Tom Hanks - 'The Post'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2018

⏱️ 104 minutes

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One of the all-time most beloved and respected film actors reflects on his tumultuous childhood and becoming a dad at 21; why, in the years after 'Big' made him a star, he grew tired of playing "pussies," and how he managed a remarkable career reinvention capped by Oscars in back-to-back years; and what it was like making a period piece about obstacles faced by women in the workplace and journalists standing up to a hostile president at a time when those issues are front and center again. But first: Bob Gazzale, the president and CEO of the American Film Institute, joins Scott to discuss the organization's 50-year history, its "all-time 100 greatest" lists and its recent AFI Awards ceremony honoring 2017's top 10 films and top 10 TV shows, as determined by AFI juries. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg, recorded by Ryan Gabos and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 198th episode of Awards Chapp, the Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast. the time or any other. He has given unforgettable performances in more movies than just about
0:25.2	anyone else who has ever practiced his profession. 1984 Splash, 1988's big,
0:30.8	1992 is a League of their own, 1993, sleepless in Seattle and Philadelphia,
0:36.0	1994's Forrest Gump, 1995's Apollo 13, and Toy Story,
0:41.0	1998 Saving Private Ryan, and You've Got Mail, 1999's The Green Mile,
0:45.8	2000's Castaway, 2002's Catch Me If You Can, 2013's Captain Phillips, 2015's Bridge of Spies, 2016 Sully, and most recently as Ben Bradley, the
0:57.1	Washington Post's late editor-in-chief opposite Merrill Streep as the post late publisher
1:01.6	Catherine Graham in Stephen Spielberg's
1:03.9	terrific new drama about the Pentagon Papers, The Post. Over the course of
1:08.5	Hank's 38 years in the acting profession he has received five Oscar
1:12.0	nominations all for Best Actor for Big Philadelphia
1:15.4	Forrest Gump saving Private Ryan and Castaway for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump he became
1:21.0	the only person other than Spencer Tracy ever to win Best Actor Oscars in back-to-back years.
1:27.0	And yet, despite all of these accolades and his standing as his generations Jimmy Stewart,
1:32.0	the ideal American who everyone adores, I can't help but feel
1:35.5	that he remains underappreciated.
1:38.6	It's not uncommon for people to take for granted those they love, but it's also not right.
1:43.3	Hanks has been making the difficult look easy for so long that some just assume he's not
1:47.3	working very hard, but a closer examination of the complexity of the characters he takes on
1:52.0	and the performances he gives reveals a very
1:54.3	different picture. To be sure he has played more than a few ordinary men who, upon
1:58.8	being confronted with an extraordinary challenge, rise to the occasion, but each of them are very different and besides
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