BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEMBER
TOM HANKS
The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Board of Trustees are national industry leaders who are passionate about the Foundation’s mission to aid the United States in retaining its world leadership in technology and innovation by supporting the very best and brightest scholars in science, technology, engineering and mathematics while commemorating the legacy of America’s pioneering astronauts.
TOM HANKS, HONORARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEMBER
Hanks has collaborated with film director Steven Spielberg on five films to date: Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017), as well as the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers, which launched Hanks as a successful director, producer, and screenwriter. In 2010, Spielberg and Hanks were executive producers on the HBO miniseries The Pacific.
Hanks’ films have grossed more than $4.5 billion at U.S. and Canadian box offices and more than $9.0 billion worldwide, making him the third highest-grossing actor in North America. Hanks has been nominated for numerous awards during his career. He won a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Philadelphia (1993), as well as a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a People’s Choice Award for Best Actor for Forrest Gump (1994). In 1995, Hanks became one of only two actors who won the Academy Award for Best Actor in consecutive years, with Spencer Tracy being the other. This feat has not been accomplished since. In 2004, he received the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). In 2014, he received a Kennedy Center Honor and, in 2016, he received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, as well as the French Legion of Honor.
Full biography available at Wikipedia.org.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
- Lisa Schott
- Andrew Allen
- Laura Shepard-Churchley
- Arthur Coleman
- Peter Cramer
- Massimo Cutuli
- Zoe Dodge
- Charlie Duke
- Richard Garriott
- Gwen Griffin
- Jeff Haars
- Bill Jaeger
- Julie Shepard Jenkins
- Trent Kingery
- Jarret Lafleur
- Jeff Lovell
- Michael Markesbery
- Rick Mastracchio
- James Mault, MD
- Larry McGlynn
- Barbara Morgan
- Bob Sieck
- Carol Fitzgerald Tyler
- Ox Van Hoften
- Steve Wirth
- LeVar Burton, Honorary Trustee
- Tom Hanks, Honorary Trustee
