Marty is the shortest film to win the Best Picture Oscar, with a commonly cited runtime of 90 minutes. Some references list its running time as 91 minutes, but that minor cataloguing difference does not change the accepted trivia answer.
Directed by Delbert Mann and written by Paddy Chayefsky, Marty is a modest 1955 romantic drama about a lonely Bronx butcher, played by Ernest Borgnine, who finds hope after meeting Clara at a dance. Its intimate story and television-play origins contrasted sharply with the large-scale productions often associated with Best Picture.
At the 28th Academy Awards, Marty won four Oscars: Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, and Actor for Borgnine. It also won the 1955 Palme d’Or at Cannes, making it an unusually successful bridge between Hollywood’s awards and European festival cinema. The film was later selected for the U.S. National Film Registry in 1994.