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Oscar-winning performances on scren for les than 15 minutes

Beatrice Straight

(Network)

One key scene of five minutes and 20 seconds was all it took for Beatrice Straight to secure her one and only Oscar. That remarkable achievement was overshadowed by the fact that Peter Finch secured a posthumous Oscar for his leading performance.

Anthony Quinn

(Lust For Life)

While Kirk Douglas was chewing the scenery as Vincent Van Gogh, Anthony Quinn as Gauguin made the most of his eight minutes on screen to secure his second supporting Oscar (four years after Viva Zapata!)

Gloria Grahame

(The Bad and the Beautiful)

Again it was Kirk Douglas who was chewing the scenery in Vincente Minnelli’s powerful Hollywood yarn, but all it took was nine minutes and 32 seconds of screen time for Gloria Grahame to translate her supporting role into a gong-winning turn.

Judi Dench

(Shakespeare in Love)

An actress who can make her mark with just one minute of screen time, Judi Dench actually won her only Oscar (from seven nominations) for a performance that lasted six minutes.

Ingrid Bergman

(Murder on the Orient Express) Many big stars supported the late Albert Finney’s Poirot in this Agatha Christie drama, including Lauren Bacall, Vanessa Redgrave and John Gielgud, but it was Ingrid Bergman’s one-take, five-minute interrogation sequence that landed her a third Oscar, following Gaslight (1944) and Anastasia (1956)