Forrest Gump won six Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Hanks, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Visual Effects, and Best Film Editing. The soundtrack sold over 12 million copies. The film was an enormous success at the box office it became the top-grossing film in America released that year and earned over US$678.2 million worldwide during its theatrical run, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 1994, behind The Lion King. The soundtrack features songs reflecting the different periods seen in the film.įorrest Gump was released in the United States on July 6, 1994, and received mostly positive reviews, with critical acclaim for Zemeckis's direction, performances (particularly those of Hanks and Sinise), visual effects, music, and screenplay.
Extensive visual effects were used to incorporate Hanks into archived footage and to develop other scenes. Principal photography took place between August and December 1993, mainly in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The film differs substantially from the novel. The film follows several decades in the life of a slow-witted and kindhearted Alabama man named Forrest Gump (Hanks) and his experiences in the 20th-century United States. It is based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom and stars Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson and Sally Field. Forrest Gump is a 1994 American epic comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Eric Roth.
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