The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
As of 2024, only three motion pictures in history have walked away with the "Big Five" (otherwise known as the "grand slam") awards at the Academy Awards. Those five major accomplishments pertain to Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay (Original or Adapted). The recipients of said achievement are It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), and most stunningly of all, Jonathan Demme's 1991 psychological slasher masterpiece, The Silence of the Lambs . It's no secret the Academy holds a fairly undisguised bias against the horror genre, as evidenced by the myriad genre entries of the 21st century that have failed to garner either more than a meager technical nomination ( A Quiet Place - Sound Editing, The Lighthouse - Cinematography) or any at all. The only film that received its fair share of nominations, including the only win of the century thus far, is Jordan Peele's groundbreaking soci...