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October 14th 1994 - The Shawshank Redemption

Released in theaters the same day as Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption doesn’t have the spice, action, or sex appeal that Pulp Fiction has but it is arguably one of the greatest movies ever made. 

It was nominated for seven Academy awards including best picture, but ultimately didn’t win any. No one was going to beat Tom Hanks and Forrest Gump that year. And if you did, you had to go through Pulp Fiction and Quiz Show. In other years Shawshank would have been a shoe in for Best Picture, and yet, Forrest Gump.

In 1998, Shawshank was not listed in AFI’s “100 Years…100 Movies” but when the list was revised in 2007 it came in at #72 outranking both Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction. That certainly came as some vindication.