NETWORK Best supporting actress Beatrice Straight

Best supporting actress for 1976 NETWORK, Beatrice Straight.

[@BaconFrisbee]

"I'm your wife, damn it! And if you can't work up a winter passion for me, the least I require is respect and allegiance!" What a hell of a woman

[@Kylehudgins]

A man named Paddy Chayefsky wrote that line

[@russellcampbell9198]

@@Kylehudgins Yeah, but Beatrice made it work so brilliantly. And, by the way, if you check the intro to the clip, Beatrice aknowledges Paddy's writing.

[@jamesmonroe7751]

She could go toe to toe with Diana. Diana ruthless. She was just as cold as ice. But she had an ace. Max would leave Diana and that would be that!

[@cynthynwill]

@@Kylehudgins She states it in the opening.

[@gmar7836]

Oh wow. I need to remember that line.

[@lesliediaz3677]

This was just the definition of grace. The power of her anger and the dignity she held in a moment of humiliation and betrayal. This scene is too beautiful!

[@woutertron]

It's those deep sorrowful eyes. They transfix you

[@jillsackett5837]

Watching her in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock and Googled her name....was surprised she was born on Long Island (me, too!) A member of the famous Whitney family. Her father died in 1918 during the great epidemic while serving in France during WWI. Even with all that money, she faced hardship. ..Great actress!

[@codyhiginbotham6616]

Ned Beatty, who was also in Network, once said “you should never turn down work. I worked on Network for only a day and got Oscar nominated for it”

[@bbcbbc1717]

Largely due to Paddy’s iconic words and script.

[@anjelheaven]

"I HURT don't you understand that?! I hurt BADLY!" The way she delivers that line never fails to move me. Faultless performance!

[@m.e.d.7997]

It was Beatrice Straight. I would expect no less.

[@laurajuarez6282]

Piece of acting you dont see today.Superb.

[@Scottsteaux63]

You could almost FEEL those lines coming in her sobs of agony before them.

[@bobthebear1246]

Beatrice Straight absolutely deserved her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her amazing performance in this amazing scene.

[@Koldeman]

I remember watching this scene when my wife of 20 years & I were having serious problems. At the time, this scene affected me like Holden- a weird combination of guilt, shame, but surrender to feelings that can't be controlled resulting in numbness. Now that the air has cleared and we've survived it stronger than ever, it really resonates with a true clarity. Straight's final line is the most truthful warning one can hear in a situation like this. This film is a masterpiece.

[@AllenMQuinn]

Typically I'd say a performance like this is way too short for an Oscar, but man, she nailed it. She's the exception

[@jamesmonroe7751]

The searching and waiting is what kills me. Diana would not have stood a chance!

[@markmcgee2369]

No performance is TOO short for an Oscar. That is why the Supporting Category was invented in order to give small roles that stand out a chance to be recognized with this award.

[@beatricewoods8377]

Alan arkin got Oscar 14 minutes on screen

[@wadedavid4375]

Judi Dench 8 minutes in Shakespeare in Love! Well Deserved!

[@russellcampbell9198]

The whole film was filled with acting tours de force but Beatrice's performance possibly topped them all. And her look when Holden gives her hope that it is not the end of the marriage was reacting at its best.

[@FabinhoFlapp]

Absolutely brilliant. This screenplay, these words. This scene is a masterpiece. Beatrice is extraordinary here, she made a lifetime scene, full of complexities, in 5 minutes. One of greatest breakdown scenes in movies history.Brilliant actress, Holden is also excellent. Deserved Oscar.

[@DeepScreenAnalysis]

The screenplay is horribly pretentious.

[@namyarasree]

The whole movie is a masterpiece. Try to see it, and you will understand many things they will never tell today on TV......If you haven't seen it before...!

[@randywhite3947]

Messylin how dumbass this is a top ten screenplay of all time

[@bearcattony00]

Also give credit to Paddy Chevesky for the vocabulary used. Alleration at its finest; broad you picked up after three belts of booze. Pearling like you sleep like some pertinent drunk

[@wtcashel]

There are great actors today, but Holden's generation of actors were a breed apart from today's.

