FrameThrower · Actors · Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks
24 films · 2,054 frames · top-billed in 23 · 1994–2025
Born 9 July 1956 · Concord, California, USA
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, Hanks is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is widely regarded as an American cultural icon.
Hanks made his breakthrough with leading roles in the comedies Splash (1984) and Big (1988). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for starring as a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and a young man with below-average IQ in Forrest Gump (1994).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 24 films · 2,054 frames · top-billed in 23 · 1994–2025
- Academy Award for Best Actor1995
- Academy Award for Best Actor1994
- Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award2020
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama2001
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama1995
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama1994
- Golden Globe Awards1989
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy1989
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture1996
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role1995
- Silver Bear1994
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie
How their films are shot
Measured across 2,054 frames from the 24 films we hold. This is the look of the work Tom takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 24 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day — the look of the work Tom takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
John Candy: I Like Me
2025 · Self - Actor, Splash
Asteroid City
2023 · Stanley Zak
Pinocchio
2022 · Geppetto
Elvis
2022 · Colonel Tom Parker
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
2020 · Self
Toy Story 4
2019 · Woody (voice)
The Post
2017 · Ben Bradlee
The Circle
2017 · Eamon Bailey
Bridge of Spies
2015 · James B. Donovan
Captain Phillips
2013 · Captain Richard Phillips
Cloud Atlas
2012 · Dr. Henry Goose / Hotel Manager / Isaac Sachs / Dermot Hoggins / Cavendish Look-a-Like Actor / Zachry
Toy Story 3
2010 · Woody (voice)
Angels & Demons
2009 · Robert Langdon
The Ladykillers
2004 · Professor G.H. Dorr
The Terminal
2004 · Viktor Navorski
Catch Me If You Can
2002 · Carl Hanratty
Road To Perdition
2002 · Michael Sullivan
The Green Mile
1999 · Paul Edgecomb
Saving Private Ryan
1998 · Captain Miller
You've Got Mail
1998 · Joe Fox
Forrest Gump
1994 · Forrest Gump
A Hologram for the King
· Alan Clay
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
· Fred Rogers
The Phoenician Scheme
2025 · Leland
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Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
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