Best Actress 1992: Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- Three iconic feminist characters competed for the 1992 Best Actress Oscar: Clarice Starling, Thelma, and Louise. In this video, I talk about why Jodie Foster won for The Silence Of The Lambs and how the critical reception of Thelma and Louise may have affected Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon's shot at the prize.
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Ah, Jodie Foster, Laura Dern, Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, four of the women who made me realise I was into women. The nineties was fun.
and Laura Dern might finally get her oscar this year, as she already won a golden globe
@@lenah9027 Unlucky for Bette
It wasn't easy for Foster to shine as she did in a movie where Hopkins could have easily overwhelmed the entire thing at the expense of all the actors around him.
The casting was obviously crucial for the heroine and thank God jodie got the part coz I read somewhere that the director was eyeing Michelle Pfeiffer and Meg Ryan for the part over Jodie, I mean how horrendous that would had been
@@drrajunagar8612 Well I think Michelle would have done very well with the role. Meg not so much... Michelle is used to working with screen stealing giants like Al Pacino & Jack Nicholson, and she still shines.
Jodie Foster is a genius and silence is her film despite Anthony Hopkins's showy work
Jerald Collins Each time I rewatch TSOTL I’m always amazed of how little screen time AH has. In memory it always feels like he was on all the time. JF did amazing but yes I can see MP in it. Easy
@@siddharthnaagar7028 You clearly don’t know what you are talking about. Showy, perhaps, but Hopkins’s portrayal of Lecter helped make SOTL the iconic film it is. As well as Jodie Foster’s performance, the sets, the script, the editing and the direction.
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me too Richard.... I have felt that politics and box office was what the deciding factor in the oscars, I know I quit watching the oscars when De Capirio lost when he payed howard hughes. i knew then that it was rigged.
Likewise
@@marywest2896 Rigged or not Jamie Fox as Ray was literally unbeatable. To me it's unbelievable that people like Richard Burton never got an Oscar. Or Glenn Close for that matter. But she still has a chance. Leo has an eye for good role but he doesn't have the talent these people do. His best part for me was long ago in What's eating Gilbert Grape. Leo was so unrecognizable in his acting style that I was stunned.
Thelma and Louise was unfortunately released the wrong year, there is no way they (or anyone else) could have beaten the juggernaut of a performance of Miss Foster as Clarice Starling
Agreed. 1 year later they could have gotten it
@@DeepScreenAnalysis clarice is a ground breaking character especially for the representation of strong female leads and it certainly ushered a new league of female agents
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I'm a woman and for me Thelma and Louise is just a boring movie with characters I don't like. Silence of the Lambs I love rewatching to this day, so... I must be not a mainstream woman... whatever this scary term means. @.@'
At least both Thelma and Louise took home their statuettes in the near future.
As absurd as Thelma and Louise was, I could relate to it. Two best friends letting loose, but also losing their sh*t and trying to run from the potential consequences of their actions. Two great films in my opinion!
I believe it's more astonshing feat for "The Silence Of The Lambs" to win rather than any other film, a horror movie released in Feb still sweeped the show, is nothing less than a miracle
The Silence of the Lambs was carried by the scenes with Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, which are absolutely riveting to this day. Hopkins, of course, turned Hannibal Lecter into one of cinema's greatest villains, and Foster's strong female character - almost an intellectual equal to Lecter, by the way - is nevertheless majorly creeped out by Lecter and her subtle vulnerability carries the interplay between them. Lecter was scary, and Starling bravely faced him down. The simple fact is that this might be the best acting by a man and a woman in one movie, ever. I don't think it's any miracle they both won, and the movie won as well. The scenes where both characters interact are unforgettable.
Totally
@@waynes866 that year Lambs was a joke....they had nothing better in competition.....
It's much smarter than a Horror movie, and therefore cannot be put into the same category as such. I would call it a psychological thriller, which is a lot more accurate and descriptive.
@@amysommerfield2069 I guess it's accurate to call it a psychological horror as it takes you through the psyche of Clarice Starling and her encounters with two devilish psychos, which gives it a horror element and of course the basement scene is enough to make it qualify as a horror
The acting and the level of the performance of Jodie as Clarice is literally the greatest form of acting any thespian can achieve, and she was only 26 when she made this which is even more flabbergasting
What really?! I didn't know that. She looked older, perhaps bc of the kind of baggy clothing style of that age. She definitely was mature for her age!
