"the ""Playboy"" centerfold."" The Silence of the Lambs (film) The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror-thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme from a screenplay written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel of the same name. The film stars Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, and Anthony Heald. In the film, Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee, seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer to apprehend another serial killer, known only as ""Buffalo Bill"", who skins his female victims' corpses. The novel was"
"sequel to the Oscar winning film ""The Silence of the Lambs"". Jodie Foster had declined to reprise the role, and director Ridley Scott eventually cast Moore, over Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Gillian Anderson, and Helen Hunt. The change in actress received considerable attention from the press, but Moore claimed she was not interested in upstaging Foster. Despite mixed reviews, ""Hannibal"" earned $58 million in its opening weekend and finished as the tenth-highest-grossing film of the year. Moore starred in three more 2001 releases: with David Duchovny in the science-fiction-comedy ""Evolution"", in her husband's dramatic film ""World Traveler"", and with Kevin"
"however, own the rights to the Lecter character and reportedly allowed Orion Pictures, which produced ""The Silence of the Lambs"", to use the character of Lecter for free, not wishing to be ""greedy"". When ""The Silence of the Lambs"" became a commercial and critical success in 1991, winning five Academy Awards, both Dino and Martha De Laurentiis found themselves sitting on a valuable asset and eager for a follow-up novel they could adapt. After a lengthy wait, De Laurentiis finally received a call from Harris telling him he had finished the sequel to ""The Silence of the Lambs"" and De"
"second respectively to feature the characters of Starling and Lecter, and was the second adaptation of a Harris novel to feature Lecter, preceded by the Michael Mann-directed ""Manhunter"" (1986). ""The Silence of the Lambs"" was released on February 14, 1991, and grossed $272.7 million worldwide against its $19 million budget, becoming the fifth-highest grossing film of 1991 worldwide. The film premiered at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival, where it competed for the Golden Bear, while Demme received the Silver Bear for Best Director. Critically acclaimed upon release, it became only the third film, (the other two being ""It Happened"
"Butler appear in both films as different and unrelated characters. ""The Silence of the Lambs"" earned several awards and accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. It is one of only three films to have won the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Actress, and Best Screenplay. ""The Silence of the Lambs"" was followed in turn by a sequel and two prequels: ""Hannibal"", ""Red Dragon"" and ""Hannibal Rising"", plus an NBC television series, ""Hannibal"". Of these later films, ""Red Dragon"" (2002), adapted from the same novel as ""Manhunter"", was released to a generally positive critical"
"""The Silence of the Lambs"" was adapted from the sequel novel to ""Red Dragon."" The latter had been adapted for film as ""Manhunter"" by a different studio. Best Picture nominee ""The Lion in Winter"" features Peter O'Toole as King Henry II, a role he had played previously in the film ""Becket."" But ""Winter"" is not a sequel to ""Becket"". Clint Eastwood's ""Letters from Iwo Jima"" was a companion piece to his film ""Flags of Our Fathers,"" released earlier the same year. These two films depict the same battle from the different viewpoints of Japanese and United States military forces; the"
"Ladder"" was nominated at Horror Hall of Fame II for best horror film, losing to ""The Silence of the Lambs"". The film was also featured in Bravo's 2004 documentary miniseries ""The 100 Scariest Movie Moments"" and in the 2009 book ""1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die"". In 2013, the Jacob Burns Film Center Projectionist Andrew Robinson chose it as his favourite scary movie. ""Jacob's Ladder"" greatly inspired the horror franchise ""Silent Hill"", including the video games ""Silent Hill"" (1999), ""Silent Hill 2"" (2001), ""Silent Hill 3"" (2003), """" (2004), and """" (2007), as well as the series' 2006"
"of Freddy Lounds as one of its 30 Even Scarier Movie Moments in 2007, and Noonan's portrayal of Dollarhyde was praised by Simon Abrams of UGO Networks as ""a highlight of his career"". Despite the low gross on its initial release, ""Manhunter"" grew in popularity by the 2000s and has been mentioned in several books and lists of cult films. These reappraisals often cite the success of ""Silence of the Lambs"" and its sequels as the reason for the increased interest in ""Manhunter"", while still favoring the earlier film over its successors. Telling of this resurgence in appreciation are the"
