Basic Information About Tom Hanks
| Category | Celebrities › Actors |
|---|---|
| Professions | Film Producer, Screenwriter, Television producer, Television Director, Actor, Voice Actor, Film director, Motivational speaker |
| Net worth | $400,000,000 |
| Date of birth | 1956-07-09 (68 years old) |
| Place of birth | Concord |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Curiosities and Trademarks | Frequently plays ordinary characters in extraordinary situations Likable, mild-mannered and good-natured personality Frequently works with Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg, and Ron Howard |
| Spouse | Rita Wilson - (30 April 1988 - present) (2 children) Samantha Lewes - (24 January 1978 - 19 March 1987) (divorced) (2 children) |
| Gender | Male |
| Height | 6 ft (1.83 m) |
| Social Media | ↗︎ Wikipedia ↗︎ IMDb |
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What Movie Awards did Tom Hanks win?
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Tom Hanks awards
| Award Name | State | Movie / Series Name | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Movies for Grownups Award - Best Actor | Nominee | News of the World | 2021 |
| WFCC Award - Best Screen Couple | Nominee | News of the World | 2021 |
| Actor - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role | Nominee | Saving Private Ryan | 1999 |
| Blockbuster Entertainment Award - Favorite Actor - Drama | Winner | Saving Private Ryan | 1999 |
| Blimp Award - Favorite Movie Actor | Nominee | Apollo 13 | 1996 |
| People's Choice Award - Favorite Drama Movie Star | Nominee | Greyhound | 2020 |
| Días de Cine Award - Best Foreign Actor | Nominee | Cloud Atlas | 2014 |
| EDA Award - Best Actor | Nominee | Sully | 2017 |
| COFCA Award - Best Actor | Nominee | Sully | 2017 |
| DFWFCA Award - Best Actor | Nominee | Sully | 2016 |
| DFCS Award - Best Actor | Nominee | Sully | 2017 |
| GAFCA Award - Best Actor | Nominee | Sully | 2017 |
| Hollywood Film Award - Actor of the Year | Winner | Sully | 2016 |
| IFJA Award - Best Actor | Nominee | Sully | 2016 |
| Icon Award - | Winner | Sully | 2017 |
| PFCS Award - Best Actor in a Leading Role | Nominee | Sully | 2016 |
| SFFCC Award - Best Actor | Nominee | Sully | 2016 |
| Satellite Award - Best Actor in a Motion Picture | Nominee | Sully | 2017 |
| SLFCA Award - Best Actor | Nominee | Sully | 2016 |
| VVFP Award - Best Actor | Nominee | Sully | 2016 |
| MTV Movie Award - Best On-Screen Duo | Nominee | Toy Story | 1996 |
| Stinker Award - Worst On-Screen Hairstyle | Winner | The Da Vinci Code | 2006 |
| Yoga Award - Worst Foreign Actor | Winner | The Da Vinci Code | 2007 |
| American Comedy Award - Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | Nominee | That Thing You Do! | 1997 |
| HFCS Award - Best Actor | Nominee | The Post | 2018 |
| Actor - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role | Winner | Forrest Gump | 1995 |
| Felix - Best Actor | Winner | Forrest Gump | 2015 |
| American Comedy Award - Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) | Winner | Forrest Gump | 1995 |
| ACCA - Best Actor in a Leading Role | Winner | Forrest Gump | 1994 |
| CFCA Award - Best Actor | Winner | Forrest Gump | 1995 |
| DFWFCA Award - Best Actor | Winner | Forrest Gump | 1995 |
| David - Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero) | Nominee | Forrest Gump | 1995 |
| Audience Award - Best Actor | Winner | Forrest Gump | 1994 |
| Jupiter Award - Best International Actor | Winner | Forrest Gump | 1994 |
| KCFCC Award - Best Actor | Winner | Forrest Gump | 1994 |
| SEFCA Award - Best Actor | Winner | Forrest Gump | 1995 |
| Blockbuster Entertainment Award - Favorite Actor - Drama | Winner | The Green Mile | 2000 |
| American Comedy Award - Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | Winner | A League of Their Own | 1993 |
| Jupiter Award - Best International Actor | Nominee | The Terminal | 2005 |
| MTV Movie Award - Best On-Screen Duo | Nominee | Toy Story 2 | 2000 |
| Oscar - Best Actor in a Leading Role | Nominee | Big | 1989 |
| Saturn Award - Best Actor | Winner | Big | 1990 |
| American Comedy Award - Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) | Winner | Big | 1989 |
| Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical | Winner | Big | 1989 |
| LAFCA Award - Best Actor | Winner | Big | 1988 |
| NYFCC Award - Best Actor | Nominee | Big | 1988 |
| Oscar - Best Actor in a Leading Role | Nominee | Cast Away | 2001 |
| BAFTA Film Award - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role | Nominee | Cast Away | 2001 |
| Actor - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role | Nominee | Cast Away | 2001 |
| ACCA - Best Actor in a Leading Role | Nominee | Cast Away | 2000 |
Tom Hanks roles
| Movie / Series | Role |
|---|---|
| Saving Private Ryan | Captain Miller |
| News of the World | Captain Kidd |
| Apollo 13 | Jim Lovell |
| Cars | Woody Car (voice) |
| Cloud Atlas | Dr. Henry Goose / Hotel Manager / Isaac Sachs / Dermot Hoggins / Cavendish Look-a-Like Actor / Zachry |
| Greyhound | Writer |
| Greyhound | Captain Krause |
| Sully | Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger |
| Toy Story | Woody (voice) |
| Toy Story 3 | Woody (voice) |
| Toy Story 4 | Woody (voice) |
| Toy Story 2 | Woody (voice) |
| The Da Vinci Code | Robert Langdon |
| Inferno | Robert Langdon |
| Angels & Demons | Robert Langdon |
| That Thing You Do! | Director |
| That Thing You Do! | Writer |
| That Thing You Do! | Mr. White |
| The Post | Ben Bradlee |
| Sleepless in Seattle | Sam Baldwin |
