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This is a list of films released in 1994. The top worldwide grosser was The Lion King , becoming the highest-grossing animated film of all-time, although it was slightly overtaken at the North American domestic box office by Forrest Gump , which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The year is considered to be one of the best years for cinema during the post Golden Age Hollywood era and setting the standard for the movies of the modern era.

Contents

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer celebrated its 70th anniversary in 1994. [1]

Highest-grossing films

The top 10 films released in 1994 by worldwide gross are as follows: [2]

Highest-grossing films of 1994
RankTitleDistributorWorldwide gross
1 The Lion King Buena Vista $763,455,561 [3]
2 Forrest Gump Paramount $677,945,399
3 True Lies 20th Century Fox / Universal $378,882,411
4 The Mask New Line $351,583,407
5 Speed 20th Century Fox $350,448,145
6 The Flintstones Universal $341,631,208
7 Dumb and Dumber New Line $247,275,374
8 Four Weddings and a Funeral Gramercy $245,700,832
9 Interview with the Vampire Warner Bros. $223,664,608
10 Clear and Present Danger Paramount $215,887,717

Events

Awards

Category/Organization 52nd Golden Globe Awards
January 21, 1995
Producers, Directors, Screen Actors, and Writers Guild Awards 67th Academy Awards
March 27, 1995
48th BAFTA Awards
April 22, 1995
DramaMusical or Comedy
Best Film Forrest Gump The Lion King Forrest Gump Four Weddings and a Funeral
Best Director Robert Zemeckis
Forrest Gump
Mike Newell
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Best Actor Tom Hanks
Forrest Gump
Hugh Grant
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Tom Hanks
Forrest Gump
Hugh Grant
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Best Actress Jessica Lange
Blue Sky
Jamie Lee Curtis
True Lies
Jodie Foster
Nell
Jessica Lange
Blue Sky
Susan Sarandon
The Client
Best Supporting Actor Martin Landau
Ed Wood
Samuel L. Jackson
Pulp Fiction
Best Supporting Actress Dianne Wiest
Bullets over Broadway
Kristin Scott Thomas
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Best Screenplay, Adapted Quentin Tarantino
Pulp Fiction
Eric Roth
Forrest Gump
Paul Attanasio
Quiz Show
Best Screenplay, Original Richard Curtis
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
Pulp Fiction
Best Original Score The Lion King
Hans Zimmer
N/A The Lion King
Hans Zimmer
Backbeat
Don Was
Best Original Song"Can You Feel the Love Tonight"
The Lion King
N/A"Can You Feel the Love Tonight"
The Lion King
N/A
Best Foreign Language Film Farinelli N/A Burnt by the Sun To Live