"sister Martha Fiennes directed, and brother Magnus composed the score. Fiennes portrayed Francis Dolarhyde in the 2002 film, Red Dragon, a prequel to 'Silence Of The Lambs' and 'Hannibal'. The film received very positive reviews and Ralph's performance as a sympathetic serial killer with a romantic relationship with a blind girl, played by Emily Watson, was lauded as one of the best aspects of the film. ""The Constant Gardener"" was released in 2005, with Fiennes in the central role. The film is set in Kenya. It was filmed in part with the actual residents of the slums of Kibera and"
"Lecter. Directed by Michael Mann, the film received mixed reviews and fared poorly at the box office. It has since developed a cult following. After Harris wrote a sequel to the novel, ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1988), itself turned into a highly successful film in 1991, ""Red Dragon"" found a new readership. A second sequel, ""Hannibal"", was published in 1999 and adapted into a film in 2001. Both film sequels featured Anthony Hopkins in the role of Hannibal Lecter, for which he won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1991. Due to the success of the second and third"
"Author David Foster Wallace used the book as part of his curriculum while teaching at Pomona College and later included the book as well as Harris's ""Red Dragon"" on his list of ten favorite novels. John Dunning says of ""Silence of the Lambs"": [it is] ""simply the best thriller I've read in five years"". Following the 1986 adaptation of ""Red Dragon"" (filmed as ""Manhunter""), ""The Silence of the Lambs"" was adapted by Jonathan Demme in 1991. ""The Silence of the Lambs"" became the third film in Oscar history to win the following five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best"
"album featuring the original nine tracks was made available ""For fun only. Not for sale."" Silence! The Musical Silence! The Musical is an award-winning 2005 musical created by Jon and Al Kaplan as a parody of the 1991 Academy Award-winning film ""The Silence of the Lambs"". The project began in 2003 as an internet musical made up of nine songs that retold the entire story. The audio tracks became popular to the extent that a live show was conceived and staged. Six additional songs were written by the Kaplans, and the book was written by Hunter Bell, based on the"
"and Best Actress). Two years later, Bozman was an executive producer on ""Philadelphia"", another film directed by Demme, which won two Academy Awards. Bozman also produced ""The Ref"", ""Eddie"", ""Beloved"", ""For Love of the Game"", ""Changing Lanes"", ""The Human Stain"", ""The Stepford Wives"", ""Failure to Launch"", ""Perfect Stranger"", and ""Confessions of a Shopaholic"". Ron Bozman Ron Bozman is an American film producer who won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1991 for the film ""The Silence of the Lambs"". Bozman was born in Dallas, Texas. He grew up in Garland, Texas, graduating from Garland High School in 1965. He"
"production, and he later credited her for helping him define the character. Released in February 1991, ""The Silence of the Lambs"" became one of the biggest hits of the year, grossing close to $273 million, with a positive critical reception. Foster received largely positive reviews and won Academy, Golden Globe, and BAFTA awards for her portrayal of Starling; ""Silence"" won five Academy Awards overall, becoming one of the few films to win in all main categories. In contrast, some reviewers criticized the film as misogynist for its focus on brutal murders of women, and homophobic due to its portrayal of"
"Richard Moll, accepted by Jeff Lugosi (Béla's grandson). Producer/Director - Roger Corman Presented by William Shatner, accepted by Roger Corman. Production Company - Universal Studios Presented by Elvira, accepted by Carla Laemmle (niece of founder Carl Laemmle, Sr.) Film - ""The Birds"" Presented by Dee Wallace & Brad Dourif; accepted by Morgan Brittany & Tippi Hedren. The nominees for best horror film were ""Misery"", ""Child's Play 2"", ""The Silence of the Lambs"", ""Predator 2"" and ""Jacob's Ladder"". The winner, presented by Vincent Price, was ""The Silence of the Lambs"". The award was accepted by ""Lambs"" executive producer Gary Goetzman. This"
"Along Came a Spider (film) Along Came a Spider is a 2001 American neo noir psychological thriller film directed by Lee Tamahori. It is the second installment of ""Alex Cross"" film series and a sequel to the 1997 film ""Kiss the Girls"", with Morgan Freeman reprising his role as detective Alex Cross. The screenplay by Marc Moss was adapted from the 1993 novel of the same title by James Patterson, but many of the key plot elements of the book were controversially eliminated. The movie received negative to mixed critical reviews, although it became a box office success. After Washington,"
"Screenplay. The film was awarded Best Horror Film of the Year during the 2nd Horror Hall of Fame telecast, with Vincent Price presenting the award to the film's executive producer Gary Goetzman. In 1998, the film was listed as one of the 100 greatest films in the past 100 years by the American Film Institute. In 2006, at the Key Art Awards, the original poster for ""The Silence of the Lambs"" was named best film poster ""of the past 35 years"". ""The Silence of the Lambs"" placed seventh on Bravo's ""The 100 Scariest Movie Moments"" for Lecter's escape scene. The"
