Editing Pulp Fiction (section)

== Release and reception ==

=== Release and box office ===
''Pulp Fiction'' premiered in May 1994 at the [[1994 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes Film Festival]]. The Weinsteins "hit the beach like commandos," bringing the picture's entire cast over to France.{{sfn|Charyn|2006|p=96}} The film was unveiled at a midnight hour screening and caused a sensation.{{sfn|Biskind|2004|p=174}}<ref name="Mas">{{cite news|last=Maslin|first=Janet|title=Pulp Fiction; Quentin Tarantino's Wild Ride On Life's Dangerous Road|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/23/movies/film-festival-review-pulp-fiction-quentin-tarantino-s-wild-ride-life-s-dangerous.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=1994-09-23|access-date=2007-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180515224056/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/23/movies/film-festival-review-pulp-fiction-quentin-tarantino-s-wild-ride-life-s-dangerous.html|archive-date=May 15, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> It won the [[Palme d'Or]], the festival's top prize, generating a further wave of publicity.<ref name="PdO">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/index.php/en/archives/awards/1994 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013220900/http://www.festival-cannes.com/index.php/en/archives/awards/1994 |archive-date=2007-10-13|title= All the Awards—Festival 1994|publisher=Cannes Festival|access-date=2007-09-14}}</ref>

The first U.S. review of the film was published on May 23 in industry trade magazine ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]''. [[Todd McCarthy]] called ''Pulp Fiction'' a "spectacularly entertaining piece of pop culture&nbsp;... a startling, massive success."<ref name="TM">{{cite magazine|last=McCarthy|first=Todd|authorlink=Todd McCarthy|title=''Pulp Fiction''|url=https://variety.com/1994/film/reviews/pulp-fiction-1200437049/|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=1994-05-23|access-date=2007-09-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228172344/https://variety.com/1994/film/reviews/pulp-fiction-1200437049/|archive-date=December 28, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> From Cannes forward, Tarantino was on the road continuously, promoting the film.{{sfn|Dawson|1995a|p=173}} Over the next few months, it played in smaller festivals around Europe, building buzz: Nottingham, Munich, [[Taormina Film Fest|Taormina]], Locarno, [[Norwegian International Film Festival|Norway]], and [[San Sebastián International Film Festival|San Sebastián]].<ref>{{cite news|title=''Pulp Fiction'' |url=https://www.variety.com/profiles/Film/main/30051/Pulp+Fiction.html?dataSet=1&query=%22pulp+fiction%22+1994 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012013656/http://variety.com/profiles/Film/main/30051/Pulp%2BFiction.html?dataSet=1&query=%22pulp%2Bfiction%22%2B1994 |archive-date=2007-10-12 |work=Variety |access-date=2007-09-20 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Tarantino later said: "One thing that's cool is that by breaking up the linear structure, when I watch the film with an audience, it does break [the audience's] [[alpha wave|alpha]] state. It's like, all of a sudden, 'I gotta watch this&nbsp;... I gotta pay attention.' You can almost feel everybody moving in their seats. It's actually fun to watch an audience in some ways chase after a movie."<ref name="T24">Enhanced Trivia Track, ch. 24, ''Pulp Fiction'' DVD (Buena Vista Home Entertainment).</ref> In late September, it opened the [[New York Film Festival]]. ''[[The New York Times]]'' published its review the day of the opening. [[Janet Maslin]] called the film a "triumphant, cleverly disorienting journey through a demimonde that springs entirely from Mr. Tarantino's ripe imagination, a landscape of danger, shock, hilarity and vibrant local color&nbsp;... [He] has come up with a work of such depth, wit and blazing originality that it places him in the front ranks of American film makers."<ref name="Mas" />
{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://charlierose.com/videos/368 Charlie Rose interview with Quentin Tarantino on ''Pulp Fiction'', October 14, 1994]}}
On October 14, 1994, ''Pulp Fiction'' went into general release in the United States. As Peter Biskind described: "It was not platformed, that is, it did not open in a handful of theaters and roll out slowly as word of mouth built, the traditional way of releasing an [[Independent film|indie film]]; it went wide immediately, into 1,100 theaters."{{sfn|Biskind|2004|p=189}} In the eyes of some cultural critics, ''Reservoir Dogs'' had given Tarantino a reputation for glamorizing violence. Miramax played with the issue in its marketing campaign: "You won't know the facts till you've seen the fiction", went one slogan.{{sfn|Dawson|1995a|p=171}} ''Pulp Fiction'' was the [[List of 1994 box office number-one films in the United States|top-grossing film at the US box office]] its first weekend with a gross of $9,311,882, edging out a [[Sylvester Stallone]] vehicle, ''[[The Specialist]]'', which was in its second week and playing at more than twice as many theaters. The gross claimed by Miramax Films was disputed by others. [[Warner Bros.]] initially reported an estimated gross of $8.9&nbsp;million for ''The Specialist'', with Bob Weinstein then reporting a gross for ''Pulp Fiction'' of $9.1&nbsp;million, claiming that the film was on another 100 screens that had previously been overlooked. Warner Bros. then updated their gross to $9.3&nbsp;million, claiming they had made a calculation error.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Daily Variety]]|page=1|last=Klady|first=Leonard|date=October 17, 1994|title=Shootout at the B.O. peak}}</ref>
