1994: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Ed Wood (dir: Tim Burton)

2. Pulp Fiction (dir: Quentin Tarantino)

3. To Live (dir: Zhang Yimou)

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

5. Hoop Dreams (dir: Steve James)

6. Green Snake (dir: Tsui Hark; US Release Date)

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

8. Red (dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski)

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), Interview with a Vampire (dir: Neil Jordan), 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

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

Best Actor:
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

Best Actress:
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

Best Supporting Actor:
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

Best Supporting Actress:
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

Best Original Screenplay:
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

Best Adapted Screenplay:
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

Best Cinematography:
The Hudsucker Proxy — Roger Deakins
2. Green Snake — Ko Chiu-Lam
3. Ed Wood – Stefan Czapsky
4. The Secret of Roan Inish — Haskell Wexler
5. The Madness of King George — Andrew Dunn

Best Original Score:
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

Best Film Editing:
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

Best Production Design:
1. The Green Snake — Bill Lui Cho-Hung
2. Interview with the Vampire – Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo
3. Queen Margot – Richard Peduzzi and Olivier Radot
4. Legends of the Fall — Lilly Kilvert and Dorree Cooper
5. The Hudsucker Proxy – Dennis Gassner and Nancy Haigh

Best Costume Design:
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. Interview with the Vampire — Sandy Powell
4. Green Snake — Bo-Ling Ng
5. Little Women — Colleen Atwood

Best Visual Effects
Forrest Gump
2. The Mask
3. True Lies

Best Sound
Speed
2. The Lion King
3. Forrest Gump

Best Makeup
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, Speed — 3, Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert — 1, Forrest Gump — 1, The Green Snake — 1, The Hudsucker Proxy — 1, Interview with the Vampire — 1, Heavenly Creatures — 1, Hoop Dreams — 1, Lion King — 1, Little Women — 1, To Live — 1

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

Ed Wood — 9,
Pulp Fiction — 7, Interview with the Vampire — 6, Bitter Moon — 5, Body Snatchers — 4, The Green Snake — 4, To Live— 4, Forrest Gump — 3, Hoop Dreams — 3, The Madness of King George — 3, Red — 3, The Shawshank Redemption — 3, Speed — 3, True Lies — 3, Heavenly Creatures — 2, The Hudsucker Proxy — 2, The Lion King — 2, Little Women — 2, The Secret of Roan Inish — 2, Wild Reeds — 2

the year-end project:
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s