From Woody in the Toy Story films to Forrest Gump and Robert Langdon, the highest-grossing movies of Tom Hanks's career, ranked by worldwide box office.
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From Woody in the Toy Story films to Forrest Gump and Robert Langdon, the highest-grossing movies of Tom Hanks's career, ranked by worldwide box office.
Toy Story 4
Pixar's fourth Toy Story sent Woody off with Bo Peep and a spork named Forky, grossing about $1.07 billion worldwide and winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. It remains the highest-grossing film of Tom Hanks's career.
Toy Story 3
Andy heads to college and the toys face the incinerator in Pixar's tearjerker of a sequel, which earned roughly $1.07 billion worldwide. Hanks's Woody anchors one of the most beloved trilogies in animation.
The Da Vinci Code
Ron Howard's adaptation of Dan Brown's blockbuster mystery cast Hanks as symbologist Robert Langdon and took in roughly $800 million worldwide. A global phenomenon that spawned two sequels.
Forrest Gump
Hanks won his second straight Best Actor Oscar as the good-hearted everyman who runs through three decades of American history, in a film that grossed about $678 million worldwide. Life is like a box of chocolates.
Toy Story 2
Pixar's first sequel found Woody kidnapped by a toy collector and earned roughly $497 million worldwide. Widely considered one of the rare sequels to match or outshine the original.
Angels & Demons
Robert Langdon races through Rome to stop the Illuminati in Ron Howard's follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, which grossed about $486 million worldwide.
Saving Private Ryan
Steven Spielberg's harrowing D-Day epic, with its unforgettable opening on Omaha Beach, earned roughly $482 million worldwide and won Spielberg a second directing Oscar. Hanks leads the squad sent to bring one soldier home.
Cast Away
Hanks lost fifty pounds to play a FedEx executive stranded alone on a desert island, his only companion a volleyball named Wilson. Robert Zemeckis's survival drama grossed about $430 million worldwide.
Toy Story
The film that launched Pixar and changed animation forever, the first fully computer-animated feature, with Hanks voicing Woody. Re-releases have pushed it to roughly $400 million worldwide.
Apollo 13
Ron Howard's white-knuckle account of the 1970 lunar mission gone wrong, with Hanks as commander Jim Lovell delivering the line 'Houston, we have a problem.' It grossed about $356 million worldwide.
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