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Saxon produced the film THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, which swept Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture at the Academy Awards. His films have been nominated for over 20 Academy Awards and have won eight Oscars.
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Edward Saxon
- Producer, Actor, Executive
Edward Saxon. Producer: The Silence of the Lambs. Edward Saxon, an Oscar winner, is a graduate of the USC Peter Stark Producing Program. He is currently the endowed Chair of the program and a tenured professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He received his undergraduate degree at McGill University.
Saxon is arguably best known for producing the film The Silence of the Lambs, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and is, to date, the third and last film to sweep the five main categories of Academy Award for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture.
Edward Saxon is known as an Producer, Executive Producer, Actor, Co-Executive Producer, Co-Producer, Associate Producer, and Thanks. Some of his work includes The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Adaptation., That Thing You Do!, Away We Go, Devil in a Blue Dress, Fast Food Nation, and Something Wild.
Actor: A Nightmare on Elm Street. John Saxon appeared in nearly 200 roles in the movies and on television in a more-than half-century-long career that has stretched over seven decades since he made his big screen debut in 1954 in uncredited small roles in It Should Happen to You (1954) and George Cukor's A Star Is Born (1954).
Saxon won his first Oscar® for The Silence of the Lambs which swept Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture at the Academy Awards® categories in the same year. This film remains one of only three films in history of American cinema to achieve this distinction.