[@wrjb2]

Network is one of my favourites, and, arguably, one of the greatest movies of all time, but this scene is what always comes to mind first when I think of it. That look in Beatrice Straight's eyes with the line "then the least I require is respect and allegiance!" is burned into my memory.

[@jamesmonroe7751]

When she searches his face, I said she's going to win. Complete opposite of Finch. That's why chayefsky is a master like Hitchcock.

[@jameskuhnert8363]

Still impressed with her performance. I had the honor of taking an acting class by Beatrice in the early 80s at NYU and she had such presence and command of her craft.

[@TH-nf1eo]

She didn’t need any more than this one scene for that Oscar. This is a stunning performance.

[@MarlaLukofsky7]

She is absolutely BRILLIANT. Her body of work over the decades came to a head in this role. She is the ultimate in acting and totally deserved the Oscar she won.

[@bearcattony00]

The vocabulary that was used was a masterpiece. Every time Beatrice uttered big words and words like passion she broke down even more.

[@BLTKellys]

It doesn’t feel like a real conversation. Just a writer trying to use as many big words as he can to make the audience think he’s intelligent.

[@909dotod]

@@BLTKellys Could be he's actually intelligent. 🤔

[@BLTKellys]

@@909dotod or horribly pretentious.

[@909dotod]

@@BLTKellys it's possible to be pretentious AND intelligent at the same time.

[@SirJVernon]

this powerful scene is still one the greatest, shortest scene bestowed upon a best supporting actress....Good Job!, Beatrice. Loved you in "Poltergeist" too. RIP

[@laurenceesposito3393]

Acting at its apex. Takes 45 seconds to see why this performance was so immensely celebrated. Ms. Straight was real.

[@donaldbryan1521]

"I don't know how I feel. I'm grateful I can feel anything." -and Louise's reaction. That, right there, is a most powerful moment is this most powerful scene.

[@donaldkoelper5807]

"You're in for some dreadful grief, Max." This was one of the most emotionally resonant scenes about marriage and relationships ever put to celluloid. Louise (Beatrice Straight) was onscreen only briefly in "Network," but her presence and pain hung over Max (William Holden) and the audience for the rest of the film.

[@GartWilliamsColorado]

A devastating performance. Difficult not to tear up a this woman's pain.

[@jamesmonroe7751]

She genuinely cares for mac but the love is gone. In the end even pity won't work. She knows Diana more than max.she will chew him up and spit him out. She knows what's going to happen and she doesn't care. Brilliant performance!

[@supermodel2]

Great performance. A great win and kudos to the academy for honoring it as no other awards body even nominated her for it.

[@waynewhitson6914]

Ladies & Gentlemen: "That is what is known as ACTING"!

[@davidbeautifulperez2726]

BEATRICE STRAIGHT WON A WELL DESERVED OSCAR,I LOVE THIS SCENE;IT'S SO POWERFUL.

[@sidtom2741]

3:30 THE EYEBROWS!!! Just... EXTRAORDINARY! The betrayal and resentment in her eyes and facial expressions smoothly transition to sorrow and melancholy in letting him go. Her fighting an inner battle of deep hurt and regret as well as indignation and bitterness towards him. One of the best performances I've ever seen!

[@charlesfosterkane1966]

makes me cry everytime I watch this scene. So raw. RIP Beatrice.

[@Scottsteaux63]

I love Beatrice Straight; she was brilliant in everything she did.

[@gaelavellamoragues5981]

One of the most deserved oscar... It's amazing...

[@zyzzyvacation]

This is the kind of sublime chemistry that seethes between two people with an actor's director like Sidney Lumet at the helm, coaxing the magnificent prose of Paddy Chayefsky from their very souls. The performances in this film never date. "Network" should be required viewing for all students of film direction and screenwriting . . .

