No nomination for Tom Hanks in Oscars for last 17 years

With his brilliant portrayal of characters, American actor and filmmaker Tom Hanks bagged five nominations and two wins between 1989 and 2001. But it has been 17 years since Tom Hanks, who used to be synonymous with Oscars, had his last Nomination. The 61-year-old actor has been in five Best Picture nominees without a nomination of his own: “Toy Story 3” (2010), “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” (2011), “Captain Phillips” (2013), “Bridge of Spies” (2015), and now “The Post” (2017). However, it is coherent that “Toy Story 3” was an animated film, and no voice-over actor has ever been nominated for a competitive Oscar. Hank’s role in “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” was relatively brief and would have been unlikely to register with Oscar voters even under the best of circumstances. But he played leading roles in “Captain Phillips,” “Bridge of Spies,” and “The Post” scoring major precursor nominations for two of them. For playing the title role in that fact-based thriller, “Captain Phillips,” Hanks earned nominations from the Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice, SAG, and BAFTA Awards, but even though the Oscars nominated the film for six awards, Hanks was not among them. “Bridge of Spies” was somewhat anomalous: though it was a major awards player all season and also received six nominations at the Oscars, Hanks was never in the conversation for Best Actor that year. In fact, he wasn’t nominated by anyone, not a single press or industry group. Hanks depicted real-life Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee in “The Post” and was nominated at the Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice Awards and won Best Actor from the National Board of Review, but the film was shut out at the SAG and BAFTA Awards, perhaps due, in part, to the film’s late release.