1994: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

  1. Ed Wood (dir: Tim Burton)

  2. Pulp Fiction (dir: Quentin Tarantino)

  3. Red (dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski)

  4. Bitter Moon (dir: Roman Polanski; US Release Date)

  5. Hoop Dreams (dir: Steve James)

  6. To Live (dir: Zhang Yimou)

  7. Body Snatchers (dir: Abel Ferrera; US Release Date)

  8. Interview with the Vampire (dir: Neil Jordan)

  9. Wild Reeds (dir: Andre Techine)

  10. The Secret of Roan Inish (dir: John Sayles)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Angie (dir: Martha Coolidge), Chungking Express (dir: Wong Kar-wai), Cold Water (dir: Olivier Assayas), Crooklyn (dir: Spike Lee), Dumb & Dumber (dir: Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly), Heavenly Creatures (dir: Peter Jackson), Leon: The Professional (dir: Luc Besson), Little Women (dir: Gillian Armstrong), The Madness of King George (dir: Nicholas Hytner), Muriel’s Wedding (dir: P.J. Hogan), Queen Margot (dir: Patrice Chereau), Serial Mom (dir: John Waters), Speed (dir: Jan de Bont), and White (dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski)


Best Film of the Year: Ed Wood
Director: Tim Burton Producers: Tim Burton, Denise Di Novi
US Distributor: Touchstone Pictures


Krzysztof Kieslowski on the set of Red

Best Director:
1. Krzysztof Kieslowski, Red
2. Tim Burton, Ed Wood
3. Roman Polanski, Bitter Moon
4. Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction
5. Zhang Yimou, To Live


Johnny Depp and Martin Landau in Tim Burton's Ed Wood

Johnny Depp and Martin Landau in Tim Burton's Ed Wood

Best Actor:
1. Johnny Depp, Ed Wood
2. John Travolta, Pulp Fiction
3. Peter Coyote, Bitter Moon
4. Nigel Hawthorne, The Madness of King George
5. Morgan Freeman, The Shawshank Redemption

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Kate Winslet in Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures

Kate Winslet in Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures

Best Actress:
1. Kate Winslet, Heavenly Creatures
2. Gong Li, To Live
3. Geena Davis, Angie
4. Natalie Portman, Leon: The Professional
5. Linda Fiorentino, The Last Seduction

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Samuel L. Jackson in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction

Samuel L. Jackson in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction

Best Supporting Actor:
1.
Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction
2. Martin Landau, Ed Wood
3. Bill Paxton, True Lies
4. Robert Downey, Jr., Natural Born Killers
5. Tom Cruise, Interview with the Vampire

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Kirsten Dunst in Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (left) and Gillian Armstrong’s Little Women (right)

Kirsten Dunst in Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (left) and Gillian Armstrong’s Little Women (right)

Best Supporting Actress:
1. Kirsten Dunst,
Interview with the Vampire AND Little Women
2. Uma Thurman, Pulp Fiction
3. Meg Tilly, Body Snatchers
4. Dianne Wiest, Bullets Over Broadway
5. Robin Wright, Forrest Gump

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Bronagh Gallagher, John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Eric Stoltz in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction

Bronagh Gallagher, John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Eric Stoltz in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction

Best Original Screenplay:
1. Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
2. Cold Water — Olivier Assayas
3. Wild Reeds – Olivier Massart, Gilles Taurand and Andre Techine 
4. Serial Mom — John Waters
5. Heavenly Creatures — Frances Walsh and Peter Jackson

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Sarah Jessica Parker and Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's Ed Wood

Sarah Jessica Parker and Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's Ed Wood

Best Adapted Screenplay:
1. 
Ed Wood — Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski  
2. To Live — Wei Lu and Hua Yu
3. The Shawshank Redemption – Frank Darabont
4. Bitter Moon — Roman Polanski, Gerard Brach, and John Brownjohn
5. Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice and Neil Jordan