[@oscarestrada8477]

Man, this has to be one of the best acted movies of all time. This scene, Mr Jansen's speech to Howard, Diana yelling at her phone, Laureen Hobbs yelling at Great Ahmed Khan, and of course, Howard Beale himself in pretty much every scene hes in... all superbly acted roles

[@mattterranova2654]

Brilliant! And the best deserved Oscar for only a 5 min scene

[@johnstahl4496]

Beatrice Straight straight-up deserved that statue for this. She really kicks butt in this scene, and then ohhhh.... how entrancing she was in POLTERGEIST. She got her well-deserved honors, and then went on to the light to help save an angelic toddler from its danger! Suh-weet.

[@RehabRaccoon69]

SUCH an impeccably brilliant performance from an underrated thespian. So many actors spend an entire 2-hour movie BEGGING for an Oscar, and she wipes the floor with them in just a mere 5 minutes. Utterly tremendous. 🤩😶‍🌫

[@jamesmonroe7751]

When max said he couldn't quit Diana, she searched his face and exploded. Who wouldn't have? It's cold comfort knowing he will always come back. And she knew it. Thats what infuriated her the most. Brava Beatrice!

[@NoirFan84]

I love Beatrice, such a brilliant dramatic actress. She always displayed such passion & intensity in every role. I never felt we got to see her in enough great roles for all the decades she was active.

[@ElizaDolittle]

Never knew until now that she was the one who played Mother Christophe in The Nun's Story opposite Audrey Hepburn. What a powerful performance here - so different from her more passive performance as a nun. Not only a talented actress, she was also such a lovely woman.

[@laramaui4114]

I just found out too! 👍🏽. She was great in that film.

[@sandorsalamon7533]

Such an unbelievable range of emotions from raging hurt to humane humour filled with love. It's impossible not to fall in love with this character, with Beatrice Straight's portrayal.

[@beatricewoods8377]

Alan arkin got Oscar 14 minutes on screen little miss sunshine movie

[@davidhearnsdeglapion7922]

Ok now i see why she won an Oscar for just 5 mins of screen time such raw emotion I wana cry for her this is life this is acting 🎭 not matter how big or small it last bravo 👏

[@Jersey.D3vil201]

Wow. She deserved the Oscar, because I felt that! I almost start crying because I've been there

[@scottrhodenizer7192]

damn. less than six minutes of screen time and she won an oscar.

[@vbplayer50]

One of the best scenes ever.

[@wilburmcbride8096]

The 70s and 80s were the best decades for movies. The acting and emotional theatrical performances are above today's lack luster performances.

[@PungiFungi]

The movies back then do not insult the audiences' intelligence.

[@elpulpo800]

80s? The 30s and the 40s far exceed the 80s. The 70s are brilliant though, I agree.

[@czahnie]

...and that is how you win an Oscar!

[@cjqnsnyc]

I remember the first time I saw this film. This scene LEAPED OUT AT ME!! She EARNED that oscar! Sheer acting brilliance!

[@theguanenonli]

Mohammed Ali and Sly Stallone handed her the oscar for this…. Anytime people go to see that video they will get curious as to who Beatrice was and they’ll come to this scene lol…

[@flyingturtle3384]

Winter passion...stored away in my vocabulary to use someday

[@12classics39]

A phenomenally acted scene that conveys a universal truth: infidelity is the ultimate betrayal from a partner, especially someone with whom you’ve built an entire life for decades. Cheating is never right and it is never the answer.

[@Rb1330]

She did more in 5 minutes of screen time than many have done in 2 hours. Just brilliant.

[@JamesCimino]

There’s not a single bad scene in this movie. It’s in my top 5 movies of all time along with All About Eve, Amadeus, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and City of God.

[@terryhancockroc6560]

Just finished watching Rocky with my son. It holds up. I know All The Presidents Men does too and of course, of the three, this one is the timeless one. Stunner.

[@blueangel6326]

This my first time seeing this scene , I'm doing this for an audition, but the first time im seeing this and so much emotion was evoked

[@gianca60]

She got an Oscar for a 30 seconds speech. I think it's unique in the Award history.

