52nd Golden Globe Awards

The 52nd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1994, were held on January 21, 1995 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Actor – Drama

Tom Hanks – Forrest Gump

• Morgan Freeman – The Shawshank Redemption
• Paul Newman – Nobody's Fool
• Brad Pitt – Legends of the Fall
• John Travolta – Pulp Fiction

Best Actor – Musical or Comedy

Hugh Grant – Four Weddings and a Funeral

• Jim Carrey – The Mask
• Johnny Depp – Ed Wood
• Arnold Schwarzenegger – Junior
• Terence Stamp – The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Best Actress – Drama

Jessica Lange – Blue Sky

• Jennifer Jason Leigh – Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
• Jodie Foster – Nell
• Miranda Richardson – Tom & Viv
• Meryl Streep – The River Wild

Best Actress – Musical or Comedy

Jamie Lee Curtis – True Lies

• Geena Davis – Speechless
• Andie MacDowell – Four Weddings and a Funeral
• Shirley MacLaine – Guarding Tess
• Emma Thompson – Junior

Best Director

Robert Zemeckis – Forrest Gump

• Robert Redford – Quiz Show
• Oliver Stone – Natural Born Killers
• Quentin Tarantino – Pulp Fiction
• Edward Zwick – Legends of the Fall

Best Film – Drama

Forrest Gump

• Legends of the Fall
• Nell
• Pulp Fiction
• Quiz Show

Best Film – Musical or Comedy

The Lion King

• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
• Ed Wood
• Four Weddings and a Funeral
• Prêt-à-Porter

Best Foreign Language Film

Farinelli • Belgium

• Eat Drink Man Woman (Yin shi nan nu) • Taiwan
• Queen Margot (La Reine Margot) • France
• Three Colors: Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge) • Poland/Switzerland
• To Live (Huozhe) • Hong Kong

Best Original Score

The Lion King – Hans Zimmer

• Forrest Gump – Alan Silvestri
• Interview with the Vampire – Elliot Goldenthal
• Legends of the Fall – James Horner
• Nell – Mark Isham

Best Original Song

"Can You Feel the Love Tonight" by Elton John – The Lion King

• "The Color of the Night" – Color of Night
• "Look What Love Has Done" by Patty Smyth – Junior
• "Circle of Life" by Elton John – The Lion King
• "Far Longer than Forever" by Madonna – The Swan Princess
• "I'll Remember" – With Honors

Best Screenplay

Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino

• Forrest Gump – Eric Roth
• Four Weddings and a Funeral – Richard Curtis
• Quiz Show – Paul Attanasio
• The Shawshank Redemption – Frank Darabont

Best Supporting Actor

Martin Landau – Ed Wood

• Kevin Bacon – The River Wild
• Samuel L. Jackson – Pulp Fiction
• Gary Sinise – Forrest Gump
• John Turturro – Quiz Show

Best Supporting Actress

Dianne Wiest – Bullets Over Broadway

• Kirsten Dunst – Interview with the Vampire
• Sophia Loren – Prêt-à-Porter
• Robin Wright Penn – Forrest Gump
• Uma Thurman – Pulp Fiction

Television

Best Actor – Drama Series

Dennis Franz – NYPD Blue

• Mandy Patinkin – Chicago Hope
• Jason Priestly – Beverly Hills, 90210
• Tom Skerritt – Picket Fences
• Sam Waterston – Law & Order

Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Series

Tim Allen – Home Improvement

• Kelsey Grammer – Frasier
• Craig T. Nelson – Coach
• Paul Reiser – Mad About You
• Jerry Seinfeld – Seinfeld
• Garry Shandling – The Larry Sanders Show

Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film

Raúl Juliá – The Burning Season

• Alan Alda – White Mile
• James Garner – Breathing Lessons
• Rutger Hauer – Fatherland
• Samuel L. Jackson – Against the Wall

Best Actress – Drama Series

Claire Danes – My So-Called Life

• Kathy Baker – Picket Fences
• Jane Seymour – Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
• Angela Lansbury – Murder, She Wrote
• Heather Locklear – Melrose Place

Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Series

Helen Hunt – Mad About You

• Candice Bergen – Murphy Brown
• Brett Butler – Grace Under Fire
• Ellen DeGeneres – Ellen
• Patricia Richardson – Home Improvement

Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film

Joanne Woodward – Breathing Lessons

• Kirstie Alley – David's Mother
• Irene Bedard – Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
• Diane Keaton – Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
• Diana Ross – Out of Darkness

Best Series – Drama

The X-Files

• Chicago Hope
• ER
• NYPD Blue
• Picket Fences

Best Series – Musical or Comedy

Frasier
Mad About You

• Grace Under Fire
• Home Improvement
• Seinfeld

Best Miniseries or Television Film

The Burning Season

• Fatherland
• The Return of the Native
• Roswell
• White Mile

Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film

Edward James Olmos – The Burning Season

• Jason Alexander – Seinfeld
• Fyvush Finkel – Picket Fences
• David Hyde Pierce – Frasier
• John Malkovich – Heart of Darkness

Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film

Miranda Richardson – Fatherland

• Sonia Braga – The Burning Season
• Tyne Daly – Christy
• Laura Leighton – Melrose Place
• Jane Leeves – Frasier
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Seinfeld
• Laurie Metcalf – Roseanne
• Leigh Taylor-Young – Picket Fences
• Liz Torres – The John Larroquette Show

Awards breakdown

Film

3 / 4 The Lion King: Best Original Score and Song & Best Picture - Musical or Comedy

3 / 7 Forrest Gump: Best Actor - Drama, Best Director & Best Picture - Drama

1 / 1 Blue Sky: Best Actress - Drama

1 / 1 Bullets Over Broadway: Best Supporting Actress

1 / 1 Farinelli: Best Foreign Language Film

1 / 1 True Lies: Best Actress - Musical or Comedy

1 / 3 Ed Wood: Best Supporting Actor

1 / 4 Four Weddings and a Funeral: Best Actor - Musical or Comedy

1 / 6 Pulp Fiction: Best Screenplay