The 67th Academy Awards were held on March 27, 1995, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, honoring the films of 1994. CBS late night host David Letterman hosted, the third different host in three years. His monologue included a much discussed introduction pairing the names Uma and Oprah, and he called Tom Hanks onstage to take part in a performing dog trick. Reviews of his performance were divided.

Forrest Gump, the story of a slow witted Southerner who stumbles through the segregated South, the Vietnam War, the AIDS crisis and several presidencies, entered with 13 nominations and won six: Best Picture, Best Director for Robert Zemeckis, his first Oscar, Best Actor for Hanks, Best Adapted Screenplay for Eric Roth, film editing and visual effects. Its worldwide box office gross had topped $500 million.

Hanks won Best Actor for the second year in a row, after Philadelphia, becoming the first actor to win the award in consecutive years since…