What?! I didn't know she was 26, she seemed older. Maybe because of the kind of baggy clothing style of the early nineties. Or maybe because she is so incredibly intelligent and definitely mature for her age!
@@monmothma3358 it was shot in 1989 the year she turned 26
@Sho Tohara she is acting since she was 3 years old and she made her film debut in 1972 with Napoleon and Samantha at the age of 8
She holds the record for winning two Best Actress Oscar's under the age of 30.
Jodie is a kind of natural actress. She doesn’t need too much to be good.
Being a genius helps her
That's kind of insulting since she worked hard even as a child to perfect the art. I'm assuming you meant it as a compliment.
@@ellierose6 I don't think they meant that Jodie's acting is completely given to her. Since she's such a natural actress and doesn't need much to be good, the amount of work she puts in makes her the powerhouse she is/was.
Kathy Bates is my favorite actor, so I'd love to see your essay on her win in 1991. I think Annie Wilkes is one of the most startling and boundary-pushing female roles of all time and Kathy's performance is astonishing and endearing.
I second that.
"endearing" seems a stretch. lol
Endearing!?! Calling that performance "endearing" is a serious slur cos that's NOT what it's supposed to be!
I think when she said “endearing” she meant more along the lines of “enduring.”
Kathy Bates is the best
*I will not Jodie Foster this kind of behavior.*
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I applaud you, sire.
@@susanmurphy958 you're just missing a reference lmao
i have 100% time for that joke
So we're not gonna even mention Contact?
Foster is GENIUS in this film... which is a film full of incredible acting.
You should have included the interesting bit of trivia that Jodie Foster & Michelle Pfeiffer were originally going to play Thelma & Louise.
I could see Michelle Pfeiffer as Thelma but not Jodie Foster in either role. And Geena Davis's performance was incredible anyway.
I really don't think Pfeiffer would have worked as Clarice Starling either - Thank goodness she turned the role down!
Boy Jodie Foster is the greatest
I can't imagine Michele Pfeiffer playing Clarice...no way no how.....crazy. This was built for Jody
Nor did Michelle
@@siddharthnaagar7028 9:54 womenhood
Dangerous Liaisons! Take the essence of what Michelle’s character is in that film & it’s similar to Clarice.
I love Thelma and Louise but Jodie deserved that Oscar. Anytime I’ve watched silence of the lambs it’s like watching an underdog agent become a real life super hero. If she could just save one of those women, the lambs would stop screaming. It was truly the best performance of the year.
Love the video, however you forgot another actress who achieved the same as Miss Loren and Miss Foster; Kathy Bates nomination for Misery was the only nomination and win the film received in 1991.
Swikar Subba
Also Joanne Woodward for Three faces of Eve (1957) and Bette Davis for Dangerous (1935)
Bryan Giov ah darn it, thought I was on top of my Best Actress trivia 😂 thank you for mentioning that.
Julianne Moore - Still Alice, Jessica Lange - Blue Sky, Charlize Theron - Monster....
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@@isaacvalenzuela4503 Those movies weren't released before 1992. Oops.
Jodi Foster as Clarice Starling was a sensation :) I rewatch SOTL often and one of my favorite aspects of her acting in this role is her softness coupled with a complex raw edge. I can't believe she was a second choice for the part in the casting, wtf!
Jodi Foster is my all time fav actor. And human being. And talent. She can do anything. Love her work as a director. She is always a revelation. See Inside Man. She goes toe to toe with Denzel, my fav male actor, and steals every scene. Thats not just talent and skill. She is charisma personified and magic.
Jodie Foster's performance in The Silence of the Lambs gets better every time I watch it. She's perfect!
