Quiz Show is so much better than the other films that were nomintated (and yes, I have seen all of them). The slick directing, the vivid screenplay, the stylish cinematography, the great performances, everything in this movie was an example of film making of the highest quality. It deserved everything it was nominated for, and should've been nominated for (and won) other categories.
1. Forrest Gump
2. Quiz Show
3. Pulp Fiction
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Four Weddings and a Funeral
I still think Forrest Gump (the film) and Tom Hanks rightfully won their Oscars. The movie has a talismanic feeling to it and it is every epitome of a classic film. It's the film that nobody has forgotten about yet, while all the other nominees have faded into a distance. Sure, people are still talking about Pulp Fiction and that film has garnered its share of imitators but I still don't think it can touch Forrest Gump.
I did like Quiz Show. I thought it was stylistic, perfectly executed, and extremely underrated. If it have won Best Picture of 1994, I would have no complaints. But Forrest Gump is still the film that I can watch countless times and still fall in love with it again.
I think I should re-watch Pulp Fiction but I thought it went a little over-the-top with its artsy-ness and bizarre storytelling and out-of-the-world dialogue.
As for The Shawshank Redemption and Four Weddings and a Funeral -- well, I didn't like either of them very much.
'Pulp Fiction' was the best movie that year. I don't like Tarantino's persona but the truth is that 'Pulp Fiction' is a much better film than 'Forrest Gump'.
About 'Quiz Show', 1994 was a very competitive year. I really liked it but I'd place it only in the 3th place.
From best to worse:
1. Pulp Fiction
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Quiz Show
4. Four Weddings and a Funeral
5. Forrest Gump.
1994 was a very good year for films but i think 1979 was better-
the warriors
kramer vs kramer
mad max
time after time
alien
the china syndrome
salem's lot
breaker morant
apocalypse now
and justice for all
girls are like domain names.all the good ones are taken.
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Forrest Gump won way too few Oscar awards that year; at least Gary Sinise should have won as well.
Quiz Show was an ok movie but not really even close to being an Oscar material and i don't think it would have won it for best picture in any other year either. I don't really like Pulp Fiction that much and even though The Shawshank Redemption is a good movie, i think it is way overrated and i'm really glad thos movies didn't win.
Four Weddings and a funeral is a great movie and if it wasn't for Forrest Gump, it should have been that movie to win.
"Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen."
-John Mason
Outstanding movie, the cast was great and the pace was amazing. It kept my interest througout the whole thing, it definetly should have won.
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I couldn't agree more, one of the greatest surprises was how amazing this film is. Miles better than Forrest Gump and Four Weddings and a Funeral and also better than Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption.
share1994 was one of the best years for movies, but I don't think I will be watching Quiz Show again, unlike Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, Clerks, The Lion King, Ed Wood, Leon and Crumb.
shareAgree. Quiz Show was a great film, and I can watch it multiple times. But 1994 was a year of heavyweight films. I think 1997 was also, Fargo, Slingblade, Tatantic, Boogie Nights, Austin Powers, but I think English Patient won the Oscar. I would have given it to Fargo, a nearly flawless film.
Films these days are really lack in comparison.
I actually think that out of all the nominated movies that year gump was the weakest, and I think if they had to do it over again shawshank or quiz show win exceptional film that just ran into a juggernaut named Forrest gump.
shareYes, 1994 was a great year. Loved these movies. Here is my ranking of the films I like the best from '94.
Notice I said "like" not "liked". I like some movies more and some movies less with the passage of time.
"Quiz Show" has held up very well over the years. If I spot it playing on TV, I enjoy watching it again.
Terrific acting and a wonderful story with a lesson. A lesson that we continually seeing repeating up to the present. Lance Armstrong. From a hero to a bum. Just like that.
1.) "Quiz Show"
2.) "Pulp Fiction"
3.) "The Shawshank Redemption"
4.) "Forrest Gump"
5.) "Legends of the Fall"
6.) "Bullets Over Broadway"
7.) "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
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