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Hanks To Be Awarded Life Achievement Award By Jack, (DT) October 26, 2001 5:55 PM PT

The American Film Institute has announced that it will be awarding Tom Hanks with it's 30th "Life Achievement Award". At 45 years old, Hanks will become the youngest recipient ever to be lauded by AFI with the careerlong honor followed by Steven Speilberg, who was 49 when he received the award in 1995. "Tom Hanks is American film's Everyman for a new generation," AFI board of trustees chairman Howard Stringer said. "It is fitting that he receive the 30th AFI Life Achievement Award from the nation's pre-eminent cultural arts organization as his talent and commitment to his craft is only matched by his great respect for and understanding of American history." The 2001 Life Achievement Award was presented to Barbra Streisand, who became the first female director to be honored with the award. Previous winners include Harrison Ford, Dustin Hoffman, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, Elizabeth Taylor, Sidney Poitier, Gregory Peck, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred Astaire, James Stewart, Alfred Hitchcock, Bette Davis, Orson Welles, James Cagney and John Ford. Tom Hanks can be seen in theatres early next year in Sam Mendes' ("American Beauty") ?new Chicago Gangland movie "The Road to Perdition". Be happy for Tom!