Please, make a video about Glenn Close's 6 nominations!!
soon to be 7
She recently made
already her 8th
Jodie Foster is an actor of exceptional talent, depth and beauty who was always ahead of her peers, by the time actors of her age were in their diapers she was making commercials, by the time they learned to speak, she was making movies for Disney, by the time they starting going to the school, she was winning awards and getting nominated for the Oscars, by the time they decided to enter films, Jodie decided to leave it behind and enjoy the ivy league world which she graduated with magna cum laude, by the time her peers had their breakthrough she already had won two Oscars and transitioned to the director's chair. An extraordinary talent, who's contribution to cinema is unparalleled and exquisite. A sheer gift to the world of acting and filmmaking
I remember that year's competition. I was torn between Geena Davis. Susan Sarandon and Jodie Foster. I was rooting for Sarandon because Davis and Foster had already won Oscars. I predicted-- wrongly-- that Academy voters who wanted Thelma and Louise to win but couldn't choose which of the two performances to vote for would vote for Sarandon because she older and had never won. That is what happened with Terms of Endearment in 1984. How to choose between Debra Winger and Shirley MacLaine in that movie?! Only one way: Shirley had been around longer and was way overdue for an Oscar. I thought the same would happen to Susan. NOPE!
But Sarandon was by far the weaker performance of the film.
@@Starkardur Okay, that's just wrong. They were both brilliant.
I think the “split the vote” factor affected Thelma & Louise plus the fact that it failed to get nominated for Best Picture, so it didn’t quite have the love that Silence/Lambs had.
True! Was also thinking the same thing. If only one of them were nominated, then it would mean competition but even if this same thing happened in recent years, all the press would be saying the same thing about the vote split.
Jodie Foster is a well deserved to be winner for second oscar. Susan Sarandon could have won but Academy favors much more dramatic role. I do not know about Geena Davis winning oscar. Fantastic ensemble yes. Oscar worthy I don't think so.
Rebecca Woolf and that was a meatier role. Susan owned the screen every time she was on it in Dead Man Walking.
This is such a great series! These parts of film history are so often overlooked
the oscars are hardly 'overlooked'!
I have been binging the videos on this channel, and I absolutely love it. This is an especially good one. I never realized how important Thelma and Louise really was, and I had no idea it was up against Silence of the Lambs at the awards.
The silence of the lambs dominated this year!
Clarice Starling is the greatest female protagonist in film history
Ellen Ripley would scoff at this and smile.
@@DeepScreenAnalysis you seriously haven't seen silence have u and Thelma and Louise are more of rebels then heros
I would rank Scarlett O'Hara and Wonder Woman higher, but Clarice would be high on the list.
FYI her and Hopkins did very few scenes together at all - they shot everything to camera so that there would be a sense of distance felt between them simulated by them actually not being in the same room and bringing their dialogue together in the editing. Very interesting directorial choice and made for more difficult but more interesting acting.
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thelma and Louise is one of my top 10 favorite films , it was one of the first films I've ever seen in my life , Susan and geena were highly talented bringing these strong complicated characters to screen and they deserved to be in the talk for an Oscar win even if the academy choose the both of them in a TIE , now that's history and will always be an iconic moment and will age fine with time . but I love Jodie and she really was amazing in the silence of the lambs . this year was just amazing
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Jodie was magnetic in ‘Silence of the Lambs’ since the movie really rests on her shoulders. It could’ve been easy for her to be upstaged by Sir Anthony Hopkins, but she holds her own and understood what the role required
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Silence Of The Lambs is one of the best movies ever made. I could have watched 10 movies with Jodie and Sir Anthony as these characters, going back and forth. Their dialogue and scenes together crackle with tension, repulsion and attraction. This film has also aged extremely well. It still plays as fascinating, horrifying, and brilliantly striking as when if first came out. Also love Thelma and Louise, but Lambs just plunges you in the icy water and doesn’t let you come up until the credits roll. It’s a fascinating look inside the minds of serial killers based on real life incidents. It’s Sheer Fascination. You just can’t look away. One of the greatest films of all time. It richly deserved every award it received as well and especially for the two leads.
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And if you do: don't miss out on Linda Fiorentions criticism towards Thelma and Louise...
it's hard to say why anyone doesnt get nominated for an Oscar. There are so many factors at work, besides quality of their work.
Linda Fiorentino was not eligible for an Oscar as The Last Seduction appeared on HBO and thus could not be nominated since it premiered on tv first.
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Excellent. Don't forget that being nominated is a win as well.
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1991 was also the year Foster made her directorial debut with Little Man Tate. The award could be viewed as an honor for that too.
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Still my favourite movie of all time saw it back in the day was literly on the edge of my seat and bitting my thumb nail and I never do that. Just awesome performance by any actor female or male.