Forrest Gump a movie of your life's story," though "Whether they get it right or wrong, it doesn't matter." The first chapter of the book suggests the real-life events surrounding the film have been incorporated into Forrest's storyline, and that Forrest got a lot of media attention as a result of the film. During the course of the sequel novel, Gump runs into Tom Hanks and at the end of the novel in the film's release, including Gump going on "The David Letterman Show" and attending the Academy Awards. Forrest Gump Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film based on the
Ken Ralston films of Robert Zemeckis. Ralston has won five Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, including a Special Achievement Oscar for the visual effects in "Return of the Jedi" (1983), and regular awards for his work on "Cocoon" (1985), "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988), "Death Becomes Her" (1992) and "Forrest Gump" (1994). He was nominated three more times for "Dragonslayer" (1981), "Back to the Future Part II" (1989) and "Alice in Wonderland" (2010). Ken Ralston Kenneth "Ken" Ralston (born 1954) is an American visual effects artist, currently the Visual Effect Supervisor and Creative Head at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Ralston began his