| Splash | Allen Bauer |
| The Green Mile | Paul Edgecomb |
| Bridge of Spies | James B. Donovan |
| Forrest Gump | Forrest Gump |
| Road to Perdition | Michael Sullivan |
| A League of Their Own | Jimmy Dugan |
| The Queen | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Larry Crowne | Director |
| Larry Crowne | Writer |
| Larry Crowne | Larry Crowne |
| Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | Tom Hanks |
| Catch Me If You Can | Carl Hanratty |
| Philadelphia | Andrew Beckett |
| Cast Away | Chuck Noland |
| Big | Josh |
| The Circle | Bailey |
| You've Got Mail | Joe Fox |
| Captain Phillips | Captain Richard Phillips |
| A Hologram for the King | Alan |
| The 'Burbs | Ray Peterson |
| A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Fred Rogers |
| Bachelor Party | Rick Gassko |
| The Simpsons Movie | Tom Hanks (voice) |
| Saving Mr. Banks | Walt Disney |
| The Ladykillers | Professor G.H. Dorr |
| The Money Pit | Walter Fielding |
| Charlie Wilson's War | Charlie Wilson |
| The Polar Express | Hero Boy / Father / Conductor / Hobo / Scrooge / Santa Claus (voice) |
| Turner & Hooch | Scott Turner |
| Io sono l'amore | Andrew Beckett (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Tom Hanks's Movie/Shows Salary
| Movie / Series | Salary |
|---|---|
| He Knows You're Alone (1980) | $800 |
| Splash (1984) | $70,000 |
| Big (1988) | $1,750,000 |
| Punchline (1988) | $5,000,000 |
| The 'Burbs (1989) | $3,500,000 |
| The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) | $5,000,000 |
| Forrest Gump (1994) | $70,000,000 (gross and profit participations) |
| Toy Story (1995) | $50,000 |
| Saving Private Ryan (1998) | $40,000,000 + (gross and profit participations) |
| You've Got Mail (1998) | $20,000,000 |
| Toy Story 2 (1999) | $5,000,000 |
| The Green Mile (1999) | $20,000,000 |
| Cast Away (2000) | $20,000,000 |
| The Da Vinci Code (2006) | $18,000,000 + profit participation |
| Angels & Demons (2009) | $50 000 000 |
| Toy Story 3 (2010) | $15,000,000 |
Tom Hanks's Quotes
- It's just as hard staying happily married as it is doing movies.
- I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.
- [on the CGI used in The Polar Express (2004)] It's the same stuff they used in that fourth Lord of the Rings movie. Or was it the 19th Lord of the Rings movie? You know, the one where Boldo and Jingy travel across the bridge? I don't know, I don't know their names. When I watch Lord of the Rings, I just think, "Someone got their finger stuck on the word processor for too long".
- If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then everyday's going to be okay.
- I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly. So appearances can be deceptive, particularly in Hollywood.
Tom Hanks's photos
Interesting Facts about Tom Hanks
- Is a frequent guest host on Saturday Night Live (1975). One of his best-known characters on said show, "Mr. Short-Term Memory", is named after him: Hanks uses his real-life middle name, Jeffrey, as the character (Jeff Morrow)'s first name.
- Received the Distinguished Public Service Award, the United States Navy's highest civilian honor, on Veterans Day 1999 for his work in the epic Saving Private Ryan (1998).
- Entertainment Weekly chose him as the only actor worthy of $20 million.
- Dislocated his shoulder when he fell through a rotting floor in a building in Germany while scouting locations with Steven Spielberg for the HBO series Band of Brothers (2001) (1999).
- Second actor to win back-to-back Best Actor Oscars, for his work in Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994). The first was Spencer Tracy, for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938).
- Ranked #17 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list (October 1997).
- Attended Skyline High School in Oakland, California.
- Attended Chabot College in Hayward, California.
- Attended California State University, Sacramento.
- Voted best actor by the readers of Us magazine (1995).
- Younger brother of Sandra Hanks and Larry Hanks and older brother of Jim Hanks.
- After a one-shot guest appearance on Happy Days (1974), producer Ron Howard asked him to read for a secondary role in Splash (1984), and he got the lead role instead.
- Married his first wife Samantha Lewes (real name: Susan Dillingham) two months after their son Colin's birth.
- Hanks cited the help of a nearby ice cream shop which helped him gain 30 pounds for his role in A League of Their Own (1992).
- Received emergency treatment for serious staph infection in leg after returning from overseas location shoot (1999).
- Was asked to play the title role in Jerry Maguire (1996), which eventually went to Tom Cruise.
- His Oscar acceptance speech for Philadelphia (1993) led to the plot of the movie In & Out (1997). Hanks thanked a gay teacher in his speech.
- Has another brother who is a professor at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
- Received American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, presented by fellow Oscar winner Steven Spielberg, the youngest ever to receive that award (12 June 2002).
- Returned to his old high school, Skyline High School in Oakland, California, to dedicate a renovated theater named for Rawley T. Farnsworth, the retired drama teacher he thanked in his Philadelphia (1993) Oscar speech. Oakland Tribune reports Hanks donated about 1/4 of the $465,000 cost of the project. Then he led the audience of some 1000 people in a chorus of "There's No Business Like Show Business" (6 March 2002).
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