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What is the shortest on-screen performance (between 5 and 6 minutes, requiring a whole 3 days work), to earn an Academy Award?

Question #151914. Asked by odo5435.
Last updated Jan 13 2025.
Originally posted Jan 12 2025 10:00 AM.

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Beatrice Straight, the actor with the least screen time to ever win an Oscar, won the Best Supporting Actress for "Network" (1976). She was on screen for only 5 minutes and 2 seconds and won it for a single monologue where she responded to her husband's infidelity. Besides this Oscar, the film won another three Academy Awards, for Original Screenplay (Paddy Chayefsky), Actor (Peter Finch), and Actress (Faye Dunaway). The movie received eight nominations, including Best Director (Sidney Lumet) and Best Picture.

link https://screenrant.com/oscar-winning-performances-screen-time-shortest/
link https://www.slashfilm.com/1748346/oscar-winning-actors-shortest-screentime/
link https://www.buzzfeed.com/spenceralthouse/actors-who-won-oscars-for-shortest-screentime
link https://www.oscars.org/events/special-screening-network#:~:text=influence%20filmmakers%20today.-,The%20film%20won%20four%20Academy%20Awards%2C%20for%20Original%20Screenplay%20(Paddy,Sidney%20Lumet)%20and%20Best%20Picture.

Jan 13 2025, 12:24 AM
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