The Silence of the Lambs was a novel written by Jonathan Demme .
It is also the first -LRB- and so far only -RRB- Best Picture winner widely considered to be a horror film , and only the third such film to be nominated in the category , after The Exorcist in 1973 and Jaws in 1975 .
The Silence of the Lambs -LRB-film-RRB-