# 10th Independent Spirit Awards

The 10th Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 1994, were announced on March 25, 1995. Hosted by Kevin Pollak, it was the second ceremony to be held under a tent in a parking lot on the beach in Santa Monica.

## Winners and nominees

| Best Feature | Best Director |
| Pulp Fiction Bullets Over Broadway Eat Drink Man Woman Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Wes Craven's New Nightmare | 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 |
| Best Male Lead | Best Female Lead |
| 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 |
| Best Supporting Male | Best Supporting Female |
| 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 |
| Best Screenplay | Best First Screenplay |
| 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 |
| Best First Feature | Best Debut Performance |
| Spanking the Monkey Clean, Shaven Clerks I Like It Like That Suture | Sean Nelson – Fresh Jeff Anderson – Clerks Jeremy Davies – Spanking the Monkey Alicia Witt – Fun Renée Zellweger – Love and a .45 |
| Best Cinematography | Best Foreign Film |
| 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 |

### Films that received multiple nominations

| Nominations | Film |
| 6 | Eat Drink Man Woman |
| 5 | Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle |
| 5 | Pulp Fiction |
| 4 | Bullets Over Broadway |
| 4 | I Like It Like That |
| 4 | Spanking the Monkey |
| 3 | Clerks |
| 2 | The Beans of Egypt, Maine |
| 2 | Fresh |
| 2 | Fun |
| 2 | Red Rock West |
| 2 | Suture |
| 2 | Vanya on 42nd Street |
| 2 | What Happened Was... |

### Films that won multiple awards

| Awards | Film |
| 4 | Pulp Fiction |
| 2 | Bullets Over Broadway |
| 2 | Spanking the Monkey |

## Special awards
### Special Distinction Award

* Hoop Dreams

### Someone to Watch Award

* Lodge Kerrigan – Clean, Shaven

### Friends of Independence Award

* Samuel Goldwyn Jr.