Danny Peary's "Alternate Oscars": Best Picture winners

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These are the movies that film critic Danny Peary picked as his "best picture" choices from 1927-28 to 1991 in his book "Alternate Oscars" from 1993. Note that Peary selected no films to win for 1963.

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  1. 2.
    The Wind
    by Victor Sjöström

  2. 3.
    All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics)
    by Lewis Milestone

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  4. 5.
    Scarface (1932)
    by Howard Hawks (dir.)

  5. 6.
    King Kong (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Ernest B. Schoedsack

  6. 8.
    The 39 Steps (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  7. 9.
    Modern Times (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin

  8. 10.
    Stage Door
    by Gregory La Cava

  9. 12.
    The Wizard of Oz (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Jack Haley Jr.

  10. 13.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford

  11. 14.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  12. 15.
    Sullivan's Travels: The (The Criterion Collection)
    by Preston Sturges

  13. 16.
    Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Michael Curtiz

  14. 17.
    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder

  15. 18.
    They Were Expendable
    by Robert Montgomery

  16. 19.
    It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
    by Frank Capra

  17. 20.
    Monsieur Verdoux
    by Charles Chaplin

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  19. 22.
    Gun Crazy
    by Joseph H. Lewis

  20. 23.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

  21. 24.
    Strangers on a Train (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  22. 25.
    Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Gene Kelly

  23. 26.
    Shane

  24. 27.

  25. 28.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

  26. 29.
    The Searchers (Two-Disc 50th Anniversary Edition)
    by John Ford

  27. 30.
    Paths of Glory
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  29. 32.
    Some Like It Hot
    by Billy Wilder

  30. 33.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  31. 34.
    West Side Story (Special Edition Collector's Set)
    by Jerome Robbins

  32. 35.
    Ride the High Country

  33. 37.
    Repulsion
    by Roman Polanski

  34. 38.
    Cul-de-sac [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]
    by Roman Polanski

  35. 39.
    Bonnie and Clyde
    by Arthur Penn

  36. 40.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick

  37. 42.
    Five Easy Pieces
    by Bob Rafelson

  38. 43.
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller
    by Robert Altman

  39. 44.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  41. 46.
    Chinatown
    by Roman Polanski

  42. 47.
    The Man Who Would Be King
    by Ed Apfel

  43. 48.
    The Front

  44. 49.
    Annie Hall
    by Woody Allen

  45. 50.
    Coming Home
    by Greg Carson

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