The year 1994 in film involved some significant events.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

source: Yearly 1994

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Forrest Gump - Paramount Pictures

Best Director: Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump

Best Actor: Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

Best Actress: Jessica Lange - Blue Sky

Best Supporting Actor: Martin Landau - Ed Wood

Best Supporting Actress: Dianne Wiest - Bullets Over Broadway

Best Foreign Language Film: Burnt by the Sun (Utomlyonnye solntsem), directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, France / Russia

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Forrest Gump

Best Actor: Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

Best Actress: Jessica Lange - Blue Sky

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: The Lion King

Best Actor: Hugh Grant - Four Weddings and a Funeral

Best Actress: Jamie Lee Curtis - True Lies

Other

Best Director: Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump

Best Foreign Language Film: Farinelli Il Castrato, Belgium

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Pulp Fiction, directed by Quentin Tarantino, United States

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Vive L'Amour (Aiqing wansui), directed by Tsai Ming-liang,

Pred do?dot (Before The Rain), directed by Milco Mancevski,

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

In the Name of the Father, directed by Jim Sheridan, U.K. / Ireland

Films released in 1994

• 3 Ninjas Kick Back
• 8 Seconds
• Above the Rim
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, starring Jim Carrey, directed by Tom Shadyac
• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, starring Hugo Weaving
• Africa: The Serengeti
• The Air Up There
• Airheads, starring Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, and Brendan Fraser
• Andre
• Angels in the Outfield, directed by William Dear, starring Danny Glover
• Baby's Day Out
• Bad Girls
• Barcelona
• Beverly Hills Cop III, directed by John Landis
• Black Beauty
• Blank Check, directed by Rupert Wainwright
• Blankman
• Blink
• Blown Away, starring Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones
• Blue Chips
• Blue Sky
• Brainscan
• Bullets Over Broadway
• Burnt by the Sun - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Camp Nowhere, starring Christopher Lloyd and Johnathan Jackson
• The Chase
• China Moon
• City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
• Clean Slate
• Clear and Present Danger
• Clerks, directed by Kevin Smith
• The Client
• Cobb
• The Cowboy Way
• Criminal, directed by Mahesh Bhatt
• Crooklyn, directed by Spike Lee
• The Crow
• D2: The Mighty Ducks, directed by Sam Weisman
• Deadly Target
• Death and the Maiden, directed by Roman Polanski
• Death Wish V: The Face of Death
• Disclosure
• Dream Lover
• Drop Zone
• Dumb and Dumber
• Ed Wood, starring Johnny Depp as Ed Wood, directed by Tim Burton
• Eden Valley
• Exit to Eden
• Farinelli Il Castrato - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• First Action Hero
• The Flintstones, starring John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins, Rick Moranis, Rosie O' Donnell, Halle Berry, Richard Moll and Elizabeth Taylor, directed by Brian Levant
• Forrest Gump - Academy and Golden Globe (Drama) Awards for Best Picture, starring Tom Hanks, directed by Robert Zemeckis
• Four Weddings and a Funeral
• Fresh
• The Getaway, starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger
• Getting Even with Dad
• Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
• A Good Man in Africa
• Greedy
• Guarding Tess
• Gunmen
• The Heart's Cry
• Heavenly Creatures
• Highlander III: The Final Dimension
• Hoop Dreams
• House Party 3
• The Hudsucker Proxy
• I Love Trouble
• I.Q., starring Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan and Walter Matthau
• I'll Do Anything
• Immortal Beloved
• Intersection
• Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, directed by Neil Jordan
• Iron Will
• It Could Happen To You
• It's Pat
• Jason's Lyric
• Jimmy Hollywood
• Junior
• Killing Zoe, directed by Roger Avary
• Lassie
• The Last Seduction
• The Last Supper
• Legends of the Fall
• Léon (aka The Professional), directed by Luc Besson, starring Jean Reno and Natalie Portman
• Leprechaun 2, starring Warwick Davis
• Lightning Jack
• The Lion King - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff
• Little Big League
• Little Giants
• Little Odessa, starring Tim Roth and Edward Furlong
• The Little Rascals, directed by Penelope Spheeris
• Little Women, starring Susan Sarandon and Winona Ryder
• Love Affair, starring Warren Beatty, Annette Bening and Katharine Hepburn
• A Low Down Dirty Shame
• The Madness of King George
• Major League II, directed by David S. Ward
• A Man of No Importance
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
• The Mask, directed by Chuck Russell
• Maverick
• Milk Money
• A Million to Juan
• Miracle on 34th Street
• Mixed Nuts
• Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
• Muriel's Wedding
• My Girl 2
• Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
• Necronomicon
• Natural Born Killers
• Nell
• The Next Karate Kid, starring Hilary Swank
• No Dessert Dad, til You Mow the Lawn
• No Escape
• No Dessert, Dad, til You Mow the Lawn
• Nobody's Fool, starring Paul Newman
• North, directed by Rob Reiner
• On Deadly Ground
• Only You (1994 film), starring Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr.
• The Pagemaster, directed by Joe Johnston (live action)
• The Paper, directed by Ron Howard
• PCU
• Pred do?dot (Before The Rain) - Golden Lion award
• Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
• Prêt-à-Porter
• Priest
• Pulp Fiction - Palme d'Or award, starring John Travolta and Uma Thurman
• The Puppet Masters, starring Donald Sutherland
• Quiz Show
• Radioland Murders
• Rapa Nui
• Reality Bites
• The Ref
• Renaissance Man
• The Return of Jafar
• The River Wild
• The Santa Clause, directed by John Pasquin
• The Scout
• Serial Mom, directed by John Waters and starring Kathleen Turner
• The Shadow
• Shadowlands (U.S. release)
• The Shawshank Redemption, directed by Frank Darabont
• A Simple Twist of Fate
• Sioux City
• Sirens
• Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade
• The Specialist
• Speechless
• Speed
• Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
• Star Trek Generations, starring Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes
• Stargate, starring Kurt Russell
• Street Fighter
• Sugar Hill (1994 film)
• The Swan Princess, directed by Richard Rich
• The Sum of Us
• Surviving the Game
• Terminal Velocity
• Three Colors: White - 2nd of the Krzysztof Kie?lowski trilogy, starring Julie Delpy
• Three Colors: Red - 3rd of the Krzysztof Kie?lowski trilogy, starring Irène Jacob
• Threesome
• Thumbelina, directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman
• Timecop
• Tom & Viv
• A Troll in Central Park, directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman
• True Lies
• Vive L'Amour - Golden Lion award
• The War
• War of the Buttons
• Wes Craven's New Nightmare
• When a Man Loves a Woman
• White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf
• With Honors
• Wolf, starring Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer
• Wyatt Earp

