Selected Film Awards 1994

▪ Table

Golden Globes, awarded in Beverly Hills, Calif., in January 1994

Best drama Schindler's List (U.S.; director, Steven Spielberg)

Best musical or comedy Mrs. Doubtfire (U.S.; director, Chris Columbus)

Best director Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List, U.S.)

Best actress, drama Holly Hunter (The Piano, Australia)

Best actor, drama Tom Hanks (Philadelphia, U.S.)

Best actress, musical or comedy Angela Bassett (What's Love Got to Do with It, U.S.)

Best actor, musical or comedy Robin Williams (Mrs. Doubtfire, U.S.)

Best foreign film Farewell My Concubine (China; director, Chen Kaige)

Sundance Film Festival, awarded in Park City, Utah, in January 1994

Grand Jury Prize, dramatic film What Happened Was . . . (U.S.; director, Tom Noonan)

Grand Jury Prize, documentary Freedom on My Mind (U.S.; directors, Connie Field

and Marilyn Mulford)

Audience Award, dramatic film Spanking the Monkey (U.S.; director, David O. Russell)

Audience Award, documentary Hoop Dreams (U.S.; directors, Peter Gilbert,

Steve James, and Frederick Marx)

Berlin International Film Festival, awarded in February 1994

Golden Bear In the Name of the Father (U.K./U.S.; director,

Jim Sheridan)

Special Jury Prize Fresa y chocolate (Cuba/Mexico/Spain; directors,

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabio)

Best director Krzysztof Kieslowski (Trois Couleurs Blanc, France/

Poland/Switzerland)

Best actor Tom Hanks (Philadelphia, U.S.)

Best actress Crissy Rock (Ladybird, Ladybird, U.K.)

Césars (France), awarded in February 1994

Best film Smoking-No Smoking (France; director, Alain Resnais)

Best director Alain Resnais (Smoking-No Smoking, France)

Best actress Juliette Binoche (Trois Couleurs Bleu, France)

Best actor Pierre Arditi (Smoking-No Smoking, France)

Best first film The Scent of Green Papaya (France/Vietnam; director,

Tran Anh Hung)

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars, U.S.), awarded

in Los Angeles in March 1994

Best film Schindler's List (U.S.; director, Steven Spielberg)

Best actor Tom Hanks (Philadelphia, U.S.)

Best actress Holly Hunter (The Piano, Australia)

Best supporting actor Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive, U.S.)

Best supporting actress Anna Paquin (The Piano, Australia)

Best director Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List, U.S.)

Best foreign-language film Belle Époque (Spain; director, Fernando Trueba)

British Academy of Film and Television Awards, awarded in April 1994

Outstanding British film

of the year Shadowlands (director, Richard Attenborough)

Best film Schindler's List (U.S.; director, Steven Spielberg)

Best director Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List, U.S.)

Best actress Holly Hunter (The Piano, Australia)

Best actor Anthony Hopkins (The Remains of the Day, U.K.)

Best supporting actress Miriam Margolyes (The Age of Innocence, U.S.)

Best supporting actor Ralph Fiennes (Schindler's List, U.S.)

Cannes International Film Festival, France, awarded in May 1994

Palme d'Or Pulp Fiction (U.S.; director, Quentin Tarantino)

Jury Grand Prize Burnt by the Sun (Russia/France; director, Nikita Mikhalkov)

To Live (China/Hong Kong; director, Zhang Yimou)

Jury Prize La Reine Margot (France; director, Patrice Chéreau)

Best director Nanni Moretti (Caro diario, Italy)

Best script Michel Blanc (Grosse Fatigue, France)

Best actor Ge You (To Live, China/Hong Kong)

Best actress Virna Lisi (La Reine Margot, France)

Caméra d'Or Petits Arrangements avec les morts

for best first film (France; director, Pascal Ferran)

International Exotica (Canada; director, Atom Egoyan)

Critics' Prizes Bab el-Oued City (Algeria/France; director, Merzak Allouache)

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic, awarded in July 1994

Grand Prix Mi hermano del alma (Spain; director, Mariano Barroso)

Best director Timur Bekmambetov, Gennady Kayumov (Peshawar Waltz, CIS)

Special Jury Prize Lekce Faust (Czech Republic/France; director,

Jan Svankmaer)

Przypadek pekoscinskiego (Poland; director,

Grzegorz Krolikiewicz)

Best actor Max von Sydow (Time Is Money, France)

Best actress Natasha Richardson (Widows' Peak, U.K.)

Venice Film Festival, Italy, awarded in September 1994

Golden Lion Before the Rain (France/U.K./Macedonia; director,

Milcho Manchevski)

Vive l'amour (Taiwan; director, Tsai Ming-liang)

Special Jury Prize Natural Born Killers (U.S.; director, Oliver Stone)

Silver Lion Heavenly Creatures (New Zealand; director, Peter Jackson)

Little Odessa (U.S.; director, James Gray)

The Bull (Italy; director, Carlo Mazzacurati)

Volpi Cup, best actor Xia Yu (In the Heat of the Sun, China)

Volpi Cup, best actress Maria de Madeiros (Tres Irmãos, Portugal)

Best director Gianni Amelio (Lamerica, Italy)

San Sebastián International Film Festival, Spain, awarded in October 1994

Best film Dias contados (Spain; director, Imanol Uribe)

Best director Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave, U.K.)

Best actress Ning Jing (Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker, China)

Best actor Javier Bardem (Dias contados, The Detective

and Death, Spain)

Special Jury Prize Von Lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarman

(Germany; director, Andreas Gruber)

European Film Awards (Felix), awarded in Berlin in November 1994

Best European Lamerica (Italy; director, Gianni Amelio)

film of the year

Best young European film Woyzeck (Hungary; director, Janos Szasz)

of the year Le Fils du requin (France; director, Agnés Merlet)

1994 Tokyo International Film Festival, awarded in Kyoto, Japan, in October 1994

Grand Prix The Day the Sun Turned Cold (Hong Kong; director, Ho Yim)

Special Jury Prize 47 Ronin (Japan; director, Kon Ichikawa)

Best director Ho Yim (The Day the Sun Turned Cold, Hong Kong)

Best actress Debra Winger (A Dangerous Woman, U.S.)

Best actor Niu Zhenhua (Back to Back, Face to Face, China)

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