Here are the 5 shortest performances to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar - plus a bonus of the shortest performance ever nominated! For more Oscars, subscribe to my channel: ru-vid.com?sub_co... @oscarman42
Beatrice Straight phenomenal performance in “Network” has seared on my memory until this day. It was so profoundly moved you. A performance that I can only be described in one word as….”BRAVURA”
The 2 min performance was incredible tbh. She truly left an indelible impression despite being the shortest. In the end it takes great writing and acting to create something this memorable
On the male side. Orson Welles in The Third Man is a prime example of how to make an indelible impression in just a few minutes. Didn’t win an Oscar for it but it doesn’t matter.
It’s absolutely priceless that you were able to air HB’s entire performance in a short video. 1963 my choice wasn’t even nominated. Jessica Tandy in The Birds Jean Hagen should have won for Singing in the Rain 1952
Can you believe it? I'm baffled as to how Academy members even remembered her from the film. I think Grahame won because she was in several films that year.
Having only personally seen Baddeley in Mary Poppins and one of the early A Christmas Carol, I found her quite impressive here. I could see why she impressed the people who nominated her.
I do think she rather pops out in Room at the Top. There is no one else remotely like her. Yes sometimes a performance is awarded more for the actor/ actress being on a streak instead of the particular performance.
Beatrice was well deserved of that oscar. It's not her fault that the role is so small, but damn n they are no small parts for great actors. She proofed that in her masterful performance, which should be studied in film schools!
Except that Straight most likely only won because it was such a strong field of contenders that the votes were very evenly split between the other four. At the time Piper Laurie and Jodie Foster had the biggest buzz around their performances, while Lee Grant and Jane Alexander were both highly regarded veterans with previous Oscar nominations (always a big advantage). Straight was the least known of the nominees, had done no previous work of great note and was known not to be "a career actress". None of these things is supposed to be relevant - and yet they clearly do play a part. Also, Straight's performance in Network - while perfectly adequate - could be rightly seen as a somewhat unsubtle shouty turn; hardly a display of nuance or versatility. It's inconceivable that she would have attracted enough votes to have won in a less contested field. This is the problem with the Oscars. In a strong field it's often the least impressive performance that will emerge victorious. And, conversely, the most most impressive performance sometimes only triumphs in a weak field.
@@joshdrayton1230 interesting point of view. guess the same could be said for the same category for the 2007 award season. every major award went to a different actor. but here I was mesmerized by Straight’s performance and didn’t think she’d be recognized for it because it was too small only to find out she actually won an Oscar for it. Haven’t seen the other nominees’ work though.
I've always admired Gloria Grahame but that year it should have gone to Jean Hagen in "Singin' in the Rain" ("People! I ain't people!" still cracks me up!)
Beatrice Straight's performance being the shortest yet the most compelling of all. Her performance wil go down in cinema's books as the most brilliant shortest winning portrayal ever.
Yes good call I remember when I saw Deloris Clairborne I was like Judy Parfitt was great and she deserves an Oscar nomination but sadly it didn’t happen.
All of them were deserving. Grahame was probably helped by the year she had. She made Sudden Fear and The Greatest Show on Earth the same year as The Bad and the Beautiful. And all three got Oscar nominations in various categories. She should have won for The Big Heat but I'm glad the Academy found this way to honor her. She was a unique actress and one of my favorites. I can certainly see why Hermione Baddeley got nominated. She packed a lot in a couple of minutes. I'm not sure of her screen time, but I would definitely have nominated Angela Lansbury in 1978 for Death on the Nile.
Grahame definitely had the advantage of performing in multiple films that year, though I didn't see anything in TBATB that was Oscar-worthy. Baddeley's nomination confounds me because I'm surprised Academy members remembered her. I don't know Lansbury's screen time.
I really enjoy "The Bad and the Beautiful," but Gloria Grahame's performance is almost forgettable. Had I had a vote, Grace Kelly would have been my choice for "High Noon." "The Bad and the Beautiful" won the most Oscars for a film not nominated Best PictureW. The Academy probably felt it had to give the film a major award
@@dobazajr I wish they had waited until the next year and given it to her for The Big Heat. They didn't even nominate her in 1953. But since they didn't, I'm glad she got it when she did. If they had waited, I would have loved to see Jean Hagen win in 1952 for Singin' in the Rain.
@@oscarman42 Love Simone, but Elizabeth Taylor should have won for Suddenly, Last Summer and not really for the big moments in the film but her quiet restrained ones like the one where she lies in bed drifting off to sleep and mentioning the birdy. Would have rather seen her win for that than her win for Butterfield 8, her prize for not dying, only in Hollywood.