"of profiler Will Graham has also been noted as helping to influence a ""shift in the image of the pop-culture FBI agent"" that would continue throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The film has also been noted as a thematic precursor to the series ""Millennium"", ""John Doe"", ""Profiler"", and ""The X-Files"", and to films such as ""Copycat"", ""Switchback"", ""The Bone Collector"", ""Seven"" and ""Fallen"". ""The Silence of the Lambs"", a film adaptation of Harris' next Lecter novel, was released in 1991. However, none of the cast of ""Manhunter"" reprise their roles in the later film, although actors Frankie Faison and Dan"
"following years. Rob Reiner's ""Misery"" (1990), based on a book by Stephen King, featured Kathy Bates as an unbalanced fan who terrorizes an incapacitated author (James Caan) who is in her care. Other films include Curtis Hanson's ""The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"" (1992) and ""Unlawful Entry"" (1992), starring Ray Liotta. Detectives/FBI agents hunting down a serial killer was another popular motif in the 1990s. A famous example is Jonathan Demme's Best Picture–winning crime thriller ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991)—in which young FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) engages in a psychological conflict with a cannibalistic psychiatrist named Hannibal"
"And this one reverses the process and reveals what we don't want to confront: our mortality."" The film ""The Silence of the Lambs"", about a man who butchers women, was released around the same time, a coincidence noted by a writer for ""Canadian Art"" magazine. In various critical reviews, the work of German Joseph Beuys was referenced; a 1996 work by Sterbak portrayed her as a moth, eating up the clothes in his closet. ""New York Times"" writer Ann Wilson Lloyd noted in 1998 that Sterbak's work ""has inspired reams of humorless, abstruse theoretical writing that leaves none of her"
"Best Picture for ""Lambs"", in which he also made a cameo appearance. Utt died on January 19, 1994 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan at the age of 72. The cause was bone cancer.<ref name=""https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E5DB1330F931A15752C0A962958260""></ref> He is survived by his wife Angie and son Tim Utt and Daughter Robin Utt Fajardo Kenneth Utt Kenneth Utt (July 13, 1921 – January 19, 1994), was an American film producer and unit production manager, notable for producing ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991), for which he won an Oscar for Best Picture. Utt was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on July 13, 1921."
"The Silence of the Hams The Silence of the Hams (Italian: ""Il Silenzio dei Prosciutti"") is a 1994 Italian-American satirical comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Italian comedian Ezio Greggio. It is a parody of many popular thriller and horror films, notably ""The Silence of the Lambs"" and ""Psycho"". Along with Greggio, the film features an ensemble cast of Dom DeLuise, Billy Zane, Joanna Pacuła, Charlene Tilton, and Martin Balsam. The comedy, like many of its contemporaries (including ""The Naked Gun""), is largely driven by word play, sight gags, running jokes, and multiple references to popular culture of"
"Silence of the Lambs"", making Hopkins unavailable. The role instead went to Roy Marsden. On 31 October 2011, André Rieu released an album including a waltz which Hopkins had composed in 1964, at the age of 26. Hopkins had never heard his composition, ""And the Waltz Goes On"", before it was premiered by Rieu's orchestra in Vienna; Rieu's album was given the same name as Hopkins' piece. In January 2012, Hopkins released an album of classical music, entitled ""Composer"", performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and released on CD via the UK radio station Classic FM. The album"
"the project, however. De Laurentiis confirmed this after the film's release: ""First and foremost, I knew we had no movie without Anthony Hopkins."" Regarding her involvement in a sequel to ""The Silence of the Lambs"", Foster confirmed to Larry King in 1997 that she ""would definitely be part of it."" She told ""Entertainment Weekly"" magazine in 1997 that ""Anthony Hopkins always talks about it. I mean, everybody wants to do it. Every time I see him, it's like: 'When is it going to happen? When is it going to happen?'"" De Laurentiis thought Foster would decline once she read the"
"(1998), ""State of Play"" (2009), and ""Madras Cafe"" (2013). In the 1990s and early 2000s, many horror films and thrillers started to blend mystery and suspense into stories centered around clever, sociopathic serial killers or various mysterious supernatural occurrences. The Hannibal Lecter novels by Thomas Harris have inspired four films, ""Manhunter"" (1986), the Academy Award-winning ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991), ""Hannibal"" (2001), and ""Red Dragon"" (2002). Other films in which this blend occurs include ""When the Bough Breaks"" (1994), ""Seven"" (1995), ""Kiss the Girls"" (1997), adapted from the James Patterson novel, ""The Bone Collector"" (1999), ""Mercy"" (2000), ""Along Came"
