Won: Six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Tom Hanks), 1995 Somehow beating out Pulp Fiction to Best Picture glory in 1995, Forrest Gump remains one of the most divisive winners to date, with some seeing it as stupid, sentimental guff, and others finding it touching and sweet in its own goofy way. In truth, it's probably a mix of the both, cloying and sappy on the one hand, kind of moving and harmless on the other. No matter what you think of it, the film still swept the '95 Academy Awards, winning six of the whopping thirteen Oscars it was nominated for in total. Of those wins, which included Best Director for Robert Zemeckis and Best Adapted Screenplay for Eric Roth, most interesting is Tom Hanks' win for Best Actor, who in winning became only the second man ever to win successive Best Actor Oscars. Hanks won the year before for Philadelphia. Spencer Tracy is the only other man to win two in a row, in '37 and '38, when he won for Captain Courageous and Boys Town, respectively. Conversely, Jason Robards won two Best Supporting Actor Oscars in a row, for All The President's Men (1976) and Julia (1977).
