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Forrest Gump: The Soundtrack is the soundtrack album for the 1994 Academy Award-winning Tom Hanks film Forrest Gump, and contains music from many well-known American artists. The score, composed by Alan Silvestri , was released separately (as Forrest Gump – Original Motion Picture Score ) on the same day.
The music was composed and conducted by Alan Silvestri. [1] Silvestri's music was nominated for Best Original Score in the 67th Academy Awards. The album released is not to be confused with the better-selling (and therefore more common) album of diegetic songs from the film, which were released as Forrest Gump: The Soundtrack.
Against the Wind" was famously used in a scene of the 1994 film Forrest Gump, where the main character runs across the U.S.; it was included on its accompanying soundtrack album. [42] A cover by country stars Brooks & Dunn charted in 1999. "Against the Wind" has been celebrated by generations of contemporary country artists.
In 2002, the song inspired the title and plot of the film Sweet Home Alabama. American heavy metal band Metallica used the intro riff for their 1983 song "The Four Horsemen", which gained controversy as the riff was used without permission from the band. [47] The song is used in the soundtrack for the motion picture Forrest Gump.
Wright has reunited with Forrest Gump director Robert Zemeckis and star Tom Hanks for Here.. Wright and Hanks appear several decades younger as the film, which is based on Richard McGuire’s 2014 ...
Other commentators believe the film forecast the 1994 Republican Revolution and used the image of Forrest Gump to promote movement leader Newt Gingrich's traditional, conservative values. Jennifer Hyland Wang observes that the film idealizes the 1950s, as made evident by the lack of "Whites Only"-signs in Gump's Southern childhood, and ...
In honor of the Acadamy Award-winning film's 30th anniversary, we went on a tour of the spots that set the scenes of Forrest Gump's screen life. A carriage tour moves along Bull Street past St ...
The Doobie Brothers version was featured in the 1994 Oscar-winning film Forrest Gump, and was included on the film's multi-platinum selling soundtrack album. [2] The song was also featured in the soundtrack of the 1978 film FM.