I still can’t believe someone won an Oscar for only appearing in five minutes of a movie.
Here they all are, in order from most screentime to least.
41.Olympia Dukakis won Best Supporting Actress for 1987’sMoonstruck.
She was on screen for just 19 minutes and 54 seconds.
40.Joel Grey won Best Supporting Actor for 1972’sCabaret.
39.John Gielgud won Best Supporting Actor for 1981’sArthur.
38.Laura Dern won Best Supporting Actress for 2019’sMarriage Story.
She was on screen for 18 minutes and 36 seconds.
37.Lee Grant won Best Supporting Actress for 1975’sShampoo.
36.Tilda Swinton won Best Supporting Actress for 2007’sMichael Clayton.
She was on screen for one second less again, this time for 18 minutes and 34 seconds.
35.Donna Reed won Best Supporting Actress for 1953’sFrom Here to Eternity.
She was on screen for 18 minutes and 25 seconds.
34.Anjelica Huston won Best Supporting Actress for 1985’sPrizzi’s Honor.
She was on screen for 17 minutes and 56 seconds.
Anjelica’s win helped her family become the first to contain three generations of Oscar winners.
33.Vanessa Redgrave won Best Supporting Actress for 1977’sJulia.
She was on screen for 17 minutes and 45 seconds.
32.James Coburn won Best Supporting Actor for 1997’sAffliction.
He was on screen for 17 minutes and 20 seconds.
She was on screen for 17 minutes and 15 seconds.
Both of her parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, had also been nominated for Oscars.
30.Claire Trevor won Best Supporting Actress for 1948’sKey Largo.
She was on screen for 17 minutes and 12 seconds.
29.Hugh Griffith won Best Supporting Actor for 1959’sBen-Hur.
28.Cloris Leachman won Best Supporting Actress for 1971’sThe Last Picture Show.
She was on screen for 16 minutes and 46 seconds.
27.John Houseman won Best Supporting Actor for 1973’sThe Paper Chase.
He was on screen for 16 minutes and 26 seconds.
26.Miyoshi Umeki won Best Supporting Actress for 1957’sSayonara.
She was on screen for 16 minutes and 2 seconds.
25.Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor for 1991’sThe Silence of the Lambs.
24.Ruth Gordon won Best Supporting Actress 1968’sRosemary’s Baby.
She was on screen for 15 minutes and 52 seconds.
23.David Niven won Best Actor for 1958’sSeparate Tables.
22.Allison Janney won Best Supporting Actress for 2017’sI, Tonya.
She was on screen for 15 minutes and 37 seconds.
21.Jo Van Fleet won Best Supporting Actress for 1955’sEast of Eden.
She was on screen for 15 minutes and 31 seconds.
20.Shelley Winters won Best Supporting Actress for 1965’sA Patch of Blue.
She was on screen for 15 minutes and 6 seconds.
19.Joseph Schildkraut won Best Supporting Actor for 1937’sThe Life of Emile Zola.
He was on screen for 15 minutes and 2 seconds.
17.Celeste Holm won Best Supporting Actress for 1947’sGentleman’s Agreement.
16.And Kim Basinger won Best Supporting Actress for 1997’sL.A.
15.Penelope Cruz won Best Supporting Actress for 2008’sVicky Cristina Barcelona.
She was on screen for 14 minutes and 29 seconds.
14.Alan Arkin won Best Supporting Actor for 2006’sLittle Miss Sunshine.
He was on screen for 14 minutes and 20 seconds.
13.Ingrid Bergman won Best Supporting Actress for 1974’sMurder on the Orient Express.
She was on screen for 14 minutes and 18 seconds.
12.Shirley Jones won Best Supporting Actress for 1960’sElmer Gantry.
She was on screen for 14 minutes and 9 seconds.
11.Gale Sondergaard won Best Supporting Actress for 1936’sAnthony Adverse.
She was on screen for just 13 minutes and 34 seconds.
She was the first Best Supporting Actress winner ever.
10.Margaret Rutherford won Best Supporting Actress for 1963’sThe V.I.P.s.
She was on screen for 13 minutes and 6 seconds.
9.Jason Robards won Best Supporting Actor for 1976’sAll the President’s Men.
He was on screen for 12 minutes and 58 seconds.
8.Jack Palance won Best Supporting Actor for 1991’sCity Slickers.
He was on screen for only 12 minutes and 24 seconds.
7.Maureen Stapleton won Best Supporting Actress for 1981’sReds.
She was on screen for 11 minutes and 35 seconds.
6.Jason Robards won Best Supporting Actor again, this time for 1977’sJulia.
He was on screen for 10 minutes and 49 seconds.
5.Martin Balsam won Best Supporting Actor for 1965’sA Thousand Clowns.
He was on screen for an even 10 minutes.
4.Ben Johnson won Best Supporting Actor for 1971’sThe Last Picture Show.
3.Gloria Grahame won Best Supporting Actress for 1952’sThe Bad and the Beautiful.
She was on screen for 9 minutes and 32 seconds.
2.Judi Dench won Best Supporting Actress for 1998’sShakespeare in Love.
She was on screen for an even eight minutes.
She was on screen for only 5 minutes and 2 seconds.
