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Tom HanksandRita Wilsonare dressing for success.
On Saturday, the couple attended the 13th annualGovernors Awardsat Los Angeles' Fairmount Century Plaza after a year in which Hanks, 66, appeared in the biopicElvisasElvis Presley’s manager Colonel Tom Parker and as Geppetto inDisney’s live-actionPinocchio.
Hanks wore a simple, classic black suit, complete with a black tie, white shirt and dark-framed glasses to the event, which is considered one of the first major events of awards season.
Meanwhile, Wilson, 66, wore a black and purple sequin dress that she paired with a black purse and open-toed shoes. TheKimistar parted her long blonde hair down the middle for the event, allowing her hair to otherwise fall to her shoulders.
Hanks is not the only Oscar hopeful of the pair, whohave been married since 1988and share two children, as awards season approaches.
Wilson wrote and performed an original song titled “Till You’re Home” for Hanks’upcoming movieA Man Called Otto, which expects to be in the conversation for a Best Original Song nomination, according toVariety.
“A lot of the inspiration began with David Magee’s script,” Wilson toldVariety.
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“It was a natural beginning to start there,” she said. “This movie is about love and how love continues even after a person leaves this earth.”
Wilson, who is a producer onA Man Called Otto, said during the interview that she asked director Marc Forster to be honest if he decided not to use the song for the film’s final cut.
“You can’t be precious about it or take anything personally,” she said.
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InA Man Called Otto, based on Swedish author Fredrik Backman’s 2012 novelA Man Called Ove, Hanks plays Otto Anderson, a grumpy widower who strikes up an unlikely friendship with his new next-door neighbors.
“The way you treat your own neighbors, the way people can come together in any time of crisis happens over and over again,” Hanks told PEOPLE in an October statement about the new movie. “Anytime there’s a tornado, a flood or something that hits a very particular community, everybody comes out and helps.
Hanks added in the statement that the upcoming film “is a movie about community and a movie about family.”
A Man Called Ottohits select theaters Dec. 25 then everywhere Jan. 13.
source: people.com