"(2005) and story consultant for ""Shrek 2"" (2004). Ted Tally Ted Tally (born April 9, 1952) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He adapted the Thomas Harris novel ""The Silence of the Lambs"" into the film of the same name, for which he received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the Writers Guild of America Award, the Chicago Film Critics Award, and the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Born William Theodore Tally in North Carolina, Tally was educated at Yale College and the Yale School of Drama, and has also taught at each of them. His"
"Silence! The Musical Silence! The Musical is an award-winning 2005 musical created by Jon and Al Kaplan as a parody of the 1991 Academy Award-winning film ""The Silence of the Lambs"". The project began in 2003 as an internet musical made up of nine songs that retold the entire story. The audio tracks became popular to the extent that a live show was conceived and staged. Six additional songs were written by the Kaplans, and the book was written by Hunter Bell, based on the original screenplay ""Silence! The Musical"", also by the Kaplans. The stage musical premiered in the"
"Times"" article. A poster released in the UK to promote ""Hannibal"", featuring Lecter with a ""skin mask"" covering the right side of his face, was quickly removed from circulation as it was deemed ""too shocking and disturbing for the public."" Upon its release, ""Hannibal"" was met with significant media attention, with the film's stars and director making several appearances on television, in newspapers and in magazines. In an article for CBS News, Jill Serjeant stated that ""the long-awaited sequel to the grisly 1991 thriller ""Silence of the Lambs"" is cooking up the hottest Internet and media buzz since the 1999"
"the brain with the boy, saying it is important ""always to try new things."" In 1994, a ""Rolling Stone"" magazine interviewer asked ""The Silence of the Lambs"" director Jonathan Demme about a possible sequel. Demme responded that Thomas Harris, author of ""The Silence of the Lambs"", had been working on the follow-up for ""seven or eight years"". Demme had an idea even at that time that it would not be a straight follow-up. Harris had told Demme: ""I imagine Doctor Lecter going somewhere in Europe ... strolling round the streets of Florence or Munich, gazing in the windows of watchmakers"
"The Mummy Returns The Mummy Returns is a 2001 American action-adventure fantasy film written and directed by Stephen Sommers, starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Oded Fehr, Patricia Velásquez, and Dwayne ""The Rock"" Johnson. The film is a sequel to the 1999 film ""The Mummy"". ""The Mummy Returns"" inspired the 2002 prequel film ""The Scorpion King"" which is set 5,000 years prior and whose eponymous character, played by Dwayne ""The Rock"" Johnson, was introduced in this film. It was followed by the 2008 sequel """". In 3067 BC, the Scorpion King leads his army on a campaign"
"Direction-Set Decoration (Dennis Gassner, Nancy Haigh) and Best Costume Design. It was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Warren Beatty), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Harvey Keitel and Ben Kingsley), Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Music, Original Score, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. It received eight Golden Globe nominations and won for Best Motion Picture - Drama. ""The Silence of the Lambs"" won many categories where ""Bugsy"" received nominations in 1991. The film was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival. The film is recognized by"
"movie shows Dickie interacting with numerous former child stars, played by over two dozen actual former stars lampooning their careers, such as Leif Garrett, Barry Williams, Dustin Diamond and Danny Bonaduce. Fred Wolf and David Spade originally wrote a skit in the '90s for ""Saturday Night Live"" about a child star rampage, spoofing ""The Silence of the Lambs"", for when Macaulay Culkin was hosting, but it was cut. The idea was later pitched to The WB, but they turned it down. It was eventually totally rewritten and turned into this movie, originally written as a dark comedy with more references"
"as Robert Ford in the HBO sci-fi series ""Westworld"". Hopkins played Autobot ally Sir Edmund Burton in """", which was released in June 2017. Perhaps Hopkins' most famous role is as the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in ""The Silence of the Lambs"", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1991, with Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, who also won for Best Actress. The film won Best Picture, Best Director and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and Hopkins also picked up his first BAFTA for Best Actor. Hopkins reprised his role as Lecter twice; in"