12 Actors Who Scored an Oscar Nomination After Being on Screen For 30 Minutes or Less

Silence of the Lambs killed at the 1992 Academy Awards, with wins for best picture, best adapted screenplay, best director, best actress, and best actor for the film's creepy lead, Anthony Hopkins. Hopkins brought the brilliant, cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter — one of cinema's most notorious villains — to life and did it all in only 15 minutes.