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Cast Away is a 2000 film by 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks about a FedEx employee who is stranded on a deserted island after his plane goes down over the South Pacific. It is unusual in Hollywood cinema in that during most of the movie there is only one human character. Tom Hanks would go on to be nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards for his performance. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (541x755, 119 KB)Cast Away film poster File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Robert Lee Bob Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning American movie director, producer and writer. ... Jack Rapke is an American film producer best known for his involvement in Cast Away. ... Robert Lee Bob Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning American movie director, producer and writer. ... Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American two-time Academy Award-winning film actor, Emmy-winning director, voice-over artist, writer, and movie producer. ... William Broyles Jr. ... Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American two-time Academy Award-winning film actor, Emmy-winning director, voice-over artist, writer, and movie producer. ... Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning American actress, perhaps most widely known for her role in the television sitcom Mad About You. ... Wilson the Volleyball in Cast Away Wilson was the name given to a volleyball in the 2000 movie, Cast Away. ... Related articles FOX Television Network Fox Searchlight Pictures Fox Entertainment Group List of Hollywood movie studios List of movies Variant of current 20th Century Fox logo External links 20th Century Fox Movies official site Twentieth Century Fox is also the punning title of a song by The Doors on their... This article is about the film studio. ... Robert Zemeicks Execuyive For ImageMovers ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... USD redirects here. ... Look up castaway in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The year 2000 in film involved some significant events. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ... This article is about the film studio. ... Federal Express redirects here. ... U.S. merchant seamen try to revive a shipwrecked Filipino fisherman rescued in the South China Sea. ... Pacific redirects here. ... ... The Academy Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ...

Plot synopsis

In the opening scene, a FedEx truck rolls under a large sign reading "Dick & Bettina" to a ranch-style Texas residence where the driver takes for delivery a FedEx package marked with a custom logo in the form of angels' wings. These wings are also seen as freestanding sculptures on the property and inside out-buildings. The woman sending the package, an artist in a welder's suit, tells the driver she will have another one for him to take that coming Thursday. The audience sees the package delivered all the way to a residence in Moscow, Russia, to a man in a cowboy hat and robe. A Russian woman who is with the man, apparently on intimate terms, asks, "Who is it from?" He replies, "My wife." Federal Express redirects here. ... This article is about a type of land use and method of raising livestock. ... For other uses, see Texas (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Logo (disambiguation). ... This article is about the supernatural being. ... Sculptor redirects here. ... A welder is a tradesman who specialises in welding materials together. ... For other uses, see Moscow (disambiguation). ... A cowboys hat, usually with a four to six-inch brim, acts as an umbrella in stormy weather, and a shade from the sun in hot weather. ...

The film then cuts to Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks), a highly efficient FedEx executive, as he attempts to improve the performance of FedEx's Moscow branch. After imploring the Russian employees to live by the clock, Chuck returns to the U.S. (Tennessee) where he is trying to guide a relationship with his girlfriend Kelly Frears (Helen Hunt) toward marriage. It is obvious that Chuck's harried professional life with FedEx is making his relationship with Kelly difficult to sustain. Their Christmas together is interrupted by Chuck being called on a last minute business trip. He and Kelly exchange gifts in the SUV on the way to the FedEx hub, Kelly giving him a family heirloom pocket watch containing a photo of herself, and Chuck giving her a number of joke presents before solemnly offering her an engagement ring. She is too nervous to open it, and he walks off to the FedEx jet saying, "I'll be right back". Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American two-time Academy Award-winning film actor, Emmy-winning director, voice-over artist, writer, and movie producer. ... This article is about the U.S. state of Tennessee. ... Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning American actress, perhaps most widely known for her role in the television sitcom Mad About You. ... This article or section may be confusing or unclear for some readers, and should be edited to rectify this. ... For other uses, see Antique (disambiguation). ... A yellow gold wedding ring and a single-diamond, gold-banded engagement ring. ...

