With screen time averages of 1:28:16 and 61.68%, the Oscar-winning performances of 2024 are collectively the longest in history. The correlating nominee average (1:05:05) is also the highest ever, while their percentage mean (46.48%) is the sixth highest since the introduction of the supporting categories.
Until now, Robert De Niro (Raging Bull), Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner’s Daughter), Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People), and Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard) stood for 44 years as the quartet of Oscar winners with the highest physical and proportional screen time averages. The newest group surpassed them by 18:00 and 3.97%.
Best Supporting Actor – Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)
58:06 / 64.88% (8th / 1st highest ever)
As the first Best Supporting Actor winner to appear in more than 60% of his film, Culkin displaces 56-year category percentage record holder Jack Albertson (The Subject Was Roses). Had he been on screen for 33 more seconds, he would have broken the overall supporting winner percentage record that Tatum O’Neal (Paper Moon) has held for 50 years.
Best Supporting Actress – Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez)
57:50 / 43.69% (4th / 5th highest ever)
Saldaña is the sixth winner of either supporting Oscar to boast more screen time than a lead-nominated costar (5:29, to be exact). Since Kim Hunter (over Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire) is the only woman who preceded her in that regard, she and Karla SofÃa Gascón are the sole female pair on the roster.
Best Actor – Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)
2:08:30 / 59.83% (1st / 50th highest ever)
Brody follows James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story), Paul Lukas (Watch on the Rhine), and F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) as the fourth Best Actor winner with a lower screen time percentage than his supporting male counterpart. In terms of minutes on screen, he supplants 65-year category record holder Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur) as the first runner-up behind Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind) on the general Oscar-winning performance length list. His is the sixth largest performance ever nominated in any Oscar category and the 10th to cross the two-hour mark.
Best Actress – Mikey Madison (Anora)
1:48:36 / 78.30% (3rd / 7th highest ever)
Madison is the sixth consecutive Best Actress winner whose screen time exceeds 80 minutes and 68% and joins three others in that group whose performances are among the 10 physically longest ever honored in the category. Her percentage is also the highest for a Best Actress recipient in a Best Picture-winning film, with Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend) being the only male blocking her from the general record.
When Brody received his first Oscar for The Pianist, he was the only winner that year whose screen time was higher than 27%. The new quartet to which he belongs are the first to all hit at least 35%, smashing yet another record that had stood for 29 years.
The 2024 nominees’ physical screen time average is over two minutes higher than that of the former record holders from 2015. Saldaña and her challengers boast the second highest Best Supporting Actress average ever (after 2015), while Brody and his competitors rank first in their category, bumping the men of 1962.
Other performances worth highlighting are those of Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown (24th longest ever nominated in any category), Ariana Grande in Wicked (second longest ever nominated for Best Supporting Actress), and Isabella Rossellini in Conclave (10th under 10 minutes nominated in any category since 2000).
With the 2024 data factored in, the all-time average length of an Oscar-winning performance has increased by 26 seconds and 0.23%, while the nominee averages are up 11 seconds and 0.06%.