Tom Hanks, without a question, is one of Hollywood’s most cherished performers. His filmography spans many decades, and he has acted in a wide variety of films throughout his career. Here are all the Tom Hanks movie in order for you!
American actor and director Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born on July 9, 1956. He has played severe and humorous parts, making him one of the most famous actors in the world and a symbol of American popular culture. Hanks is the fourth highest-grossing actor in the United States and Canada, with his films earning over $4.9 billion in North America and over $9.96 billion worldwide.
- Hanks rose to fame after starring in a string of critically acclaimed comedies, including Splash (1984), The Money Pit (1986), Big (1988), and A League of Their Own (1989).
- He starred as a homosexual lawyer with AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994), earning him Academy Award nominations for Best Actor.
- Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017) all featured Hanks in directing, producing, or writing capacities, as did the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) and The Pacific (2010).
- Hanks has also starred in the comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993), You’ve Got Mail (1998), Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), Cloud Atlas (2012).
- His biopics include 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 (2022). Hanks has also portrayed Robert Langdon in a film series and provided the voice of Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story films (1995–present).
Hanks has been nominated for six Oscars, and he has won two. Hanks has been nominated for six Oscars and won two, along with Primetime Emmy Awards and Golden Globe awards. Acting in Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy earned him a 2013 Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play. In 2002, he was honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award. In 2002, he was honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award. In 2016 he was also given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama and the Legion of Honor by the French government.
With a scenario by Bruce Jay Friedman and producer Brian Grazer and screenplay by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, and Bruce Jay Friedman, and starring Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, and Eugene Levy, Splash is an American fantasy romantic comedy film released in 1984 and directed by Ron Howard. The story centers on a young man’s love for a strange lady who turns out to be a mermaid. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Tom Hanks plays Josh Baskin, a little child whose yearning to be “large” causes him to grow into an adult, in Big, a fantasy comedy-drama film released in 1988 and directed by Penny Marshall. Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg wrote the screenplay, and the picture also has performances by Elizabeth Perkins, David Moscow, John Heard, and Robert Loggia. Gracie Films produced it, while 20th Century Fox handled its distribution.
American buddy cop comedy film Turner & Hooch, released in 1989, stars Tom Hanks and Beasley the dog as the two leads. Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, and Reginald VelJohnson also feature in the film. Roger Spottiswoode directed the film, and Daniel Petrie Jr., who also co-wrote the script and acted as an executive producer, was responsible for its creation. As a result of the film’s popularity, a television movie sequel and a legacy sequel television series were created. The purchase price of $1 million for the Turner & Hooch screenplay by Touchstone Pictures was an all-time high for a script acquisition.
American director John Patrick Shanley helmed this romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in 1990. After learning that he has a rare ailment and has just a few months to live, Tom Hanks’ character takes a lucrative offer to visit a South Pacific island and sacrifice himself to the volcano on behalf of the island’s superstitious residents. He falls in love with the lady bringing him there along the road.
Based on the true story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the 1992 American sports comedy-drama film A League of Their Own was directed by Penny Marshall (AAGPBL). Starring Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna, Lori Petty, Rosie O’Donnell, Jon Lovitz, David Strathairn, Garry Marshall, and Bill Pullman, the picture also features a host of other A-list actors. The film A League of Their Own was well received by audiences and critics alike, earning over $132.4 million worldwide and earning praise for director Penny Marshall and the performances of the film’s ensemble cast.
Moviegoers in the United States of America may see Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington in Philadelphia, a 1993 courtroom drama film written by Ron Nyswaner and directed by Jonathan Demme. Shot in the city of the same name, it follows the narrative of Andrew Beckett (Hanks), a homosexual man who hires attorney Joe Miller (Washington) to represent him in a lawsuit against the company that dismissed him upon learning of his AIDS diagnosis. It was the ninth highest-grossing picture of 1993, earning $206.7 million globally.
