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.
Pulp Fiction
Bullets Over Broadway
Eat Drink Man Woman
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Spanking the Monkey
Clean, Shaven
Clerks
I Like It Like That
Suture
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
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
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
Chazz Palminteri – Bullets Over Broadway
Giancarlo Esposito – Fresh
Larry Pine – Vanya on 42nd Street
Eric Stoltz – Pulp Fiction
Nicholas Turturro – Federal Hill
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
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
Spanking the Monkey – David O. Russell
Blessing – Paul Zehrer
Clerks – Kevin Smith
Fun – James Bosley
What Happened Was... – Tom Noonan
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
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
Sean Nelson – Fresh
Jeff Anderson – Clerks
Jeremy Davies – Spanking the Monkey
Alicia Witt – Fun
Renée Zellweger – Love and a .45
Hoop Dreams
Lodge Kerrigan – Clean, Shaven
