1994 (67th Annual Awards)
Nominations and Winners
Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 1994. The
symbol appears next to the winner in each category. Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the nominations and winners from that year.
Best Picture
Forrest Gump, Steve Tisch/Wendy Finerman Production; Paramount. Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch and Steve Starkey, Producers.
Four Weddings and a Funeral, Working Title Production; Gramercy Pictures. (UK) Duncan Kenworthy, Producer.Quiz Show, Hollywood Pictures Presentation of a Wildwood Enterprises/Baltimore Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Robert Redford, Michael Jacobs, Julian Krainin and Michael Nozik, Producers.Actor in a Leading Role
Nigel Hawthorne in The Madness of King George, Close Call Films Production; Samuel Goldwyn Company in association with Channel Four. (UK)Paul Newman in Nobody’s Fool, Scott Rudin/Cinehaus Production; Paramount in association with Capella International.Actress in a Leading Role
Actor in a Supporting Role
Paul Scofield in Quiz Show, Hollywood Pictures Presentation of a Wildwood Enterprises/Baltimore Pictures Production; Buena Vista.Actress in a Supporting Role
Helen Mirren in The Madness of King George, Close Call Films Production; Samuel Goldwyn Company in association with Channel Four. (UK)Directing
Quiz Show, Hollywood Pictures Presentation of a Wildwood Enterprises/Baltimore Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Robert Redford.Art Direction-Set Decoration
Bullets over Broadway, Jean Doumanian Production; Miramax Films. Art direction by Santo Loquasto; set decoration by Susan Bode.Forrest Gump, Steve Tisch/Wendy Finerman Production; Paramount. Art direction by Rick Carter; set decoration by Nancy Haigh.Interview with the Vampire, Geffen Pictures Production; Geffen Pictures through Warner Bros. Art direction by Dante Ferretti; set decoration by Francesca Lo Schiavo.Legends of the Fall, TriStar Pictures Production; TriStar. Art direction by Lilly Kilvert; set decoration by Dorree Cooper.The Madness of King George, Close Call Films Production; Samuel Goldwyn Company in association with Channel Four. (UK) Art direction by Ken Adam; set decoration by Carolyn Scott.Cinematography
Costume Design
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Latent Images Production; Gramercy Pictures. (Australia) Lizzy Gardiner and Tim Chappel.Documentary
(Feature)
D-Day Remembered, Guggenheim Productions, Inc. Production for the National D-Day Museum. Charles Guggenheim.Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, American Film Foundation/Sanders and Mock Production. Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders.(Short Subject)
Blues Highway, Half-Court Pictures, Ltd./National Geographic Society Production. Vince DiPersio and Bill Guttentag.89mm od Europy (89mm from Europe), Studio Filmowe “Kalejdoskop”/Telewizja Polska Production. (Poland) Marcel Lozinski.A Time for Justice, Guggenheim Productions, Inc. Production for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Charles Guggenheim.Film Editing
Hoop Dreams, Kartemquin Films Production; Fine Line Features. Frederick Marx, Steve James and Bill Haugse.Foreign Language Film
Before the Rain, Aim Production/Noe Productions/Vardar Films Production; Gramercy Pictures. (Republic of Macedonia, France, UK)Burnt by the Sun, Camera One/Studio “Trite” Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Russia, France)Eat Drink Man Woman, Central Motion Picture Corporation Production in association with Ang Lee Productions and Good Machine; Samuel Goldwyn Company. (Taiwan)Farinelli: Il Castrato, K2 Productions/RTL/TVI/Stephan Films/Alinea Films/Le Studio Canal +/UGC Images/France 2 Cinema/MG S.r.l./Italian International Film S.r.l. Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (France, Italy, Belgium, UK)Strawberry and Chocolate, ICAIC/IMCINE/Telemadrid/S.G.A.E./Tabasco Films Production; Miramax Films. (Cuba, Mexico, Spain, USA)Makeup
