National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Forrest Gump was released by Paramount Pictures in July 1994, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks in the title role. The film became one of the defining American pictures of its decade, weaving a fictional everyman through decades of real historical events. It won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and remains a landmark of 1990s Hollywood filmmaking.

This cell, titled Forrest Gump, captures the moment Forrest meets President Lyndon B. Johnson in what is consistent with the Medal of Honor presentation scene set inside the White House. The strip edge shows frame number 30, suggesting this is drawn from a continuous sequence. It is a quietly significant frame, placing an ordinary man at the center of American history.