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The titles of the five Best Picture Academy Award nominees The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader and Slumdog Millionaire all referred to the film's characters. When was the last time this happened?

No way I was going to guess that. Although no doubt someone here might.

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Looked it up and even if you perhaps fudge a bit it has been awhile. Without fudging a bit it appears it goes back even further.

macrae1234 wrote:The titles of the five Best Picture Academy Award nominees The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader and Slumdog Millionaire all referred to the film's characters. When was the last time this happened?

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1980: Coal Miner's Daughter, The Elephant Man, Ordinary People, Raging Bull, Tess

I guess your fudging was

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1980 with"Ordinary People", "Coal Miner's Daughter", "The Elephant Man", "Raging Bull", "Tess"

However going back and as far as I can tell the only other time

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1964 with "My Fair Lady", "Becket", "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying...", "Mary Poppins", "Zorba the Greek"

Aside from this year, it happened only twice. Frank gave

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1980

. The other year was...

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1964: "Becket", "Dr. Strangelove", "Mary Poppins", "My Fair Lady", "Zorba the Greek"

It is also interesting to note that

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1936 had 10 nominees for Best Picture and 8 of those 10 titles referred to their characters

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Two people have now mentioned

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1980 as an answer

Any problems or concerned with why this answer is not accepted should be directed to Tim Dirks at AMC filmsite the author of the question.

macrae1234 wrote:I guess your fudging was

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1980 with"Ordinary People", "Coal Miner's Daughter", "The Elephant Man", "Raging Bull", "Tess"

However going back and as far as I can tell the only other time

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1964 with "My Fair Lady", "Becket", "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying...", "Mary Poppins", "Zorba the Greek"

Yep, that was it.