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Narrator: Hollywood, that great maker of myths, taught straight people what to think about gays and gay people what to think about themselves.
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Harvey Fierstein: There are lots of needs for art and the greatest one is the mirror of our own lives and our own existence. And that hunger that I felt as a kid, looking for gay images, was to not be alone.
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks (Tom Hanks), born on July 9, 1956 in Concord, California, USA, is a Greek and American dual citizenship film and television actor
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Tom Hanks' acting career began with high school drama performances. In 1979, Hanks played a role in the movie " He Knows You're Alone " for the first time . In 1984, he starred in " Splash " and he became popular. In 1988, Hanks starred in " Big " and won the Oscar nomination for best actor. In 1993 and 1994, he starred in " The Philadelphia Story " and " Forrest Gump " respectively, and won two Oscars for Best Actor in a row. In 1995, Hanks began to voice Hudi, one of the protagonists of the " Toy Story " series. In 1996, he wrote, directed, and acted in the movie " That Thing You Do ". In 1998, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman founded the Playtone production company. In 1998, he participated in the film " Saving Private Ryan "
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. In October 2001, Tom Hanks received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. In 2010, his TV series " The Pacific " premiered on HBO. In 2011, his self-written, directed and acted "Larry Crowne" was released. In 2014, for his performance in " Captain Phillips " , he was once again nominated for the Best Actor in a Drama Series at the Golden Globe Awards. In 2020, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 77th Golden Globe Awards
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Early Experience
Tom Hanks was born in Concord, State of California , USA on July 9, 1956 , his full name is Thomas Jeffrey Hanks. Father Amos Hanks is a cook, and mother Jenna Turner works in the hospital. When he was 5 years old, his parents divorced and he was raised by his father who was a chef.
Since then, his father has been married twice, and Hanks has changed two mothers. Under the age of 10, he often experiences migration and drifting, frequently changing schools and changing addresses. It wasn't until he was studying at State of California University that he suddenly became interested in acting and joined the theater company organized by the school, thus getting in touch with professional knowledge training and acting training. After graduation, Hanks came to New York to seek the development of his acting career
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Performing Experience
In 1979, Hanks played a role for the first time in a low-cost film "He Knows You Are Alone", which was released in 1980. Soon, he moved to Los Angeles and starred in the TV series "Red Makeup Kid". At the same time, he also participated in some other TV shows, such as "Taxi", "Family Ties", "Maze and Monsters".
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In 1984, Hanks starred in the performance of " Splash " so that he began to embark on the road to fame.
In 1988, Hanks played the role of a 12-year-old boy who grew up into a 36-year-old man overnight in the starring " Big. " The best actor nomination for four awards
. After that, he starred in " The Bonfire of the Vanities ", " A League of Their Own " and " Sleepless in Seattle ".
In 1993, he starred in " The Philadelphia Story " directed by Jonathan Demi, which won an Oscar for Best Actor.
In 1994, Hanks' performance in the film " Forrest Gump " made Hanks once again won the Oscar for Best Actor, and became the second actor ever to win the Oscar for Best Actor for two consecutive years
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In 1995, he began to voice Hu Di, one of the protagonists of the " Toy Story " series
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In 1996, he wrote, directed and acted in the film " That Thing You Do "
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In 1998, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman established the Playtone production company, and successively brought to the audience " Band of Brothers ", " John Adams " and " The Pacific " through the HBO cable network
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In 1999, he participated in the film " Saving Private Ryan " directed by director Spielberg, as Captain Miller, and won the 71st Oscar nomination for best actor for his performance in the film
; the same year he starred in the film " "The Green Mile"
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In 2001, Tom Hanks received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute
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In 2006, " The DaVinci Code " starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard won $760 million in box office worldwide
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On May 15, 2009, his starring " Angels&Demons " was released in the United States and other places
. In August of the same year, Tom Hanks was elected as the vice chairman of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for a term of four years
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On March 14, 2010, his TV series " The Pacific " premiered on HBO
