Tom Hanks has defended Forrest Gump’s Oscars Best Picture victory from criticism. In 1995, the Robert Zemeckis film, which Hanks produced and starred in, was named as the best film of the previous year at the awards ceremony. However, over the years, it’s endured as an undeserving winner, not least because of a film it beat.
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