$8,000
CARTIER "Tank Americaine", Ref. 1740. Donated by Tom Hanks and Cartier Notes Tom Hanks One of today's most admired and respected actors, Torn Hanks is the first actor in 50 years to be awarded back to back Best Actor Academy Awards. He received the 1994 Oscar for his outstanding performance as "Forrest Gump " which has become the fourth largest grossing movie in history, and continues to rise. In 1993, he was rewarded for his compelling performance as the AIDS stricken lawyer Andrew Beckett in "Philadelphia" . He also won Golden Globe Awards for both of those performances. Through the success of "Forrest Gump", Hanks has been honored with the Golden Globe Award, the People ' s Choice Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award, the Chicago Film Critics Award, the National Association of Theater Owners "Male Star of the Year" award and he was awarded by the Hollywood Women's Press Club. For his performance as astronaut Jim Lovell in Ron Howard's "Apollo 13 " , Hanks was named "Man of the Year" by Harvard ' s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the oldest undergraduate dramatic group in the United States. In 1997, Hanks successfully made his feature film writing and directing debut with "That Thing You Do", for Twentieth Century Fox, which follows the meteoric rise to fame of a local rock band named 'The Wonders from Erie, PA', in the summer of 1964. The film's signature song, "That Thing You Do!", not only reached Top 10 in many contemporary music charts, it wa Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1999-02-24
