Is TV's 'Hannibal' even better than 'Silence of the Lambs'? (Poll)'

5 June 2015 7:34 AM, PDT | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »

NBC's "Hannibal" premiered its third season on June 4, and it continues to receive rapturous praise from critics (84 on MetaCritic as of this writing). But as good as it is, could it be – gasp – even better than "The Silence of the Lambs"? -Break- Is Mads Mikkelsen now the greatest Hannibal the Cannibal? (Poll) "Silence," directed by Jonathan Demme in 1991, wasn't the first film to feature the infamous serial killer Hannibal Lecter – that was "Manhunter" in 1986 – but it was certainly the one that made him a star. It was so dazzling that the motion picture academy momentarily forgot their snobbish bias against horror films and awarded it the Oscar for Best Picture and gave Anthony Hopkins the Best Actor prize as Lecter. What's more, it's one of only three films in Oscar history to win the big five awards (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress for Jodie Foster and Scr »

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