1994 in film
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Events
- November 1 - George Lucas leaves the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and starts a sabbatical (while on sabbatical, he wrote the prequel Star Wars trilogy).
Top grossing films
- Forrest Gump, starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field
- The Lion King (Disney)
- True Lies, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis
- The Santa Clause, starring Tim Allen, Wendy Crewson
- The Flintstones, starring John Goodman, Rick Moranis, Rosie O'Donnell, Halle Berry, Kyle MacLachlan
- Dumb & Dumber, starring Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Victoria Rowell
- Clear and Present Danger, starring Harrison Ford
- Speed starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock
- The Mask, starring Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz
- Pulp Fiction, starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, and Uma Thurman
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
- Drama:
- Best Picture: Forrest Gump
- Best Actor: Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
- Best Actress: Jessica Lange - Blue Sky
- <u>Musical or Comedy:
- Best Picture: The Lion King
- Best Actor: Hugh Grant - Four Weddings and a Funeral
- Best Actress: Jamie Lee Curtis - True Lies
- <u>Other
- Best Director: Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
- Best Foreign Language Film: Farinelli Il Castrato, Belgium
PALM 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 doždot (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
- The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert(a)
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
- Airheads
- Angels in the Outfield
- Baby's Day Out
- Barcelona
- Blank Check
- Blue Sky
- Bullets Over Broadway
- Burnt by the Sun - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- Clear and Present Danger
- Clerks
- The Crow
- Dumb & Dumber
- Ed Wood
- Farinelli Il Castrato - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- First Action Hero
- The Flintstones
- Forrest Gump - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
- Four Weddings and a Funeral
- Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
- Heavenly Creatures
- Hoop Dreams
- Interview with the Vampire, directed by Neil Jordan
- IQ, starring Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Walter Matthau
- It's Pat: The Movie -(redirects to Pat (Saturday Night Live))
- Killing Zoe, directed by Roger Avary
- The Last Seduction
- Léon, directed by Luc Besson, starring Jean Reno and Natalie Portman
- Leprechaun 2
- Lightning Jack
- The Lion King - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
- Little Odessa, starring Tim Roth and Edward Furlong
- The Mask
- Miracle on 34th Street (remake)
- Muriel's Wedding (a)
- Necronomicon
- No Escape
- On Deadly Ground
- PCU
- Pred doždot (Before The Rain) - Golden Lion award
- Pulp Fiction - Palm d'Or award
- The Puppet Masters, starring Donald Sutherland, based on Robert A. Heinlein's book
- Quiz Show
- Rapa Nui
- The Ref
- The Santa Clause
- The Shadow
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Sirens
- Speed
- Stargate, starring Kurt Russell
- Star Trek: Generations, starring Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes.
- The Swan Princess
- The Sum of Us (a)
- Three Colors: White - 2nd of the Krzysztof Kieślowski trilogy, starring Julie Delpy
- Three Colors: Red - 3rd of the Krzysztof Kieślowski trilogy, starring Irène Jacob
- True Lies
- Vive L'Amour - Golden Lion award
- War of the Buttons
- Wes Craven's New Nightmare
- Wolf, starring Jack Nicholson and James Spader
Births
- February 23 - Dakota Fanning, actress
Deaths
- January 1 - Cesar Romero, actor
- January 22 - Telly Savalas, actor
- February 6 - Joseph Cotten, actor
- February 11 - Sorrell Booke, actor
- February 11 - 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
- March 21 - Lili Damita, actress
- March 23 - Giulietta Masina, actress
- 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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