While flying through a thunderstorm somewhere over the southern Pacific Ocean, Chuck's flight goes disastrously wrong and crashes into the nighttime sea in flames. Saved by an inflatable liferaft, Chuck floats helplessly on the ocean until he is brought to a deserted island. After ascertaining the island is uninhabited, Chuck's most immediate need is drinking water, which he satisfies by drinking coconut water and later by storing rain water in the discarded husks. Unfortunately for Chuck, the canister that was supposed to stay attached to the raft containing the search-and-rescue beacon that would be needed to help rescue him, was caught in the rubble of the FedEx heavy load packages, and was left behind as Chuck floated to the surface to his fortunate rescue. His second immediate need is shelter, which he secures by draping his raft over palmtree trunks and, later, by discovering small caves in the island rock. The third task is food. He attempts to fish, but is wholly unsuccessful at the start. As time progresses, his fishing skills increase. Shortly after his first fishing attempt, he finds a compelling need to produce fire, which, after great effort, many attempts and some injury, he succeeds in doing. Image File history File links 15CastAway. ... Image File history File links 15CastAway. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Drinking water Mineral Water Drinking water is water that is intended to be ingested by humans. ... Coconut water is the liquid endosperm inside young coconuts. ... -1... Genera Many; see list of Arecaceae genera Arecaceae or Palmae (also known by the name Palmaceae, which is taxonomically invalid. ... For other uses, see Cave (disambiguation). ... Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish by hooking, trapping, or gathering. ... A Vanuatu man making fire using a stick Many different techniques for making fire exist. ...

Fortunately for Chuck, a few FedEx packages from the plane wash up on the shore shortly after he lands on the island containing video tapes, divorce papers, ice skates, a dress, and a volleyball. A short time later, the body of one of the flight crew also washes up. Having been without shoes since removing them while on the plane, Chuck takes the pilot's too-small shoes and dons them after cutting out the toes. He also improvises some tools from items in the washed-up packages, in particular a pair of ice-skates (which he uses to remove a tooth causing him great pain), and to use as a tree-cutter and spear maker in the future. He uses the dress as a net to fish with. Chuck first uses the papers and cardboard as bed liners, but could have eventually used them to light his fire. Chuck also finds a small pocket flashlight amongst the pilot's possessions. Around this time, at night, he sees a light on the horizon, presumably from a search party. After realizing the futility of attracting attention using the flashlight, he takes to the sea on the damaged life raft. His escape attempt is thwarted by the high surf around the island's reef, and his leg is badly cut in the process. For the Parliament song, see Flash Light (song). ...

As time passes, it is clear that through determination and ingenuity Chuck has risen to the challenges of physical survival. It is also evident he is in a fragile mental state, relying heavily on his memories of Kelly. Survival skills are skills that may help one to survive dangerous situations (such as storms or earthquakes), or in dangerous places (such as the desert, the mountains, and the jungle). ...

One of the FedEx packages bears the distinctive angels' wings custom logo observed in the first scene. It is the package the artist mentioned she would be sending on the following Thursday. For some reason, this is the only package Chuck does not open. After a while, Chuck realizes that the tooth-ache he has developed on the island will not go away unless the tooth is removed, so Chuck uses one of the ice skates that he found in one of the FedEx boxes to forcefully knock the tooth out. He is successful, but the pain knocks Chuck out, and the picture slowly moves into the fire.

