Hoffman""s unknown co-star Jon Voight also received his first Best Actor nomination for his role as a disillusioned and dispirited Texas stud.Veda has been indulgently showered with gifts, nice clothes, and piano lessons, provided by Mildred""s sacrificial baking of pies and cakes.]Sternwood doesn""t intend to discuss these things with Carmen: "If I did, she""d just suck her thumb and look coy." There was "no formal contract" but only a handshake agreement between Balboa and Tommy, and Duke scared Tommy into believing that he would be "watching the parade go by.BackgroundBasic Instinct(1992) is a suspenseful, cat-and-mouse erotic thriller with psychosexual overtones.