1994 (67th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1994 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). 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 winners from that year.

Best Picture

Forrest Gump, Steve Tisch/Wendy Finerman Production; Paramount. Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch and Steve Starkey, Producers.

Actor in a Leading Role

Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump, Steve Tisch/Wendy Finerman Production; Paramount.

Actress in a Leading Role

Jessica Lange in Blue Sky, Robert H. Solo Production; Orion.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Martin Landau in Ed Wood, Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Dianne Wiest in Bullets over Broadway, Jean Doumanian Production; Miramax Films.

Directing

Forrest Gump, Steve Tisch/Wendy Finerman Production; Paramount. Robert Zemeckis.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

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

Legends of the Fall, TriStar Pictures Production; TriStar. John Toll.

Costume Design

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Latent Images Production; Gramercy Pictures. (Australia) Lizzy Gardiner and Tim Chappel.

Documentary

(Feature)

Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, American Film Foundation/Sanders and Mock Production. Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders.

(Short Subject)

A Time for Justice, Guggenheim Productions, Inc. Production for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Charles Guggenheim.

Film Editing

Forrest Gump, Steve Tisch/Wendy Finerman Production; Paramount. Arthur Schmidt.

Foreign Language Film

Burnt by the Sun, Camera One/Studio “Trite” Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Russia, France)

Makeup

Ed Wood, Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Rick Baker, Ve Neill and Yolanda Toussieng.

Music

(Original Score)

The Lion King, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Hans Zimmer.

(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.

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.

Trevor, Rajski/Stone Production. Peggy Rajski and Randy Stone.

Sound

Speed, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. Gregg Landaker, Steve Maslow, Bob Beemer and David R. B. MacMillan.

Sound Effects Editing

Speed, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. Stephen Hunter Flick.

Visual Effects

Forrest Gump, Steve Tisch/Wendy Finerman Production; Paramount. Ken Ralston, George Murphy, Stephen Rosenbaum and Allen Hall.

Writing

(Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)

Forrest Gump, Steve Tisch/Wendy Finerman Production; Paramount. Eric Roth.

(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

Pulp Fiction, A Band Apart/Jersey Films Production; Miramax Films. Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino; stories by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary.

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

Quincy Jones

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Clint Eastwood

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 David A. Addleman and Lloyd A. Addleman for the development of the Cyberware 3030 3D Digitizer.

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.