Four years later, the picture shows Chuck tossing a spear into the water, killing a fish that he would eat. The picture quickly goes into the cave in which Chuck now sleeps. It shows that Chuck has made more pictures of Kelly on the cave walls, and made a box to hold his possessions. One morning, Chuck wakes up to hear a loud banging noise in the distance. Chuck shouts at Wilson, (a volleyball he received four years ago and made into his friend) to shut up. He realizes that Wilson is still "asleep", and goes to investigate. Outside, Chuck finds a large piece of a molded plastic port-a-john appears on the shore. Chuck, now with a beard, long hair and wearing a loincloth, his body much leaner and weatherbeaten, drags it up the beach away from the waves and contemplates it with some intensity. Eventually he uses this fragment as a sail for a new raft. While trying to make rope with the hibiscus plants on the island, Chuck eventually runs short of plants. Wilson "reminds" Chuck about the thirty-feet of extra rope on the summit of the island. After climbing the large cliff, Chuck hoists a totem that was hanging off of the rope, which, after Chuck removes from the totem, reveals a Noose Knot that shows that during his third year on the island, (Chuck said to Wilson a short time later after the subject was brought up, that "It was what? A year ago?") Chuck considered hanging himself on top of the summit to stop the endured physical and emotional pain of being stranded on the island. After the subject of Chuck's attempted suicide was brought up, Chuck has a "fight" with Wilson, and tosses him out of the cave's hole. At first, Chuck is satisfied with this, but sees that Wilson did not catch on the tree and lay hanging outside as he should have, and freaks out. He runs out to search for him, and finds him while shouting "Never again!" Image File history File links 23CastAway. ... Image File history File links 23CastAway. ... A line of portable toilets. ... A loincloth is a one-piece male garment, sometimes kept in place by a belt, which covers the genitals and, at least partially, the buttocks. ...

After construction of the raft, Chuck writes on a rock, "Chuck Noland was on this island for 1500 days. Tell Kelly Frears in Memphis Tennessee, I love her", to be read later if he did not come back home alive. After this, the wind begins to blow north, signaling Chuck's time to sail. By raising his hinged, makeshift sail (on which he has painted a replica of the angels' wings logo) at a precisely timed moment in the curl of a wave, he pushes through the rough surf at the reef break that foiled him years earlier. After Chuck beats the tide, he takes one last look at the island, which disappears into the clouds. A few days later, Chuck comes sailing next to a whale (Robert Zemeckis stated that this was symbolic because whales were very close to humans in intelligence, and that nobody had seen him for four years, making the whale the first). After a few days, Wilson gets loose of the raft, and the current sweeps him away. Chuck desperately tries to get Wilson back, but is unsuccessful, shouting "I'm sorry Wilson!". It then shows Chuck sobbing about the loss of his friend. After losing Wilson, Chuck lets his oars be swept to sea, so that he could perish because of the loss of his friend. After sailing for an unknown period of time over a distance of about 600 miles—when he is on the verge of death— he is rescued by a passing cargo freighter. The Ocean Waves, see I Can Hear the Sea Ocean waves Ocean surface waves are surface waves that occur in the upper layer of the ocean. ... Hapag-Lloyd Container ship Container ship A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. ...

On returning home, Chuck must come to terms with the fact that everyone he was close to had given him up for dead long ago and moved on with their lives. Kelly has married and had a child with another man (Christopher Noth), his dentist. After a dramatic scene in which the pair comes close to resuming the romance, Chuck reconciles himself to "losing her all over again". In the film's short philosophical coda, Chuck explains to his close friend, "I've got to keep breathing. Because tomorrow, the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?". Christopher David Noth (born November 13, 1954 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an actor in American film, stage and television. ... Look up coda in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

This part of the film also has one of the more ironic scenes. As a Welcome Home gesture, Chuck's fellow employees throw him a party at work, with a Desert Isle theme, complete with a variety of seafood. Chuck looks at it in almost disgust, having had to eat practically nothing but seafood for the past four years.

The film ends with Chuck at a remote crossroads after delivering the one unopened package from the island to the residence from the first scene (due to the long passage of time, the package is being returned to sender). The sign over the residence has had the "Dick" portion of the "Dick & Bettina" name removed, but the angels' wings sculptures are still there. No one is home, so Chuck leaves the package propped in the screen door with a note, which reads "This package saved my life." He returns to the crossroads a short distance away, stopping his car to study a map. The artist, pretty, friendly, and around his own age, drives up in an antique truck and says, "You look lost." She describes where all the roads branching from the intersection lead. He thanks her, and as she drives away Chuck notices the angels' wings painted on the back of her truck. A long close up of Chuck smiling in the direction the truck had left closes the film. In addition the wind (symbolic of the wind he used to escape the island) blows in the direction the truck went. A crossroads (the word rarely appears in singular) is a road junction, where two or more roads meet (there are three or more arms). ...

