Top 10 Exact Scenes That Won the Actor the Oscar

Heath ledger in the dark knight is missing from this list.

shirley maclaine--Terms of Endearment

Angelina Jolie in Girl Interrupted.

Lol for this list to not include Daniel Day Lewis is a joke

Jodie Foster - The Accused!

"There is no color toilet here" in Hidden Figures.

Scenes where actors were NOT acting, or forgot they were

The Javier Bardem scene that did it for me was when he’s choking the guard on the floor.

Oh, my God. Where is Beatrice Straight for "Network"? Barely five minutes of screen time and she won Best Supporting Actress. I can watch that performance over and over again.

No mention of Joe Pesci in the “funny how?” scene from “Goodfellas”?

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next" Russell Crowe, that scene in Gladiator

thought this was a top ten video why you yapping girl

Viola Davis is one of 22 in this world who already have an EGOT 🎉

Anne Hathaway, Emma Stone, Lupita Nyong’o my three of my favorite actresses 🥺 of course they were deserving 😊

Ms mojo dealing with only garbage fils it seems.

Kate Winslet in “The Reader”…
I almost can’t put into words the layers upon layers of her brilliant acting in that film!

Heath Ledger as the Joker...a defining role.

Viola Davis is one of my all time favourite actresses. Love her!

Why do they do that? They said the same thing to Selena they called her the Mexican Madonna or the next Gloria Estafon. They are themselves regardless how good they are...

Since Mojo was too lazy...
Number 10: Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland in Judy (0:26)
Number 9: Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator (1:45)
Number 8: Viola Davis as Rose Maxson in Fences (3:31)
Number 7: Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody (5:08)
Number 6: Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men (6:17)
Number 5: Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in Monster (8:03)
Number 4: Emma Stone as Mia Dolan in La La Land (9:43)
Number 3: Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby (11:06)
Number 2: Anne Hathaway as Fantine in Les Misérables (12:44)
Number 1: Lupita Nyong'o as Patsey in 12 Years a Slave (16:22)

Viola Davis has the best performance here! This scene just wants to bring tears to Ur eyes.. such acting

heat ledger the dark night, francis mcthurman 3 bilboards outside , marlon brandon te godfather, robeerto benini life is beautiful etc.

Monique Precious,

Renee Zalveger was fabulous in Judy, worth the Oscar but not in Cold mountain. Don't forget Marisa Tomei's My cousin Winnie courtroom scene 👍

Lawrence Fishburne as Ike Turner deserved an oscar

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Robin Williams' bench scene in Good Will Hunting

Ended well with Lupita

Linda Blair in Exorcist

Streidand's ending scene singing Oh My Man, was beautiful acapela, like a monologue, won Her the Oscar!

Charlie's Theron is not giving enough credit. Really is one of the best performances of all time

Fences should have been higher on the list and Viola Davis deserves more kudos for her performance in that movie.

Renée made me cry and I routinely search for this clip.

Waltz should be No. 1.

Just a reminder that the Help made their massahs eat a sh*t pie. Goated forever, in my opinion.

Charlize is the best! The way she acts is SO REAL

I think Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf in The Hours should be here... What a performance

Joe Pesci's "Funny how?" scene in Goodfellas.

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I agree with this video but..not including mon’ique with her re in precious is a crime

But where's Mario Cotillard for "La Vie en Rose"? That has to be one of the best performances in the history of film 🥺

Mostly women in your video.
Also most of the scenes you described were not the actual scenes that contributed to the Oscar award or nomination even.
If you want to mention 1 scene only, is the monologue of Robin Williams talking to Matt Damon sitting on the bench by the lake.
That scene and this monologue is epic.
IMPORTANT: Not everyone that cries deserves an Oscar. Usually movies tend to drag the tear from the audience, by making actors crying or being very sentimental. It's the silent performances that are much more deep and efficient and these are much better.
In 'Gandhi', Sir Ben Kingsley didn't shed a tear, but his performance was a milestone in Oscars' history.
Same as in many other movies, eyes can talk and share the internal pain, better than any tear.
Oscars are voted from people that are even writing music, or working on the production.
The only people that should be voting, are actors and directors.
From the whole list I can agree only for Viola Davis, Javier Bardem.
For the rest, the scenes you mentioned are not really decisive alone to grant an Oscar award.
For 'Live Aid' this is a good performance, but also most biographies are more a mimic, rather than acting.
So I would leave 'Live Aid' out of this list, although I like Remi Malek and I am a huge Queen's fan and I watched the Live Aid in 1985 from tv.
Remi had overall a good performance, but he failed to capture the speed of Freddie's way of talking.
Remi was too slow, Freddie was a somehow fast speaker.
If you compare that to Freddie, it's a whole different person.
This alone, downgrades his performance for example.
And in that year the Oscar should have gone to Bradley Cooper or Lucas Hedges. Their characters were far more deep and difficult to play, Remi only imitated another person.
As I said, Oscars voters, are mostly people that don't know about acting.
Golden Globes and most importantly Actors' Awards are more important to award an actor or actress.

Viola Davis is phenomenal

RE Viola Davis scene my dad left my mom in an ugly cheating betrayal for a woman who was 25. My dad’s reason was that he felt his life had gone to waste and he was needing something to revive him. My Mom was so SO broken. I had just turned 30 so I was desperately trying to fix things in the best way I can and this movie came out and when I heard her monologue it clicked. It all clicked and I understood how shattered she was. So glad Viola took home the win that year. But then we had to relive it again in 2018 with Roma 😭

And a lot of them shouldn't have.