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 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.

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.

After this success, director Sydney Pollack hired Cuarón to direct an episode of Fallen Angels, a series of neo-noir stories produced for the Showtime premium cable network in 1993 ; other directors who worked on the series included Steven Soderbergh, Jonathan Kaplan, Peter Bogdanovich, and Tom Hanks.

In a 1993 issue of Disney Adventures, Hanks said, " I saw Turner & Hooch the other day in the SAC store and couldn't help but be reminiscent.

This " modern era " began in 1993 for Hanks, first with Sleepless in Seattle and then with Philadelphia.

* Brenda Hanks ( February – May 1993 ( acting ); 1993 – 1997 )

* Brenda Hanks ( 1987 – 1993 )

Other films with scenes in Georgetown are The Man with One Red Shoe ( 1985, an early Tom Hanks film ), Chances Are ( 1989 ), Timecop ( 1994 ), True Lies ( 1994 ), Dave ( 1993 ), The Jackal ( 1997, private homes ), Enemy of the State ( 1998 ), Spy Games ( 2001 ), Dick ( 1999, C & O Canal ), Election ( 1999 ), Minority Report ( 2002 ), The Recruit ( 2003 ), The Girl Next Door ( 2004 ), Wedding Crashers ( 2005 ), and Transformers ( 2007 ).

This case became the basis for the 1993 Tom Hanks film Philadelphia.

* Nora Ephron's 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, was partly inspired by An Affair to Remember, particularly the ending.

Hanks is planning to produce a movie on Reed's life, which is also the subject of the documentaries American Rebel: The Dean Reed Story ( 1985 ), Dean Reed – Glamour und Protest ( 1993 ) and Der Rote Elvis ( The Red Elvis ) ( 2007 ).

The lobby of this building made an appearance in the 1993 film Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.

She followed this up with 1989 ’ s Uncle Buck with John Candy, ( which also starred Macaulay Culkin ) and then went on to star in This Is My Life ( 1992 ), Sleepless in Seattle ( 1993 ) with Tom Hanks and The Man Without a Face with Mel Gibson.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

( 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 ;

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.

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.

Academy Awards Ceremony ( 1996 ) for Tom Hanks tribute

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 ).

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 ).