1994 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role Winner
![The Piano Holly Hunter](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-piano-jane-campion-image.jpg)
The Piano
Holly Hunter
In the mid-19th century, a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.
1994 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role Nominees
![Shadowlands Debra Winger](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/shadowlands-richard-attenborough-image.jpg)
Shadowlands
Debra Winger
![Six Degrees of Separation Stockard Channing](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/six-degrees-of-separation-fred-schepisi-image.jpg)
Six Degrees of Separation
Stockard Channing
![The Remains of the Day Emma Thompson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-remains-of-the-day-james-ivory-image.jpg)
The Remains of the Day
Emma Thompson
![What's Love Got to Do with It Angela Bassett](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it-brian-gibson-image.jpg)