Early Monday morning, Miramax Films reported a gross of $9.3&nbsp;million with Warner Bros. reporting $8.9&nbsp;million for ''The Specialist'', placing ''Pulp Fiction'' first but other industry sources did not believe Miramax Films' numbers. ''Variety'' estimated that ''Pulp Fiction'' grossed $8.6 to $9&nbsp;million for the weekend.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Daily Variety]]|page=1|last=Klady|first=Leonard|date=October 18, 1994|title='Pulp' claims B.O. title; competitors call it fiction}}</ref>

Against its budget of $8.5&nbsp;million and about $10&nbsp;million in marketing costs, ''Pulp Fiction'' grossed $107.93&nbsp;million at the U.S. box office, making it the first Miramax film to surpass $100&nbsp;million in the United States and Canada.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Screen International]]|title=Miramax in hit land|page=33|date=August 22, 1997}}</ref> Worldwide, it took in nearly $213&nbsp;million.{{efn|name=BoxOffice|{{sfn|Biskind|2004|p=189}}{{sfn|Waxman|2005|p=78}}<ref name="Mojo"/> ''Box Office Mojo'' gives $106&nbsp;million in foreign grosses for a worldwide total of $213.9&nbsp;million; Biskind and Waxman apparently concur that $105M&nbsp;/ $212.9M are the correct figures.}} In terms of domestic grosses, it was the tenth biggest film of 1994, even though it played on substantially fewer screens than any other film in the top 20.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1994&p=.htm|title=1994 Domestic Grosses|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=2007-09-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717164659/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1994&p=.htm|archive-date=July 17, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> Popular engagement with the film, such as speculation about the contents of the precious briefcase, "indicates the kind of cult status that ''Pulp Fiction'' achieved almost immediately."{{sfn|Real|1996|p=259}} As ''[[MovieMaker]]'' puts it, "The movie was nothing less than a national cultural phenomenon."<ref>{{cite web|last=Rose |first=Andy |title=10 Years of MovieMaker, 10 Years of Indie Film Growth|url=http://www.moviemaker.com/articles/item/10_years_of_moviemaker_10_years_of_indie_film_2952/|work=MovieMaker|date=Winter 2004|access-date=2007-09-21|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071122005136/http://www.moviemaker.com/articles/item/10_years_of_moviemaker_10_years_of_indie_film_2952/|archive-date=2007-11-22}}</ref> Abroad, as well: in Britain, where it opened a week after its U.S. release, not only was the film a big hit, but in book form its screenplay became the most successful in UK publishing history, a top-ten bestseller.{{sfn|Dawson|1995a|pp=171, 13}}

=== Critical response ===
{{Rotten Tomatoes prose|{{RT data|score}}|{{RT data|average}}|{{RT data|count}}|Injecting its compendium of crime tales with the patois of everyday conversation, ''Pulp Fiction'' is a cinematic shot of adrenaline that cements writer-director Quentin Tarantino as an audacious purveyor of killer kino.|ref=yes|access-date={{RT data|access date}}}} On [[Metacritic]], the film has a [[Arithmetic mean|weighted average score]] of 95 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/pulp-fiction|title=Pulp Fiction Reviews|publisher=[[CBS Interactive]]|work=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=December 29, 2006}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cinemascore.com|title=Find CinemaScore|format=Type "Pulp Fiction" in the search box|publisher=[[CinemaScore]]|access-date=March 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102130540/https://www.cinemascore.com/|archive-date=January 2, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