Forrest Gump, Steve Tisch/Wendy Finerman Production; Paramount. Daniel C. Striepeke, Hallie D’Amore and Judith A. Cory.Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, TriStar Pictures Production; TriStar. (USA, Japan, UK) Daniel Parker, Paul Engelen and Carol Hemming.Music
(Original Score)
Interview with the Vampire, Geffen Pictures Production; Geffen Pictures through Warner Bros. Elliot Goldenthal.(Original Song)
Can You Feel the Love Tonight from The Lion King, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Music by Elton John; lyric by Tim Rice.Circle of Life from The Lion King, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Music by Elton John; lyric by Tim Rice.Hakuna Matata from The Lion King, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Music by Elton John; lyric by Tim Rice.Look What Love Has Done from Junior, Northern Lights Entertainment Production; Universal. Music and lyric by Carole Bayer Sager, James Newton Howard, James Ingram and Patty Smyth.Make Up Your Mind from The Paper, Imagine Entertainment Production; Universal. Music and lyric by Randy Newman.Short Films
(Animated)
Bob’s Birthday, Snowden Fine Animation for Chanel Four/National Film Board of Canada Production. (Canada, UK) Alison Snowden and David Fine.(Live Action)
Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life, Conundrum Films Production. (UK) Peter Capaldi and Ruth Kenley-Letts.Sound
Clear and Present Danger, Mace Neufeld and Robert Rehme Production; Paramount. (USA, Mexico) Donald O. Mitchell, Michael Herbick, Frank A. Montaño and Arthur Rochester.Forrest Gump, Steve Tisch/Wendy Finerman Production; Paramount. Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis Sands and William B. Kaplan.Legends of the Fall, TriStar Pictures Production; TriStar. Paul Massey, David Campbell, Christopher David and Douglas Ganton.The Shawshank Redemption, Castle Rock Entertainment Production; Columbia. Robert J. Litt, Elliot Tyson, Michael Herbick and Willie Burton.Speed, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. Gregg Landaker, Steve Maslow, Bob Beemer and David R. B. MacMillan.Sound Effects Editing
Clear and Present Danger, Mace Neufeld and Robert Rehme Production; Paramount. (USA, Mexico) Bruce Stambler and John Leveque.Visual Effects
Forrest Gump, Steve Tisch/Wendy Finerman Production; Paramount. Ken Ralston, George Murphy, Stephen Rosenbaum and Allen Hall.The Mask, Katja Motion Picture Production; New Line. Scott Squires, Steve Williams, Tom Bertino and Jon Farhat.True Lies, Lightstorm Entertainment Production; 20th Century Fox. John Bruno, Thomas L. Fisher, Jacques Stroweis and Patrick McClung.Writing
(Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)
The Madness of King George, Close Call Films Production; Samuel Goldwyn Company in association with Channel Four. (UK) Alan Bennett.Nobody’s Fool, Scott Rudin/Cinehaus Production; Paramount in association with Capella International. Robert Benton.Quiz Show, Hollywood Pictures Presentation of a Wildwood Enterprises/Baltimore Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Paul Attanasio.(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
Heavenly Creatures, Wingnut Films Production; Miramax Films. (New Zealand, Germany) Frances Walsh and Peter Jackson.Pulp Fiction, A Band Apart/Jersey Films Production; Miramax Films. Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino; stories by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary.Red, CAB/MK2/TOR Production; Miramax Films. (Switzerland, France, Poland) Krzysztof Piesiewicz and Krzysztof Kieslowski.Honorary Award
To Michelangelo Antonioni in recognition of his place as one of the cinema’s master visual stylists. [ [Statuette]]To John A. Bonner in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ [Medal of Commendation]]Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Scientific and Technical Award
(Academy Award of Merit)
To Petro Vlahos and Paul Vlahos for the conception and development of the Ultimatte Electronic Blue Screen Compositing Process for motion pictures.To the Eastman Kodak Company for the development of the Eastman EXR Color Intermediate Film 5244.(Scientific and Engineering Award)
