1994
Chungking Express
(1994)
Kar-wai Wong
8 wins & 19 nominations.
Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
(1994)
Anne Rice (screenplay), Anne Rice (novel)
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 18 wins & 21 nominations.
A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.
Leon: The Professional
(1994)
Luc Besson
3 wins & 8 nominations.
Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. Léon and Mathilda form an unusual relationship, as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
(1994)
Mary Shelley (novel), Steph Lady (screenplay), Frank Darabont (screenplay)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 12 nominations.
When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.
Natural Born Killers
(1994)
Quentin Tarantino (story), David Veloz (screenplay), Richard Rutowski (screenplay), Oliver Stone (screenplay)
Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations.
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Pulp Fiction
(1994)
Quentin Tarantino (story), Roger Avary (story), Quentin Tarantino
Won 1 Oscar. Another 54 wins & 60 nominations.
Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.
The Crow
(1994)
James O'Barr (comic book series and comic strip), David J. Schow (screenplay), John Shirley (screenplay)
3 wins & 6 nominations.
A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante's invincibility.
The Shawshank Redemption
(1994)
Stephen King (short story "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption"), Frank Darabont (screenplay)
Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 20 nominations.
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.