1994 films

By country/region

By genre/medium

Births

Deaths

MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January 1 Cesar Romero 86USActor
3 Heather Sears 58UKActress
7 Vittorio Mezzogiorno 52ItalyActor
7 Llewellyn Rees 92UKActor
8 Pat Buttram 78USActor
9 Madge Ryan 75AustraliaActress
12 Samuel Bronston 85MoldovaProducer
14 Esther Ralston 91USActress
19 Kenneth Utt 72USProducer, Production Manager
22 Jean-Louis Barrault 83FranceActor
22 Frances Gifford 73USActress
22 Telly Savalas 72USActor
23 Oliver Smith 75USProduction Designer
27 Claude Akins 67USActor
28 Hal Smith 77USActor, Voice Actor
February 1 Olan Soule 84USActor
6Harold Schneider55USProducer
6 Joseph Cotten 88USActor
6 Gwen Watford 66UKActress
9 Jarmila Novotna 86Czech RepublicSinger, Actress
11 Sorrell Booke 64USActor
11 William Conrad 73USActor, Producer
15 Tiger Haynes 86USActor
19 Derek Jarman 52UKDirector, Screenwriter
24 Dinah Shore 76USSinger, Actress
28 Enrico Maria Salerno 67ItalyActor
March 2 Anita Morris 50USActress
4 John Candy 43CanadaActor
6 Melina Mercouri 73GreeceActress
8 John Ewart 66AustraliaActor
9 Fernando Rey 76SpainActor
17 Mai Zetterling 68SwedenActress
21 Macdonald Carey 81USActor
21 Lili Damita 89FranceActress
21 Dack Rambo 52USActor
22 Walter Lantz 94USAnimator
23 Giulietta Masina 73ItalyActress
23 Paula Trueman 93USActress
29 Bill Travers 72UKActor
April 2 Betty Furness 78USActress
3 Frank Wells 62USStudio Executive
4 Ginny Simms 80USSinger, Actress
12 Frank V. Phillips 82USCinematographer
16 John McLiam 76CanadaActor
16 Ron Vawter 45USActor
20 Dennis Cleveland Stewart 46USActor
27 Lynne Frederick 39UKActress
30 Chris Butler 41USSet Decorator
30 Ferdinando Scarfiotti 53ItalyProduction Designer
May 6 Fred Sadoff 67USActor
7 Ray Elton 80UKCinematographer
8 George Peppard 65USActor
8 Murray Spivack 90USSound Engineer
11 Timothy Carey 65USActor
15 Royal Dano 71USActor
15 Gilbert Roland 88MexicoActor
16 Alain Cuny 85FranceActor
19 Henry Morgan 79USActor
24 Oscar Saul 81USScreenwriter
29 Joseph Janni 78ItalyProducer
31 Sidney Gilliat 86UKDirector, Screenwriter
June 2 Philip Dunne 84USScreenwriter, Director
4 Stephen McNally 80USActor
4 Massimo Troisi 41ItalyActor, Director, Screenwriter
6 Johnny Downs 80USActor
6 Barry Sullivan 81USActor
7 Dennis Potter 59UKScreenwriter
11 Herbert Anderson 77USActor
12 Chris Latta 44USActor
13 Nadia Gray 70RomaniaActress
13 K. T. Stevens 74USActress
14 Henry Mancini 70USComposer
16 Eileen Way 82UKActress
20 Robin Raymond 77USActress
21 Winston Miller 83USScreenwriter
22 Jack Davies 80UKScreenwriter
July 1Dominic Lucero26USDancer, Actor
6 Cameron Mitchell 75USActor
8 Robert B. Hauser 75USCinematographer
8 Dick Sargent 64USActor
14 Eric Linden 84USActor
14 Alberto Lionello 64ItalyActor
19 Gottfried Reinhardt 83GermanyDirector
20Gregg Fonseca41USProduction Designer
23 Mario Brega 71ItalyActor
23 Hans J. Salter 98AustriaComposer
30 Janis Carter 80USActress
August 2 Bert Freed 74USActor
3 John Zenda 50USActor
7 Robert Hutton 74USActor
11 Peter Cushing 81UKActor
11Red Mitchell33USActor
14 Joan Harrison 87UKScreenwriter, Producer
16 John Doucette 73USActor
21 Danitra Vance 40USActress
26 Norman Warwick 74UKCinematographer
26 Tariq Yunus 47-54IndiaActor
30 Lindsay Anderson 71UKDirector
September 6 James Clavell 72AustraliaScreenwriter, Director
6 Duccio Tessari 67ItalianDirector, Screenwriter
7 Dennis Morgan 85USActor
7 Godfrey Quigley 71IsraelActor
7 Terence Young 79ChinaDirector
9 Douglas Morrow 80USScreenwriter
9 Patrick O'Neal 66USActor
10 Charles Drake 76USActor
11 Jessica Tandy 85UKActress
12 Tom Ewell 85USActor
15 Mark Stevens 77USActor
16 Jack Dodson 63USActor
17 Iris Adrian 82USActress
18Wayne Finkelman47USCostume Designer
20 Jule Styne 88UKSongwriter, Composer
21 Arthur B. Krim 84USStudio Executive
23 Robert Bloch 77USScreenwriter
28 Harry Saltzman 78CanadaProducer
30 Lina Basquette 87USActress
30 Sydney Walker 73USActress
October 1 Marjorie Weaver 81USActress
2 Harriet Nelson 85USActress
3 Virginia Dale 77USActress
3 Dub Taylor 87USActor
7 James Hill 75UKDirector
8 Diana Churchill 81UKActress
16 Peter Bromilow 61UKActor
17 Monja Danischewsky 83RussiaScreenwriter, Producer
17 Martha Raye 78USActress
20 Burt Lancaster 80USActor
23 Robert Lansing 66USActor
24 Raul Julia 54Puerto RicoActor
25 Mildred Natwick 89USActress
26 Tutta Rolf 87NorwayActress
November 1 Noah Beery Jr. 81USActor
7 Carleton Young 89USActor
8 Michael O'Donoghue 54USScreenwriter, Actor
9 Ralph Michael 87UKActor
9 Richard Rust 54USActor
11 Ernest Clark 82UKActor
14 Tom Villard 40USActor
18 Cab Calloway 86USActor, Singer
24 Irwin Kostal 83USOrchestrator
27 Rufina Nifontova 63RussiaActress
30 Lionel Stander 86USActor
December 5 Alan Splet 54USSound Engineer
5 Harry Horner 84Czech RepublicProduction Designer, Director
5 Günter Meisner 68GermanyActor
6 Gian Maria Volonté 61ItalyActor
11 Yuli Raizman 90RussiaDirector, Screenwriter
18 Lilia Skala 98HungaryActress
23 Nora Dunfee 78USDialogue Coach, Actress
23 Sebastian Shaw 89UKActor
24 Rossano Brazzi 78ItalyActor
24 Julie Haydon 84USActress
24 John Osborne 65UKActor, Screenwriter
26 Robert Emhardt 81USActor
26 Sylva Koscina 61YugoslaviaActress
27 Steve Plytas 81UKActor
29 Frank Thring 68AustraliaActor
31 Woody Strode 80USActor

Film debuts

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References

  1. Turan, Kenneth (January 4, 1994). "The Lion Will Roar at LACMA" . Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on May 18, 2022. Retrieved May 17, 2022.
  2. "1994 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo . IMDb . Retrieved March 7, 2020.
  3. The Lion King
  4. Gordinier, Jeff (July 15, 1994). "Val Kilmer takes over Batman Forever". Entertainment Weekly.
  5. "Keaton quits new 'Batman' movie". United Press International . July 1, 1994.