American actor and film producer (born 1956)
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The face that made America trust a movie star again: two Oscars before forty, then three decades of holding the center without a scandal or a flop that mattered.
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born July 9, 1956, and broke through as a co-lead on the ABC sitcom Bosom Buddies in 1980. He rose through eighties comedies—Splash in 1984, Big in 1988—before the turn: back-to-back Best Actor Oscars for Philadelphia in 1993 and Forrest Gump in 1994. From there he split the difference between big Hollywood sentiment (Saving Private Ryan in 1998, Cast Away in 2000, five Spielberg features, Sheriff Woody across the Toy Story films) and a workmanlike appetite for prestige biopics—Captain Phillips, Sully, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Elvis. He directed twice, host…
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We live in a society where there is no law in making money in the promulgation of ignorance or, in some cases, stupidity. There are a lot of things you can say never happened.
Thank you. I'm standing here in lieu of my fellow nominees who are just as deserving, if not more so of this moment.
I'm empowered to stand here thanks to the ensemble of actors, men and women, who I shared the screen with and who in ways they will never understand made me a better actor.
And I am standing here because the woman I share my life with has taught me and demonstrates for me every day just what love is.
Man, I feel as though I'm standing on magic legs in a special effects process shot that is too unbelievable to imagine and far too costly to make a reality.
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