Collage of Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer and Joaquin Phoenix in Joker
From Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump to Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer, some of the best Oscar-winning actors were given plenty of screen time to shine in their Academy-favorite performances. It’s always impressive when an actor wins an Oscar with limited screen time, like Anthony Hopkins for The Silence of the Lambs or Beatrice Straight for just five minutes in Network, but they’re much more likely to catch the Academy’s attention if they’re on-screen for the overwhelming majority of the movie.
9 Meryl Streep In Sophie's Choice 1 Hour, 41 Minutes Meryl Streep earned her fourth out of a whopping 21 Oscar nominations — and second out of three wins — for her heartbreaking performance in Sophie’s Choice. Streep plays a Holocaust survivor who was forced to choose which of her two children would be sent to a gas chamber and killed. After she won Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer, this was Streep’s first Best Actress win .
7 Tom Hanks In Forrest Gump 1 Hour, 45 Minutes One year after his Oscar-winning turn in Philadelphia, Tom Hanks won his second consecutive Academy Award for Best Actor for playing the iconic title role in Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump. After Forrest Gump gets past the early scenes set during Forrest’s childhood, Hanks is on-screen in almost every scene for the rest of the movie. He appears for an hour and 45 minutes.
5 Cillian Murphy In Oppenheimer 1 Hour, 53 Minutes After nearly two decades of playing supporting roles in Christopher Nolan’s movies, Cillian Murphy finally landed a starring role as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer. Murphy’s first lead role in a Nolan movie also scored him his first Academy Award for Best Actor.
3 Barbra Streisand In Funny Girl 2 Hours, 1 Minute Eight years before she won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for her track “Evergreen” from A Star is Born, Barbra Streisand won Best Actress for her starring role in the William Wyler musical Funny Girl. Streisand plays Fanny Brice, an up-and-coming performer who ignores the producers telling her to quit for cosmetic reasons, embraces her physical imperfections with a sense of humor, and becomes a huge star.
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