Lecter Circuit (1992)
Eight-time Oscar host Billy Crystal makes his most memorable entrance ever, as The Silence of the Lambs' Hannibal Lecter: wearing a muzzle, strapped to a gurney, and wheeled into the room. Crystal recalls later that he'd been worried backstage: ''What if they don't laugh, and I'm stuck with this mask on my face, going, 'I thought you'd like it!''' But Crystal gets a huge laugh that sets the mood for one of the funniest Oscar shows ever. That night, Silence becomes the third (and to date, the last) movie to sweep the top five prizes: Best Picture, Director, Screenplay (Adapted), Actor, and Actress.

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