[@kdohertygizbur]

6 minutes total

[@joser1853]

Bro pretty much sure it's more than 30 seconds

[@jabronicamel1957]

outstanding performance and having gong through a marriage. with the other cheating she is right in her Oscar speech. she says what we wish we could say.

[@Does_This_Look_Infected]

One of the best movies ever made. Her performance as well as all the other actors were once in a lifetime.

[@namyarasree]

I saw that movie in 1977. And saw it again today. Network is one of the best movie I ever saw, but also one of the most terrible, telling the awful truth about our society, the absence of democracy and feelings, only based on money, the dreadful power of TV. Beatrice Straight is a great actress, just like Faye Dunaway, William Holden, and all these actors of years 40-50-60-70-80, only acting in very good movies.

[@johnschaefer2238]

Still to this day this is the shortest time an actress has been on screen to win an academy award and well deserved. Before this the other shortest time on screen to win an academy awards was another fine actress Patricia Neal 13 years earlier in HUD! Network was so far ahead of its time it’s crazy. What we are seeing today and living in is the world that Paddy Chayefsky 47 years ago saw coming a living nightmare on screen that reaches into our homes on a daily basis and numbs us to the core! Brilliant screen writer I so much wish he was wrong with what he saw!

[@Vishangro]

That woman deserves an Oscar!😀

[@moisemensah8233]

She had it

[@charlesfosterkane1966]

"I'm your wife, godamnit!!!!" Yes you are Beatrice. Love her.

[@karllieck9064]

One of the greatest performances captured on film. Oscar well deserved.

[@jay_rjabonillo9908]

This reminds me of Viola Davis in Fences. They both show rage at their spouse when they learned about their cheating. Ironically they both won the Oscars.

[@rayanrs9633]

exactly what i felt when i was watching this amazing movie..

[@heaintloveu]

Victim roles often win

[@charlesfosterkane1966]

As do villains. Hopkins as Lector, Frederick March as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Broderick Crawford in All the King's Men, Robert DeNiro in Raging Bull, Michael Douglas in Wall Street, Denzel in Training Day, Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin, and one of the greatest of all time, Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood

[@anjelheaven]

@@charlesfosterkane1966 Mo'Nique in Precious

[@charlesfosterkane1966]

@@anjelheaven OMG, she was STUNNING in Precious

[@austinroper5556]

Great performance with raw emotion just spilling out. I think I can hear a post production voice dub at @ 2:20 I think "emeritus years" was dubbed in. Anyone else hear this?

[@makeit7579]

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

[@jameshaynes7062]

Paddy Chayevsky was such an astonishingly skilled writer...his diction and his rhythmns are just perfect.

[@roycerowland2699]

Her performance as the wife she was absolutely brilliant and she goes from angry to some sort of acceptance. Beatrice Straight was such an great actress and how I wish that she would had won another Oscar in leading too

[@MrS98VAC]

A fantastic interpretation between cinema and theater!

[@amr_12_]

An incredible performance.

[@kofi_olaf]

Beautiful scene. Both delivered exquisitely. Goosebumps throughout ☺️

[@Mokoleo]

I think she won the oscar already in the first minute of her appearance... God that was deep.

[@shayekisitu]

Beatrice Straight was magnificent in this. Wow 🤩

[@kdohertygizbur]

Does she love you.....only a woman who loves can say that

[@RSmith6948]

I know it’s beside the point, but I want to live in that classic New York apartment. I believe it’s the Apthorp on the upper west side off Broadway. Out the window behind Straight at the beginning must be the famous interior courtyard. The building takes up a city block with its own courtyard. When I was touristing in New York I actually wanted to peek inside the courtyard but a doorman stopped me. :-(

[@jamesa.romano8500]

