Best Picture Winner
Forrest Gump
Best Picture
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Studio: Paramount
The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the Vietnam War, and other events unfold from the perspective of a simple man from Alabama.
All Categories (29)
Best Picture
Forrest Gump— Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch and Steve Starkey, Producers
Winner
Four Weddings and a Funeral— Duncan Kenworthy, Producer
Pulp Fiction— Lawrence Bender, Producer
Quiz Show— Robert Redford, Michael Jacobs, Julian Krainin and Michael Nozik, Producers
The Shawshank Redemption— Niki Marvin, Producer
Actor In A Leading Role
John Travolta— Pulp Fiction {"Vincent Vega"}
Morgan Freeman— The Shawshank Redemption {"Red"}
Nigel Hawthorne— The Madness of King George {"King George III"}
Paul Newman— Nobody's Fool {"Sully"}
Actor In A Supporting Role
Chazz Palminteri— Bullets over Broadway {"Cheech"}
Gary Sinise— Forrest Gump {"Lieutenant Dan"}
Paul Scofield— Quiz Show {"Mark Van Doren"}
Samuel L. Jackson— Pulp Fiction {"Jules Winnfield"}
Actress In A Leading Role
Jodie Foster— Nell {"Nell"}
Miranda Richardson— Tom & Viv {"Viv"}
Susan Sarandon— The Client {"Reggie Love"}
Winona Ryder— Little Women {"Jo March"}
Actress In A Supporting Role
Helen Mirren— The Madness of King George {"Queen Charlotte"}
Jennifer Tilly— Bullets over Broadway {"Olive Neal"}
Rosemary Harris— Tom & Viv {"Rose Haigh-Wood"}
Uma Thurman— Pulp Fiction {"Mia"}
Directing
Bullets over Broadway— Woody Allen
Pulp Fiction— Quentin Tarantino
Quiz Show— Robert Redford
Red— Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writing (Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published)
Forrest Gump— Eric Roth
Winner
Nobody's Fool— Robert Benton
Quiz Show— Paul Attanasio
The Madness of King George— Alan Bennett
The Shawshank Redemption— Frank Darabont
Writing (Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen)
Pulp Fiction— Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino; Stories by Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary
Winner
Bullets over Broadway— Woody Allen, Douglas McGrath
Four Weddings and a Funeral— Richard Curtis
Heavenly Creatures— Frances Walsh, Peter Jackson
Red— Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cinematography
Legends of the Fall— John Toll
Winner
Forrest Gump— Don Burgess
Red— Piotr Sobocinski
The Shawshank Redemption— Roger Deakins
Wyatt Earp— Owen Roizman
Music (Original Score)
The Lion King— Hans Zimmer
Winner
Forrest Gump— Alan Silvestri
Interview with the Vampire— Elliot Goldenthal
Little Women— Thomas Newman
The Shawshank Redemption— Thomas Newman
Music (Original Song)
"Can You Feel The Love Tonight" from The Lion King— Music by Elton John; Lyric by Tim Rice
Winner
"Circle Of Life" from The Lion King— Music by Elton John; Lyric by Tim Rice
"Hakuna Matata" from The Lion King— Music by Elton John; Lyric by Tim Rice
"Look What Love Has Done" from Junior— Music and Lyric by Carole Bayer Sager, James Newton Howard, James Ingram and Patty Smyth
"Make Up Your Mind" from The Paper— Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
Art Direction
The Madness of King George— Art Direction: Ken Adam; Set Decoration: Carolyn Scott
Winner
Bullets over Broadway— Art Direction: Santo Loquasto; Set Decoration: Susan Bode
Forrest Gump— Art Direction: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
Interview with the Vampire— Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
Legends of the Fall— Art Direction: Lilly Kilvert; Set Decoration: Dorree Cooper
Visual Effects
Forrest Gump— Ken Ralston, George Murphy, Stephen Rosenbaum, Allen Hall
Winner
The Mask— Scott Squires, Steve Williams, Tom Bertino, Jon Farhat
True Lies— John Bruno, Thomas L. Fisher, Jacques Stroweis, Patrick McClung
Film Editing
Forrest Gump— Arthur Schmidt
Winner
Hoop Dreams— Frederick Marx, Steve James, Bill Haugse
Pulp Fiction— Sally Menke
Speed— John Wright
The Shawshank Redemption— Richard Francis-Bruce
Sound
Speed— Gregg Landaker, Steve Maslow, Bob Beemer, David R. B. MacMillan
Winner
Clear and Present Danger— Donald O. Mitchell, Michael Herbick, Frank A. Montaño, Arthur Rochester
Forrest Gump— Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis Sands, William B. Kaplan
Legends of the Fall— Paul Massey, David Campbell, Christopher David, Douglas Ganton
The Shawshank Redemption— Robert J. Litt, Elliot Tyson, Michael Herbick, Willie Burton
Sound Effects Editing
Speed— Stephen Hunter Flick
Winner
Clear and Present Danger— Bruce Stambler, John Leveque
Forrest Gump— Gloria S. Borders, Randy Thom
Costume Design
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert— Lizzy Gardiner, Tim Chappel
Winner
Bullets over Broadway— Jeffrey Kurland
Little Women— Colleen Atwood
Maverick— April Ferry
Queen Margot— Moidele Bickel
Makeup
Ed Wood— Rick Baker, Ve Neill, Yolanda Toussieng
Winner
Forrest Gump— Daniel C. Striepeke, Hallie D'Amore, Judith A. Cory
