National Board of Review Awards 1994

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66th National Board of Review Awards


Best Picture (tie):
Forrest Gump &
Pulp Fiction

The 66th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 1994, were announced on 14 December 1994 and given on 27 February 1995.

This is a list of films released in 1994. The top worldwide grosser was The Lion King, becoming the highest-grossing Walt Disney Feature Animation 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.

Contents

Top 10 films

  1. Forrest Gump , Pulp Fiction
  2. Quiz Show
  3. Four Weddings and a Funeral
  4. Bullets over Broadway
  5. Ed Wood
  6. The Shawshank Redemption
  7. Nobody's Fool
  8. The Madness of King George
  9. Tom & Viv
  10. Heavenly Creatures

Top Foreign Films

  1. Eat Drink Man Woman
  2. To Live
  3. Strawberry and Chocolate
  4. Three Colors: Red
  5. Queen Margot

Winners

<i>Forrest Gump</i> 1994 American film directed by Robert Zemeckis

Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. It was directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Eric Roth. The film stars Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, and Sally Field. The story depicts several decades in the life of Forrest Gump (Hanks), a slow-witted but kind-hearted man from Alabama who witnesses and, unwittingly, influences several defining historical events in the 20th century in the United States.

<i>Pulp Fiction</i> 1994 American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino

Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino; it is based on a story by Tarantino and Roger Avary. Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman, it tells several stories of criminal Los Angeles. The film's title refers to the pulp magazines and hardboiled crime novels popular during the mid-20th century, known for their graphic violence and punchy dialogue.

<i>Eat Drink Man Woman</i> 1994 film by Ang Lee

Eat Drink Man Woman is a 1994 Taiwanese comedy-drama film directed by Ang Lee and starring Sihung Lung, Yu-wen Wang, Chien-lien Wu, and Kuei-mei Yang. The film was released on 3 August 1994, and it was both a critical and box office success. In 1994, the film received the Asia Pacific Film Festival Award for Best Film, and in 1995 it received an Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

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