The MDFO series has returned! And what better way to do so than to look at one of the best films of the ‘90s, “Forrest Gump,” is a movie that everyone knows at this point. This week we will look at one of the six Oscars that this film took home at the 1995 Academy Awards.
To begin, lets look at what other actors were up against Tom Hanks in the Best Actor in a Leading Role category. We have Morgan Freeman, in what is widely considered one of the best movies of all time, “The Shawshank Redemption,” Nigel Hawthorne in, “The Madness of King George”, Paul Newman in, “Nobody’s Fool” and finally John Travolta for, “Pulp Fiction”. This was a group of actors that offered up very stiff competition. However, the performance that Hanks put forth in “Forrest Gump” is, in my personal opinion, up there among the best.
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