1994 in film
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This is a list of film-related events in 1994.
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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).
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
- Best Picture: Forrest Gump- Touchstone Pictures
- Best Director: Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
- Best Actor: Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
- Best Actress: Jessica Lange - Blue Sky
- Best Score: Hans Zimmer - The Lion King
Births
- February 23 - Dakota Fanning, actress
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
Kids films
Other movies released
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert(a)
- Airheads
- Angels in the Outfield
- Baby's Day Out
- Barcelona
- Blank Check
- Clerks.
- The Crow
- Four Weddings and a Funeral
- Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla
- Hoop Dreams
- Interview with the Vampire
- IQ
- The Last Seduction
- Lightning Jack
- Little Odessa — starring Tim Roth and Edward Furlong
- Miracle on 34th Street
- Muriels Wedding (a)
- Necronomicon
- On Deadly Ground
- The Puppet Masters starring Donald Sutherland, based on Robert A. Heinlein's book
- Quiz Show
- Rapa Nui
- ''The Ref
- Heavenly Creatures
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Stargate — starring Kurt Russell
- — starring Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes.
- The Sum of Us (a)
- — 3rd of the Krzysztof Kieślowski trilogy, starring Irène Jacob
- Wolf — starring Jack Nicholson and James Spader
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