I think the understated power of the scene is the contrast Beatrice draws with Faye Dunaway's Diana whom Max later describes as "television incarnate" devoid of emotion or feeling. We barely ever even see Max's wife at all prior to this scene and yet we immediately can tell that she's Diana's polar opposite in every possible way. If Diana assesses every happenstance or event in her life in the same cold calculating and methodical way that she would analyze Nielsen ratings, Louise is passionate but desiring of things that aren't necessarily tangible or measurable. Its not the normal "domestic and dutiful wife" vs. the "career woman whore" dynamic; Louise isn't a doormat or unintelligent, she exhibits an understanding of what has led Max to do what he's done but still points out the unfairness of the situation that his actions still cause pain unto her. It makes the betrayal much greater in the context that Diana just enters into the relationship with Max because it fits into her diluted vision of the world as playing out like some grand soap opera or television special, to the point where she talks about network ratings while making love to Max not even caring who she's hurting, and it also makes the scene where Max leaves Diana - probably the one scene where we see the crack in her facade when she shows emotion - that much more powerful. Its sort of a mirror image of this scene.

[@PungiFungi]

Yes....but Diana seemingly quickly recovered from Max leaving her as shortly we see her coolly plotting Howard Beale's on air demise.

[@jamesa.romano8500]

@@PungiFungi What's chilling is that the camera doesn't even do a closeup on her when she suggests it but is solidly rooted in the back of the room, seemingly dissuading us from attributing any personal characteristics at all and seemingly proving Howard's point that he was the last contact she had with reality and that she really is "television incarnate."

[@charlesfosterkane1966]

Boom!! That is acting

[@notaniceguy34]

in the end, she was right. she told him EXACTLY what he would do.

[@cristianamargos690]

When I first saw that this movie had won the Best Supporting actress, I thought the actress must have been the black guerrilla woman, because really it was the only supporting female role substantially large in it. I loved this scene and was very well acted, and was surprised they would award a one-scene role. But Straight is absolutely mesmerising in it, her voice inflections express so much about marriage throughout.

[@rockysocky]

Great writing from Chayefsky. Great chemistry with her and Holden. Great performance from her. I agree with previous comments that this should be taught in acting classes.

[@gabrielmaroto18]

She’s TV generation. She was raised on Bugs Bunny and 30 minute plot line. Shit this hart.

[@kennethfender3518]

At the end of the movie when he tells Diana how her generation has no morality I thought back to this scene. This guy callously telling his wife thats hes cheating on her and that hes not going to stop. His generation was responsible for plenty of the terrible things that go down in this movie and at the end he has the gall to act like this was more her fault than his.

[@marksinger2360]

I'd like to think that Chayefsky wrote Max as a hypocrite. Nobody in this movie is clean except maybe Louise--"maybe" because she had chosen to stay with Max for so long when he clearly per the dialogue was a serial philanderer.

[@jeffrylawson789]

They don't make em like this anymore!

[@andreb9529]

5 minutes appearance worth an oscar.. i think its record the shortest time did get an oscar..

[@KaejaeDoherty]

It is , but not the shortest nominated performance That would be Hermione Baddeley for Room at the Top , 1959, almost 3 minutes long

[@CaptBrightside89]

I really hope she showed herself respect and allegiance by refusing to take him back in the end

[@andrjsh]

The most brilliant turn in her performance was the change to a n almost chummy confidante after her explosion. She had asserted her rights and could return to her role as helpmate.

[@khanage360]

She won an Oscar for this 5 minute scene, nuts

[@frolilapume2263]

This is a great scene!

[@909dotod]

She is Greek Tragedy in her despair and raw emotion. Tragedy made manifest. I'm sometimes in doubt of her winning the Academy over Piper Laurie in CARRIE...but then I go back and watch this and Im like....oh yeah...That's why!

[@BLTKellys]

Soap opera acting on film.

[@909dotod]

@@BLTKellys 🤣🤣wow, what soaps r u watching!?

[@CapCrunch45]

Paddy Chayefsky would have been a capable director as he was screenwriter, as he kept giving director Sydney Lumet suggestions on how the scene should play out. When it came time to film this confrontation scene between William Holden and Beatrice Straight, Lumet told Chayefsky that “I know more about divorce than you”. Lumet’s real-life experience contributed to the authenticity of this compelling scene, along with Chayefsky’s writing and Holden and Straight’s acting.

