‘The Silence of the Lambs’ won in the Best Picture category at the 64th Academy Awards. This horror-thriller film was directed by Jonathan Demme. The movie starred Jodie Foster as Clarice and Anthony Hopkins in a career-defining performance as Lecter. The film became the third, and to this day, the last film ever to win all five major Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
The screenplay was written by Ted Tally, based on Thomas Harris’s 1988 best-selling novel of the same name. ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ was one of the most successful and widely popular films of the modern era, blending the merits of detective thriller and art film.
It was released on 30th January 1991, and grossed 272.7 million US dollars world-wide. It is also the only Best Picture winner considered to be a horror film till date, and the third such film to be nominated in the category, after ‘The Exorcist’, and ‘Jaws’.
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