Tom Hanks did not receive an Academy Award nomination for which film?
The very successful film where Tom Hanks did not receive an Academy Award nomination is "Apollo 13" (1995). "Apollo 13" is an American space docudrama that was directed by Ron Howard. Stars include: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Ed Harris, and Gary Sinise. The movie's screenplay was by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert.
The film dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission and is an adaptation of the 1994 book "Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13" by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. The film concerns the U.S. astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise aboard Apollo 13 for America's third Moon landing mission. En route, an on-board explosion deprives their spacecraft of most of its oxygen supply and electric power. NASA's flight controllers are forced to abort the Moon landing, and they have to turn the mission into a struggle to get the three men home safely.
The 68th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1995 in the United States. "Apollo 13" received nine Oscar nominations and won two. Award options concerned: Best Film Editing (Won), Best Sound (Won), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Ed Harris), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Kathleen Quinlan), Best Art Direction, Best Picture, Best Original Dramatic Score, Best Visual Effects, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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