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Jennifer Jason Leigh in Joel Coen's The Hudsucker Proxy

Jennifer Jason Leigh in Joel Coen's The Hudsucker Proxy

Best Cinematography:
1. 
The Hudsucker Proxy — Roger Deakins
2. Chungking Express – Christopher Doyle and Lau Wai-keung
3. Ed Wood – Stefan Czapsky
4. The Secret of Roan Inish — Haskell Wexler
5. The Madness of King George — Andrew Dunn

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Johnny Depp and Patricia Arquette in Tim Burton's Ed Wood

Johnny Depp and Patricia Arquette in Tim Burton's Ed Wood

Best Original Score:
1. 
Ed Wood – Howard Shore
2. Body Snatchers — Joe Delia
 3. Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles – Elliot Goldenthal
4. Bitter Moon — Michael Nyman
5. Red – Zbiginiew Preisner

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Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in Jan de Bont's Speed

Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in Jan de Bont's Speed

Best Film Editing:
1. Speed — John Wright
2. Body Snatchers — Anthony Redman
3. Hoop Dreams – Steve James, William Haugse and Frederick Marx
4. True Lies – Conrad Buff, Mark Goldblatt and Richard A. Harris
5. Ed Wood — Chris Lebenzon

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Antonio Banderas (center) holds up Laure Marsac in Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire

Antonio Banderas (center) holds up Laure Marsac in Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire

Best Production Design:
1. Interview with the Vampire – Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo
2. The Hudsucker Proxy – Dennis Gassner and Nancy Haigh
3. Queen Margot – Richard Peduzzi and Olivier Radot
4. Legends of the Fall — Lilly Kilvert and Dorree Cooper
5. Timecop — Phillip Harrison, Anna Marie Corbett and Rose Marie McSherry

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Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp and Hugo Weaving in Stephan Elliott's The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp and Hugo Weaving in Stephan Elliott's The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Best Costume Design:
1. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert — Lizzy Gardiner and Tim Chappel
 
2. The Madness of King George — Sue Honeyborne and Mark Thompson
3. The Interview with the Vampire — Sandy Powell
4. Bullets Over Broadway — Jeffrey Kurland
5. Little Women — Colleen Atwood

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Best Visual Effects
1. Forrest Gump

2. The Mask
3. Interview with a Vampire


Best Sound
1. The Hudsucker Proxy

2. The Lion King
3. Forrest Gump


Best Makeup
1. Ed Wood

2. Interview with a Vampire
3. The Mask


Best Documentary Feature: 
Steve James, Hoop Dreams

Best Animated Feature:
Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, The Lion King

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Pulp Fiction

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Jan de Bont, Speed 

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Quentin Tarantino; in alphabetical order): Rosanna Arquette, Maria de Medeiros, Peter Greene, Samuel L. Jackson (pictured), Harvey Keitel (pictured), Phil LaMarr, Amanda Plummer, Ving Rhames, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman, John Travolta (pictured), Christopher Walken, Frank Whaley, Duane Whitaker and Bruce Willis in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction

Best First Feature: Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock (pictured) in Jan de Bont's Speed


RECAP

W I N S :

Ed Wood 5,
Pulp Fiction 3, The Hudsucker Proxy 2, The Interview with the Vampire 2, Speed 2, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 1, Forrest Gump — 1, Heavenly Creatures 1, Hoop Dreams 1, Little Women 1, The Lion King 1, The Mask — 1, Red 1


M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

Ed Wood 9, The Interview with the Vampire 9,
Pulp Fiction 7, Bitter Moon 5, Body Snatchers4, To Live4, Forrest Gump 3, Hoop Dreams 3, The Hudsucker Proxy 3, The Madness of King George 3, Red 3, The Shawshank Redemption 3, Bullets Over Broadway 2, Heavenly Creatures 2, Lion King 2, Little Women 2, The Secret of Roan Inish — 2, Speed 2, True Lies 2, Wild Reeds 2


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