You may remember that at the 84th Academy Awards Ceremony, Tom Hanks showed up on stage wearing a pin representing the number 6. At the time he tweeted that we would hear about this later during the year.

Well, the time has come. The newly Got Your Six campaign has been officially launched. It aims at improving the image of America’s military veterans and helping them successfully reintegrate into civilian life.
“Got your six” is an expression used by people in the military which means, “I’ve got your back, and you’ve got mine.” The six o’clock position is the designation of the rear of a military formation.

Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, Michael Douglas, Tracy Morgan, Milla Jovovich, Bradley Cooper, Sarah Jessica Parker, Brian Williams, Pharrell Williams and Wendy Williams are among the stars who will participate in the first wave of public service announcements that will start airing this Friday.
You can see the first two PSAs in our videos.

Tom Hanks has supported numerous actions to help and remember the veterans and the military forces over the years.
He has already narrated various PSAs for the Welcome Back Veterans and the Joining Forces campaigns. He also helped build the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, as well as the WWII Memorial in Washington, DC.

In what has become a tradition for the post-Oscars editions of Jimmy Kimmel Live, the late-night show premiered its latest video spoof, a movie trailer for Movie : The Movie, “the greatest movie ever made”. It features the most impressive all-star cast ever assembled with Tom Hanks as RoboLawyer, George Clooney as a wheelchair-bound scientist, Colin Farrell as a stressed-out cop with a crafty canine partner, Kate Beckinsale and Chewbacca as secret lovers, Matt Damon as a bunch of grapes, Meryl Streep with a mustache, Helen Mirren on a hovercraft and Daniel Day-Lewis as Tyler Perry as George Washington…. If you haven't seen it, or even if you already did, you can watch the 9-minute spoof in our videos.

We've also added two photos of the filming to the gallery. You can click on the thumbnails to access the album.

"My momma always said, ‘Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.’" That line was immortalized by Tom Hanks in the award-winning movie Forrest Gump in 1994. Today, the movie, along with 24 others, has been chosen to be preserved as cultural, artistic and historical treasures in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

Walt Disney's 1942 classic animated film Bambi and Charlie Chaplin's first feature length comedy The Kid (1921) also make it onto the list. The selected 25 films, which are picked from 2,228 titles nominated by the public, span the period from 1912 to 1994 and include an eclectic mixture of feature films, documentaries, short subjects and experimental films. A majority of the 25 titles chosen this year for inclusion in the National Film Registry are lesser-known.

"These films are selected because of their enduring significance to American culture," Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said in a statement. "Our film heritage must be protected because these cinematic treasures document our history and culture and reflect our hopes and dreams."

As "Forrest Gump," Tom Hanks portrays an earnest, guileless "everyman" whose open-heartedness and sense of the unexpected unwittingly draws him into some of the most iconic events of the 1960s and 1970s. A smash hit, "Forrest Gump" has been honored for its technological innovations (the digital insertion of Gump seamlessly into vintage archival footage), its resonance within the culture that has elevated Gump (and what he represents in terms of American innocence) to the status of folk hero, and its attempt to engage both playfully and seriously with contentious aspects of the era’s traumatic history. The film received six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

In March 2011, Forrest Gump had already been voted "the greatest film character of all time" in a survey carried out by ABC TV and People magazine.