{"id":473245,"date":"2026-06-12T05:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473245\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:45:11","slug":"tom-hanks-doesnt-think-oscars-need-voice-actor-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473245\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks Doesn’t Think Oscars Need Voice Actor Category"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWith his recent return as Woody in Toy Story 5<\/a>, Tom Hanks<\/a> thinks it\u2019s time the Academy Awards<\/a> recognize voice actors<\/a>\u2026 just not in their own category.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2x Oscar winner recently explained that there are multiple voice actors who have the chops to take home a statuette in one of the current acting categories at the 98-year-running award show.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think they have enough categories,\u201d Hanks told Gold Derby<\/a>. \u201cThe truth is, a voice actor can win Best Actor. The judgment is, \u2018any performance that moved you.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHanks used Andy Serkis as an example, given his performances in the Lord of the Rings and Planet of the Apes franchises.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEven though he does not appear as Andy Serkis, he gives all the raw material for it. There\u2019s been people who have been close to being nominated that do not appear on camera. That could happen to a pure-vocal actor,\u201d added Hanks.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tBuzz Lightyear (voiced by Tim Allen) and Woody (Tom Hanks) in \u2018Toy Story 5\u2019 (Disney\/Pixar)<\/p>\n

\n\tHanks\u2019 comments come as he reprises his voice performance as Woody in Toy Story 5, premiering June 19 in theaters, more than 30 years after the first Toy Story premiered in 1995.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince the first Academy Awards were held in 1929, no voice actor has ever won in the acting categories, although the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences<\/a> added the Best Animated Feature category to 2002\u2019s ceremony. Meanwhile, the Best Animated Short Film category goes back to 1932, previously referred to as Short Subjects, Cartoons and Short Subjects, Animated Films.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn recent years, the Academy has added categories for Achievement in Stunt Design<\/a>, beginning in 2027, and Best Casting<\/a>, with the first award going to Cassandra Kulukundis for One Battle After Another at this year\u2019s ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With his recent return as Woody in Toy Story 5, Tom Hanks thinks it\u2019s time the Academy Awards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6334,94627,430,156,111,139,69,2584,5139,63715,238808],"class_list":["post-473245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-academy-awards","tag-academy-of-motion-picture-arts-and-sciences","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oscars","tag-tom-hanks","tag-toy-story-5","tag-voice-actors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}