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I'm putting it in tenth place in my overall league table of Oscar winners, ahead of Rain Man (which has a less convincing plot) and behind One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (which is a little less icky). But its's well-made, well-paced and looks and sounds utterly convincing. There are some other problems which I will get to below. We had four Oscar-winners in a row in the 1970s which were about crime and law enforcement ( The French Connection, The Godfather, The Sting and The Godfather, Part II), but this is the first one since then. #ANTHONY HOPKINS SCREEN TIME IN SILENCE OF THE LAMBS SERIAL#The actual plot is barely relevant, but it concerns Starling's pursuit, advised by Lecter, of another serial killer, and Lecter's concurrent escape from custody. This is a film about the relationship between novice FBI Agent Clarice Starling, played by Jodie Foster, and imprisoned serial killer Hannibal Lecter, played by Anthony Hopkins. (The last film to top both lists was Alien, from 1979 the other Oscar-winners to top both lists were One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975, Casablanca back in 1943 and All Quiet on the Western Front way way back in 1929/30.) Unusually, IMDB users rate the film top on both systems. I liked all of these except The Fisher King and Highlander II, but I think The Silence of the Lambs is a worthy Oscar winner in that company. I have seen thirteen other films made that year, listed here roughly in IMDB order: Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Cape Fear, Thelma & Louise, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, The Fisher King (actually only got part way through this one), The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, The Commitments, Highlander II: The Quickening (there should have been only one!), Soapdish, Operation Condor (a Jackie Chan film which I watched because the female co-lead, Eva Cobo, is my twin), Enchanted April and Prospero's Books. I have not seen any of them, and had not seen the winner before either, the first year since 1970 for which that is the case. Promising Young Woman won best original screenplay, the night’s first award.That year's other Best Picture nominees were Beauty and the Beast, Bugsy, JFK and The Prince of Tides. References to racism and police violence were threaded throughout the show’s speeches, starting with actor-director Regina King’s opening monologue, in which she mentioned the conviction of a former police officer for the murder of African-American man George Floyd. Judas and the Black Messiah, which also won best song for multiple Grammy winner H.E.R. McDormand told the limited audience at Union Station in Los Angeles.ĭaniel Kaluuya won best supporting actor for his portrayal of slain 1960s Black Panthers leader Fred Hampton in She also shared the best picture Oscar for the film, as she was one of its producers. McDormand becomes only the seventh actor with triple Academy Awards, and the fourth woman after Meryl Streep, Ingrid Bergman and Katharine Hepburn, who stands alone at the pinnacle with four Oscars Nomadland star Frances McDormand joined Hollywood’s most elite tier on Sunday with her third acting Oscar - for a characteristically unglamorous portrayal of a grieving widow living in an old van. Oscars 2021: All the updates from the ceremony as 'Nomadland' wins big Hopkins was not present in Los Angeles or at a separate London venue to accept the golden statuette.īut with it, he became the oldest actor in Oscars history to win a competitive award, surpassing the late Christopher Plummer, who won at age 82. On Sunday, he added another shiny award to his trophy case - his second Oscar for best actor. Just learn the lines and show up,” was how the 83-year-old described his method of acting, preferring to endlessly go over his script so he could “do it without thinking”. The Silence of the Lambs or a frail and frightened dementia sufferer inīut long before making the transition from psychopathic cannibal to a weakened man facing his own death, the Welsh-born naturalised American had earned his place in acting’s halls of fame with decades of stage and screen performances.Īlso Read | Get ‘First Day First Show’, our weekly newsletter from the world of cinema, in your inbox. #ANTHONY HOPKINS SCREEN TIME IN SILENCE OF THE LAMBS FULL#Anthony Hopkins has spent a glittering career exploring the full depths of human experience, whether playing the sadistic Hannibal Lecter in ![]()
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