Top Box Office in 1994


1	Forrest Gump (1994)
2	True Lies (1994)
3	The Santa Clause (1994)
4	The Flintstones (1994)
5	Dumb & Dumber (1994)
6	Clear and Present Danger (1994)
7	Speed (1994/I)
8	The Mask (1994)
9	Pulp Fiction (1994)
10	Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
11	Maverick (1994)
12	The Client (1994)
13	Disclosure (1994)
14	Star Trek: Generations (1994)
15	Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

Best Picture in 1994:
Forrest Gump

Best Actor: Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump
Best Actress: Jessica Lange, Blue Sky
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1	John Candy
2	Macdonald Carey
3	James Clavell
4	William Conrad
5	Walter Kent
6	Robert E. Lee
7	Henry Mancini
8	Cameron Mitchell
9	Cesar Romero
10	Dick Sargent
11	Telly Savalas
12	Dinah Shore
13	Jule Styne
14	Jessica Tandy
15	Terence Young

Highest Rated in 1994


1	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2	Pulp Fiction (1994)
3	"Riget" (1994) (mini)
4	Léon (1994)
5	Forrest Gump (1994)
6	Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)
7	Ed Wood (1994)
8	Huozhe (1994)
9	Hoop Dreams (1994)
10	Clerks. (1994)
11	Chung Hing sam lam (1994)
12	Once Were Warriors (1994)
13	The Lion King (1994)
14	Before the Rain (1994)
15	Heavenly Creatures (1994)

More films of note for 1994


1	The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
2	Postino, Il (1994)
3	Trzy kolory: Bialy (1994)
4	Crumb (1994)
5	Quiz Show (1994)
6	Reality Bites (1994)
7	The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
8	Immortal Beloved (1994)
9	Nobody's Fool (1994)
10	Backbeat (1994)
11	Little Buddha (1993)
12	Spanking the Monkey (1994)
13	North (1994)
14	The Last Seduction (1994)
15	PCU (1994)

A one-time video store clerk named Quentin Tarantino releases Pulp Fiction, jolting the film industry and inspiring myriad filmmakers.

Blockbluster True Lies is boycotted by Arab American groups, who are angered by the depictions of Middle Easterners as religious zealots.

In Living Color, the TV series that launched the careers of the Wayans brothers, Jamie Foxx, Jim Carrey and Jennifer Lopez, ends its four year run.

Jack Nicholson plays golf -- with another driver's windshield.

Johnny Depp goes rockstar on his New York hotel room, causing almost $10,000 worth of damage.

Disney releases The Lion King, the first of their animated features to show the death of a main character on screen.

The Shawshank Redemption has a low-key theatrical run, before going on to become one of the highest grossing rental flicks of all time.

Filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski completes his epic Three Colors trilogy with Trois couleurs: Rouge.

January 1st: Users can now search for character names, browse the top 40 or bottom 40 rated films, and access overviews of the "busiest" actors/actresses/directors/etc.

April: Collection of user submissions is centralized at a single e-mail address. Submitters had formerly contacted the section managers individually.

First press mention of the database, an article in the UK's Personal Computer World (PCW) magazine.

November: IMDb provides first semi-official web site for the London Film Festival (not fully official because nobody at the festival really understood what a web site was at the time).

New lists added this year: producers, soundtracks, quotes, aka-names (aliases), certificates, color-info, country of release, production-companies, genre, sound-mix, literature, locations, movie-links, release-dates, taglines, technical, and the miscellaneous crew list.

Additionally the format of the cast lists (actors and actresses) which now includes the complete cast list, is modified to include information on the order in which the cast members are listed in the credits of the movies.

December 31st: The database covers more than 36,000 movies and contains over 440,000 entries.

O.J. Simpson becomes the main suspect in the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson.

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock race to the top of the box office in Speed.

Dakota Fanning is born.

A TV show about 20-somethings hanging out in a coffee house debuts -- Friends.

Kevin Smith releases Clerks, an independent film that he paid for with credit cards and cash borrowed from his family and friends.

Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson are married.

Madonna swears her way through an interview on Late Night With David Letterman.


	According to 1980's atrocious The Apple in the future world of 1994 the music industry is ruled by an evil, scheming conglomerate set on monopolizing the business (hey, wait a minute....)