Pulp Fiction awards and nominations
Quentin Tarantino at the Berlin Film Festival in 2009. An out-of-focus and colorful umbrella can be seen in the background.
Pulp Fiction received critical acclaim and earned Quentin Tarantino the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Totals[a]
Wins23
Nominations51
Note
  1. ^ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They recognize several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, who conceived it with Roger Avary, for A Band Apart and Jersey Films. It stars an ensemble cast consisting of John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Maria de Medeiros, Ving Rhames, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken, and Bruce Willis. The plot is told out of chronological order and features three main interrelated stories with different protagonists: Vincent Vega (Travolta), a hitman; Butch Coolidge (Willis), a prizefighter; and Jules Winnfield (Jackson), Vincent's business partner. The film was produced by Lawrence Bender, shot with cinematographer Andrzej Sekuła, and edited by Sally Menke on an $8 million production budget. It was theatrically released by Miramax on October 14, 1994, and was a commercial success, grossing $213.9 million worldwide.

At the 67th Academy Awards, Pulp Fiction nominated in seven categories and won Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary). At the 52nd Golden Globe Awards it received six nominations and won Best Screenplay – Motion Picture. At the 48th British Academy Film Awards it received nine nominations and won two, including those for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Samuel L. Jackson). At the 47th Cannes Film Festival it won Palme d'Or award.

It became one of the seven films to win Best Picture from three out of four major U.S. film critics' groups (LA, NBR, NY, NSFC) along with Nashville, All the President's Men, Terms of Endearment, Goodfellas, The Hurt Locker, and Drive My Car.

Awards and nominations

Award[a] Date of ceremony[b] Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Academy Awards 27 March 1995 Best Picture Lawrence Bender Nominated [1]
Best Director Quentin Tarantino Nominated
Best Actor John Travolta Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Samuel L. Jackson Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Uma Thurman Nominated
Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary Won
Best Film Editing Sally Menke Nominated
British Academy Film Awards 1995 Best Film Lawrence Bender and Quentin Tarantino Nominated [2]
Best Direction Quentin Tarantino Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary Won
Best Cinematography Andrzej Sekuła Nominated
Best Actor in a Leading Role John Travolta Nominated
Best Actress in a Leading Role Uma Thurman Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Samuel L. Jackson Won
Best Sound Rick Ash, Stephen Hunter Flick, Ken King and David Zupancic Nominated
Best Editing Sally Menke Nominated
Cannes Film Festival 12–23 May 1994 Palme d'Or Quentin Tarantino Won [3]
David di Donatello Awards 3 June 1995 Best Foreign Film Quentin Tarantino Won [4]
Golden Globe Awards 21 January 1995 Best Director Quentin Tarantino Nominated [5]
Best Motion Picture – Drama Lawrence Bender Nominated
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture Quentin Tarantino Won
Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Samuel L. Jackson Nominated
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama John Travolta Nominated
Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Uma Thurman Nominated
Independent Spirit Awards 25 March 1995 Best Feature Lawrence Bender Won [6]
Best Director Quentin Tarantino Won
Best Male Lead Samuel L. Jackson Won
Best Screenplay Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary Won
Best Supporting Male Eric Stoltz Nominated
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 10 December 1994 Best Film Pulp Fiction Won [7]
Best Director Quentin Tarantino Won
Best Actor John Travolta Won
Best Supporting Actor Samuel L. Jackson Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Uma Thurman Nominated
Best Screenplay Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary Won
MTV Movie & TV Awards 10 June 1995 Best Movie Pulp Fiction Won
Best Dance Sequence Uma Thurman and John Travolta Won
Best Female Performance Uma Thurman Nominated
Best Male Performance John Travolta Nominated
Best On-Screen Duo Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta Nominated
Best Movie Song For the song "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" Nominated
National Board of Review Awards 27 February 1995 Best Film Pulp Fiction [c] Won
Best Director Quentin Tarantino Won
Top Ten Films Pulp Fiction Won
National Society of Film Critics 3 January 1995 Best Film Quentin Tarantino Won [8]
Best Director Won
Best Screenplay Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary Won
Saturn Awards 26 June 1995 Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film Pulp Fiction Won
Screen Actors Guild Awards February 25, 1995 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role John Travolta Nominated [9]
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Samuel L. Jackson Nominated
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Uma Thurman Nominated

Year-end lists

Notes

  1. ^ Awards, festivals and organizations are in Alphabetical order.
  2. ^ Date is linked to the article about the awards held that year, wherever possible.
  3. ^ Tied with Forrest Gump.

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