The Silence of the Lambs Wins Best Picture: 1992 Oscars

Beauty and the Beast should have won, but of course, the Academy thinks animation is just for children.

This was Disney at their peak and now we'll never get to see an animated film be nomainated for best picture ever again.

not only did this win best movie, but BOTH Hopkins and Foster won best actor and actress… for the academy to give all 3 of these awards to one film, that means it had to be the best by a landslide

Would have been unique to see beauty and the beast to win but silence of lambs deserve it

Oh man, we just lost by the silence of the lambs actually, I don’t like this horror film so much and this is the movie won the Oscar of 1992. But in fact, beauty of the beast gets nominated for his awards, such an honor, but we’re so close to winning.

My all time favorite! Very well deserved! ❤

RIP Kenneth Utt (July 13, 1921 – January 19, 1994), aged 72
RIP Paul Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008), aged 83
RIP Dame Elizabeth Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011), aged 79
You will be remembered as legends.

I mean , is that the last public appearance of Elizabeth Taylor !?

What a year for the cinema🎉 The silence of the Lambs, Thelma and Louise, Jfk, Bugsy, The Fisher King ecc.

Watching this classic now. Loved the books and the movie did it Justice.

Rest in peace both Paul and Liz.

No nomination for Thelma & Louise? Woah, I always thought it was nominated for Best Picture.

To date, this is the last movie that swept the major Oscar categories.

JFK was robbed.

Best picture of all time. Jodie and anthony the best

It has been over 30 years since this film released and it has still not left the public consciousness. That is the staying power of this movie. It's a pop culture phenomenon and "The Godfather" of all thrillers . There is a reason it sits at #7 on the all ranked Best Picture winners list (all 96 of them that won Best Picture) over at IMDB because it's a true classic and beloved by almost every audience member who sees it and one where the Academy actually got it right. I recently showed it to my young nephews and their friends (aged between 16 and 19) and they were all spell bound by it saying it was one of the best films they had ever seen.

Hate that they don’t show clips…

The Silence of the Lambs is my favorite movie but this was such a weak lineup - if they had nominated Boyz, Thelma and Louise and Terminator 2 - it would have been perhaps one of the most iconic lineup in Oscar history.

They did not nominate Thelma and Louise and Boyz N Hood. Both films got a writing and directing nom? Odd.

Often considered the only horror to win Best Picture in history. This, however, was much more of an thriller then a horror.

JFK should’ve won.

If Silence of the Lambs hadn't existed, Beauty and the beast would have won. Although, being the Academy itself I see that very difficult to would have happened... but at least I think that movie deserved the second place behind Silence of the Lambs

Who came here after watching family guy😂

JFK better movie.

A terrifying experience the first time round but an all-time classic.

What makes this even bigger is the fact that all 5 of these awards were won by a horror movie, a genre that tends to get overlooked at the Oscar's

Who the hell was that idiot in front of the producers we saw wearing a cowboy hat?? 🤠 WTF! What a jerk.

ROBBERY, ROBBERY! Beauty and the Beast was robbed of it’s well-deserved Best Picture Oscar!

No standing O for Paul and Liz?? Wow.

Liz, Liz, Liz....absolutely incredible. One of the few women who embodied Hollywood's past glory. I would've loved to have met her in person.

It is a shame all of these actors are now gone.

Fun fact: this is the first and only horror movie to win best picture.

Totally deserved Oscar for an outstanding film!!!

Still one of if not the best horror movie ever done

Fantastic win for one of my favorite movies of all time :)

Two legends.

When Oscars were really THE OSCARS!!!!

Wow.

I saw this movie in the theatre...b4 the awards....I was sitting on the edge my seat during this movie...I knew...Anthony, Jodie and the movie would win....

If you think Terminator 2 should have won or you just think it's a better movie. You are so wrong

Amazing movie!!!!💙💙💙

L un des meilleurs films de tout les temps.

Even though Beauty and the Beast lost Best Picture to Silence of the Lambs, I think just being the first ever animated feature (as well as the only hand-drawn animated feature) to be nominated for Best Picture is awarding enough. And more people should be grateful that the film got a nomination unlike Snow White back in 1938.

Thrillers really aren't that far from horror. Many of them have enough horror elements to qualify as a horror movie, or at least a combo. SOTL is certainly one of them.

One of the least deserving winners. Just what we needed a story about how funny cannibalism can be.

Wow! Still as beautiful as they were in their prime 60’s career… legends!

JFK was the Best Picture that year, but no way in hell was it going to win.

At the time I thought JFK. But in retrospect They got it right.

What’s the name of the music that’s playing while they’re announcing the nominees?