Question: The American actor and producer who started his career at age 19 and appeared in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation has been nominated for how many Academy Awards?

Context articles: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Mark Rydell
Paul Thomas Anderson filmography
Academy Honorary Award
Consolidated Film Industries
Edmund Darch Lewis
Nick Benedict
Stuart Wilson (sound engineer)
Tom Cruise
Mission: Impossible 2

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is a 2015 American action spy film co-written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie.
 It is the fifth installment in the .
 The film stars Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, and Alec Baldwin with Cruise, Renner, Pegg, and Rhames reprising their roles from previous films.
 "Rogue Nation" is produced by Cruise, J. J. Abrams, and David Ellison of Skydance Productions.
 In the film, IMF agent Ethan Hunt is on the run from the CIA, following the IMF's disbandment as he tries to prove the existence of the Syndicate, a mysterious international terrorist consortium.
Mark Rydell (born March 23, 1928) is an American actor, film director and producer.
 He has directed many Academy Award-nominated films including "The Fox" (1967), "The Reivers" (1969), "Cinderella Liberty" (1973), "The Rose" (1979), "The River" (1984) and "For the Boys" (1991).
 He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for "On Golden Pond" (1981).
 Mark Rydell also studied Acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City.
American director, screenwriter, and producer Paul Thomas Anderson has directed seven feature-length films, five short films, twelve music videos, one documentary, one television episode as a guest segment director, and one theatrical play.
 He made his directorial debut with the mockumentary short film "The Dirk Diggler Story" (1988), at the age of 18, about a pornographic actor in the 1970s.
 Anderson followed it five years later with another short film, "Cigarettes & Coffee" in 1993.
 In 1996, Anderson wrote and directed the neo-noir crime thriller "Hard Eight", starring Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Samuel L. Jackson.
 The film was well received, with film critic Roger Ebert saying of it in his review, "Movies like "Hard Eight" remind me of what original, compelling characters the movies can sometimes give us."
 Using the basis of "The Dirk Diggler Story", Anderson wrote and directed an expansion of the film entitled "Boogie Nights" in 1997.
 The film starred Mark Wahlberg as Eddie Adams/"Dirk Diggler" during the Golden Age of Porn in the 1970s and his eventual downfall in the 1980s.
 "Boogie Nights" received acclaim from critics and was a commercial success; at the 70th Academy Awards ceremony, the film was nominated for three Academy Awards, including for Best Supporting Actor (Burt Reynolds), Best Supporting Actress (Julianne Moore) and Best Original Screenplay.
The Academy Honorary Award – instituted in 1948 for the 21st Academy Awards (previously called the Special Award, which was first presented in early 1929) – is given annually by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards, although prior winners of competitive Academy Awards are not excluded from receiving the Honorary Award.
 Unless otherwise specified, Honorary Award recipients receive the same gold Oscar statuettes received by winners of the competitive Academy Awards.
 Unlike the Special Achievement Award instituted in 1972 (and discontinued in 1995), those on whom the Academy confers its Honorary Award do not have to meet "the Academy's eligibility year and deadline requirements."
 Like the Special Achievement Award, the Special Award and Honorary Award have been used to reward significant achievements of the year that did not fit in existing categories, subsequently leading the Academy to establish several new categories, and to honor exceptional career achievements, contributions to the motion picture industry, and service to the Academy.
 The Academy Honorary Award is often awarded in preference to those with noted achievements in motion pictures who have nevertheless never won an Academy Award.
 Thus, many of its recipients are Classic Hollywood stars, such as Lillian Gish, Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, and Lauren Bacall.
Consolidated Film Industries was a film laboratory and film processing company and was one of the leading film laboratories in the Los Angeles area for many decades.
 CFI processed negatives and made prints for motion pictures and television.
 The company or its employees received many Academy Awards for scientific or technical achievements.
Edmund Darch Lewis (October 17, 1835 - August 12, 1910) was an American landscape painter known for his prolific style and marine oils and watercolors.
 Lewis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a well-to-do family.
 He started training at age 15 with German-born Paul Weber (1823–1916) of the Hudson River School.
 At age 19 he exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and was elected an Associate of the Academy at age 24.
Nick Benedict (born July 14, 1947 in Los Angeles) is an American actor.
 He played the role of Curtis Reed in "Days of Our Lives" between 1993 and 2001.
 He is the older half-brother of Samuel Benedict and the son of actor Richard Benedict.
 He made his debut in 1955 in the series "Wiretapper" as a child.
 His first performance as an adult was in "Mike and the Mermaid" at the age of 17.
 In 1969 he appeared in the "Mission Impossible" TV series episode, "The Vault".
 He appeared on The Dukes Of Hazzard, as Frank James, in the seventh-season episode Go West, Young Dukes.
 In 1990 he starred alongside Nancy Allen in the TV film "Memories of a Murder".
 In the 1990s he mainly appeared in films aside from his ongoing role in "Days of our Lives".
 His last screen appearance was minor role in George Santo Pietro's "Kept" in 2001.
He has been nominated for three Academy Awards, for the films "War Horse" in 2012, "" in 2016 and "Rogue One" in 2017.
 He was nominated for a British Academy Film Award and an Academy Award for "Skyfall".
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962), known professionally as Tom Cruise, is an American actor and producer.
 He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards.
 He started his career at age 19 in the film "Endless Love".
Mission: Impossible 2 (also stylized as Mission: Impossible II and abbreviated as M:I-2) is a 2000 American action spy film directed by John Woo and starring Tom Cruise, who also served as the film's producer.
 It is the second installment in the .
 In the film, Ethan Hunt is recruited by the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) to find and destroy a dangerous biological weapon called "Chimera" from a rogue IMF agent named Sean Ambrose with the help of his new girlfriend, Nyah Nordoff-Hall.