Forrest Gump (1994)

 

Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama movie directed with the aid of using Robert Zemeckis and written with the aid of using Eric Roth. It is primarily based totally at the 1986 novel the identical call with the aid of using Winston Groom and stars Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, and Sally Field.  The movie follows numerous many years withinside the lifestyles of a slow-witted and kindhearted Alabama guy named Forrest Gump (Hanks) and his reviews withinside the 20th-century United States.  The movie differs significantly from the novel.

Principal pictures happened between August and December 1993, specifically in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Extensive visible consequences have been used to comprise Hanks into archived pictures and to expand different scenes. The soundtrack functions as songs reflecting the special durations visible withinside the movie.

Forrest Gump turned into launched withinside the United States on July 6, 1994, and acquired essential popularity of Zemeckis's direction, performances (mainly the ones of Hanks and Sinise), visible consequences, music, and screenplay.  The movie turned into a big fulfillment at the container office; it have become the top-grossing movie in America launched that 12 months and earned over US$678.2 million international throughout its theatrical run, making it the second-highest-grossing movie of 1994, at the back of The Lion King. The soundtrack offered over 12 million copies. Forrest Gump gained six Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Hanks, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Visual Effects, and Best Film Editing. It acquired many award nominations, along with Golden Globes, British Academy Film Awards, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Various interpretations were fabricated from the protagonist and the movie's political symbolism. In 2011, the Library of Congress decided on the movie for maintenance withinside the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".