Nominees:
Beauty and the Beast
Bugsy
JFK
The Prince of Tides
The Silence of the Lambs
Winner:
The Silence of the Lambs
Story: Young FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer, named Buffalo Bill, who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), who used to be a respected psychiatrist. FBI agent Jack Crawford believes that Lecter, who is also a very powerful and clever mind manipulator, has the answers to their questions to help locate the killer. Clarice must first try and gain Lecter's confidence before he will give away any information. Hilarity ensues.
Trivia: Was the first movie to be available on home video BEFORE winning Best Picture. Became only the third movie ever to win the Grand Slam (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Writing) and first since One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
So, tell me what you think? Did you like Silence of the Lambs? Would you have picked another movie as Best Picture? Why?
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Well if you know me and my top ten movie list (there is a link to my list at the right of my post), you will know who I would vote for. The Silence of the Lambs is amazing. Anthony Hopkins chills you right to the bones. You are instantly on Jodie Foster's side when you see her running the obstacle course ate Quantico in the opening sequence. Ted Levine as the creepy Buffalo Bill. Man I love this movie (my second favorite of all time).
Bugsy - The story of how Bugsy Siegel started Las Vegas. I'm not much of a Warren Beatty fan.
The Prince of Tides - A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process. I'm not much of a Barbra Streisand fan, or Nick Nolte fan for that matter.
JFK - A New Orleans DA discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story. Good movie, especially if you are a consiracy fan. I personally think there was a conspiracy against Kevin Costner for making Waterworld...oh wait, Waterworld was 4 years after this, oh well.
Beauty and the Beast - The first and only animated feature to be nominated for Best Picture (the Oscars now have a Best Animated Movie catagory). This was the hieght of Disney's Animated Feature come back from the early 90s.
Silence of the Lambs is one of my favorites as well.
I used to like JFK until I later learned how loose Oliver Stone was with the facts.
Silence of the Lambs would be my pick as well. Great movie. I just saw Jodie Foster in Flightplane and loved it. She plays the distressed-but-strong character very well.
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