The 2025 Oscars could end up hosting a record-breaking win with an 8-minute performance considered the frontrunner for one of the major gongs.
Historically, actors haven’t had to appear on screen for huge chunks of a film to be in with a shot at landing a best supporting actor or actress nomination – or even win.
One of the most popular of these was, of course, Dame Judi Dench’s lively turn as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love, which saw her crowned 2000’s best supporting actress at the Academy Awards after appearing in the movie for just five minutes and 52 seconds.
And that’s not even the shortest on record – that honour belongs to Beatrice Straight, who won with a five-minute, two-second turn in 1976’s Network.
However, for next year it is the daughter of a screen legend, and an acclaimed and established star in her own right, who might finally get her first Oscar …