Forrest Gump

This article is about the 1994 movie. For the book, see Forrest Gump (novel).

Forrest Gump
Directed by	Robert Zemeckis
Produced by	Wendy Finerman Steve Tisch Charles Newirth
Written by	Screenplay: Eric Roth Novel: Winston Groom
Starring	Tom Hanks Robin Wright Gary Sinise Mykelti Williamson Sally Field Haley Joel Osment
Music by	Alan Silvestri
Edited by	Arthur Schmidt
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	July 6, 1994
Running time	141 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$55,000,000
Box office	$677,387,716

Forrest Gump is a 1994 American epic comedy-drama romance movie. It is based on the 1986 book of the same name by Winston Groom. Forrest Gump is the main character of both the movie and book. The movie earned much money in theaters. It earned $677 million worldwide during its theatrical run. It earned more money than any other movie in North America that year. The movie was nominated for a total of 13 Academy Awards. It won six of these, including Best Picture, Best Visual Effects, Best Director (Robert Zemeckis), and Best Actor (Tom Hanks).

The movie is set in Alabama. It tells the story of a man with an IQ of 75 and his epic journey through life. It tells about him meeting historical people, affecting popular culture and being a part of historic events. While all this happened, Forrest does not know the importance of the events were because of his naiveté and much lower than average intelligence. There are many differences between the story in the movie and the story in the novel.

The movie won six Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Visual Effects, Film Editing and Adapted Screenplay. The film was nominated for an additional six Academy Awards, including Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Gary Sinise as Lieutenant Dan. The other nominations were for Best Cinematography, Art Direction, Sound Editing, Makeup, Original Score and Sound Mixing. At the Golden Globes the film won for Best Motion Picture in the Drama Category, Best Direction of a Motion Picture and Best performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture and was nominated for Best Original Score, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay. The movie has a 71 percent rating on the website Rotten Tomatoes with 40 positive and 16 negative reviews. The audience gave the film a rating of 4.1 out of 5 on the website with 93% of the audience liking the film.

Cast

• Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump
• Robin Wright as Jenny Curran
• Gary Sinise as Lieutenant Dan Taylor
• Mykelti Williamson as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue
• Sally Field as Mrs. Gump

Release dates

Country	Premiere
Mexico	23 June 1994
Canada	6 July 1994
United States	6 July 1994
Netherlands	22 September 1994
Spain	23 September 1994
	30 September 1994
Norway	30 September 1994
France	5 October 1994
Argentina	6 October 1994
Italy	6 October 1994
Denmark	7 October 1994
Finland	7 October 1994
United Kingdom	7 October 1994
Ireland	7 October 1994
Germany	13 October 1994
Greece	13 October 1994
Austria	14 October 1994
Sweden	14 October 1994
South Korea	15 October 1994
Taiwan	15 October 1994
Czech Republic	20 October 1994
Slovakia	20 October 1994
Uruguay	20 October 1994
El Salvador	21 October 1994
Philippines	26 October 1994
Portugal	28 October 1994
Slovenia	3 November 1994
Poland	4 November 1994
Turkey	11 November 1994
Australia	17 November 1994
Brazil	7 December 1994
Hungary	8 December 1994
	15 December 1994
	27 January 1995
Japan	18 February 1995
Romania	24 February 1995

Other websites

• Forrest Gump at the Movie Wiki
• Forrest Gump at AllRovi
• Forrest Gump on IMDb