This article is from the Hannibal Lecter FAQ, by Cory Compton Coleman cory@gladstone.uoregon.edu with numerous contributions by others.
Silence of the Lambs won the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor
(Hopkins), Best Actress (Foster), Best Director (Demme), and Best
Screenplay Adapted from Other Medium (Tally). The only other film to
recieve these awards is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (at least if i
understood the Final Jeopardy question right).
And let's not forget that shortly after the release of Silence of the
Lambs, Anthony Hopkins became Sir Anthony Hopkins-- is that an award or
what? And all for playing a canibalistic serial killer.
 
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