If they gave Oscars for single scene or very brief performances, who should have won?

Alan Cumming in Eyes Wide Shut.

Jean Smart was ROBBED at the Oscars. Her monologue scene with Brad Pitt discussing the harsh reality of Hollywood stardom was breathtaking.

Sandy Dennis in Another Woman

Christopher Walken in Annie Hall

Didn't Anne Hathaway pretty much win for "I Dreamed a Dream" in LES MISÉRABLES, which was her one big number/scene.

Teafcake had one scene too many^

Barbara the reporter in Mommie Dearest

Betty Buckley in Another Woman.

Mink Stole in Serial Mom.

Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman for the confrontation scene in Doubt.

Jocelyn Brando as Barbara Bennett In ‘Mommie Dearest’.

[quote]Didn't Anne Hathaway pretty much win for "I Dreamed a Dream" in LES MISÉRABLES, which was her one big number/scene.

OP said who [italic]should[/italic] have won. That part is debatable.

Judi Dench in 'Shakespeare in Lo...' - oh, never mind.

How about Beatrice Straight in 'Netwo...' - forget it.

Brad Pitt in Se7en when he figures out Goop's head is in the box. Or a Razzie.

Bronson Pinchot in Beverly Hills Cop

Christopher Walken in Pennies From Heaven

Eileen Eckhart (sp) for her heart-wrenching drunk scene in The Bad Seed.

Steven Hill - Running on Empty

Harvey Korman in High Anxiety, where Mel Brooks& Harvey are visiting a patient who fears werewolves.

Harvey Korman in that scene is a comic genius& the patient freaking out is comic gold; Harvey with the plastic vampire teeth-shooting paperclips at the patients neck. It's still hysterical 100 years later.

Neely's understudy in Valley of the Dolls.

They do.

Ask Beatrice Straighr.

Helena Kallianiotes in Five Easy Pieces.

R22, she was married to DL fave Billy Gray (Father Knows Best) for a couple of years.

R17. Eileen Heckart got an Oscar nomination for The Bad Seed, but lost to Dorothy Malone (apples and oranges). Heckart did get the Golden Globe. Sixteen years later she got her Oscar for Butterflies are Free. Never won a competitive Tony, but got an Honorary one near the end of her life. Always the best thing. In any show or film.

Patsy Kelly in "Rosemary's Baby"

Donald Sutherland in JFK.

R3, absolutely agree, love her in that.

For cameos:

Anett

^Annette Benning in Postcards from the Edge

Lois Smith in MINORITY REPORT

Jean Smart in GUINEVERE

Anne Bancroft in MALICE

Vanessa Redgrave in ATONEMENT

The Baroness and her harmonica.

Emma Thomson for Love Actually.

Lynn Redgrave as the last interview in Kinsey.

Roberta Maxwell in "Brokeback Mountain"....incredibly moving with little to no dialogue

Vivian Fucking Pickles in “Harold & Maude”.

Amanda Plummer Pulp Fiction

Judy Parfitt as Vera Fucking Donovan

Every supporting player in 1939's THE WOMEN, including Mary Boland, Phyllis Povah, Paulette Goddard and Marjorie Main. And certainly Roz Russell, who had a lead but wasn't even nominated.

Lee Fierro as Mrs. Kintner.

Sydney Pollack in Tootsie

George Gaynes in Tootsie

Peggy Pope

Glenda Jackson Marat/Sade

Yootha Joyce The Pumpkin Eater

Maggie Smith The Pumpkin Eater (1964) and Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)

Liberace The Loved One

Ayllene Gibbons The Loved One

Belinda Palmer Chinatown

Alec Baldwin - Glengarry Glen Ross

Geraldine Page The Day of the Locust

Jackie Earle Haley as 'adore' in The Day of the Locust

According to Boxoffice Movie Scenes, this scene in CHICAGO won an Oscar.

Gene Hackman in Young Frankenstein

Slim Pickins in Dr. Strangelove

Barbara Billingsley in Airplane!

Sally Field LINCOLN

They really should have a Best Cameo category at the Oscars.

The Emmys have Best Guest Star.

R53 Did not understand the assignment.

[quote] The ensemble work in Lone Star is close to flawless, including an amazing one-scene cameo by Frances McDormand, who delivers a pent-up, fluttering performance as Sam's football-fanatic ex-wife Bunny (the near-rhyme with Buddy is very intentional) that's 180 degrees from her role in Fargo.

David Bowie in The Prestige. I just loved him as Tesla.

Larry Hagman in Harry and Tonto (1974)

R55 And you wonder why you never get invited anywhere.

Another one, Madeline Kahn singing 'I'm So Tired" in Blazing Saddles. She steals the movie, BTW!!

We watched it last night!!

“If”, OP?

Beatrice Straight wants a word with you…

[quote] Another one, Madeline Kahn singing 'I'm So Tired" in Blazing Saddles. She steals the movie, BTW!!

She was nominated for that role (and lost to Ingrid Bergman).

OP, stop being such an attention seeker.

I didn't know that Thanks!!

LOVE Ingrid Bergman.

[quote]Didn't Anne Hathaway pretty much win for "I Dreamed a Dream" in LES MISÉRABLES, which was her one big number/scene.

It was also her Oscar clip.