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In case you are not aware, this is a new movie starring Tom Hanks, recounting the miraculous landing of Flight 1549 in the icy waters of the Hudson River on January 15, 2009. He has never retired from acting, and has remained active in the film industry for more than four decades.I went to see the movie, Sully, this weekend. A year later, he made his directing debut with the musical comedy That Thing You Do! (1996) about the rise and fall of a 1960s pop group, also playing the role of a music producer. Later that year, Hanks starred in Disney/Pixar's computer-animated film Toy Story (1995), as the voice of Sheriff Woody. The movie also earned nine Academy Award nominations, winning two. Critics generally applauded the film and the performances of the entire cast, which included actors Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, and Kathleen Quinlan. Hanks' next role - astronaut and commander Jim Lovell, in the docudrama Apollo 13 (1995) - reunited him with Ron Howard. I still do." 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. I got that from the movies a hundred million times when I was a kid. some hope for their lot and their position in life. Hanks remarked: "When I read the script for Gump, I saw it as one of those kind of grand, hopeful movies that the audience can go to and feel. Hanks followed Philadelphia with the blockbuster Forrest Gump (1994) which grossed a worldwide total of over $600 million at the box office. During his acceptance speech, he revealed that his high school drama teacher Rawley Farnsworth and former classmate John Gilkerson, two people with whom he was close, were gay. He is flat-out terrific, giving a deeply felt, carefully nuanced performance that deserves an Oscar." Hanks won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Philadelphia. In a review for People, Leah Rozen stated, "Above all, credit for Philadelphia's success belongs to Hanks, who makes sure that he plays a character, not a saint. Hanks lost 35 pounds and thinned his hair in order to appear sickly for the role. In Philadelphia, he played a gay lawyer with AIDS who sues his firm for discrimination. Richard Schickel of Time magazine called his performance "charming", and most critics agreed that Hanks' portrayal ensured him a place among the premier romantic-comedy stars of his generation. The former was a blockbuster success about a widower who finds true love over the radio airwaves. This "modern era" began for Hanks, first with Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and then with Philadelphia (1993). My work has become less pretentiously fake and over the top". because enough self-discovery has gone on. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Hanks noted his "modern era of movie making. Hanks has stated that his acting in earlier roles was not great, but that he subsequently improved. Hanks climbed back to the top again with his portrayal of a washed-up baseball legend turned manager in A League of Their Own (1992). For his performance in the film, Hanks earned his first Academy Award nomination as Best Actor. The broad success with the fantasy-comedy Big (1988) established him as a major Hollywood talent, both as a box office draw and within the film industry as an actor. After several flops and a moderate success with the comedy Dragnet (1987), Hanks' stature in the film industry rose. Instead, Hanks landed the lead role and the film went on to become a surprise box office success, grossing more than $69 million. Howard considered Hanks for the role of the main character's wisecracking brother, which eventually went to John Candy. Ron Howard was working on Splash (1984), a fantasy-comedy about a mermaid who falls in love with a business executive.
He went downtown, and auditioned for a community theater play, was invited by the director of that play to go to Cleveland, and there his acting career started. He has no acting experience in college and credits the fact that he could not get cast in a college play with actually starting his career. No problems, no alcoholism - just a confused childhood. He moved around a great deal after his parents' divorce, living with a succession of step-families. Tom grew up in what he has called a "fractured" family. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook.
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