Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Tom Hanks has been honored with numerous awards and nominations, including two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for playing a lawyer suffering with AIDs in Philadelphia (1993) and the title role in Forrest Gump (1994).
Tom Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker who has had an extensive career in film, television and stage. Hanks made his professional acting debut on stage, playing Grumio in a 1977 Great Lakes Theater production of The Taming of the Shrew. [1] He made his film debut with a minor role in the 1980 horror film, He Knows You're Alone. [2]
[a] She first won in that same category for her role in Woody Allen's 1986 film Hannah and Her Sisters. [13] Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life and Trevor ' s joint win in the Best Live Action Short category marked the fifth occurrence of a tie in Oscar history; the next tie would occur at the 85th Academy Awards in 2013. [14]
In 1994, Tom Hanks won Best Actor for Philadelphia, in which he plays an attorney who faces discrimination because he is gay and has AIDS. Hanks seemed to understand the importance of this moment ...
Thirty years ago, Tom Hanks delivered a performance that reverberated through Hollywood. And it wasn’t in a movie. Revisit the Tom Hanks Oscars acceptance speech that Spielberg called ...
Haley Joel Osment and Tom Hanks in 'Forrest Gump' in 1994. ... captures a sweet moment from a screen test with Oscar winner Hanks and the young actor who would play his son in 1994’s Forrest Gump.
Hanks won his second Best Actor Academy Award for his role in Forrest Gump, becoming only the second actor to have accomplished the feat of winning consecutive Best Actor Oscars. [62] Spencer Tracy was the first, winning in 1937 and ‘38 for Captains Courageous and Boys Town .
Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis. An adaptation of the 1986 novel by Winston Groom, the screenplay of the film is written by Eric Roth. It stars Tom Hanks in the title role, alongside Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, and Sally Field in lead roles.