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
Editing by	Arthur Schmidt
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	July 6, 1994
Running time	141 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$55,000,000
Money made	$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.

Reception

The movie won six Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Visual Effects, Film Editing and Adapted Screenplay. The film was nomiinated for an additional six Academy Awards, including Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Gary Senise 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 Acor, 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.

Other websites

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