Forrest Gump and the Myth of American Innocence*

Year 1995, Issue: 2, 85 - 88, 01.10.1995

Lawrence B. Goodheart

Abstract

With six Academy Awards Forrest Gump is the most celebrated movie of the recent season. Not only has the film garnered thirteen nominations from the Academy of Motion Pictures, but the Screen Actors Guild, the Foreign Press Association, the Writers Guild of America, and People's Choice, not to mention Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Society, have already honored the movie. For the preceding two months a drumbeat of publicity whetted public anticipation for how many golden Oscars the movie would capture at the star-studded festivities of March 27.

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