The scenes with Beatty & Stapleton in REDS are simply the best. The characters have a mother/son type of relationship. To think that Stapleton's screen time accounts for only 4% of the film amazes me (REDS is 3 plus hours!). I am thrilled for Stapleton's Oscar win for REDS.
Stapleton’s performance in Interiors was a master class in acting. You cannot take your eyes off of her. Amazing! So happy to hear to that others appreciate that performance as well.
Cate Blanchett was nominated to support actress in 2007, by "Notes on a Scandal"... Unbelieble, because her time in the movie was almost the same of Judie Dench, nominated to leader actress 😮
In these cases the studios usually campaign to put one in supporting so that they don't split the vote in lead. The same thing probably happened in The Hours a few years earlier.
@@Crookedlystrait Well, to me it was too strange that Blanchet was nominated for a supporting actress, since without her character the story could not have existed. 🤔 In fact, two years later, in 2009, something even more bizarre happened. At the Golden Globes Kate Winslet was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for "The Reader", winning it. However, a month later she was nominated for that same role as lead actress at the Oscars, also winning it 🤔 Could someone explain that to me? Was her role in "The Reader" more of a lead or a supporting role?😦
@@jorgeandrew Blanchett and Dench were clearly co-leads, but one was bumped into supporting for the reason I mentioned, to prevent vote splitting and maximize the chances of one (or both) of them winning. Same thing happened with Cate and Rooney Mara in Carol, except this time Mara was the one bumped to supporting.(if I'm not mistaken, she had also won best actress at Cannes). As for Winslet, she was put in supporting not only by the globes but by all the other precursors as well, which baffled me when I finally saw the film because I immediately thought she was the lead.
Just one more win for Best Picture could have made it another Big Five winner, and the only Big Five to win original screenplay. I am really looking forward to a Big Five winner with original screenplay in the future.
@@oscarman42 Don't you think that in last few decades this category has been one of the ones that we already ready knew who the winner will be, especially after the SAG awards. This year, Jamie Lee Curtis (2023) was a joke!
Difficult 2 believe the same brilliant, MOST versatile actress in those scenes from 'Room @ the Top' also played the whimsical housekeeper, Ellen, a mere 5 yrs. later, in 'Mary Poppins'!!! ❤️✌️🥰
Love this ❤ Gloria should have won in "The Big Heat" 😊 Dench should have won over Hunt and Reese 😮 Binoche & Fran won but in the wrong categories 😂 Please do more
Thank you as always for the video! To me Beatrice Straight (she should be nominated also for Poltergeist) deserved to win, the other 3 not at all. I didn't see Grahame performance...
In answer to your question about an Oscar for Best Cameo -- YES! Mickey Rourke's heartbreaking two minute cameo in "The Pledge" opposite Jack Nicholson is absolutely stunning. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y4zHkIOsu0g.html as is his 3 haunting minutes in "The Expendables". ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9snUdAyP7CQ.html
Great video as always. Wasn't Judi Dench's performance in 'Shakespeare in Love' 8 minutes? She said that herself in her Oscar speech. Two other really short performances should have won - Maureen Stapleton in 'Interiors' and Geraldine Page in 'The Pope of Greenwich Village'.
Dench likely shot more footage than what ultimately ended up on screen. Or, she was guesstimating. Page - 6:06. Stapleton - 12:11 (Loved her in that film). Thank you for your supportive words!
Page was amazing and tragic as Eve in interiors yes!! Not to give away any thing of the movie, but the end scene was spine tingling! See the movie and you'll see what I mean.
2:00 Judy Dench looks like something straight out of the Hellraiser movies. She would have Pinhead crying like a baby in about 10 seconds. That woman knows how to command a scene.
I believe Beatrice Straight performance as short as it was I think the members of the voting Academy can relate to that (many of the voters from personal experience no doubt) this movie had some unusual circumstances Peter Finch who won Best Actor sadly passed away 3 months before the ceremony Faye Dunaway who won Best Actress Academy makeup she was better in Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown
i was 15 when I saw Network with my mom...I was bored except for Ms Staights performance...The first time I remember noticing an actor was really good...Im sure at 62 Id appreciate the movie more now too
Sadly, I don't think the Academy was ready to award a performance in a "horror" film, though I imagine Laurie had some support. And Dench's "make-up" award for not winning the previous year was too strong for Redgrave to overcome.
Believe it or not, her screen time was 16:57 even though most think it was around 5 minutes. I believe this counts moments where she's in the background!
