Title Mentions in Academy Award Best Picture Winners

	A	B	C	D	E
1	Year	Movie	Mentions	Category	Notes
2	1976	Rocky	73	name/title
3	1982	Gandhi	68	name/title
4	1948	Hamlet	67	name/title
5	1955	Marty	67	name/title
6	1958	Gigi	59	name/title
7	1968	Oliver!	50	name/title
8	1943	Casablanca	50	place/ship
9	1940	Rebecca	44	name/title	Rebecca is not a character in the film.
10	1994	Forrest Gump	23	name/title
11	1932	Grand Hotel	21	place/ship	Style points: Opening and closing lines are "Grand Hotel." A character also says "What a grand hotel."
12	1997	Titanic	21	place/ship
13	2015	Spotlight	20	name/title
14	2002	Chicago	14	place/ship
15	1970	Patton	13	name/title
16	1990	Dances with Wolves	13	name/title
17	1942	Mrs. Miniver	12	name/title
18	1959	Ben-Hur	12	name/title
19	1988	Rain Man	12	name/title
20	2000	Gladiator	12	name/title
21	1944	Going My Way	12	phrase
22	2012	Argo	12	place/ship	Mostly repetitions of the pun-based vulgarity that someone will repeat when you bring up this movie.
23	1967	In the Heat of the Night	11	phrase	Only mentioned in title song, sung over opening and closing credits, and in the middle (possibly over the car radio)
24	1963	Tom Jones	10	name/title
25	1960	The Apartment	10	noun
26	1986	Platoon	10	noun
27	1956	Around the World in 80 Days	7	phrase
28	1931	Cimarron	7	place/ship
29	1952	The Greatest Show on Earth	6	phrase
30	1965	The Sound of Music	6	phrase
31	1929	The Broadway Melody	5	phrase
32	1927	Wings	3	noun
33	1954	On the Waterfront	3	phrase
34	1950	All About Eve	2	phrase
35	1972	The Godfather	1	name/title	"Godfather" gets said a lot (13 other times) directly to him, but "the Godfather" only happens once.
36	1977	Annie Hall	1	name/title
37	1984	Amadeus	1	name/title
38	1987	The Last Emperor	1	name/title	Closes with: "The last Emperor to be crowned here was Aisian-Gioro Pu Yi. He was three years old. He died in 1967."
39	1973	The Sting	1	noun
40	2005	Crash	1	noun
41	2006	The Departed	1	noun
42	2016	Moonlight	1	noun
43	1935	Mutiny on the Bounty	1	phrase
44	1938	You Can't Take It With You	1	phrase
45	1941	How Green Was My Valley	1	phrase	Mic-drop narration to close: "How green was my valley then."
46	1947	Gentleman's Agreement	1	phrase
47	2008	Slumdog Millionaire	1	phrase
48	2010	The King's Speech	1	phrase
49	1927*	Sunrise	0
50	1930	All Quiet on the Western Front	0
51	1933	Cavalcade	0
52	1934	It Happened One Night	0
53	1936	The Great Ziegfeld	0
54	1937	The Life of Emile Zola	0
55	1939	Gone with the Wind	0		Card after the title does say "Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A Civilization gone with the wind..."
56	1945	The Lost Weekend	0
57	1946	The Best Years of Our Lives	0		Near miss: "I gave up the best years of my life!"
58	1949	All the King's Men	0
59	1951	An American in Paris	0
60	1953	From Here to Eternity	0
61	1957	The Bridge on the River Kwai	0
62	1961	West Side Story	0
63	1962	Lawrence of Arabia	0
64	1964	My Fair Lady	0
65	1966	A Man for All Seasons	0
66	1969	Midnight Cowboy	0
67	1971	The French Connection	0
68	1974	The Godfather Part II	0
69	1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	0
70	1978	The Deer Hunter	0
71	1979	Kramer vs. Kramer	0
72	1980	Ordinary People	0
73	1981	Chariots of Fire	0
74	1983	Terms of Endearment	0
75	1985	Out of Africa	0
76	1989	Driving Miss Daisy	0
77	1991	The Silence of the Lambs	0
78	1992	Unforgiven	0
79	1993	Schindler's List	0
80	1995	Braveheart	0
81	1996	The English Patient	0
82	1998	Shakespeare in Love	0
83	1999	American Beauty	0
84	2001	A Beautiful Mind	0
85	2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	0		"The return of the King" is mentioned once.
86	2004	Million Dollar Baby	0
87	2007	No Country for Old Men	0
88	2009	The Hurt Locker	0
89	2011	The Artist	0
90	2013	12 Years a Slave	0
91	2014	Birdman, or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance	0		"Birdman" is said 12 times, "The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance" once. Never both together.
92	2017	The Shape of Water	0
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