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Academy Awards, USA. 2001 Nominee Oscar. Best Actor in a Leading Role. Tom Hanks. 2001 Nominee Oscar. Best Sound.
- The Film Won An Award For Best Inanimate Object
- Wilson Had Actual Lines of Dialogue
- Filming Shut Down For A Year So Hanks Could Transform His Appearance
- The Director Made A Whole Other Film During Cast Away’s Hiatus
- The Film’S Writer Really Stranded Himself on An Island For Research
- The Film Made FedEx Surprisingly Popular
- There Might Have Been Vital Equipment in That Unopened Parcel
- Chuck Gets His Happy Ending After The Film Ends
- Tom Hanks Could Have Died During Filming
- The Ending Was Almost Very Different
Tom Hanks gives one of his best and most committed performances as Chuck Noland in Cast Away, so it was no surprise that his name came up all over the place at the 2001 awards shows. Hanks landed the Best Actor award at the Golden Globes and was nominated for what would have been his third Best Actor Oscar – only to lose to Russell Crowein Gladiato...
It might seem in the film like Wilson is the silent type, but from Tom Hanks’ perspective, his character’s volleyball friend was actually rather chatty. Well, it appears the screenwriter and director were not about to let Wilson slip under the radar, and they did all they could to ensure he was as big of a star as Mr Hanks himself. Actual lines of ...
There’s no special effects or camera trickery going on when it comes to Tom Hanks’ striking appearance in Cast Away. At the beginning of the film, that middle-aged paunch is all his, while the bushy beard, long golden hair and drastically reduced frame in the second half are all real too. These two contrasting looks were achieved by Hanks first gai...
As he waited a whole 12 months for Hanks to transform into someone who looked like he might have been stranded on a desert island for four years, director Robert Zemeckis didn’t just twiddle his thumbs. He made a whole other film during Cast Away’s hiatus. It wasn’t a small project either, and it’s a film that you are guaranteed to have heard of. H...
Cast Away feels like an authentic depiction of survival on a desert island for a good reason, with the screenwriter going above and beyond his duties. The film’s screenwriter really knew what it was like to be stranded without modern luxuries like Chuck. And how did he know? Well, as research for his script, William Broyles Jr took himself to an is...
It’s a FedEx plane that goes down at the beginning of the film, but luckily that didn’t do much to tarnish the delivery service’s brand. Cast Away actually made FedEx more popular than ever. Not only did the delivery company significantly increase its reach and influence outside of the US after Cast Away’s release, but job applications for the comp...
From his time discovering the FedEx parcels washed up on the beach, to his re-entry into civilised society four years later, Chuck resists opening one parcel. It’s never revealed to us – or Chuck – what the package contains. And we are still desperate to know what it contained. There are several ‘conspiracy theories’ so to speak, of what was really...
It seems like a pretty tragic state of affairs. Chuck, having barely survived for four years and managing to make his way home to America via an improvised raft, only to find the love of his life has moved on, remarried and started a whole new family. According to Tom Hanks, however, Chuck does get his happy ending, just after the credits roll. Han...
Tom Hanks’ dedication to Cast Away didn’t end with him gaining weight, losing weight and letting himself go in the style department – the star almost literally died for his art on this movie. While on location for the film Hanks cut himself and developed what could have been a potentially fatal infection. A doctor told Hanks: “you’re about an hour ...
There were six years between screenwriter William Broyles Jr first putting pen to paper for Cast Away and the film actually shooting. Therefore, naturally, the script went through several different iterations prior to filming. Most of the changes involved the ending, which was written and scrapped several times over. One ending had Chuck saved by J...
20th Century Fox. Cast Away was a star-driven project. Hanks read an article about FedEx, which illuminated the fact that massive jets filled with packages were crossing the Pacific Ocean multiple ...
May 9, 2022 · The long lost love that will never be found. 20th Century Studios/YouTube. Possibly the most tragic part of the film comes toward the end, when Chuck discovers that his girlfriend, Kelly, played ...
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2001 Academy Awards: Best Actor: Tom Hanks: Nominated Best Sound: Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis S. Sands and William B. Kaplan: Nominated 2001 BAFTA Awards: Best Film Actor in a Leading Role: Tom Hanks Nominated 2001 Critics' Choice Awards: Best Inanimate Object Wilson Won 2001 Golden Globe Awards: Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama ...
"And now, the award for best use of coke can in a historic Drama", this i want, to see how creative writers would hide coke cans in movies taking place far before coke ever existed, placing it so it dont take the movie goer out of the illusion of the time period, but visible enought that everyone sees and recognises it...
