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Golden Globe Best Actor 1992 · Nominated
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Academy Award Sound 1992 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Editing 1992 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Director - Motion Picture 1992 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Adapted Screenplay 1992 · Nominated
Academy Award Film Editing 1992 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts David Lean Award 1992 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Cinematography 1992 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Original Film Music 1992 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Screenplay - Motion Picture 1992 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Motion Picture - Drama 1992 · Nominated
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991) is a horror film that won five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Writing. It also received many other awards and nominations from various film festivals and associations around the world.
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The Silence of the Lambs, American suspense film, released in 1991, that was the first psychological thriller since Rebecca (1940) to win the Academy Award for best picture. The film’s tight direction and clever script, together with an indelible performance by Anthony Hopkins as a cannibalistic serial killer, resulted in a sweep of the five major Oscars (best picture, best director, best lead actor, best lead actress, and best screenplay [original or adapted]).
As The Silence of the Lambs opens, FBI trainee Clarice Starling (played by Jodie Foster) is summoned to the office of Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn), the head of the Behavioral Science Unit. He wants her to interview the imprisoned serial killer Hannibal “the Cannibal” Lecter (Hopkins) to seek information to help with current cases; Crawford believes that Lecter will be more forthcoming with Starling than he had been with more experienced interlocutors. When Starling arrives at the Baltimore State Hospital, Dr. Chilton (Anthony Heald) warns her of rules to keep her safe when speaking with the resourceful and dangerous Lecter. The case that the FBI wants Lecter’s help in solving is that of “Buffalo Bill,” a serial killer who flays his victims. Lecter offers to help the investigation in return for being transferred to a different facility. In the meantime, Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine) kidnaps Catherine Martin (Brooke Smith), the daughter of a U.S. senator.
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Lecter then agrees to give Starling clues to Buffalo Bill’s identity in exchange for personal revelations from her. Chilton, however, seeks to get information from Lecter on his own. Lecter tells Chilton that he will reveal Buffalo Bill’s identity but only if he may travel to Memphis, Tennessee, to speak personally to Senator Martin (Diane Baker). In Memphis, Lecter tells Senator Martin that the killer’s name is really Louis Friend. Starling deduces that that is a lie and visits Lecter where he is being held in Memphis. Lecter gives her the case file that he had received from her earlier before Chilton has Starling removed. Soon thereafter Lecter kills several guards and escapes. Starling tells Crawford that she is in Ohio following a lead that she gleaned from Lecter, but Crawford tells her that they have found that the killer, whose real name is Jame Gumb, is in Illinois and that he and other agents are headed there to arrest him. Starling nevertheless continues to follow her lead, and she finds Gumb and Catherine Martin in Ohio. She manages to kill Gumb and rescue Martin.
The Silence of the Lambs was based on the best-selling 1988 novel of the same name by Thomas Harris. That novel was the second (of four) to centre on Hannibal Lecter. The first, Red Dragon (1981), was filmed as Manhunter in 1986. Gene Hackman was originally slated to direct The Silence of the Lambs, but he dropped out, and Jonathan Demme agreed to helm the movie only after having read the novel. Hopkins reprised his role in Hannibal (2001) and Red Dragon (2002), based on Harris’s novels; neither achieved much success. The Silence of the Lambs was only the third film (after It Happened One Night [1934] and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest [1975]) to win the top five Oscars.
•Studios: Orion Pictures and Strong Heart/Demme Production
•Director: Jonathan Demme
•Writers: Ted Tally (screenplay) and Thomas Harris (novel)
•Music: Howard Shore
•Jodie Foster (Clarice Starling)
•Scott Glenn (Jack Crawford)
•Anthony Heald (Dr. Chilton)
•Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal Lecter)
•Brooke Smith (Catherine Martin)
•Ted Levine (Buffalo Bill/Jame Gumb)
•Picture*
•Lead actor* (Anthony Hopkins)
•Lead actress* (Jodie Foster)
•Directing*
•Editing
•Sound
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Other awards include Best Film by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, CHI Awards and PEO Awards. Demme won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival [72] and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director .
Mar 23, 2022 · How did Jonathan Demme's cannibalistic thriller become the third movie to win the Big Five categories in 1992? Read about the film's unlikely journey from novel to box office hit to awards favorite.
Mar 31, 1992 · "The Silence of the Lambs" swept the top categories at the 64th annual Academy Awards ceremony last night, winning prizes for its director, stars and writer and receiving the ultimate award...
The 64th Academy Awards honored movies released in 1991, including The Silence of the Lambs, which won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. See the full list of winners and nominees from the 1992 Oscars ceremony.
The Silence of the Lambs is a horror thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. It won five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress, in 1992.
