The Big Picture: Tom Hanks Career & Biographical Notes: First actor to win back-to-back Best Actor Oscars since Spencer Tracy Parents were pioneers in the development of marriage-dissolution laws in California Guest appearance on Happy Days led to him reading for a role in Splash Dubbed the only actor worthy of $20 million salary by Entertainment Weekly Still owes Peter Scolari $25

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Tom Hanks Trivia Quizzes
at HowWellDoYouKnow.com:

• 1/15/10-1/21/10
• Apollo 13
• Big
• Burbs (version 2), The
• Burbs, The
• Catch Me If You Can
• Da Vinci Code, The
• Forrest Gump
• Green Mile, The
• Joe Vs The Volcano
• League Of Their Own, A
• Philadelphia
• Saving Private Ryan
• Sleepless in Seattle
• Splash
• Tom Hanks Trivia
• Toy Story
• Toy Story 2
• Toy Story 3
• You've Got Mail

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Recent Movies:

Film	Date	Rating	Screens	Opening	Total	Box Office
Toy Story 3	6/18/10	N/A
Toy Story/Toy Story 2 3-D	10/2/09	N/A
Angels & Demons	5/15/09	N/A
Charlie Wilson's War	12/21/07				60.47	Info
The Da Vinci Code	5/19/06	PG-13	3735	77.07	217.54	Info
The Polar Express	11/10/04	G	3650	23.32	162.75	Info
The Terminal	6/18/04	PG-13	2811	19.05	77.03	Info
The Ladykillers	3/26/04	R	1583	12.63	39.69	Info
Catch Me If You Can	12/25/02		3156	30.08	164.61	Info
Road to Perdition	7/12/02	R	1797	22.08	104.05	Info

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Awards:

2002
Road to Perdition

• Runner-Up: Best Actor - Drama, Golden Satellites

2000
Cast Away

• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Actor, Chicago Film Critics
• Win: Best Actor, New York Film Critics
• Win: Best Actor - Drama, Golden Globes
• Win: Best Actor, Online Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Screen Actors' Guild
• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Boston Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Las Vegas Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Actor, BOP's Calvin Awards

1998
Saving Private Ryan

• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Academy Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Screen Actors' Guild
• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Online Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Toronto Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Actor - Drama, Golden Globes

1994
Forrest Gump

• Win: Best Actor, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Actor, Screen Actors' Guild
• Win: Best Actor - Drama, Golden Globes
• Win: Best Actor, Chicago Film Critics

1993
Philadelphia

• Win: Best Actor, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Actor - Drama, Golden Globes

Sleepless in Seattle

• Runner-Up: Best Actor - Musical or Comedy, Golden Globes

1988
Big

• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Actor - Musical or Comedy, Golden Globes

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