With the recent Oscars I was thinking “One Battle After Another” is kind of long for a movie title. And “F1” is really short, maybe the shortest ever. So I compiled the data (F1 is not the shortest nominee title ever).
There are 621 Oscar Best Picture nominees, and of those there are 98 winners. Average title length for nominees is 14.9. Average title length for winners is 15.4.
**Edit:** Unfortunately I have en error in this, “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” won Best Picture so it is the longest title winner, at 47 characters. Here’s a corrected image [https://imgur.com/a/LXstxyP](https://imgur.com/a/LXstxyP)
Plenty-Willingness58 on
To really get anything interesting from this you need to have the lengths off all movie titles as a control
Gayfetus on
You need to post this in r/oscarrace!
theanedditor on
Whoever made the chart really didn’t want to tell us ANY titles in the highest winning character counts, did they?
MrWhiteTheWolf on
Pretty sure birdman won best picture, which would also make it the longest titled winner
JimDixon on
At first glance, I thought this graph was going to show me the trend over time. That is, I thought the x-axis would be the year and the y-axis would be the number of characters for each year (the average number of characters, in the case of nominees). I think that would actually be more interesting.
probly2drunk on
This is the type of trivia that I am going to spout out at the bar as if I just already knew it. Thanks.
snakesoup88 on
Realistically speaking, do people actually think of a movie or book by the full title? Maybe difficult to scrub the recognized “common” title. But the full title is hardly top of mind for the audience or voters.
CloudsInARow on
Seems like movie title length is completely irrelevant and unrelated to being nominated or winning – as one might expect. A general bell curve around length 14 with some outliers. The fact that 14 has no winners is just random chance. The most interesting part about this is how uninteresting it is, despite trying to be.
![[OC] Movie title lengths of Oscar Best Picture nominees and winners](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/sviai51k1gqg1-1536x960.png "[OC] Movie title lengths of Oscar Best Picture nominees and winners")
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With the recent Oscars I was thinking “One Battle After Another” is kind of long for a movie title. And “F1” is really short, maybe the shortest ever. So I compiled the data (F1 is not the shortest nominee title ever).
There are 621 Oscar Best Picture nominees, and of those there are 98 winners. Average title length for nominees is 14.9. Average title length for winners is 15.4.
Data source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/98th_Academy_Awards) and [Oscars.org](https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2010). Tools: Photoshop, Google Sheets.
**Edit:** Unfortunately I have en error in this, “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” won Best Picture so it is the longest title winner, at 47 characters. Here’s a corrected image [https://imgur.com/a/LXstxyP](https://imgur.com/a/LXstxyP)
To really get anything interesting from this you need to have the lengths off all movie titles as a control
You need to post this in r/oscarrace!
Whoever made the chart really didn’t want to tell us ANY titles in the highest winning character counts, did they?
Pretty sure birdman won best picture, which would also make it the longest titled winner
At first glance, I thought this graph was going to show me the trend over time. That is, I thought the x-axis would be the year and the y-axis would be the number of characters for each year (the average number of characters, in the case of nominees). I think that would actually be more interesting.
This is the type of trivia that I am going to spout out at the bar as if I just already knew it. Thanks.
Realistically speaking, do people actually think of a movie or book by the full title? Maybe difficult to scrub the recognized “common” title. But the full title is hardly top of mind for the audience or voters.
Seems like movie title length is completely irrelevant and unrelated to being nominated or winning – as one might expect. A general bell curve around length 14 with some outliers. The fact that 14 has no winners is just random chance. The most interesting part about this is how uninteresting it is, despite trying to be.