10 Iconic Film Performances With Hardly Any Screen Time
10. Judi Dench Shakespeare In Love
An Oscar and a BAFTA win for Best Supporting Actress with less than eight minutes of screen time? It might seem unbelievable but thats exactly what Dame Judi Dench managed to achieve in her role as Queen Elizabeth I in John Maddens multi award-winning comedy Shakespeare in Love. Throughout her three scenes Dench, costumed in iconic pale face and high hairline, conveys Queen Elizabeth as the intelligent and shrewd woman she has gone down in history as, making her mark among the many other actresses who have played the formidable monarch to date from Vanessa Redgrave to Helen Mirren, who also won an Oscar for her performance. Dench didnt break any Academy Awards records for her incredibly short performance though: that honour goes to Beatrice Straight who scooped the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1976 for her five minutes and forty seconds long performance in Network.
