10th Independent Spirit Awards

The 1994 Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 1994, were announced on March 25, 1995. It was hosted by Kevin Pollak.

Nominees and winners

Best Feature

Pulp Fiction

• Bullets Over Broadway
• Eat Drink Man Woman
• Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
• Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Best First Feature

Spanking the Monkey

• Clean, Shaven
• Clerks
• I Like It Like That
• Suture

Best Director

Quentin Tarantino – Pulp Fiction

• John Dahl – Red Rock West
• Ang Lee – Eat Drink Man Woman
• Roman Polanski – Death and the Maiden
• Alan Rudolph – Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Best Male Lead

Samuel L. Jackson – Pulp Fiction

• Sihung Lung – Eat Drink Man Woman
• William H. Macy – Oleanna
• Campbell Scott – Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
• Jon Seda – I Like It Like That

Best Female Lead

Linda Fiorentino – The Last Seduction

• Jennifer Jason Leigh – Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
• Karen Sillas – What Happened Was...
• Lauren Vélez – I Like It Like That
• Chien-lien Wu – Eat Drink Man Woman

Best Supporting Male

Chazz Palminteri – Bullets Over Broadway

• Giancarlo Esposito – Fresh
• Larry Pine – Vanya on 42nd Street
• Eric Stoltz – Pulp Fiction
• Nicholas Turturro – Federal Hill

Best Supporting Female

Dianne Wiest – Bullets Over Broadway

• V.S. Brodie – Go Fish
• Carla Gallo – Spanking the Monkey
• Kelly Lynch – The Beans of Egypt, Maine
• Brooke Smith – Vanya on 42nd Street

Best Screenplay

Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary

• Bullets Over Broadway – Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath
• Eat Drink Man Woman – Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus and Ang Lee
• Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle – Alan Rudolph and Randy Sue Coburn
• Red Rock West – John Dahl and Rick Dahl

Best First Screenplay

Spanking the Monkey – David O. Russell

• Blessing – Paul Zehrer
• Clerks – Kevin Smith
• Fun – James Bosley
• What Happened Was... – Tom Noonan

Best Cinematography

Barcelona – John Thomas

• The Beans of Egypt, Maine – Stevan Larner
• Eat Drink Man Woman – Jong Lin
• I Like It Like That – Alexander Gruzynski
• Suture – Greg Gardiner

Best Foreign Film

Red • France/Poland

• The Blue Kite • China/Hong Kong
• The Boys of St. Vincent • Canada
• Ladybird Ladybird • UK
• Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould • Canada

Best Debut Performance

Sean Nelson – Fresh

• Jeff Anderson – Clerks
• Jeremy Davies – Spanking the Monkey
• Alicia Witt – Fun
• Renée Zellweger – Love and a .45

Special Distinction Award

• Hoop Dreams

Someone to Watch Award

• Lodge Kerrigan – Clean, Shaven

External links

• 1994 Spirit Awards at IMDb