Happy Birthday, Jonathan Demme! Born today in 1944 as Robert Jonathan Demme, this American screenwriter, film producer and film director best known for directing the 1991 American psychological horror drama/mystery film 'The Silence of the Lambs'.
The film was the third in cinematic history to win all five major Oscars. The first was talian-American film director, producer and write Frank Capra's 1934 pre-Code American black and white romantic comedy road film 'It Happened One Night'.
The second was Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor Miloš" Forman's 1975 American drama/comedy-drama film 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'.
The second was Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor Miloš" Forman's 1975 American drama/comedy-drama film 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'.
Demme received the Oscar for Best Director at the 64th Academy Awards in late March 1992. The following year, Demme co-produced and directed the second film of which he is best known: the 1993 American legal drama/trial drama film 'Philadelphia'.
Demme had been active from 1968–2017.
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