The response of major American film reviewers was widely favorable. [[Roger Ebert]] called it "a comedy about blood, guts, violence, strange sex, drugs, fixed fights, dead body disposal, leather freaks and a wristwatch that makes a dark journey down through the generations... The screenplay by Tarantino and Roger Avary so well-written in a scruffy, [[fanzine]] way that you want to rub noses in it&nbsp;– the noses of those zombie writers who take 'screenwriting' classes that teach them the formulas for 'hit films{{'"}}.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ebert|first=Roger|title=Pulp Fiction|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pulp-fiction-1994|work=RogerEbert.com|date=October 14, 1994|access-date=September 12, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130216033721/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19941014%2FREVIEWS%2F410140304%2F1023|archive-date=February 16, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Richard Corliss]] of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' wrote: "It towers over the year's other movies as majestically and menacingly as a gang lord at a preschool. It dares Hollywood films to be this smart about going this far. If good directors accept Tarantino's implicit challenge, the movie theater could again be a great place to live in."<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Corliss|first=Richard|title=A Blast to the Heart|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981560-1,00.html|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|TIME]]|date=October 10, 1994|access-date=September 11, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090402010106/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981560-1,00.html|archive-date=April 2, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> In ''[[Newsweek]]'', [[David Ansen]] wrote: "The miracle of Quentin Tarantino's ''Pulp Fiction'' is how, being composed of secondhand, debased parts, it succeeds in gleaming like something new."<ref>{{cite news|last=Ansen |first=David |title=The Redemption of Pulp |work=[[Newsweek]] |date=October 9, 1994 |url=https://www.newsweek.com/redemption-pulp-189436 |access-date=May 21, 2023}}</ref> "You get intoxicated by it," wrote ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''{{'}}s [[Owen Gleiberman]], "high on the rediscovery of how pleasurable a movie can be. I'm not sure I've ever encountered a filmmaker who combined discipline and control with sheer wild-ass joy the way that Tarantino does."<ref name="OG" /> "There's a special kick that comes from watching something this thrillingly alive", wrote [[Peter Travers]] of ''[[Rolling Stone]]''. "''Pulp Fiction'' is indisputably great."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/pulp-fiction-19941014|title=Pulp Fiction|last=Travers|first=Peter|date=October 14, 1994|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=March 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110415121356/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/pulp-fiction-19941014|archive-date=April 15, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' was one of the few major news outlets to publish a negative review on the film's opening weekend. [[Kenneth Turan]] wrote: "The writer-director appears to be straining for his effects. Some sequences, especially one involving bondage harnesses and homosexual rape, have the uncomfortable feeling of creative desperation, of someone who's afraid of losing his reputation scrambling for any way to offend sensibilities."<ref>{{cite web |last=Turan |first=Kenneth |title=Quentin Tarantino's Gangster Rap |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=October 14, 1994 |access-date=April 10, 2018 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-14-ca-50020-story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180505050442/http://articles.latimes.com/1994-10-14/entertainment/ca-50020_1_pulp-fiction |archive-date=May 5, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> Some who reviewed it in the following weeks took more exception to the predominant critical reaction than to ''Pulp Fiction'' itself. While not panning the film, [[Stanley Kauffmann]] of ''[[The New Republic]]'' felt that "the way that [it] has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. ''Pulp Fiction'' nourishes, abets, cultural slumming."<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Kauffman|first=Stanley|title=Shooting Up|magazine=[[The New Republic]]|date=November 14, 1994|access-date=April 10, 2018|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/61392/shooting|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411025845/https://newrepublic.com/article/61392/shooting|archive-date=April 11, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> Responding to comparisons between Tarantino's film and the work of [[French New Wave]] director [[Jean-Luc Godard]], especially his first, most famous feature, [[Jonathan Rosenbaum]] of the ''[[Chicago Reader]]'' wrote: "The fact that ''Pulp Fiction'' is garnering more extravagant raves than ''[[Breathless (1960 film)|Breathless]]'' ever did tells you plenty about which kind of cultural references are regarded as more fruitful&nbsp;– namely, the ones we already have and don't wish to expand."<ref name=Profusion/> Observing in the ''[[National Review]]'' that "[n]o film arrives with more advance hype", [[John Simon (critic)|John Simon]] was unswayed: "titillation cures neither hollowness nor shallowness".<ref>{{cite news|last=Simon |first=John |title=''Pulp Fiction''|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n22_v46/ai_15999907/pg_1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071130072735/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n22_v46/ai_15999907/pg_1|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 30, 2007|work=[[National Review]]|date=November 21, 1994|access-date=October 8, 2010}}</ref>

