Tom Hanks’ Space Survival Classic Is Officially Being Removed From Netflix

The Academy has made some baffling choices; in recent years, for instance, Jake Gyllenhaal was snubbed in the Best Actor category for his work in Nightcrawler, while Justin Hurwitz was overlooked for his First Man score. You could’ve sworn that both Hurwitz and Gyllenhaal had at least been nominated, but no. A major snub in the 1990s had larger repercussions, because it prevented one of his generation’s greatest stars from completing a historic hat-trick of Best Actor wins. We’re talking about Tom Hanks, who won back-to-back Oscars for his performances in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, which were released in 1993 and 1994, respectively. He delivered another awards-worthy turn the very next year in the blockbuster film Apollo 13, which came out in 1995, but to everyone’s surprise, he wasn’t even nominated.