During the same time, Hanks won the Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his 1978 performance as Proteus in Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona, one of the few times he played a villain.

" Hanks won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Philadelphia.

Hanks and his running mates of the People's Voice Party, incumbent Trustee Derrick Burgess and the first Hispanic / Latino Village Trustee ever elected Robert Chavez won with about a 3 to 1 margin over the Mayor Towers supported candidates.

Domestically in North America, it was slightly overtaken by Forrest Gump, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and a second consecutive Academy Award for Best Actor for Tom Hanks.

Tom Hanks won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film, while the song " Streets of Philadelphia " by Bruce Springsteen won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

The film won Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Tom Hanks ), and Best Original Song ( Bruce Springsteen for " Streets of Philadelphia ").

Tom Hanks also won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival.

The movie paved the way for later TV and general release films dealing with the topic of AIDS, including Go Toward The Light ( 1988 ), The Littlest Victims, The Ryan White Story ( both 1989 ), Longtime Companion ( 1990 ), and Philadelphia ( 1993 ), which won Tom Hanks, whose Andrew Beckett was similar in many ways to Michael Pierson, an Academy Award for Best Actor.

Sam Hanks won the race in his thirteenth attempt ( the most such by any 500 winner ), and famously retired from racing in victory lane.

Hanks won the race in George Salih's noteworthy and famous " Lay-down Offy.

Bryan was victorious in the same car in which Sam Hanks won the 500 a year earlier.

Sam Hanks ( July 13, 1914 – June 27, 1994 ) was an American racecar driver who won the 1957 Indianapolis 500.

Hanks reportedly won the first two board track races at Soldier Field in 1939.

Hanks won the 1940 VFW Motor City Speedway championship.

Forrest Gump won Best Picture, as well as an additional five Oscars, including Tom Hanks ' second consecutive Academy Award for Best Actor.

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

Hanks and Tracy were the same age at the time they received their Academy Awards: 37 for the first and 38 for the second.

It was labeled one of the finest war films ever made and earned Spielberg his second Academy Award for direction, and Hanks another Best Actor nomination.

John Hanks Alexander ( 6 January 1864 – 26 March 1894 ) was the first African American officer in the United States armed forces to hold a regular command position and the second African American graduate of the United States Military Academy.

Ganz's second film outing, Splash, launched the careers of Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah and earned Ganz a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Writing ( Original Screenplay ).

By the mark Flaherty took over the lead followed by Freeland, Sweikert, and Parsons but Hanks was working his way through the fields after sustaining some damage in the Russo crash, eventually taking second.

Hanks became only the second person in Oscar history to accomplish the feat of winning consecutive awards in the Best Actor category, the first being Spencer Tracy.

The party progress forward, meeting up with the second lifeboat containing Preston ( Colin Hanks ), Jimmy ( Jamie Bell ) and Lumpy ( Andy Serkis ), although it cannot land because of the strong current of the sea.

Demme followed that up with Philadelphia, which garnered star Tom Hanks a Best Actor Oscar.

Hanks was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 73rd Academy Awards for his critically acclaimed performance.

Big was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Tom Hanks ) and Best Writing, Original Screenplay.

It lost out to The Piano for Best Original Screenplay while the song " A Wink and a Smile " lost out to " Streets of Philadelphia " ( another Tom Hanks movie ) for Best Original Song.

The film was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards: one for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy ( Tom Hanks ) another for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy ( Meg Ryan ) and a third for Best Breakthrough Performance ( Ross Malinger ).

After a series of roles in television and film during the 1990s, including a small part in Forrest Gump playing Tom Hanks ' title character ’ s son, Osment rose to fame with his performance as Cole Sear in M. Night Shyamalan's thriller film, The Sixth Sense, which earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Hanks and Allen were both nominated for another award, this time an MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo.

By his own reckoning, Parkinson interviewed over 2000 of the world's most famous people, including: Muhammad Ali, Bing Crosby, George Best, Bob Hope, Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Redford, Tina Turner, Jennifer Lopez, Tom Hanks, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Daniel Craig, Liberace, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, Orson Welles, Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Bette Midler, Celine Dion, Racquel Welch, Oliver Reed,

Michael Caine was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy but lost to Tom Hanks in Big.

Actor Tom Hanks will be playing Disney in the upcoming film Saving Mr. Banks.

* Wallner, Rosemary, ( 1994 ), Tom Hanks: Academy Award-Winning Actor, Edina: Minnesota

* Actor Tom Hanks had an apartment in Hell's Kitchen in the late 1970s / early 80s.

Actor Tom Hanks also made a donation.

Hanks, having started acting at Skyline High School, thanked his acting teacher Rawley T. Farnsworth in his speech at the Oscars for winning the Best Actor award.

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Hanks at Governor's Ball party after 61st Academy Awards, March 29, 1989

In August 2005, Hanks was voted in as vice president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The Academy Award-winning Forrest Gump ( 1994 ) depended heavily on computerized special effects to create the illusion of Tom Hanks shaking hands with Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and to make Gary Sinise convincingly appear to be a double amputee, winning a special-effects Oscar.

( After presenting Harryhausen with a special Academy Award, actor Tom Hanks told the audience, " Some people say Casablanca or Citizen Kane ... I say Jason and the Argonauts is the greatest film ever made!

During the 1980s and early 90s, those of Harryhausen's growing legion of fans who had graduated into the professional film industry, started lobbying the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to acknowledge Harryhausen's contribution to the film industry and he was finally awarded a Gordon E. Sawyer Award for " technological contributions have brought credit to the industry " in 1992, with Tom Hanks as the Master of Ceremonies and Bradbury, a friend from when they were both just out of high school, presenting the award.

* Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks ( born 9 July 1956 ) attended the Church of the Nazarene while living with an aunt as a teenager ;

Academy Awards Ceremony ( 1996 ) for Tom Hanks tribute

He was not the only black student in the academy, ( John Hanks Alexander entered West Point Military Academy in 1883 and graduated in 1887, Alexander and Young shared a room for three years at West Point ).