Comedic performances are historically overlooked at the Oscars. Other genres you mentioned only receive recognition in technical categories (though Angela Bassett was the first actor nominated for a Marvel film). Best Cast would be interesting.
@@oscarman42 the fact is that the Academy looks for black actors juts to give them nods, no matter the genres. Because of the inclusion crap rules. Angela Bassett nod is a joke, and everybody knows that. Daniel Kaluya in Get Out is very good, but there are a lot of other actors with amazing performances in horrors and thrillers that didn`t get a nod: the three main leads in Jaws, Toni Collete in Hereditary, Jack Nicholson kabuki performance in The Shining. Christopher Lee never got a nod for any of his roles in his extensive body work on horror? You got to be kidding me. Eduard Norton in Red Dragon, perhaps even james Caan in Misery. And let`s not talk about the larger than life performances of the actors in the old days like Lon Chaney, Bella Lugosi or Boris Karloff. Those were unforgettable artists.
Love it! Supporting actress is one of my favorite categories. I love some of the unexpected wins . Animated would be interesting too. I sometimes have favorites that don’t win . I don’t know if it’s always shocking but maybe. I still am sore about Lilo and Stich not getting the Oscar! lol 😂
Hermione is one of the best nominees of the 50's,she packs so much history and feeling in her 3 short scenes. Not seen Grahame,Stapleton deserved it,she was a scene stealer and give real heft to her portrayal of Emma Goldman,Dench I would have nominated but I prefer Kathy Bates from that year or the unnominated Patricia Clarkson or Lisa Kudrow,Straight is an extended Hermione longer amount of screen time and packs an equal punch,she needed to bring fire and brimstone here as we've never met this woman before and she sells a long history of a marriage though I would have chosen Piper Laurie. A few non nominated scene stealers I have seen over the years years were Jane Fonda in Youth,Debra Winger in Rachel Getting Married,Wendy Hiller in Murder on the Orient Express,Sharon Warren in Ray,Jeanette Goldstein in Aliens,Charlotte Rampling in Stardust Memories,Glenn Close in Reversal of Fortune,Sharon Stone in Bobby,Vanessa Redgrave in Atonement,Teresa Wright in The Happy Ending and Jeanette Nolan in Twilight of Honour
First of all, love that performance. Second, her screen time in East of Eden was 15:04 (most only remember her one "Oscar" scene with Dean). This places her 10th.
How much screentime Carolyn Jones had in The Bachelor Party? I assumed she had less then 10mins. And Gladys Cooper in My Fair Lady? I remember she was barely in the film and mostly background character. How about Wendy Hiller in Separate Tables?
@@oscarman42 Hiller had 21 minutes? Much longer than Niven? I read Hiller was not impressed by her win and her best moment was deleted during editing process.
@@dobazajr She was definitely not thrilled about winning. "All you could see of me in the picture was the back of my head. Unless they give some award for acting with one's back to the camera, I don't see how I could have won. They cut my two best scenes and gave one to Rita Hayworth."
She did act well, but you know why her performance made such an impact? It was the beauty of the lines she spoke written by Hollywood's greatest writer so far: Paddy Chayefsky.
Great video thank u for posting. A few thoughts. I always thought Carolyn Jones for The Bachelor Party was the shortest nomination interesting that Harmione Baddeley (spel) was shorter I didn’t know that. Also I didn’t realize that Maureen Stapleton was only in Reds for 9 minutes. I feel like she made a much bigger impression and if u were to ask me how long was she in Reds I would have said something like 20 minutes or so lol. Beatrice Straight while very deserving was also surprising not just because of her short screen time but also because she was a vey obscure actress who primarily had worked mostly in the theatre but I think she rode the coattails of Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway and she was in a Best Picture nominee which usually gives an actor an advantage over the nominees who aren’t.
Carolyn Jones does have one of the shortest nominated performances at 6:01. I think she deserved to win, creating a full character arc in such a brief time on screen. Stapleton was great in everything. I concur with your thoughts on Straight's win.
I think Finch and Dunaway being nominated could have actually worked against Straight. The Supporting Actress category is normally where the Academy recognises a film that won't be otherwise recognised - sort of like a consolation prize. Dianne Wiest in her two Woody Allen films, Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite, Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny, Anjelica Huston in Prizzi's Honor, Jennifer Hudson in Dream Girls, Whoopi in Ghost. But Straight was so good that the Academy could not deny her...
Stapleton's percentage was so small because Reds was so goddamn long. It was interminable and Beatty should have had the good sense to cut at least 45 minutes from it. Also, what about Beatrice Straight in Network? She won the award for what was essentially one speech.
