Best Picture: 1994

1927/28 through 1997

Best Picture: 1994

Forrest Gump
3
6%
Four Weddings and a Funeral
7
14%
Pulp Fiction
19
38%
Quiz Show
13
26%
The Shawshank Redemption
8
16%
 
Total votes: 50

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Four Weddings and a Funeral
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Damien wrote:Hugh Grant's omission in the Best Actor race was the Oscars at their most infuriating.

Pulp Fiction. Just watched it again yesterday.

As much as I loath John Revolta he is brilliant as Vincent Vega. As I was watching I wondered who would have picked up the number five slot if Tom Hanks and FG had flamed out that year. Would it have been Hugh? And who would have won? Would the Academy feel that they owed Freeman for losing out to Day Lewis in '89?
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Voted for Pulp Fiction, though Shawshank is an enjoyable movie, and I used to love Forrest Gump for a long time. Quiz Show was quite a good movie as well.
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Each in its own distinctive way, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction and hawshank are loathesome movies. Four Weddings is one of the most infectiously charming movies ever -- it's the natural heir to the Ealing comedies of the late 40s - mid 50s.

Hugh Grant's omission in the Best Actor race was the Oscars at their most infuriating.
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I voted Quiz Show, though I'm sort of embarassed to pick something so milquetoast. I like Pulp Fiction, but it's no Jackie Brown.
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'Pulp Fiction'.
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Out of these: The Shawshank Redemption.

Mine: Legends of the Fall.
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Pulp Fiction
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Gump was very touching even though Hanks is not a favorite of mine.
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Quiz Show, although I do like Shawshank, perhaps the most overrated good movie of recent times. Pulp Fiction is entertaining too.

Four Weddings and Forrest Gump are well made movies made difficult to sit through by the downright embarassing acting of Andie Macdowell and Tom Hanks.
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Forrest Gump - as Penelope would say, sue me.
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Four Weddings and a Funeral.
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Quiz Show, but I caught Pulp Fiction the other day and it holds up well. Two of my favorite films of the 80s. I can take or leave the other three: nothing special, but nothing to balk at either.
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