20 Things You Didn't Know About Tom Hanks
8. He's Worth His Huge Wages (Apparently)
It is not surprising that in 1996, Entertainment Weekly chose Hanks as the only actor worthy of $20 million per film.
And it would appear that their faith in his abilities were as well founded then as today, seeing as three of his 6 Academy Award nominations came after their publication (and as recently as 2020), and the gross domestic revenue of all his films is only rivalled by Sam Jackson, Harrison Ford and Robert Downey Jr.
But unlike Hanks, the other three have had the benefits of also playing supporting roles in ensemble casts of at least one of the two biggest franchises of all time in Star Wars and the MCU.