in a Best Picture Oscar winner and a Worst Picture Razzie winner in the same year. His next role was as anti-war activist Ron Kovic in the film adaptation of Kovic's memoir of the same name, Born on the Fourth of July (1989), for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama .