Tom Hanks and the Academy Awards: How many Oscars does he have?

Let’s take a look at how many Oscars Tom Hanks won and how many times he was nominated for Hollywood’s biggest award

Caitlin Ochs

Update: Feb 27th, 2025 19:00 EST

One of the greatest actors of all time. That’s how internet users called him in the voting on the Ranker portal just five years ago. Tom Hanks, the versatile actor who has grown up with us. If we think of the best movies of the last three decades, we have to think of Thomas Jeffrey Hanks.

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Born in Concord (California) in 1956, Hanks began his career in the entertainment world in the early 1980s with minor roles. His first big success came in 1984 with Ron Howard’s movie ‘Splash’. After several years of making different comedies, he premiered ‘Big’ in 1988, another one of his hits that brought him worldwide fame.

The pinnacle of his career: ‘Philadelphia’ and ‘Forrest Gump’

Hanks’ great moment would come in 1993 with ‘Philadelphia’, the first film that broke the AIDS taboo. A year later, another memorable film would arrive, ‘Forrest Gump’, directed by Robert Zemeckis. Since then and until now, Hanks has played a multitude of roles. Among them: ‘Saving Private Ryan’ (1998), ‘The Green Mile’ (1999), ‘Cast Away’ (2000), ‘Road to Perdition’ and ‘Catch Me If You Can’ (2002), ‘The Terminal’ (2004), ‘Captain Phillips’ and ‘Saving Mr. Banks’ (2013), ‘The Post’ (2017) or ‘News of the World’ (2020), among others.

He has also played Robert Langdon in the trilogy of films based on Dan Brown’s books and has voiced Woody in the ‘Toy Story’ movies. In addition, Hanks has an extensive career in the world of theater and has participated in various television series.

How many times has he been nominated and how many Oscars has he won?

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Regarding his nominations at the Oscars, Hanks has the privilege of being the last actor to have won two consecutive Best Actor awards: ‘Philadelphia’ and ‘Forrest Gump’. Since then, he has not experienced success at the Oscars again, although he has been nominated three more times for Best Actor: ‘Big’, ‘Saving Private Ryan’, and ‘Cast Away’. He has also been nominated for Best Supporting Actor for ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’.

In addition, Hanks has accumulated five Golden Globes (and six nominations), two Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as countless nominations and awards throughout his extensive and successful professional career.