Debate about the film spread beyond the review pages, with its violence often being the theme. In ''[[The Washington Post]]'', Donna Britt described how she was happy not to see ''Pulp Fiction'' on a recent weekend and thus avoid "discussing the rousing scene in which a gunshot sprays somebody's brains around a car interior".<ref>{{cite news |last=Britt |first=Donna |title=Let's Lose the Gory 'Gulp' Fiction |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=October 25, 1994 |access-date=April 10, 2018 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/10/25/lets-lose-the-gory-gulp-fiction/dbe0b009-b042-46ad-b245-cc5ad0f4be01/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615032351/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/10/25/lets-lose-the-gory-gulp-fiction/dbe0b009-b042-46ad-b245-cc5ad0f4be01/ |archive-date=June 15, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> Some commentators took exception to the film's frequent use of the word "[[nigger]]" (mentioned 18 times). In the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', Todd Boyd argued that the word's recurrence "has the ability to signify the ultimate level of hipness for white males who have historically used their perception of black masculinity as the embodiment of cool".<ref>{{cite web |last=Boyd |first=Todd |title=Tarantino's Mantra? |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=November 6, 1994 |access-date=April 10, 2018 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1994/11/06/tarantinos-mantra/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411025837/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-11-06/entertainment/9411060361_1_n-word-hipness-true-romance |archive-date=April 11, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> In Britain, [[James Wood (critic)|James Wood]], writing in ''[[The Guardian]]'', set the tone for much subsequent criticism: "Tarantino represents the final triumph of [[postmodernism]], which is to empty the artwork of all content, thus avoiding its capacity to do anything except helplessly represent our agonies&nbsp;... Only in this age could a writer as talented as Tarantino produce artworks so vacuous, so entirely stripped of any politics, metaphysics, or moral interest."<ref>Wood, James (November 12, 1994). ''[[The Guardian]]''.</ref>

=== Awards season ===
Around the turn of the year, ''Pulp Fiction'' was named Best Picture by the [[National Society of Film Critics]], [[National Board of Review]], [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]], [[Boston Society of Film Critics]], [[Society of Texas Film Critics]], Southeastern Film Critics Association, and [[Kansas City Film Critics Circle]].{{efn|National Society of Film Critics,<ref name="NSFC" /> National Board of Review,<ref>{{cite web |title=1994 Award Winners |url=https://nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1994/ |website=National Board of Review |access-date=24 May 2023}}</ref> Los Angeles Film Critics Society,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-11-mn-7795-story.html |title='Pulp Fiction,' Tarantino Win L.A. Film Critics Awards |work=Los Angeles Times | date=December 11, 1994 |access-date=May 24, 2023}}</ref> Boston Society of Film Critics,<ref>{{cite web |title=Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1994 |url=https://bostonfilmcritics.org/past-winners-1990s/ |website=bostonfilmcritics.org |date=July 27, 2018 |access-date=24 May 2023}}</ref> Society of Texas Film Critics,<ref>{{cite news |title=Texas film critics group doles out awards for the year's best in movies |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AASB&p_theme=aasb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAD96057255BCDF&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |access-date=24 May 2023 |work=The Austin American-Statesman |date=1994-12-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024041911/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AASB&p_theme=aasb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAD96057255BCDF&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |archive-date=2012-10-24}}</ref> Kansas City Film Critics Circle<ref>{{cite web |title=1994 Awards |url=https://kcfcc.org/kcfcc-award-winners-1990-99/ |website=kcfcc.org |date=December 14, 2013 |access-date=24 May 2023}}</ref>}} Tarantino was named Best Director by all seven of those organizations as well as by the [[New York Film Critics Circle]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Critics Honor 'Pulp Fiction' And 'Quiz Show' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/16/movies/critics-honor-pulp-fiction-and-quiz-show.html |access-date=24 May 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=1994-12-16}}</ref> and [[Chicago Film Critics Association]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://chicagofilmcritics.org/awards-blog/archives |title=The 7th Annual Chicago Film Critics Awards |website=chicagofilmcritics.org |date=January 2013 |access-date=2023-05-24}}</ref> The screenplay won several prizes, with various awarding bodies ascribing credit differently. At the [[52nd Golden Globe Awards]], Tarantino, named as sole recipient of the Best Screenplay honor, failed to mention Avary in his acceptance speech.