Births

• February 23 - Dakota Fanning, actress
• April 12 - Saoirse Ronan, actress

Deaths

• January 1 - Cesar Romero, actor
• January 22 - Telly Savalas, actor
• February 6 - Joseph Cotten, actor
• February 11
  • Sorrell Booke, actor
  • William Conrad, actor
• February 19 - Derek Jarman, director
• February 24 - Dinah Shore, singer and actress
• March 4 - John Candy, comedian and actor
• March 6 - Melina Mercouri, actress
• March 17 - Mai Zetterling, actress, director
• March 21
  • MacDonald Carey, actor
  • Lili Damita, actress
• March 23 - Giulietta Masina, actress
• April 5 - Kurt Cobain, musician

April 9 - Matthew Bryant

• May 8 - George Peppard, actor
• May 15 - Gilbert Roland, actor
• June 4 - Massimo Troisi, actor
• June 7 - Dennis Potter, writer
• June 14 - Henry Mancini, composer
• August 11 - Peter Cushing, actor
• September 7 - Dennis Morgan, actor
• September 11 - Jessica Tandy, actress
• September 12 - Tom Ewell, actor
• October 19 - Martha Raye, actress
• October 20 - Burt Lancaster, actor
• October 21 - Benoît Régent, French film actor
• October 24 - Raúl Juliá, actor
• November 1 - Noah Beery Jr, actor
• November 30 - Lionel Stander, actor
• December 24 - Rossano Brazzi, actor

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