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Friday, October 30, 2015 at 11:00AM 
Tom Hanks is giving way better performances recently (Captain Phillips, Bridge of Spies) than the ones he used to win Oscars for.
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My first Oscars were the '91 Oscars: Silence of the Lambs, Davis and Sarandon together in one category, the cornrows of Juliette! I was 13 and thought every Oscar winner must be carefully elected and completely deserving.
Those two Hanks wins, beginning just two ceremonies later, were the rug being pulled, a nudge toward the hard reality that voters can make mistakes, and not every Oscar means much of anything, that perhaps no Oscar means much of anything.
So, for the disillusionment I suffered at 15, and the hard lessons it taught, I thank thee, voters of Tom Hanks, for passing over Laurence Fishburne, Liam Neeson, Anthony Hopkins in Remains (!), Paul Newman and John Travolta.
You gotta love the Oscars in spite of their choices more often than you get to love them for them.
I agree, especially considering the films he won them for were dreck that have aged poorly.
Completely agree! I was just going off the other day about how this is the Golden Age of Tom Hanks and people weren't listening. I even thought he was really strong in Saving Mr. Banks.
Philadelphia, and especially Forrest Gump, actually got me to believe that I didn't like Tom Hanks, when he was doing great work in less Oscar-friendly movies (Joe vs. the Volcano, A League of Their Own..)
Why was wrong with the performances he gave in Forest Gump and Philadelphia? Curious to know. I think Captain Phillips could be his best acting to date.
Does this mean Hanks and Spielberg should anticipate third Oscars for acting and directing?
I agree but I think some of his earlier comedic work (specifically The Money Pit and Big) trump them both, as do his work in Apollo 13 and Cast Away.
He should have won for Cast Away and possibly Saving Private Ryan. He would have been a very worthy nominee for Captain Phillips.
I think the first Oscar was deserved. But the second? Newman was robbed, and actually, Hanks didn't even deserve to be nommed.
Sorry, can't agree on this one. I grew up watching his performances in both Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. Both movies have problems, but he's outstanding in both and I can definitely see why the Academy saw fit to reward him for both. I know it's not okay to like Forrest Gump around these parts, but you know what: I don't freaking care!!! There are individual moments in that film I always laugh at or are moved by. As for Philadelphia, yes, the opera scene always gets me and I feel Denzel Washington was ignored in it.
Having said that, I love the work he's been doing recently (even though I'm glad he didn't do an unnecessary accent on Bridge of Spies like he did in Captain Phillips, even though I still love him in that latter movie) although I don't think anything has trumped his work in Big (which was his first Oscar nomination and a worthy one, since he finds the truth in a performance that could have been way over the top and thankfully isn't)...
I don't think anyone can honestly believe Tom Hanks is a bad actor. The problem I have with him is that he's always the hero. Even in a role like Road to Perdition, one of his best and certainly awards-worthy, he's in "bad guys are people too" mode. I think he ever nailed a role where he was a straight-up villain, awards would fall at his feet. His timing and the complexity that he brings to his best performances tells me it's in him. Think a Gene Hackman in Unforgiven type role. Hanks would kill that.
Yes, agree they're better, BUT his recent work still doesn't prompt me to call him Best Living Actor (just like "Forrest Gump," Philadelphia," and "Saving Private Ryan" prompted half the world back in the 90s to call him exactly that).
FWIW, I think "Big," "A League of Their Own," and "Captain Phillips" are excellent turns. I remember loving him in "Cast Away" when I saw it back in 2000. They years, however, have soured it.
Am I crazy to think he was excellent even in the otherwise awful Saving Mr. Banks?
the final 10 minutes of Captain Phillips is heartbreaking because of how beautifully Hank's falls apart emotionally when being seen by the doctor. I've never see him do that depth and rawness, without histrionics. it was one of the most realistic portrayals of shock I've ever seen
Ian () --i agree 100%.
Cal -- no he was good in that one, too.
Sawyer -- i'm not sure i need him to do that, BUT i think maybe he could pull it off if he let his barriers of likability down.
Ryan: I'm not too mean on Forrest Gump (it's silly, ahistoric and probably shouldn't have WON, but is an understandable nominee in Picture and Actor, especially at the time), but Philadelphia? Whoo boy is that a festering trainwreck of a central turn, never really feeling like a human being.
Sawyer: Hanks as an out and out villain might actually be fun. Maybe Star-Lord's dad in GOTG 2? (Even in alien makeup, I'd get Tom Hanks as a dad to Chris Pratt from a looks standpoint way more than Matthew McConaughey. And yes, I know neither should be old enough from a literal standpoint, but this franchise involves aliens, after all, so accounting for alternate lifespans it can still make more sense than how they got away with it in old Hollywood films.)
"Sorry, can't agree on this one. I grew up watching his performances in both Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. Both movies have problems, but he's outstanding in both and I can definitely see why the Academy saw fit to reward him for both."
I agree. Both movies have issues but he is good in them.
He was incredible in Philadelphia, okay the performance from that film that should have won best actor that year was given by Denzel Washington , but still ...
Rami: See, I wouldn't even nominate Denzel for that work. I mean, he comes off more animated than Hanks, but it's just a 10th place performance. My Lead Actor ballot that year, ordered from best to worst, looks like:
Bruce Campbell
Liam Neeson
Al Pacino
Bill Murray
Harvey Keitel
(6-10, for clarity: Christian Slater, True Romance, Danny Elfman, A Nightmare Before Christmas, Leslie Cheung, Farewell My Concubine, Sam Neill, Jurassic Park, Denzel Washington, Philadelphia.)
I hope he's great in bridge. He WAS brilliant in Captain Phillips.
Sawyer and Nat - didn't he play a villain in The Ladykillers? I never saw it so I'm not certain, but I thought that was the hook of that movie.
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