Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks-5-1024x767Hanks his next film role was as an astronaut and commanding officer Jim Lovell in the 1995 docudrama Apollo 13. This reunited Hanks with Ron Howard. The film was widely lauded by critics, as were the performance of the entire group (which included Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise and Ed Harris) as well as Kathleen Quinlan. The film earned nine Academy Award nominations and won two. Later that year, Hanks starred in Disney/Pixar's computer-animated film Toy Story (1995), as the voice of Sheriff Woody. A year later the director made his debut in the musical comedy That Thing You Do! (1996) about the rise and fall of a music group from the 1960s. Hanks also played the role of a music producer. Time magazine's Richard Schickel described his performance as "charming" and most critics agreed that Hanks' portrayal was a worthy inclusion in the best romantic-comedy actors of the time.

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