Entertainment

A BIG SPLASH FOR HANKS

THE Film Society of Lincoln Center has a hankering for Tom Hanks.

The society announced yesterday that the actor will be feted April 27 at its 36th annual black-tie tribute to a cinema luminary.

Clips from Hanks’ movies (“Sleepless in Seattle,” “Saving Private Ryan,” etc.) will be shown, and actors and directors who have worked with him will deliver words of praise.

“There are so few actors who have been able to make the struggle and drama of being a good man compelling,” says the society’s Kent Jones, who is producing the event with Jeanne R. Berney. “In that regard, Tom Hanks now stands alone.”

The tribute will take place in the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall.

The society has been honoring screen stars annually since 1972, when it helped welcome Charlie Chaplin home from exile in Switzerland.

Other honorees over the years include Alfred Hitchcock, Fred Astaire, Bob Hope, Laurence Olivier, Francis Ford Coppola, James Stewart and Bette Davis.

Tickets for the Hanks shindig go on sale in

January.

vam@nypost.com