Cast Away : Tom Hanks should have won the Oscar for this performance.

Tom Hanks should have won the Oscar for this performance.

Tom Hanks should have won the oscar for this performance. IMO, it's the best performance of his career. He makes the whole movie, it's just an amazing performance. There's a slight bias against actors who have already won an oscar let alone two. I bet he would have won had he not already won two oscars.

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The film is generally perceived as one man alone on an island. It's not. There are actually three acts and it is a beautifully balanced production and set of performances. And yes in retrospect it's difficult to believe he didn't win another here. Who did win?

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I just looked it up, wasn't hard to find out.

Russell Crowe for Gladiator

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I'd also like to think that Hanks would've won if he hadn't already had all that prior Oscar glory. He's just too fantastic in this to not win on merit alone.

I love Russell Crowe in Gladiator. He's just note perfect in that film. But what Hanks did in this, the production schedule, the shedding of the weight, the incredible acting in the second half of the film. If he hadn't won before, I do think he'd have won for this.

The Academy is fickle. It's impossible to say what would've happened, if this then that. Hanks sure is great in this film though, Oscar or no Oscar.
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