 After Tom Hanks. Doesn't get much better than that. Tom Hanks, born July 9th, 1956. 68 years ago, 1994, he won his first Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia. He won again the following year for playing the title role in A Guy by the Name of Forrest Gump. My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get.