Annal:1992 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Motion Picture
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1992. For a ranked list of films, try an honor roll:
- 1992 Edgar–Video winner
- 1992 Oscar-Picture winner
- 1992 Saturn-Horror winner
- 1992 BAFTA-Film nominee
- 1992 Golden Globe-Drama nominee
- Score: 42.42
Based on Thomas Harris’s novel, this terrifying film by Jonathan Demme really only contains a couple of genuinely shocking moments (one involving an autopsy, the other a prison break). The rest of the film is a splatter-free visual and psychological descent into the hell of madness, redeemed astonishingly by an unlikely connection between a monster and a haunted young woman. Anthony Hopkins is extraordinary as the cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, virtually entombed in a subterranean prison for the criminally insane. At the behest of the FBI,…
- 1992 Edgar–Video nominee
- 1992 Golden Globe-Drama nominee
- 1992 MTV-Movie nominee
- 1992 Oscar-Picture nominee
- Score: 24.42
Not a John F Kennedy biopic, but a film of New Orleans’ attorney Jim Garrison’s investigation into the President’s assassination, JFK is that rarest of things, a modern Hollywood drama which credits the audience with serious intelligence and ultimately proves itself a great film. Oliver Stone’s film has the archetypal story, visual scale and substance to match; not just a gripping real-life conspiracy thriller, but a fable for the fall of the American dream (a theme further explored by the director in Nixon and Any Given Sunday). JFK…
- 1992 Edgar–Video nominee
- Score: 6.42
British thespian and sophomore director Kenneth Branagh follows up his adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V with this abrupt change of pace, a slick, stylish thriller evocative of Hitchcock, classic film noir, and gothic shockers. Sporting an exaggerated American accent, Branagh stars as L.A. private eye Mike Church, a hard-boiled but softhearted detective who takes on the case of a mysterious amnesiac (Branagh’s then-real-life wife, Emma Thompson). With the help of an offbeat furniture dealer and part-time hypnotist (Derek Jacobi), Grace (as Mike has named…
