The Phone Call | Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent star in this Oscar® winning short film

Sally Hawkins is a brilliant actress and she's been so underestimated until now! I'm glad she has won an oscar!

I had a call from a client in customer service who needed to close his account because he was dying. I could barely handle that conversation and had to walk away from the phones to go ugly cry. It was 7 years ago and I still tear up when I think of it.

"Can you just stay there, and talk, and hold my hand?" I burst out crying.

This short film left more of an impression on me than most feature length films. It's amazing that a good script and great actors can make a phone call so compelling.

Sally Hawkins is so expressive - with Jim Broadbent it's a dream team. Wonderful film.

Her face slowly crumpling as she fights her emotions while keeping her voice calm and sweet is such good acting...

A beautiful example of compassion…..Thank you. (This is one of two comments I’ve ever posted during my 71 year old life).

Such a powerful short video. I lost my brother 2 years ago he took his life after his wife died from covid, the deep sadness I feel for his loneliness and his desperation will be with me for a very long time. I will always feel guilty that my attention and love for him wasn't enough. All we can do is love them. 1/16/24 I’ve tried to reply to each of you, I guess I don’t know what I’m doing as I see that none of my replies ever posted. So I want to thank you to all of you who responded. Each comment has impacted me, we are all connected in love pain and tragedy. My loss is not unique, I see that now reading your comments I feel less alone . He took his life on Valentine’s Day and as the anniversary day approaches I’ve decided to do something positive and special to remember him, plant a tree or something? Bless you all may we all find peace and love and most of all understanding as to what brings a person to end their life. It was after all out of our power

One of the best short films ever made. It definitely deserved the Oscar.

The man on the phone was an extraordinary actor. Unbelievably natural. I would have thought it was a real call, if I hadn't known it was a film.

In case Americans & other foreigners didn't recognise it, the final scene was in the iconic Soho jazz club mentioned in the phone call: Ronnie Scott's. She took his advice & went there again. 😄

As an ex Lifeline phone counsellor a few years ago...I can relate to this ...life can become overwhelming for some to cope with changes ....just having a chat with someone can dissipate that one moment to a whole new place even if it is a final one.🙏😇

Sally Hawkins is one of those actors where you see her not doing something huge whether it's just her sitting down, smiling, or even blew a kiss at someone, you instantly said "awwwww" to her because she's really THAT charming as an actress and as a person

You can always depend on the British to give superb 'quality' performances rather than mediocre ' quantity ' ones. Chapeau to all those involved in the making of this extraordinarily gripping short film.....whose effect stays with you for a very long time.

The ending when Joan arrived home was so touching. The most ordinary moments can have extraordinary impacts.

You don't have to be a British film anorak to know how great an actor Sally Hawkins is. I've always found her performances to be compelling, she knows her craft & she intrigues, seemingly without even trying. I love her. Forever. The Way of Water was typical of how she can inhabit a character. She exhibits extraordinary within ordinary in a way I've not seen anybody else do. This won the Academy Award for Best Short Film. Figures.

Love how Prunella Scales appears for seconds! "No small parts, only small actors". Brilliant.

A powerful film. Lets not forget those people at the end of the phone. I'm one. And yes, I've had calls like this. Sometimes I have been able to talk them round, but not always. IF YOU FEEL YOU NEED HELP, PLEASE REACH OUT ❤

I first noticed Sally Hawkins when Netflix released a feature film starring Hawkins and an American actor named Ethan Hawke. It is an Irish Canadian co-production in which Hawkins plays the biographical part of a little known Canadian folk artist who lived and painted in poverty and obscurity most of her life in Nova Scotia, an eastern maritime province of Canada.

So many of my clients are older and being married for so many years, often having lost their life partner a few years or so before I first met them….. always happy to do the work. They ask that often all they want to do is to sit in the company of another over a cup of tea, and we heard…. One of my clients and 84-year-old lady. Asked me if I would have her dog if anything happened to her…… I said, of course I’d be delighted….. The Covid period was difficult for many older generations, living on their own. I met a few who are absolutely desperate. …. Always been happy to share some of my time with them. Bless them.🙏