Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction won the Palme d’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.
The Palme d’Or is the Cannes competition’s highest prize, and Pulp Fiction received it from the festival jury chaired by Clint Eastwood. The award helped establish the film as a major international landmark before its wide theatrical release later in 1994.
Pulp Fiction is structured as several interlocking stories presented out of chronological order. Its cast includes John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames. The film’s dialogue, nonlinear editing and mixture of crime-film conventions with dark humor became central to its reputation.
The Cannes prize is sometimes confused with the film’s later Academy Awards recognition. Pulp Fiction received seven Oscar nominations and won Best Original Screenplay for Tarantino and Roger Avary. The Golden Lion belongs to the Venice Film Festival, while the Golden Bear is awarded at Berlin.