Just one more observation.. So Baddeley lost that year to Shelley Winters for playing Mrs. VanDamm in the diary of Anne frank. Shelley's screen time was short too if i can recall?
Gloria Graeme should have won for almost anything else, even It's A Wonderful Life, but The Big Heat is her masterpiece.. Elaine Stewart did an amazing job in Bad & The Beautiful with a whole lot less and ... wasn't nominated? She's the extra Kirk Douglas is slerping with and Lana Turner walks in on them, but she has another scene or two. Kim Novak is brilliant atvthe gery beginning- even less time. Beatrice Straight is also memorable in her first (?)role in The Nun's Story. I think That's about ten minutes? That seems to be a movie for memorable acteesses in short scenes. Colleen Dewhurst has about five minutes in the mental hospital scene. The mich maligned Montgomery Clift biographer Patricia Highsmith is Audrey Hepburn's friend who doesn't make it as a nun. Hermione Badderly AND Laurence Harvey are great, so underappreciated. That said, my two favorite short scenes are Viola Davis in Doubt and Anne Bancroft in Malice! Master Class!
God knows how many extraneous factors are running through the heads of the Academy voters when they're marking their ballots. In the case of Gloria Grahame, one of those could have been that in addition to her nominated performance in "The bad and the beautiful," she also had "Sudden fear" and "The greatest show on earth" going for her that year.
@@oscarman42 Coincidentally, the term "triple threat" was used to describe the character played by one of Grahame's fellow nominees (Jean Hagen as Lina Lamont in "Singing in the rain"): "Can't sing, can't dance, can't act: a triple threat." By the way, Grahame herself once offered another theory about her win: that it was a sympathy award for not having won for 1947's "Crossfire." And a belated thanks, Oscarman, for posting this video.
The special mentioned Hermione Baddeley's 2 min performance in Room at the Top should've won too. It's phenomenal. Ironically, it doesn't make sense Viola Davis's Fences and Alicia Vikander's The Danish Girl were awarded in supporting category. Their performances were even longer than Olivia Colman's "leading" role in the favorite or Antjony Hopkins's 15 minute leading role in the Silence of the lambs
The movie overall wasnt the best but ruby dee was amazing in thousand words as the dementia-struck mother. When I saw that im like shes gonna be nominated again like American gangster. One small scene and all it takes to have an impact.
I again suspect that the Academy gave the BSA for 1959 award to Shelly Winters as a way to give "The Diary of Anne Frank" a major award. Winters had been in Hollywood for a decade and gave a great performance as Montgomery Clift's wife in "A Place in the Sun." She was a known quantity in a popular and prestigious film
@@RobertPagano226 she had two other more compelling scenes(other than the “few minutes of screaming,” ) IMO, including watching the wedding, casting down her eyes. she played a very protective person, a role perfected by Thelma Ritter (all about Eve, with a song in my heart, etc)
Oh when, Oh when will the Academy honor Glenn Close with a long overdue Oscar! Should have won for Fatal Attraction or The Wife! If they ever decide to make Sunset Blvd musical, maybe then she'll win! At least give her an Honorary Oscar in 2024! Yes,the Academy failed to give one to Doris Day as well! Come on Academy, Close has 8 noms,she deserves to be Honored!
hermione baddeley definetely just so lucky, 2 minute screentime and not even worthy!! was 1959 so lack of great performances ? give me explanation academy!
I agree with you, but there are many here who feel she not only deserved a nomination, but the win. That's what makes the Oscars so interesting and fun!
I know that you were only joking about Best Cameo, but please don't give movie producers any such ideas. Roles would be written in to scripts for no reason except digging for noms.
I don't think I have much influence on what Hollywood or the Academy does. When the latter announced the new "Most Popular Film" Oscar category, it was (rightfully) met with disdain and quickly scrapped.
The most ridiculous win was Maggie Smith winning an Oscar for portrayal an actress who wins an oscar, in the film California Suite. Neither do i buy a def actor winning an oscar for portraying def people, like Marlee matlin.
I actually thought Smith was great in an otherwise dull film. And the duality/coincidence of her role added to it. As for COALG and Coda, do you think hearing actors should have played those roles instead?
@@oscarman42 Would rather sit through The Greatest Show on Earth than many films in the last 25 years, American Beauty, A Beautiful Mind and this wreck of a film SIL have aged worse than the mistakes of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Viola Davis and Ruby Dee are here. Maybe I would add Gloria Foster for The Matrix because she deserves recognition? How long is she in that? I'll also go way back and add Rex Ingram for The More The Merrier? Very unstereotypical.