Time on the Island

According to the gravestone labeled "Albert Miller", the man Chuck found on the island after climbing the large cliff he attempted suicide on, Chuck began his four years on the island in 1995. In the movie, it states that Chuck was on the island for four years. Chuck was apparently on the island from December 26 (assuming the family dinner was on Christmas Day), 1995 to February 2, 2000, a period encompassing 1500 days.

In the movie, before Chuck tries to return home on his raft, Chuck writes down on a rock, "Chuck Noland was on this island for 1,500 days." If this information is accurate, it would mean that Chuck was on the island for 4 years and 39 days, or 4 years, 5 weeks and 4 days, which does not include the time Chuck spent rafting on the ocean or the time spent floating on the life raft prior to landing on the island.

Cast Away island

Cast Away island is actually Monuriki; a member of the Mamanuca Islands. It is in a subgroup of the Mamanuca archipelago, which is sited off the coast of Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island. It has become a famous tourist attraction following the film's release. Mamanuca Islands, Fiji The Mamanuca Islands of Fiji are a volcanic archipelago lying to the west of Nadi and to the south of the Yasawa Islands. ... The Mergui Archipelago The Archipelago Sea, situated between the Gulf of Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland, the largest archipelago in the world by the number of islands. ... Viti Levu is the largest island in the Republic of Fiji. ...

A satellite image of the island is available to be seen here. For other uses, see Satellite (disambiguation). ...

Wilson

One of Cast Away's notable "characters" is "Wilson," a volleyball from Wilson Sporting Goods. The volleyball is found in one of the FedEx boxes. When Chuck tries to make a fire and cuts his hand, he angrily palms the volleyball and throws it. The blood from his wound makes the hand-shaped mark that forms the ball's "face". This volleyball plays the role of a mute, infinitely patient, non-living listener in the movie, providing Chuck with a companion for the 1,500 days he spends on the island. Wilson is also slightly modified by Noland sometime during the four-year gap; a section of the volleyball above the face has been removed and a coif of leaves has been inserted, serving as hair. From a theatrical standpoint, Wilson also serves to realistically simulate dialogue in a single-person situation. Chuck loses Wilson after the volleyball washes off the raft and drifts too far out to sea for Chuck to be able to retrieve it. Toward the end of the film, Chuck is seen driving with a brand new volleyball sitting in the passenger seat. Wilson the Volleyball in Cast Away Wilson was the name given to a volleyball in the 2000 movie, Cast Away. ... Image File history File links The Wilson Volleyball that co-starred in Castaway (2000). ... Image File history File links The Wilson Volleyball that co-starred in Castaway (2000). ... Wilson the Volleyball in Cast Away Wilson was the name given to a volleyball in the 2000 movie, Cast Away. ... For the ball used in this sport, see Volleyball (ball). ... Wilson Sporting Goods (or simply Wilson) is a sporting goods company that is based in Chicago, Illinois. ...

Product placement

Cast Away is well-known for its prominent product placement marketing. In this case the movie benefited two major brands: Wilson and FedEx. However, contrary to popular belief, FedEx did not pay the filmmakers anything for their presence in the movie, a fact which the director has made clear in a number of interviews. Wikibooks [[wikibooks:|]] has more about this subject: Marketing Product placement advertisements are promotional ads placed by marketers using real commercial products and services in media, where the presence of a particular brand is the result of an economic exchange. ...

At the time of the movie's release, Wilson Sporting Goods launched its own joint promotion centered around the fact that one of its products was "co-starring" with Tom Hanks.

