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===1990s=== In 1993 Avary directed his feature film debut with ''[[Killing Zoe]]''. The film follows an American safe-cracker ([[Eric Stoltz]]) who travels to Paris to aid a childhood friend ([[Jean-Hugues Anglade]]) with a bank heist. Along the way he meets and befriends a sex worker ([[Julie Delpy]]) whose fate becomes tied with the crime.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/killing-zoe-1994 |title=Killing Zoe |website=rogerebert.com |accessdate=2017-05-02}}</ref> The film premiered at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win the Grand Prize award at the 5th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://yubarifanta.com/index_pc.php?ct=archive.php&langue=21002 |title=YUBARI INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC ADVENTURE FILM FESTIVAL'94 |website=Yubarifanta.com |accessdate=2009-09-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040407040236/http://yubarifanta.com/index_pc.php?ct=archive.php&langue=21002 |archivedate=April 7, 2004 }}</ref> Avary and [[Quentin Tarantino]] worked on the 1994 film ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', for which they won the [[67th Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for Best Original Screenplay.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Academy Awards Acceptance Speeches - Search Results {{!}} Margaret Herrick Library {{!}} Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences |url=http://aaspeechesdb.oscars.org/link/067-24/ |access-date=2022-07-20 |website=aaspeechesdb.oscars.org}}</ref> According to Tarantino, Avary originally came up with the plot of the boxer Butch Coolidge and his gold watch from a screenplay named ''Pandemonium Reigns'', which Avary had written himself.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-23 |title=Roger Avary: The forgotten co-writer of 'Pulp Fiction' |first=Calum |last=Russell |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/roger-avary-the-forgotten-co-writer-of-pulp-fiction/ |access-date=2022-07-20 |website=faroutmagazine.co.uk |language=en-US}}</ref> In 1995 Avary wrote and directed the science fiction film ''Mr. Stitch'' for [[Sci-Fi Channel|Syfy]], then The Sci-Fi Channel. Loosely a modern take on Frankenstein, the film features [[Wil Wheaton]], [[Rutger Hauer]], [[Nia Peeples]], and [[Ron Perlman]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Todd Everett|title=Review: 'Mr. Stitch'|url=https://variety.com/1996/film/reviews/mr-stitch-1200446390/ |access-date=9 June 2015|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=August 15, 1996 }}</ref>
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