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    1994 in film
        Events
        Top grossing films
        Awards
        Films released in 1994
        Births
        Deaths

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Events

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).

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Top grossing films

Forrest Gump, starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field

The Lion King (Disney)

True Lies, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis

The Santa Clause, starring Tim Allen, Wendy Crewson

The Flintstones, starring John Goodman, Rick Moranis, Rosie O'Donnell, Halle Berry, Kyle MacLachlan

Dumb & Dumber, starring Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Victoria Rowell

Clear and Present Danger, starring Harrison Ford

Speed starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock

The Mask, starring Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz

Pulp Fiction, starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, and Uma Thurman

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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

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

PALM D'OR (Cannes Film Festival):

Pulp Fiction, directed by Quentin Tarantino, United States

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Films released in 1994

(a)

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Airheads

Angels in the Outfield

Baby's Day Out

Barcelona

Blank Check

Blue Sky

Clear and Present Danger

Clerks

The Crow

Dumb & Dumber

Ed Wood

First Action Hero

The Flintstones

Forrest Gump

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla

Heavenly Creatures

Hoop Dreams

Interview with the Vampire

It's Pat: The Movie, redirecting to Pat (Saturday Night Live)

The Last Seduction

Leprechaun 2

Lightning Jack

The Lion King

Little Odessa — starring Tim Roth and Edward Furlong

The Mask

Miracle on 34th Street (remake)

Muriel's Wedding (a)

Necronomicon

No Escape

On Deadly Ground

CPU

Pulp Fiction

The Puppet Masters starring Donald Sutherland, based on Robert A. Heinlein's book

Quiz Show

Rapa Nui

The Ref

The Santa Clause

The Shadow

The Shawshank Redemption

Sirens

Speed

Stargate — starring Kurt Russell

Star Trek: Generations — starring Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes.

The Sum of Us (a)

Three Colors: White - 2nd of the Krzysztof Kieślowski trilogy, starring Julie Delpy

Three Colors: Red — 3rd of the Krzysztof Kieślowski trilogy, starring Irène Jacob

True Lies

Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Wolf — starring Jack Nicholson and James Spader

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Births

February 23 - Dakota Fanning, actress

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Deaths

January 1 - Cesar Romero, actor

January 22 - Telly Savalas, actor

February 6 - Joseph Cotten, actor

February 11 - Sorrell Booke, actor

February 11 - William Conrad, actor

February 19 - Derek Jarman, director

February 24 - Dinah Shore, singer,actress

March 4 - John Candy, comedian and actor

March 6 - Melina Mercouri, actress

March 17 - Mai Zetterling, actress, director

March 21 - MacDonald Carey, actor

March 21 - Lili Damita, actress

March 23 - Giulietta Masina, actress

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

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