The plane crash scene caused FedEx Corporation to have "a heart attack at first", according to Gayle Christensen, director of global brand management for the company. However, FedEx decided the movie was a "risk worth taking because the story of the brand was very positive," she said, adding that the movie helped increase FedEx's brand awareness in Asia and Europe.^[1] FedEx cooperated closely with the filmmakers to ensure that all FedEx materials seen in the movie were authentic. Chuck's "coming-home" scene was filmed on location at FedEx's home facilities in Memphis, Tennessee. According to an interview on the DVD release of the film, FedEx Corporation did not pay for product-placement rights. However, the extensive support that the company provided to the film can be considered a form of payment for the placement. For other uses, see Memphis (disambiguation). ... DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ... FedEx (NYSE: FDX), properly FedEx Corporation, is a company that offers overnight courier, ground, heavy freight, document copying and logistics services. ...

Some commentators claim that the use of the FedEx brand and logo in its present form is an anachronism, since the first half of the film was set in 1995 while FedEx Corporation was officially titled FDX Corp. at the time. (FedEx Corporation changed to its present name in 2000, when Noland returned). However, the brand "FedEx" began to be used by the overnight-courier division of the company in 1994. The complete absence of references in the film to the old names that had been recently in use could still be considered a flaw or a form of marketing benefit. Look up Anachronism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Another product placed in the film is the soft drink Dr. Pepper, which Chuck is shown drinking on the plane before the crash, and again after his return to civilization. Dr Pepper is a caramel-colored, carbonated soft drink marketed in North America by Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages (CSAB), a unit of Cadbury Schweppes. ...

Film notes

The producers made up a list of seemingly useless items that would be in the packages that Noland recovered: party dress, ice skates, divorce papers, video tapes, etc. They turned this over to a group of survival experts, who decided what the protagonist might be able to do with them: fish net, axe, etc.

The CEO at the end of the movie is actually Fred Smith, the real-life CEO of FedEx. Fred W. Smith (born August 11, 1944) is the founder of Federal Express, or FedEx, the first overnight express delivery company in the world, and the largest in the United States. ...

In a panel discussing the movie, Director Robert Zemeckis jokingly said that the final unopened package at the end contained a waterproof, solar-powered satellite phone. Robert Lee Bob Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning American movie director, producer and writer. ...

Production was on hiatus for about a year to allow Tom Hanks to lose some weight and grow his hair. During that period, Robert Zemeckis used the crew to produce and direct What Lies Beneath. What Lies Beneath is a 2000 motion picture that tells the story of a housewife who finds her home is haunted. ...

The filmmakers actually burned down several trees on the island for the movie. In return they were required to plant three new trees for each one they burned down.

Cultural references

A FedEx advertisement in the United States features a character who survived an ordeal very similar to Chuck Noland returning an unopened package to its owner. She tells him that it contains "silly stuff" such as a GPS Receiver, satellite phone, seeds, fishing rod and a water purifier. ^[2] Over fifty GPS satellites such as this NAVSTAR have been launched since 1978. ... A satellite telephone, satellite phone, or satphone is a mobile phone that communicates directly with orbiting communications satellites. ... This writeup is about biological seeds; for other meanings see Seed (disambiguation). ...

Wilson Sporting Goods manufactured a volleyball with a parody of the handprint face on one side, it was sold for a limited time during the movie's initial release. Wilson Sporting Goods (or simply Wilson) is a sporting goods company that is based in Chicago, Illinois. ...

Lloyd Braun of ABC Studios pitched the idea of a television series based on the movie, obviously titled: Cast Away: The Series. That show later evolved into the hit ABC show Lost. The pilot episode of the show was the most expensive pilot ever produced and fearful ABC executives subsequently fired Braun, ignorant of the success to come for Lost. Lloyd Braun (born 1959) has been a creative force behind a number of successful television programs. ... This article is about the American broadcast network. ... LOST redirects here. ... A television pilot is a test episode of an intended television series. ...

