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Jul 8, 2024 · Beatrice Straight won an Academy Award for her five-minute screen time and currently holds the title for the shortest Oscar-winning performance. Despite the controversy surrounding the Best Picture win for Shakespeare in Love, the film is remembered for earning Judi Dench an Academy Award for her role as Queen Elizabeth I.
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4 days ago · At the Academy Awards, actress Gloria Grahame's performance as Rosemary Bartlow occupied only just 9 minutes and 32 seconds of screen time and was at the time the shortest performance to ever win an Academy Award, a record she held until 1977 when Beatrice Straight won Best Supporting Actress for Network and set a new record of 5 minutes and 2 ...
Jun 29, 2024 · For years, many have questioned who is the real director of the 1982 film Poltergeist: Tobe Hooper or Steven Spielberg.
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5 days ago · Bloodline (also known as Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline) is a 1979 thriller film directed by Terence Young and starring Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Claudia Mori, Irene Papas, Michelle Phillips, Maurice Ronet, and Romy Schneider.
Jul 19, 2024 · Two of a Kind follows a group of characters caught up in a plot involving a bank robbery and divine intervention. The cast includes John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Charles Durning, Oliver Reed, Beatrice Straight, Scatman Crothers, Richard Bright, Vincent Bufano, Toni Kalem, James Stevens, Ernie Hudson, and Jack Kehoe.
Jul 19, 2024 · The shortest performance to win an acting Oscar was Beatrice Straight's role as Louise Schumacher in NETWORK (1976). With just a little over 5 minutes of total screen time, she took home Best Supporting Actress at the 49th Academy Awards.
2 days ago · Beatrice Straight portrays Rose, David's understanding mother who tries to bridge the gap between David and his father.
