The Best Actor Oscar category has seen plenty of long performances win in its 92-year history. To date, four dozen have surpassed the category’s one-hour, nine-minute, and nine-second average, all of which are considered to be undoubtedly lead roles. Here is a look at the 10 longest winners of all time. (And here’s the list of the 10 shortest winning performances for Best Actor.)
10. Jeff Bridges (“Crazy Heart”)
1 hour, 36 minutes, 52 seconds (86.85% of the film)
After garnering five Oscar nominations over the course of 38 years, Bridges scored a win in 2010 for his role as struggling country singer Bad Blake. In terms of percentage, the performance became the second longest to win in any acting category. Bridges earned another Best Actor nomination the very next year for playing Rooster Cogburn in “True Grit,” a role with nearly half the amount of screen time (49 minutes and 43 seconds).
9. Adrien Brody (“The Pianist”)
1 hour, 37 minutes,...
10. Jeff Bridges (“Crazy Heart”)
1 hour, 36 minutes, 52 seconds (86.85% of the film)
After garnering five Oscar nominations over the course of 38 years, Bridges scored a win in 2010 for his role as struggling country singer Bad Blake. In terms of percentage, the performance became the second longest to win in any acting category. Bridges earned another Best Actor nomination the very next year for playing Rooster Cogburn in “True Grit,” a role with nearly half the amount of screen time (49 minutes and 43 seconds).
9. Adrien Brody (“The Pianist”)
1 hour, 37 minutes,...
- 12/31/2020
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
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