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Hanks Nabs AFI's Top Honor
The two-time Oscar winner--who at 45 remains one of Hollywood's most popular and honored actors--added yet another trophy to his ever-expanding collection Wednesday night as he became the youngest recipient to receive the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award for his two-plus decades of work on the big screen.
Among those turning up to praise Hanks at Tinseltown's Kodak Theater, the new venue for the Academy Awards, were many friends and colleagues from past films, including Meg Ryan, Ron Howard, Denzel Washington, Helen Hunt, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin, Tim Allen, Gary Sinise, Nora Ephron, Penny Marshall, Charlize Theron and Jon Lovitz.
Longtime pal Steven Spielberg, who was called upon to bestow the honor, saluted the actor for his performance on the director's stirring World War II epic, Saving Private Ryan.
"I laid the film at Tom Hanks' feet and he picked it up like a flag and carried it into America," Spielberg said before handing over the trophy.
Upon accepting the award--the highest honor given for a career in film--Hanks thanked the audience, which also included beaming wife Rita Wilson and members of his family, and spoke humbly about what he felt was his small contribution to the history of cinema.
"What a great job to be hired to help interpret what can be great truths," he said. "If you're fortunate, you're part of cultural events more lasting and even more enlightening than anything else man has ever created. You get to make movies."
Hanks, who won back-to-back Oscars before the age of 40 for 1993's Philadelphia and 1994's Forrest Gump, has often been compared to Jimmy Stewart--a Hollywood everyman whose likeability, trustworthiness and humanity have transcended genres. Hanks has easily segued from sweet-natured fantasies (Big, Gump) to romantic comedies (Splash, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail), dramas (Apollo 13, The Green Mile, Cast Away) and even cartoons (Toy Story, Toy Story 2), with only a few missteps (Bonfire of the Vanities, Volunteers, The Man with One Red Shoe) along the way.
Hanks, however, doesn't plan on resting on his laurels too long. Next up for the actor is a dark turn as a hit man out to avenge the murder of his family in director Sam Mendes' 1930's gangster drama, The Road to Perdition, due out July 12.
Hanks is also expanding his résuméto include FBI agents, as he recently reteamed with Spielberg for the comic caper, Catch Me If You Can, in which he plays an FBI agent charged with tracking down the world's most elusive con artist (Leonardo DiCaprio). That movie is slated to hit theaters around the holidays.
Not bad for a man who got his big break playing a cross-dressing single guy on TV's Bosom Buddies.
Hanks is the 30th recipient of the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, joining the ranks of such Hollywood luminaries as good buddy Spielberg, Barbra Streisand (last year's winner), Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Harrison Ford, Elizabeth Taylor, Sidney Poitier, Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles.
Aside from his two Oscars, the actor recently picked up a People's Choice Award for Favorite Actor in January. He has also won a clutch of Golden Globes, an Emmy, an AFI Award, numerous accolades from various film festivals and critics associations and has a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
The Hanks tribute is slated to air on the USA Network June 24 at 9 p.m.
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