MaximOnline.com named the airplane crash in Cast Away #6 on its list of "Most Horrific Movie Plane Crashes."

A reference to an earlier Robert Zemeckis/Tom Hanks film Forrest Gump is when Chuck is on the plane ride home and he asks the stewardess for a Dr Pepper. In Forrest Gump, this was Forrest's favorite beverage. For the main character of the same name, see Forrest Gump (character) Forrest Gump is a 1994 drama film based on a 1986 novel by Winston Groom and the name of the title character of both. ...

In the 2006 video game Far Cry Instincts: Evolution, set in a tropical South Pacific location, there is a hidden island containing an easter egg: a small wrecked boat, two corpses, rocks laid out to spell "HELP!", and a volleyball resembling Wilson (except in the game, instead of a bloody handprint on the ball, it is a footprint). Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Far Cry Instincts is a video game developed and published by Ubisoft for the Xbox console. ... A virtual Easter egg is a hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, or video game. ...

The movie was spoofed in Family Guy. It shows Peter on the raft with Wilson (the ball). Peter keeps yelling, "Wilson! Wilson! What are we gonna do now? Wilson! Wil-" At that moment the ball interrupts saying, "My name is Voit, dumbass!!" It also shows Peter looking at a pocket watch. Looking at the picture in the watch, he begins to cry. "I miss you, Captain Caveman," he says. The picture in the watch depicts Captain Caveman in a similar pose as Helen Hunt in Cast Away. Family Guy is an Emmy Award-winning American animated television series about a dysfunctional family in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island. ... Voit is a spinoff company of AMF which is based in Vallejo, Federal District, Mexico. ... -1...

Another reference to Cast Away can be seen in the 2005 CGI animated film Madagascar. In a beach scene, the lion character, Alex (voiced by Ben Stiller) is injured trying to erect a makeshift "Lady Liberty". In his frustration, he turns to a volleyball resembling Wilson (instead of a red handprint it features a red lion's paw print) and then he says "Shut up, Spalding!", then he swats the ball away. This is an obvious parody. Computer-generated imagery (commonly abbreviated as CGI) is the application of the field of computer graphics (or more specifically, 3D computer graphics) to special effects in films, television programs, commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media. ... Benjamin Edward Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, actor, film producer and director. ... As a surname, Wilson is derived from William, an old Germanic name. ...

In Behind Enemy Lines, a football is launched from the deck of an aircraft carrier. As the sailors lose the ball, which eventually falls into the ocean, somebody screams "WILSON!" Behind Enemy Lines is a 2001 film starring Gene Hackman and Owen Wilson. ...

Movie score

The film's minimal score was composed by Alan Silvestri for which he won a Grammy in 2002. The film's soundtrack is most notable for its lack of score while Chuck is on the island. There is no music at all until he escapes, which is used to resemble the lack of civilization on the island. A pseudo exception to this could be said to be the scene where Tom Hanks' character creates fire, in which he sings "Light My Fire" by The Doors, among others. The tracks for the score are as follows: Alan Silvestri (b. ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American two-time Academy Award-winning film actor, Emmy-winning director, voice-over artist, writer, and movie producer. ... This article is about The Doors song. ... This page is about the rock band. ...

Cast

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American two-time Academy Award-winning film actor, Emmy-winning director, voice-over artist, writer, and movie producer. ... The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning American actress, perhaps most widely known for her role in the television sitcom Mad About You. ... Wilson the Volleyball in Cast Away Wilson was the name given to a volleyball in the 2000 movie, Cast Away. ... Geoffrey Blake is an American film and television actor who was born on 20 August 1962. ... Jenifer Jeanette Lewis (born on January 25, 1957 in Kinloch, Missouri , is an American film and television actress. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Nick Searcy is an American actor born in Cullowhee, North Carolina on March 7, 1959. ... Lari White (born in Dunedin, Florida, USA) is an American country music singer. ...

Notable award nominations

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References

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External links

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