Forrest Gump in its list of the "Best 100 Conservative Movies" of all time. Then, in 2009, the magazine ranked the film number four on its 25 Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years list. "Tom Hanks plays the title character, an amiable dunce who is far too smart to embrace the lethal values of the 1960s. The love of his life, wonderfully played by Robin Wright Penn, chooses a different path; she becomes a drug-addled hippie, with disastrous results." James Burton, a communication arts professor at Salisbury University, argued that conservatives claimed "Forrest Gump" as their own due less to
Rick Carter was awarded the Academy Award for Best Production Design alongside Robert Stromberg and Kim Sinclair. In 2013, Carter won his second Academy Award, for production design on Steven Spielberg's biopic, "Lincoln". Rick Carter Rick Carter (born 1950) is an American production designer and art director. He is known for his work in the film "Forrest Gump", which earned him an Oscar nomination, as well as numerous nominations of other awards for his work in "Amistad" and "A.I. Artificial Intelligence". Other films include "Cast Away", "War of the Worlds", "What Lies Beneath", "Jurassic Park", "Avatar", and "Back to the Future Part