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Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. Hanks is best known for his roles in Big, A League of Their Own, Sleepless in Seattle, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan, You've Got Mail, The Green Mile, Cast Away, Road to Perdition, Catch Me If You Can, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, as well as animated films like the Toy Story film series, The Polar Express, and The Simpsons Movie. He has earned and been nominated for numerous awards during his career, including winning a Golden Globe for Best Actor and an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Philadelphia and a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a People's Choice Award for Best Actor for his role in Forrest Gump, and earning the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film from the BAFTAs in 2004. Hanks is also known for his collaboration with film director Steven Spielberg on Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, and The Terminal, as well as the 2001 mini-series Band of Brothers, which launched Hanks also as a successful director, producer and writer. In 2010, Spielberg and Hanks were executive producers on the HBO mini-series The Pacific (a companion piece to Band of Brothers). Hanks's films include the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998); the dramas Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), and Cloud Atlas (2012); and the biographical dramas Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Captain Phillips (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Sully (2016), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), and News of the World (2020). He has also appeared as the title character in the Robert Langdon film series, and has voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series (1995–present).
Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor, producer, writer, and director.
Hanks is best known for his roles in Big, A League of Their Own, Sleepless in Seattle, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan, You've Got Mail, The Green Mile, Cast Away, Road to Perdition, Catch Me If You Can, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, as well as animated films like the Toy Story film series, The Polar Express, and The Simpsons Movie.
He has earned and been nominated for numerous awards during his career, including winning a Golden Globe for Best Actor and an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Philadelphia and a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a People's Choice Award for Best Actor for his role in Forrest Gump, and earning the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film from the BAFTAs in 2004.
Hanks is also known for his collaboration with film director Steven Spielberg on Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, and The Terminal, as well as the 2001 mini-series Band of Brothers, which launched Hanks also as a successful director, producer and writer. In 2010, Spielberg and Hanks were executive producers on the HBO mini-series The Pacific (a companion piece to Band of Brothers).
Hanks's films include the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998); the dramas Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), and Cloud Atlas (2012); and the biographical dramas Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Captain Phillips (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Sully (2016), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), and News of the World (2020). He has also appeared as the title character in the Robert Langdon film series, and has voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series (1995–present).
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Hanks's award record centres on consecutive triumphs: a Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Actor for Philadelphia, then a Golden Globe, Academy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and People's Choice Award for Forrest Gump, with the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film from the BAFTAs following in 2004. The filmography around those wins is the widest in this batch — romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998); dramas Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002) and Cloud Atlas (2012); biographical dramas from Charlie Wilson's War (2007) to News of the World (2020); the Robert Langdon film series beginning with The Da Vinci Code; and Sheriff Woody's voice across the Toy Story series from 1995. Behind the camera, the Spielberg collaboration — Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal, Band of Brothers (2001) and The Pacific (2010) — launched him as a successful director, producer and writer alongside the acting.
This page gathers Tom Hanks photos, videos, news and blog posts, with search routes to each through Bing, Google and YouTube. Hanks stands in the T letter of the male directory inside the Male Fashion Celebrities Q-Z range, alongside Tiger Woods, Tobey Maguire and Tom Cruise. A fashion celebrity in this guide is a person with celebrity status who is often watched and judged for what they wear, and Hanks is the everyman end of that watching: decades of ordinary American dress on screen, from Forrest Gump's bench clothes to the uniforms of Apollo 13 and Saving Private Ryan.
Hanks won a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Actor for Philadelphia, and a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a People's Choice Award for Best Actor for Forrest Gump.
Hanks has voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series (1995–present). His animated films also include The Polar Express and The Simpsons Movie.
Hanks is known for his collaboration with Steven Spielberg on Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can and The Terminal, as well as the 2001 mini-series Band of Brothers. In 2010, Spielberg and Hanks were executive producers on the HBO mini-series The Pacific.