Forrest Gump won best picture because
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Forrest Gump
FuzzyCanyon — 3 years ago(June 19, 2022 09:39 AM)
it was NOT the best picture. Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction were both moderately superior but this only reuslted in them cancelling each other out and, like Jenny, let Gump slip in.
This only goes to show what an exceptional year 1994 was and that to miss viewing either one of these would be a loss.
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rudeboymurray — 3 years ago(June 19, 2022 11:25 AM)
Quiz Show was imo the best of the nominees.
Shawshank wasn’t in the running. It’s popularity surged in the years following the Oscars - it had not made much money and was an underdog, lucky to get the nominations it did.
I think Gump, a monster hit that hit the zeitgeist, was always out in front, with Pulp Fiction the runner-up, but a distant one.