7. That Thing You Do! (1996)
Tom Hanks debuted his directing and writing with the 1996 American comedy That Thing You Do!, in which he also co-starred. Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Johnathon Schaech, Steve Zahn, Ethan Embry, and Charlize Theron feature in this drama about the development and demise of a fictional 1960s musical band. The film’s title song became a musical sensation and was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe as the best original song.
American director Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Robert Rodat’s Saving Private Ryan is an epic military film released in 1998. Set in World War II’s Normandy region, the film is infamous for its gruesome depiction of the battle, particularly the Omaha Beach assault during the Normandy landings. Paratrooper Private First Class James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon) is the lone surviving brother of four; the film follows Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks) and his squad (Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Adam Goldberg, and Jeremy Davies) as they hunt for him.
Robert Zemeckis directed and produced the American survival drama film Cast Away (2000), which starred Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. The narrative centers on Hanks’ character, a FedEx troubleshooter who becomes stranded on a barren island in the South Pacific when his aircraft crashes. With its $429 million global total, Cast Away was the year’s third highest-earning picture.
Catch Me If You Can is a biographical criminal comedy-drama from 2002 directed by Steven Spielberg and starred in by Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye, Amy Adams, and James Brolin. Based on Frank Abagnale’s “autobiography,” in which he claims to have pulled off millions of dollars in scams while impersonating a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor, and a Louisiana parish prosecutor before he was 19, the script was written by Jeff Nathanson. His story might well be false.
Based on Dan Brown’s 2000 book of the same name, Angels & Demons is a 2009 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman and David Koepp. Also directed by Ron Howard, it follows his 2006 blockbuster The Da Vinci Code and the second film in the Robert Langdon trilogy. Tom Hanks returns to play Professor Robert Langdon. At the same time, Ayelet Zurer takes on the role of Dr. Vittoria Vetra, a CERN scientist who teams up with Langdon to track down a lost vial of antimatter and get it back from an unknown Illuminati terrorist. Akiva Goldsman, Brian Grazer, and Hans Zimmer return to produce and score, while David Koepp joins Goldsman to assist him in writing the screenplay.
Cloud Atlas, released in 2012, is an epic science fiction film co-directed by the Wachowski sisters and Tom Tykwer. The book, written by David Mitchell in 2004, inspired this multi-plot, multi-era, multi-cast production. A group of six people from various generations experience a roller coaster of emotions as they investigate the ripple effect of their choices on their loved ones in a world where everything is constantly changing. After a decades-long acting career, Hanks says this picture ranks among the most amazing moments of his life.
The biographical thriller Captain Phillips was released in 2013 and directed by Paul Greengrass of the United States. The film is based on the 2009 kidnapping of Maersk, Alabama, in which American commercial mariner Captain Richard Phillips was held prisoner by Somali pirates. Phillips is played by Tom Hanks, while Barkhad Abdi plays pirate chief Abduwali Muse.
Based on Tom Junod’s 1998 Esquire piece “Can You Say… Hero?,” the 2019 American biographical drama film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood was directed by Marielle Heller and written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster. Cynical writer Lloyd Vogel meets Fred Rogers, a warm and friendly TV host while researching a story on him. The film’s prominent cast members are Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Susan Kelechi Watson, and Chris Cooper.
15. Toy Story (1995-2019)
John Lasseter helmed the Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures’ computer-animated comedy picture Toy Story in 1995. From a plot by Lasseter, Stanton, Pete Docter, and Joe Ranft, the script was written by Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, and Alec Sokolow. The narrative of Toy Story revolves around the rivalry between an antique pull-string cowboy doll Woody and a cutting-edge space cadet action figure named Buzz Lightyear when Buzz is chosen as Andy’s favorite toy.
Q1. What was the last film Tom Hanks made?
Ans. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is the last film made by Tom Hanks in 2019.
Q2. What religion is Tom Hanks?
Ans. Although Catholicism and Mormonism ran in Hanks’ family, a journalist once described him as a “Bible-toting evangelical” during his adolescent years.
