In the nineteen eighties, Saturday Night Live did a sketch with William Shatner reprising his Captain Kirk part in The Restaurant Enterprise, preceded by a sketch in which he played himself at a Trek conference angrily telling fans to "Get a Life", a phrase that has come to be component of Trek folklore.
Later that calendar year, Hanks portrayed Fred Rogers in Marielle Heller's biographical movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood for which he was nominated for his 1st Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2000, Hanks starred in Robert Zemeckis's Cast Away, for which he acquired a Golden Globe Award get for Best Actor and an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of a marooned FedEx techniques analyst.