So many TV series in prime time right now owe their existence to this 1991 serial-killer thriller, from the direct descendent of NBC’s Hannibal to the spiritual twisted sisters of NBC’s The Blacklist and Fox’s The Following, that it makes sense to pay close attention to the original article. Anthony Hopkins kills it, in more ways than one, as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the cannibalistic killer who manipulates new FBI profiler Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster). Hopkins and Foster won Oscars for their work as leading actors, just as Jonathan Demme won for directing, Ted Tally for best (adapted) screenplay, and the film itself for Best Movie. Those top five awards had been swept by a film only twice before: by One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1975, and, before that, by It Happened One Night in 1934.