The Silence of the Lambs: The Horror Film That Won Best Picture

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000

In March 1992, The Silence of the Lambs (1991) won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay — the “big five”, a feat managed only twice before, by It Happened One Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Consider what the Academy actually anointed: a film about a cannibal psychiatrist advising an FBI trainee on the hunt for a man who skins women to sew himself a suit of their flesh. Strip the prestige off and Silence is a monster movie, gorgeous and grisly, that talked its way past the velvet rope. That sleight of hand is the most interesting thing about it, and it starts with the direction.

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The Silence of the Lambs: The Horror Film That Won Best Picture