In this episode we cover the 67th Academy Awards, which honored the films of 1994. The nominees were: Forrest Gump, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, and The Shawshank Redemption. We also discuss The Lion King, Ed Wood, and Heavenly Creatures.

Notes: SPOILERS - we talk through the full plots of all the movies we cover.

Timestamps are approximate:

10:30 - Four Weddings and a Funeral

17:50 - Forrest Gump

• Resource: James Amos Burton's (2008) PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. " Film, history and cultural memory: cinematic representations of Vietnam-era America during the culture wars, 1987-1995"

35:05 - Quiz Show

49:45 - Pulp Fiction

57:50 - The Shawshank Redemption

1:07:20 - Should something else have been nominated?

• 1:07:30 - The Lion King
• 1:10:20 - Ed Wood
• 1:17:45 - Heavenly Creatures

1:33:40 - Did the Oscars get it wrong?

1:34:40 - Jake Gyllenhaal Corner

1:36:20 - Conclusions

1:41:10 - Next Time

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