. On October 12th, Tom Hanks and his partner Gary Goetzman will receive the Norman Lier Achievement Award from the Producers Association of America (PGA)
. In the same year, he joined "The Land of Right and Wrong "
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In 2011, his self-written, directed and acted " Larry Crowne " was released
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On August 19, 2014, Tom Hanks developed an iPad application in the Apple iTunes App Store. The application was called Hanx Writer
. On the 27th, the starring movie "Hell" was moved to the screen, and Tom Hanks once again appeared as the protagonist. Robert Langdon
. In the same year, for his performance in " Captain Phillips " , he was once again nominated for the Best Actor in a Drama Series at the Golden Globe Awards
. And starred in the cold war theme spy war mystery film and " The Circle "
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On October 16, 2015, the starring Cold War movie " Bridge of Spies " was released in the United States
. In the same year, he joined the biographical film "Sally"
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On April 22, 2016, the starring movie " A Hologram for the King " was released in the United States
. On September 9, Tom Hanks starred in " Sully ", which was released
in North America . The box office for the first weekend was 35.5 million U.S. dollars and won the weekend box office championship
. October 28, starred in the movie " Inferno " simultaneous release in the United States and China, the film produced by the US Columbia Pictures, China Film Group Corporation introduced, China Film Co., Ltd. and Huaxia Film Distribution Co., Ltd. joint issue
. On November 25th, Tom Hanks was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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On January 19, 2017, Tom Hanks won the 43rd People’s Choice Award for Most Favorite Actor in a Dramatic Movie
. On April 28, the starring sci-fi thriller " The Circle " was released in the United States
; on October 24, Tom Hanks' first novel "Uncommon Type: Some Stories" was published
; November 29, with "The Post" Won the Best Actor Award at the 89th National Critics Association Awards
. In the same year, starred in the films " The Post ", "World News", " A Man Called Ove ", "Bios", "Grey Hound"
On January 30, 2018, starred in "You Are My Friend", as Mr. Rogers
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In September 2019, Tom Hanks will be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 77th Golden Globe Awards.
In the same year, he starred in the biopic of Elvis Presley, the unnamed "Elvis Presley"
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On July 20, 2020, Tom Hanks starring in the war movie "The Greyhound" was released in the United States. Tom played the greyhound commander Ernest Klaus in the film
. On December 25th, Tom Hanks starred in the Western movie. "World News" is released in the United States, Hanks plays a veteran in the film
In November 2021, starring in the sci-fi movie "Finch", playing the role of the robot engineer Finch
. In the same year, starred in Wes Anderson's new untitled film directed and written by Wes Anderson
Personal Life
Samantha Lewis is Hanks' college lover. In 1978, two months after their first son Colin Hanks was born, they married. In 1982, their second child, Elizabeth, was born. They broke up in 1985 and divorced in 1987. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson met in 1981 when they filmed the comedy " Sutomo ", and they married in 1988. In August 1990, the third child Chester Marlon was born. His fourth child, Truman Theodore, was born on October 26, 1995
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On March 12, 2020, Tom Hanks issued a statement on his social network authentication account stating that he and his wife Rita had tested positive for new coronary pneumonia in Australia. He said that observation and isolation will be conducted in accordance with the needs of public health and safety
. On March 17, Tom Hanks was discharged from the Gold Coast University Hospital in Queensland, and his wife Rita Wilson remained in the isolation ward for treatment
. On March 28, Tom Hanks and his wife have recovered and returned to their home in Los Angeles, USA from Australia
. On April 16, the Tom Hanks donated blood to a study to see if their antibodies could help the development of 2019-nCoV vaccine
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Hanks converted to Orthodox Church in Greece as early as 1988. His wife Rita Wilson is of Greek descent, and the couple owns the property on the Greek island. Hanks has made many films with Greece as the background, including " My Big Fat Greek Wedding " and " Mamma Mia! ".
In July 2020, Tom Hanks became a Greek citizen
. Tom Hanks was born in California, USA. Dual citizenship is not forbidden by US law, and there is no need to give up the US passport for naturalization in other countries.
Character Evaluation
Tom Hanks was born with thick curly hair, a broad forehead and plump cheeks, with a natural innocence. Hanks has a sense of humor in his performance, and he does dedicate his innocent and simple performance to the audience, especially his sensual nose, which is like an inverted exclamation mark. He never performs aggressively, nor does he make fun of himself hoarsely, but he knows how to shape the environment, and seems to easily turn himself into the same class as the ordinary people. In fact, he is constantly absorbing the recognition of the audience.
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