To Gary Demos and Dan Cameron of Information International, David DiFrancesco and Gary Starkweather of Pixar, and Scott Squires of Industrial Light & Magic for their pioneering work in the field of film input scanning.To Ray Feeney, Will McCown and Bill Bishop of RFX, Inc., and Les Dittert of Pacific Data Images for their development work with area array CCD (Charge Coupled Device) film input scanning systems.To Lincoln Hu and Michael MacKenzie of Industrial Light & Magic and Glenn Kennel and Mike Davis of Eastman Kodak for their joint development work on a linear array CCD (Charge Coupled Device) film input scanning system.To Iain Neil for the optical design, Al Saiki for the mechanical design and Panavision International L.P. for the development of the Panavision 11:1 Primo Zoom Lens for motion picture photography.To James Ketcham of JSK Engineering for the concept and design of the MC211 micro processor based motion controller for synchronizing sprocketed film with time-code based machines.To William J. Warner and Eric C. Peters for the concept, Michael E. Phillips and Tom A. Ohanian for the system design, and Patrick D. O’Connor and Joe H. Rice for the engineering of the Avid Film Composer for motion picture editing.To Paul Bamborough for the concept, Nick Pollack and Arthur Wright for the hardware development, and Neil Harris and Duncan MacLean for the software development of The Lightworks Editor for motion picture editing.To George Sauve, Bill Bishop, Arpag Dadourian, Ray Feeney and Richard Patterson for the Cinefusion software, implementation of the Ultimatte Blue Screen Compositing Technology.(Technical Achievement Award)
To B. Russell Hessey of Special Effects Spectacular, Inc., and Vincent T. Kelton for the hardware design and George Jackman of De La Mare Engineering, Inc. for the pyrotechnic development which together comprise the non-gun safety blank firing system.To Frieder Hochheim, Gary Swink, Dr. Joe Zhou and Don Northrop for the development of the Kino Flo Portable, Flicker-Free, High-Output Florescent Lighting System for motion picture set illumination.To Emanuel Previnaire of Flying-Cam for his pioneering concept and for the development of mounting a motion picture camera on a remotely-controlled miniature helicopter.To Jacques Sax of Sonosax for the design and development of the Sonosax SX-S portable audio mixer.To Clay Davis and John Carter of Todd-AO for the pioneering effort of computer controlled list management style ADR (Automated Dialogue Recording).To Stephen W. Potter, John B. Asman, Charles Pell and Richard Larson of LarTec Systems for the advancement and refinement of the computer controlled list management style ADR (Automated Dialogue Recording) system via the LarTec ADR System that has established itself as a standard of the industry.To Audio Tracks, Inc. for the design and development of the ADE (Advanced Data Encoding) System which creates an encoded timecode track and database during the initial transfer of the production sound “dailies”.To Colin Broad of CB Electronics for the design and development of the EDL (Edit Decision List) lister which creates an encoded timecode track and database during the initial transfer of the production sound “dailies”.To Dieter Sturm of Sturm’s Special Effects Int’l, for the creation and development of the Bio-Snow 2 Flake.To Mark R. Schneider, Herbert R. Jones, Christopher D. Conover and John R. B. Brown for the development of the Polhemus 3 Space Digitizing System.To Jack Smith, Michael Crichton and Emil Safier for pioneering computerized motion picture budgeting and scheduling.To Stephen Greenfield and Chris Huntley of Screenplay Systems for development of the “Scriptor” software.To Art Fritzen of the California Fritzen Propeller Company as the designer and sole manufacturer of the Eight-Bladed Ritter Fan Propellers.To Dr. Mike Boudry of the Computer Film Company for his pioneering work in the field of film input scanning.NOTE: The Scientific and Technical Awards were presented at their own ceremony on March 4, 1995, in the Ballroom of the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel.