from Anthony Hopkins silence of the lambs Straight to Beatrice networksome are surprisingly short oscar-Winning performance proves there are no small parts. It’s already impressive enough to see an actor deliver an Academy Award-worthy performance when he has two and a half hours to sit in the spotlight. Cillian Murphy’s Oscar performance oppenheimer is incredible, and he filmed it in long IMAX close-ups for three full hours to wow audiences with it. It takes a special kind of actor to win an Oscar with a screen time of less than 20 minutes.
Typically, the Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress awards go to performers who have been given so much screen time that they are effectively the leads, so the audience (and Oscar voters) rather than the true supporting players The connection with you will be longer. For example, Mahershala Ali won Best Supporting Actor for his piano performance. green bookdespite having over an hour of screen time. However, some actors have won these awards for just 15 minutes of screen time. And it’s even more surprising that an actor would win a leading role Oscar with that much screen time.
10 Anthony Hopkins “The Silence of the Lambs”
16 minutes
Anthony Hopkins has the shortest screen time and is the first name that comes up when discussing Oscar-winning performances. Hopkins won the Best Actor Oscar for his role as calm, cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Jonathan Demme’s seminal crime thriller, which ran for just 16 minutes. silence of the lambs. Hopkins’ turn as cannibal Hannibal is so chilling that it feels like he’s on screen the entire time.
Jodie Foster’s FBI rookie Clarice Starling anchors the film admirably, but every time she shares the screen with Hopkins, he steals the show. Hopkins’ performance is full of rich detail, which makes it all the more captivating. For example, he uses Michael Caine’s trick of never blinking in front of the camera, forcing the audience to stare into the blank eyes of a heartless mass murderer.
9 David Niven at another table
15 minutes
David Niven won his only Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1958 drama. separate tablewhere his screen time is only 15 minutes. He also won a Golden Globe Award for the same role in the same leading role category. Niven’s lack of screen time is largely due to the story’s expansive structure. Based on the one-act play by Terence Rattigan. separate table It revolves around several characters staying at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth.
Although this is an ensemble piece and there are no starring roles in the film, Niven won an Oscar for his leading role. Niven attracted the attention of the academy by playing wild against type. He has made a career out of playing classy, honest men like himself. separate table Major Pollock hopes so.
8 Anne Hathaway in “Les Misérables”
15 minutes
Anne Hathaway won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Fantine, a struggling factory worker who relies on sex work to support her daughter, in Tom Hooper’s 2012 blockbuster film adaptation. Les Misérables. Hathaway won this award with just 15 minutes of screen time, which is even more impressive considering the film is over two and a half hours long. Hathaway won an Oscar for a film in which she appeared in less than 10% of the screen time.
Hathaway cut her hair Les Misérablesshowing her commitment to the role. Russell Crowe was criticized for his erratic singing in the film, but Hathaway’s singing was widely praised. Her rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” has been hailed as an attention-getting masterpiece and is one of the main reasons it made such an impression that it won her an Academy Award.
7 Kim Basinger in LA Confidential
15 minutes
Kim Basinger won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lynn Bracken, a high-class sex worker who begins a relationship with Officer Bud White, played by Russell Crowe, in Curtis Hanson’s 1997 neo-noir. LA Confidential. LA Confidential lost almost all Oscar nominations titanicincluding Best Picture and Best Director. However, Hanson and Brian Helgeland won Best Adapted Screenplay for their adaptation of James Ellroy’s novel, which Basinger won. titanic” Gloria Stewart won Best Supporting Actress.
Basinger’s appearance lasts only 15 minutes. LA Confidentialbut she managed to stand out among a star-studded ensemble that included Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, and Danny DeVito. Basinger is essentially cast as a stock character, a sex worker with a heart of gold, but she brings real depth and dimension to the archetype. It’s a very human performance.
6 Penélope Cruz appears on Vicky Cristina Barcelona
15 minutes
Penelope Cruz won an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 2008 romantic comedy directed by Woody Allen. vicky christina barcelona. Although the entire cast was praised, Cruise was singled out for most of the film’s positive reviews. Cruise’s outstanding performance is particularly impressive. vicky christina barcelona That means she doesn’t play Vicky or Christina. She successfully complemented the two title stars, Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson.
