All 53 Tom Hanks Movies, Ranked

Tom Hanks made his big-screen debut in an unremarkable 1980 slasher cheapie called He Knows You're Alone. And based on that inauspicious start, it's safe to say that no one could have predicted that he would go on to become a two-time Best Actor Oscar-winner and the most beloved movie star on the planet. Hanks's career is a long and winding one, full of unpredictable detours, bold choices, and indelible performances. He's more than earned his place on everyone's movie Mount Rushmore. But with so many films on his resume, we wanted to know how they stacked up against one another.

View in Browser  SHOP EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBE All 53 Tom Hanks Movies, Ranked Tom Hanks made his big-screen debut in an unremarkable 1980 slasher cheapie called He Knows You're Alone. And based on that inauspicious start, it's safe to say that no one could have predicted that he would go on to become a two-time Best Actor Oscar-winner and the most beloved movie star on the planet. Hanks's career is a long and winding one, full of unpredictable detours, bold choices, and indelible performances. He's more than earned his place on everyone's movie Mount Rushmore. But with so many films on his resume, we wanted to know how they stacked up against one another. Read More This Apple iPad Is at Its Lowest Price Ever For the first time, it's under $200. Read More Star Wars Outlaws Isn't Perfect, But It's Still Pretty Damn Fun If you're a fan of the galaxy far, far away, you'll love Ubisoft's open-world game, where you'll cross stormtroopers and Jabba the Hutt alike. For everyone else, it's just a video game. Read More Mike Faist Will Try to Fool You Mike Faist is trying to convince me he doesn't like being an actor and that he's not very good at it. But lying is a necessary part of what he calls the "curse" of being famous, and I think he's doing it now. Sometimes, he says, when people recognize him in his neighborhood and ask, Are you the dude from that thing? "I'll just lie to them. They'll be like, 'Are you Mike?' I'm like, 'Who?'" He thinks fame is kind of stupid. It doesn't suit him. "At the end of the day it's kind of ridiculous that we're doing this interview, because I'm just some guy who has a job." Read More The 9 Best Travel Garment Bags For Seamless Packing There's no reason to show up looking like a slob. Read More The 25 Best Songs of 2024 (So Far) As we hit Labor Day, Shaboozey can make a strong case for Song of the Summer, but so can Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, Kendrick Lamar, and Charli XCX. Read More Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan Are Still Getting Weirder "I'm taking an intellectual detour," says Lisa Joy, after we discuss digital-protection laws and the new Princess Peach video game but before we go deep on German nationalism. I'm at the Manhattan apartment of Joy and Jonathan Nolan, the husband-wife duo behind trippy sci-fi hits like Westworld, The Peripheral, and Fallout. (Nolan also cowrote Interstellar and the Christian Bale–led Dark Knight films with his brother Christopher.) "I also might sound like a lunatic," she warns. Nolan quips, "Our work's been out there for a while. People know." Read More Follow Us Unsubscribe | Privacy Notice | CA Notice at Collection Esquire is a publication of Hearst Magazines. ©2024 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This email was sent by Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-3779