Oscars 2025 set for history-making win with tiny 8-minute long performance

The 2025 Oscars could extremity up hosting a record-breaking triumph with an 8-minute show considered the frontrunner for 1 of the large gongs.

Historically, actors haven’t had to look connected surface for immense chunks of a movie to beryllium successful with a changeable astatine landing a champion supporting histrion oregon histrion information – oregon adjacent win.

One of the astir fashionable of these was, of course, Dame Judi Dench’s lively crook arsenic Queen Elizabeth I successful Shakespeare successful Love, which saw her crowned 2000’s champion supporting histrion astatine the Academy Awards aft appearing successful the movie for conscionable 5 minutes and 52 seconds.

And that’s not adjacent the shortest connected grounds – that honour belongs to Beatrice Straight, who won with a five-minute, two-second crook successful 1976’s Network.

However, for adjacent twelvemonth it is the girl of a surface legend, and an acclaimed and established prima successful her ain right, who mightiness yet get her archetypal Oscar recognition.

Isabella Rossellini, 72, appears arsenic Sister Agnes successful the two-hour spiritual thriller Conclave, based connected best-selling writer Robert Harris’s caller and starring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci.

In 7 minutes and 51 seconds of surface time, arsenic per Variety, her nun is simply a quiescent subordinate during the past process of selecting the adjacent Pope, which is led by Fiennes’ Cardinal Lawrence.

However, the accepted voting strategy soon uncovers intrigue and conspiracy connected a level that threatens the aboriginal of the Catholic Church and what it stands for.

With Conclave besides proving a beardown contender successful different categories – including champion representation and starring histrion for the champion accidental Fiennes has had astatine an Oscar in years acknowledgment to his quiescent but nuanced enactment – it could besides springiness Rossellini, who is the girl of Ingrid Bergman, her archetypal Academy Award.

For contempt breaking done with White Nights and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet successful the 1980s, arsenic good arsenic turns successful Wild At Heart and Death Becomes Herin the pursuing decade, and La chimera and Spaceman astir recently, she is yet to beryllium nominated.

She has been recognised for her TV enactment though, including a Golden Globe information for Crime of the Century and an Emmy motion for Chicago Hope successful the 1990s – conscionable aft her iconic cameo connected Friends.

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If Rossellini does triumph successful March adjacent twelvemonth too, her triumph would besides spell down successful the past books, for it would people the archetypal clip a parent and girl person some won acting Oscars.

Casablanca prima Bergman won successful the champion supporting class for Murder connected the Orient Express successful 1975, aft winning champion histrion for some Gaslight successful 1945 and Anastasia successful 1957.

She is besides tied successful 2nd spot for the astir numbers of Oscars won for acting ever with three, alongside Sir Daniel Day-Lewis, Jack Nicholson, Walter Brennan, Meryl Streep and Frances McDormand.

Katharine Hepburn remains the record-holder with 4 champion histrion wins astatine the Academy Awards to her name.

A triumph for Rossellini would besides marque it the third-shortest show to bash truthful aft Straight and Dame Judi, though respective different performances shorter than hers person been antecedently nominated.

According to Screen Time Central, which tracks the magnitude of Oscar-nominated performances, these see a stunningly abbreviated two-minute, 19-second quality from Hermione Baddeley successful Room astatine the Top successful 1959 and Ethel Barrymore, who cropped up successful 1947’s The Paradine Case for each of 3 minutes and 52 seconds.

Meanwhile Jane Alexander had a five-minute, nine-second crook successful All the President’s Men (1976) and Geraldine Page clocked successful six minutes and six seconds successful The Pope of Greenwich Village successful 1984.

In the champion supporting histrion category, the shortest ever quality to triumph successful presumption of surface clip was Ben Johnson for The Last Picture Show successful 1972 with 9 minutes and 54 seconds successful the movie.

Conclave releases successful UK cinemas connected Friday, November 29.

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