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In 1998, Hanks, Ryan and Ephron again scored
a hit when they reunited for the romantic comedy “You’ve
Got Mail.” The following year, Hanks starred in Frank
Darabont’s acclaimed drama “The Green Mile,”
for which he shared in a SAG Award nomination for Outstanding
Cast Performance.
Hanks’ other film credits include starring
roles in “A League of Their Own,” “Turner &
Hooch,” “Punchline,” “Nothing in Common,”
“Volunteers,” “Bachelor Party” and “Splash.”
The actor also lent his voice to the computer animated blockbusters
“Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2.”
Hanks’ work on the big screen has also
translated to success on the small screen. Following his critically
acclaimed portrayal of astronaut Jim Lovell in Ron Howard’s
“Apollo 13,” Hanks executive produced and hosted
the acclaimed HBO miniseries “From the Earth to the Moon.”
He also directed one segment, and wrote or co-wrote several
others, in addition to appearing in one episode. Hanks’
work on the miniseries earned him Emmy, Golden Globe and Producers
Guild Awards for Outstanding Miniseries, as well as an Emmy
nomination for Best Director.
His collaboration with Steven Spielberg
on the World War II drama “Saving Private Ryan”
led to them teaming to executive produce the HBO miniseries
“Band of Brothers,” based on the book by Stephen
Ambrose. Hanks also directed a segment and wrote another segment
of the fact-based miniseries, which follows one group of paratroopers
from boot camp to D-Day to the end of World War II. The show
recently won both Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Miniseries.
In addition, Hanks won an Emmy Award for Best Director, earned
an Emmy nomination for Best Writing, and received another
Producers Guild Award for his work on the project.
In 1996, Hanks made his successful feature
film writing and directing debut with “That Thing You
Do,” in which he also starred. The film’s title
song received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Original
Song. This year, under his own Playtone banner, Hanks, together
with his wife, Rita Wilson, and partner, Gary Goetzman, produced
the smash hit romantic comedy “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.”
Budgeted at approximately $5 million, the film has to date
grossed more than $200 million at the domestic box office.
STEVEN SPIELBERG (Director/Producer)
has directed, produced, or executive produced eight of the
thirty top-grossing films of all time, including “Jurassic
Park” and “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.” Among
his myriad honors, he is a three-time Academy Award® winner,
earning two Oscars® for Best Director and Best Picture
for “Schindler’s List,” and a third Oscar®
for Best Director for “Saving Private Ryan.” He
has also received Academy Awardâ nominations for Best
Director for “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Raiders
of the Lost Ark” and “Close Encounters of the Third
Kind.”
Spielberg’s critically acclaimed World
War II drama “Saving Private Ryan,” starring Tom
Hanks, was the highest-grossing release (domestically) of
1998. The film also won five Oscars®, including the one
for Spielberg as Best Director, as well as two Golden Globe
Awards for Best Picture (Drama) and Best Director. In addition,
Spielberg was recognized by his peers with a Directors Guild
of America (DGA) Award, and shared with the film’s other
producers in the Producers Guild of America (PGA) Award. That
year, the PGA also presented Spielberg with the prestigious
Milestone Award for his historic contribution to the motion
picture industry.
“Saving Private Ryan” also won
Best Picture honors from the New York, Los Angeles, Chicago,
Toronto, British and Broadcast Film Critics Associations,
with the Los Angeles, Toronto and Broadcast Film Critics also
naming Spielberg Best Director.
On the heels of “Saving Private Ryan,”
Spielberg and Hanks executive produced the miniseries “Band
of Brothers” for HBO and DreamWorks Television. Based
on the book of the same name by the late Stephen Ambrose,
the fact-based World War II project recently won both Emmy
and Golden Globe Awards for Best Miniseries.
In 1994, Spielberg’s internationally
lauded “Schindler’s List” was the year’s
most honored film, receiving a total of seven Oscarsâ,
including the aforementioned nods for Best Picture and Best
Director. The film also collected Best Picture honors from
many of the major critics organizations, in addition to seven
BAFTA Awards, including two for Spielberg. He also won the
Golden Globe Award and received his second DGA Award.
Spielberg won his first DGA Award for his
work on “The Color Purple” and earned DGA Award
nominations for “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Raiders
of the Lost Ark,” “Close Encounters of the Third
Kind,” “Empire of the Sun,” “Jaws”
and “Amistad.” With nine in all, Spielberg has received
more DGA Award nominations than any director in history, and,
in 2000, he received the DGA’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
He is also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award
from the American Film Institute and the prestigious Irving
G. Thalberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Spielberg was
raised in the suburbs of Haddonfield, New Jersey and Scottsdale,
Arizona. He started making amateur films while still in his
teens, later studying film at California State University,
Long Beach. In 1969, his 22-minute short “Amblin”
was shown at the Atlanta Film Festival, which led to a deal
with Universal, making him the youngest director ever to be
signed to a long-term deal with a major Hollywood studio.
Four years later, he directed the suspenseful
telefilm “Duel,” which garnered both critical and
audience attention. He made his feature film directorial debut
on “The Sugarland Express” from a screenplay he
co-wrote. His other earlier film credits as director include
“Always,” “Hook,” and the “Raiders
of the Lost Ark” sequels “Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom” and “Indiana Jones and the Last
Crusade.”
Spielberg’s more recent films include the futuristic
thriller “Minority Report,” starring Tom Cruise,
and he also wrote, directed and produced “A.I. Artificial
Intelligence,” which was realized from the vision of
the late Stanley Kubrick. In 2000, Spielberg won the Stanley
Kubrick Brittania Award for Excellence in Film, presented
by BAFTA - Los Angeles.
In 1984, Spielberg formed his own production
company, Amblin Entertainment. Under the Amblin banner, he
has served as producer or executive producer on more than
a dozen films, including such successes as “Gremlins,”
“The Goonies,” “Back to the Future I, II, and
III,” “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” “An American
Tail,” “The Land Before Time,” “The Flintstones,”
“Casper,” “Twister,” “The Mask of
Zorro,” “Men in Black” and “Men in Black
II.” Amblin Entertainment also produces the hit series
“ER” with Warner Bros. TV.
In October 1994, Spielberg partnered with
Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen to form the new studio
DreamWorks SKG. Since then, the studio’s successes have
included three consecutive Best Picture Oscars® for “American
Beauty,” “Gladiator” and “A Beautiful
Mind,” the latter two in partnership with Universal.
Spielberg has also devoted his time and
resources to many philanthropic causes. The impact of his
experience making “Schindler’s List” led him
to establish the Righteous Persons Foundation using all his
profits from the film. He also founded Survivors of the Shoah
Visual History Foundation, which has recorded more than 50,000
Holocaust survivor testimonies. In addition, Spielberg executive
produced “The Last Days,” the Shoah Foundation’s
third documentary, which won the Academy Award® for Best
Documentary Feature. He is also the chairman of the Starbright
Foundation, which combines the efforts of pediatric health
care, technology and entertainment to empower seriously ill
children.
Release: 31 Jan 2003
Certificate: tbc
Running Time: 140 mins
Distributor: UIP
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