A closer look
Anthony Hopkins won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs despite only being on screen for roughly sixteen minutes of the entire film, utilizing a technique where he rarely ever blinked while speaking to Jodie Foster's character to make himself look deeply unnatural and unsettling, proving that you don't need a lot of screen time to dominate a movie or win an Oscar, you just need to be incredibly creepy and forget how basic human eyelids are supposed to function