{{sfn|Biskind|2004|p=206}} In February 1995, the film received seven Oscar nominations&nbsp;– Best Picture, Director, Actor (Travolta), Supporting Actor (Jackson), Supporting Actress (Thurman), Original Screenplay, and Film Editing. Travolta, Jackson, and Thurman were each nominated as well for the [[1st Screen Actors Guild Awards]], presented on February 25, but none took home the honor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sagawards.org/1_award_nom |title=1st Annual SAG Awards Nominees |website=SAG Awards |access-date=2009-08-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015185836/http://www.sagawards.org/1_award_nom |archive-date=October 15, 2008}}</ref> At the Academy Awards ceremony the following month, Tarantino and Avary were announced as joint winners of the [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay]].<ref name="Awards">{{cite web|url= http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp;jsessionid=F5E20EAF29DB9C3219EAAC6FE3B868C9.jicama?curTime=1167423497977|title= Academy Awards for Pulp Fiction|publisher= AMPAS|access-date= 2006-12-29|url-status=dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131029194626/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp|archive-date= October 29, 2013|df= mdy-all}}</ref> The furor around the film was still going strong: much of the March issue of ''[[Artforum]]'' was devoted to its critical dissection.{{sfn|Charyn|2006|p=87}} ''Pulp Fiction'' garnered four honors at the [[Independent Spirit Awards]], held at the end of the month&nbsp;– [[Independent Spirit Award for Best Film|Best Feature]], [[Independent Spirit Award for Best Director|Best Director]], [[Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead|Male Lead]] (Jackson), and [[Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]] (Tarantino).<ref>{{cite news |last=Natale |first=Richard |title='Pulp Fiction' Wings It at Independent Spirit Awards |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-27-ca-47721-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=1995-03-27 |access-date=2009-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430111123/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-03-27/entertainment/ca-47721_1_independent-spirit-awards |archive-date=April 30, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> At the [[British Academy Film Awards]] (BAFTA), Tarantino and Avary shared the [[BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay]], and Jackson won for [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role|Best Supporting Actor]].<ref name="BAFTA">{{cite web |url= http://www.bafta.org/site/webdav/site/myjahiasite/shared/import/Film_Winners_1990-1999.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070202074453/http://www.bafta.org/site/webdav/site/myjahiasite/shared/import/Film_Winners_1990-1999.pdf |archive-date= 2007-02-02|title=Film Winners 1990–1999|publisher= BAFTA|access-date=2006-12-29}}</ref> The film was nominated for the [[Grand Prix (Belgian Film Critics Association)|Grand Prix]] of the [[Belgian Film Critics Association]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archives.lesoir.be/loulou-gaste_t-19950109-Z08Z7R.html|title="Exotica" à l'UCC|journal=[[Le Soir]]|date=January 9, 1995|page=9|access-date=October 27, 2012|language=fr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120104851/http://archives.lesoir.be/loulou-gaste_t-19950109-Z08Z7R.html|archive-date=January 20, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The February 2020 issue of ''[[New York Magazine]]'' listed ''Pulp Fiction'' alongside ''[[Citizen Kane]]'', ''[[Sunset Boulevard (film)|Sunset Boulevard]]'', ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]'', ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]'', ''[[The Conversation]]'', ''[[Nashville (film)|Nashville]]'', ''[[Taxi Driver]]'', ''[[The Elephant Man (1980 film)|The Elephant Man]]'', ''[[In the Bedroom]]'', ''[[There Will Be Blood]]'', and ''[[Roma (2018 film)|Roma]]'' as "''The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars''".<ref name="The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars">{{cite news|title=The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars|url=https://www.vulture.com/article/best-oscar-best-picture-losers.html|date=February 10, 2020|work=[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]]|publisher=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|access-date=2020-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200306121315/https://www.vulture.com/article/best-oscar-best-picture-losers.html|archive-date=March 6, 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref>