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** The last horror film to win one of the top awards (and ''only'' one prior to ''Silence'') was ''[[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'', for which Fredric March won Best Actor...in 1932!
** Consider that the one other film among the 1991 Best Picture nominees that compared in terms of critical praise ''and'' box-office popularity was ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', which had the [[Animation Age Ghetto]] working against it—to the point that jokes were made during the telecast about how a film consisting of "movable paintings" (as Billy Crystal put it in his opening number as host) was up against movies with live actors.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and ''[[Titanic]]'' were about trying to get dream projects on screen, not about winning Oscars. Yet one got a sweep, and the other got almost all of its awards, though the former did not do so until the entire trilogy was finished (it's suggested the awards for Return of the King apply to the whole trilogy as the Academy didn't want a three-year shutout). Both films were widely praised and made a ridiculous amount of money and remain excessively popular to this day, even factoring in the usual [[Hype Backlash]].
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' (the original 1977 film) got Oscar nominations for Best Director, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (for Sir Alec Guinness) and Best Screenplay. It didn't win any of them, of course, but ''still''. ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' also managed to get nominations for Best Director and Best Picture.
** Same for ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]''.
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