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein— Daniel Parker, Paul Engelen, Carol Hemming
Documentary (Feature)
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision— Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders
Winner
A Great Day in Harlem— Jean Bach
Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter— Deborah Hoffmann
D-Day Remembered— Charles Guggenheim
Freedom on My Mind— Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford
Documentary (Short Subject)
A Time for Justice— Charles Guggenheim
Winner
89mm od Europy (89mm from Europe)— Marcel Lozinski
Blues Highway— Vince DiPersio, Bill Guttentag
School of Assassins— Robert Richter
Straight from the Heart— Dee Mosbacher, Frances Reid
Short Film (Animated)
Bob's Birthday— Alison Snowden, David Fine
Winner
The Big Story— Tim Watts, David Stoten
The Janitor— Vanessa Schwartz
The Monk and the Fish— Michael Dudok de Wit
Triangle— Erica Russell
Short Film (Live Action)
Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life— Peter Capaldi, Ruth Kenley-Letts
Winner
A tie. The other winning film in this category was Trevor.
Kangaroo Court— Sean Astin, Christine Astin
On Hope— JoBeth Williams, Michele McGuire
Syrup— Paul Unwin, Nick Vivian
Trevor— Peggy Rajski, Randy Stone
A tie. The other winning film in this category was Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life.
Foreign Language Film
Burnt by the Sun— Russia
Winner
Before the Rain— The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Eat Drink Man Woman— Taiwan
Farinelli: Il Castrato— Belgium
Strawberry and Chocolate— Cuba
Honorary Award
To Michelangelo Antonioni in recognition of his place as one of the cinema's master visual stylists.
Winner
Clint Eastwood
IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Quincy Jones
Winner
Medal Of Commendation
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.
Winner
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. [Special Photographic]
Winner
To the EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY for the development of the Eastman EXR Color Intermediate Film 5244. [Film]
Scientific And Technical Award (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. [Special Photographic]
Winner
To GEORGE SAUVE, BILL BISHOP, ARPAG DADOURIAN, RAY FEENEY and RICHARD PATTERSON for the Cinefusion software implementation of the Ultimatte Blue Screen Compositing Technology. [Special Photographic]
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. [Lenses and Filters]
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. [Sound]
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. [Special Photographic]
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. [Editorial and Pre-production]
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. [Special Photographic]
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. [Editorial and Pre-production]
Scientific And Technical Award (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. [Stage Operations]
Winner
To ART FRITZEN of the California Fritzen Propeller Company as the designer and sole manufacturer of the Eight-Bladed Ritter Fan Propellers. [Stage Operations]
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." [Sound]
To CLAY DAVIS and JOHN CARTER of Todd-AO for the pioneering effort of computer controlled list management style ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement). [Sound]
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." [Sound]
To DAVID A. ADDLEMAN and LLOYD A. ADDLEMAN for the development of the Cyberware 3030 3D Digitizer. [Special Photographic]
To DIETER STURM of Sturm's Special Effects Int'l for the creation and development of the Bio-Snow 2 Flake. [Stage Operations]
To DR. MIKE BOUDRY of the Computer Film Company for his pioneering work in the field of film input scanning. [Special Photographic]
To EMMANUEL PREVINAIRE of Flying-Cam for his pioneering concept and for the development of mounting a motion picture camera on a remotely-controlled miniature helicopter. [Photography]
To FRIEDER HOCHHEIM, GARY SWINK, DR. JOE ZHOU and DON NORTHROP for the development of the Kino Flo Portable, Flicker Free, High Output Fluorescent Lighting System for motion picture set illumination. [Lighting]
To JACK C. SMITH, MICHAEL CRICHTON and EMIL SAFIER for pioneering computerized motion picture budgeting and scheduling. [Editorial and Pre-production]
To JACQUES SAX of Sonosax for the design and development of the Sonosax SX-S portable audio mixer. [Sound]
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. [Special Photographic]
To STEPHEN GREENFIELD and CHRIS HUNTLEY of Screenplay Systems for development of the "Scriptor" software. [Editorial and Pre-production]
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 Replacement) system via the LarTec ADR System that has established itself as a standard of the industry. [Sound]