Hall and Johansson play two American tourists spending the summer in Barcelona. They meet a handsome artist played by Javier Bardem and both fall in love. The love triangle becomes even more complicated when his emotionally unstable ex-wife Maria Elena, played by Cruise, shows up. Although the story has progressed quite a bit by the time Cruise shows up, she steals the entire movie with a great 15 minutes of acting.
5 Alan Arkin in “Little Miss Sunshine”
14 minutes
Alan Arkin was nominated twice for Best Actor in the late 1960s. The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming since 1967 My heart is a lonely hunter But he didn’t win an Oscar until 2007, 40 years after he was first nominated. Arkin won Best Supporting Actor for his role as grumpy grandpa Edwin Hoover in the tragic road movie. little miss sunshine. Although Edwin is tragically mean to most people, he is kind and loving towards his granddaughter Olive.
Arkin’s running time is only 14 minutes. little miss sunshinebut he made an unforgettable impression in those 14 minutes. Everyone can see their grandpa at Arkins little miss sunshine Character: He is grumpy, but deep down he is a really kind person. His monologue about winners and losers is definitely the most moving scene in the movie.
4 Gloria Grahame in “The Bad and the Beautiful”
9 minutes
Gloria Grahame won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Rosemary, the temperamental Southern belle wife of James Lee Bartlow in Dick Powell’s 1952 melodrama. bad and beautiful. Rosemary doesn’t appear until about two-thirds of the way through the movie, and is on screen for just over nine minutes. At the time, this was the shortest performance ever to win an Oscar, a record Graham held for more than 20 years until his five-minute performance won in the same category in 1977.
Kirk Douglas is great in the lead role, but Graham was clearly the standout. In addition to Graham’s Best Supporting Actress win, bad and beautiful It won four more Oscars. The film won Best Original Screenplay (before it was split into two categories), Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Costume Design in the black and white categories.
3 Anthony Quinn “Lust for Life”
8 minutes
Anthony Quinn won Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vincent van Gogh’s friend and fellow painter Paul Gauguin in Vincente Minnelli’s 1956 biopic. desire for life. Kirk Douglas won the Golden Globe for Best Actor for his role as Van Gogh, but it was Quinn who took home points at the Oscar. Quinn not only succeeded in diverting attention from Van Gogh in his own life story; He accomplished that in just eight minutes of screen time.
There’s a lot to admire about this biopic. Douglas brilliantly captures Van Gogh’s neurotic tendencies, and Minnelli’s color choices reflect the unmistakable aesthetic of his subject’s art. But Quinn is one of the highlights of this movie. Quinn previously won Best Supporting Actor for the 1952 film. Long live Zapata!and later won the Best Actor Award wild is the wind and Zorba the Greek.
2 Judi Dench “Shakespeare in Love”
8 minutes
Thanks to an aggressive awards campaign by now-disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein, Shakespeare in love It swept the Oscars in 1999. Save Private Ryan In addition to winning Best Picture, Gwyneth Paltrow won Best Actress, Mark Norman and Tom Stoppard won Best Original Screenplay, and Stephen Warbeck won Best Original Score. The film’s seven Oscar wins include Best Supporting Actress for Judi Dench, who played Queen Elizabeth I;
just like quinn desire for lifeDench’s Oscar-winning performance had a running time of just eight minutes. But it turned out to be more than enough. The Academy loves when an actor brings an iconic historical figure to life, especially when that actor is a respected film legend like Dench. Dench’s screen time may be brief, but she always feels like Queen Elizabeth I when she’s on screen.
1 Beatrice Straight In Network
5 minutes
The record for the shortest Oscar-winning performance in film history has been held by Beatrice Straight for almost 50 years. Straight won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Louise Schumacher in Sidney Lumet’s 1976 satirical drama, which lasted just five minutes. network. Straight is one of three Oscar winners among the cast of networkFaye Dunaway won Best Actress and Peter Finch posthumously won Best Actor.
But Straight’s Oscar win is perhaps the most impressive of the three. Because she won the gold medal with just over five minutes of screen time. Four minutes of that time is taken up by an emotional monologue about when she discovers her husband is having an affair with a much younger woman. The way Straight expresses the complex emotions in this monologue is so powerful that it won her an award for that monologue alone. oscar.
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