[@stephy7475]

She was in Poltergeist 1982.

[@bo2720]

Best part of the whole movie. So beautiful

[@OrdinaryG33K-SF]

This scene chokes me up EVERY TIME I SEE IT! She’s SO good! SO powerful! I’m wiping tears away as I watch this! Max was a real piece of sh*t in this scene!

[@VladmirPoopN]

I'm here because I just read that Beatrice got an Oscar just for these 5mins

[@creolelady182]

Beatrice Straight has a lovely voice- Sounds like a clipped British clipped accent

[@karenbachar5253]

she deserved that Oscar!

[@fadhilramadhani1847]

WOW it's amazing how beatrice can pull off such brilliant acting with that excellent but hopelessly pedantic script. she can make it seem that normal people actually use the words "dotage" and "emeritus" in a marital argument

[@donaldkoelper5807]

It's satire, Fadhil. But more to the point, why wouldn't intelligent people use such words in their conversation and / or argument? Not every couple is like Al and Peg Bundy from "Married With Children." And if they're what you've come to see as "normal," then perhaps you ought to aspire to something better in your own life. To quote the not-so-illustrious Dean Wormer in "Animal House": "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son." ;-D

[@LazlosPlane]

Pedantic script? That's what stupid people say when they want to sound smart. And believe me, you're an idiot. And yes, there are people (called, "adults" who use really grown up words that are not in your vocabulary, fool)

[@drummadave]

this is how new yorkers talk- with intelligence

[@bt10ant]

Interesting note: Just after the 2:18 mark you will hear her say "emeritus years" yet those words are obviously dubbed in post. I always wondered about it because the change in pitch can be startling. Turns out she mis-pronounced it as "Em-er-REET-us years" instead of "E-MER-it-us years" and they decided to dub it in.

[@PungiFungi]

Very sharp hearing. I hear it, now that you pointed it out.

[@abusepotential7071]

Was trying to think of best scenes of all-time and this crossed my mind. But I don't think it counts in a self-contained way. This scene lands SO HARD because she's been a non-character the whole movie, and going in our sympathies understandably lie with William Holden whom we've been following. When she finally cuts the shit and tells him what an awful fuck he is, the suspension of disbelief suddenly disappears: both the audience and character are suddenly hit in the face with the narcissistic damage they've inflicted on everyone around them. This scene, to me, is about how the "characters" we've followed are arbitrarily important, and everyone else has their own complete internal lives: and in this case hers is more intelligent, articulate, and emotionally mature than the protagonist we've been following (and been wrapped up in). She is the hero here. Max (and the audience) is hypnotized by a selfish, childish delusion, and she sees right through it. When she does, so do we. Many people think this is the best screenplay ever written and I'm inclined to agree. I considered this scene maybe one of the best ever and I'd also say it's the third or fourth best scene in the movie.

[@thetriplethreat3]

abuse potential Excellent analysis! What’s interesting about you last sentence though is that this scene was initially written to before the trip scene which had him go away on his affair even after. This order is much more powerful.

[@mikefischer7833]

great scene

[@IllPropaganda]

Classic favorite!

[@ivancervi1825]

5 minuti di recitazione a livello stellare...non ho parole

[@artstar9195]

When journalists criticised Tarantino regarding Margot Robbie's screen time. I had this bullet in my chamber.

[@1985pza]

first time ive seen this i think "wow shes good" and she won deserved Oscar for this. Being 5 minutes and 2 seconds in movie

[@Pure_B]

The shortest performance to have won an Oscar at 5 minutes and 2 seconds.

[@joerules829]

It’s hard to believe William Holden was actually four years younger than Beatrice Straight.

[@martijn130370]

Her record still stands: only 5 minutes screentime!

[@Blaisefiyah]

Painful. This was an excellent scene

[@bryanwiley5511]

Oh the pain!

[@exbronco]

The young generation today, the only reality they know is the smart phone. I was born in 1980.

[@KerazyJoe]

You're VHS generation, you learned life from night rider. The only reality know comes from gladiator