1994 IN FILM

The year '1994 in film' involved some significant events.

Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Awards

Films released in 1994

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Iconic actress Katharine Hepburn made her final motion picture appearance in Love Affair

★ 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

'1994' 'Rank'	'Title'	'Studio'	'Gross'
1.	''The Lion King''	Disney	$771,900,000
2.	''Forrest Gump''	Paramount	$673,800,000
3.	''True Lies''	20th Century Fox	$364,300,000
4.	''The Flintstones''	Universal	$358,500,000
5.	''The Mask''	New line cimema	$351,392,727
6.	''Speed''	20th Centery Fox	$350,448,145
7.	''Dumb & Dumber''	New line cimema	$246,200,000
8.	''Four Weddings and a Funeral''	Gramercy pictures	$244,100,000
9.	''	Hollywood/Warner	$221,300,000
10.	''Clear and Present Danger''	Paromount	$207,500,000

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 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

★ ''Above the Rim''

★ ''

★ ''Andaz''- Hindi Film, starring Amir Khan,Salman Khan,Karisma Kapoor,and Raveena Tandon.

★ ''The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert'' - Golden Space Needle award

★ ''

★ ''The Air Up There''

★ ''Airheads''

★ ''Andre''

★ ''Angels in the Outfield''

★ ''Baby's Day Out''

★ ''Bad Girls''

★ ''Barcelona''

★ ''Beverly Hills Cop III''

★ ''Black Beauty''

★ ''Blank Check''

★ ''Blankman''

★ ''Blink''

★ ''Blown Away'', starring Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones

★ ''Blue Chips''

★ ''Blue Sky''

★ ''Bullets Over Broadway''

★ ''Burnt by the Sun'' - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

★ ''Camp Nowhere''

★ ''The Chase''

★ ''China Moon''

★ ''

★ ''Clean Slate''

★ ''Clear and Present Danger''

★ ''Clerks''

★ ''The Client''

★ ''Cobb''

★ ''The Cowboy Way''

★ ''Criminal'', directed by Mahesh Bhatt

★ ''Crooklyn'', directed by Spike Lee

★ ''The Crow''

★ ''

★ ''Death and the Maiden'', directed by Roman Polanski

★ ''

★ ''Disclosure''

★ ''Dream Lover''

★ ''Drop Zone''

★ ''Dumb and Dumber''

★ ''Ed Wood''

★ ''Eden Valley''

★ ''8 Seconds''

★ ''Exit to Eden''

★ ''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''

★ ''Fresh''

★ ''The Getaway (1994 film)'', starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger

★ ''Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla''

★ ''A Good Man in Africa''

★ ''Greedy''

★ ''Guarding Tess''

★ ''Gunmen''

★ ''Heavenly Creatures''

★ ''

★ ''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''

★ '', 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

★ ''The Last Seduction''

★ ''Legends of the Fall''

★ ''Léon'', 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)

★ ''Little Big League''

★ ''Little Giants''

★ ''Little Odessa'', starring Tim Roth and Edward Furlong

★ ''The Little Rascals''

★ ''Little Women (1994 film)'', starring Susan Sarandon and Winona Ryder

★ ''Love Affair'',starring Warren Beatty,Anette Bening and Katharine Hepburn

★ ''A Low Down Dirty Shame''

★ ''The Madness of King George''

★ ''Major League II''

★ ''A Man of No Importance''

★ ''Mary Shelley's Frankenstein''

★ ''The Mask''

★ ''Maverick''

★ ''Milk Money''

★ ''Miracle on 34th Street''

★ ''Mixed Nuts''

★ ''Muriel's Wedding''

★ ''My Girl 2''

★ ''

★ ''Necronomicon''

★ ''Natural Born Killers''

★ ''Nell''

★ ''The Next Karate Kid''

★ ''No Escape''

★ ''Nobody's Fool (1994 film)'', starring Paul Newman

★ ''North'', directed by Rob Reiner

★ ''On Deadly Ground''

★ ''Only You (1994 film)'', starring Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr.

★ ''The Paper'', directed by Ron Howard

★ ''PCU''

★ ''Pred doždot'' (''Before The Rain'') - Golden Lion award

★ ''

★ ''Pret-a-Porter''

★ ''The Professional''

★ ''Pulp Fiction'' - Palm d'Or award

★ ''The Puppet Masters'', starring Donald Sutherland

★ ''Quiz Show''

★ ''Rapa Nui''

★ ''Reality Bites''

★ ''The Ref

★ ''Renaissance Man''

★ ''The River Wild''

★ ''The Santa Clause''

★ ''The Scout''

★ ''The Shadow''

★ ''The Shawshank Redemption''

★ ''A Simple Twist of Fate''

★ ''Sirens''

★ ''The Specialist''

★ ''Speechless''

★ ''Speed''

★ ''

★ '', starring Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes

★ ''Stargate'', starring Kurt Russell

★ ''Street Fighter''

★ ''Sugar Hill''

★ ''The Swan Princess''

★ ''The Sum of Us''

★ ''Surviving the Game''

★ ''Terminal Velocity''

★ '' - 2nd of the Krzysztof Kieślowski trilogy, starring Julie Delpy

★ '' - 3rd of the Krzysztof Kieślowski trilogy, starring Irène Jacob

★ ''Threesome''

★ ''Timecop''

★ ''Tom & Viv''

★ ''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''

★ ''

★ ''With Honors''

★ ''Wolf'', starring Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer

★ ''Wyatt Earp''

Births

★ February 23 - Dakota Fanning, actress

★ August 28 - Hannah Boulware

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

★ 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