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

  3. 4.

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

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

  6. 7.
    The Scarlet Empress (The Criterion Collection)
    by Josef von Sternberg

  7. 8.
    The 39 Steps (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  8. 9.
    Modern Times (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin

  9. 10.
    Stage Door
    by Gregory La Cava

  10. 12.
    The Wizard of Oz (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by George Cukor

  11. 13.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford

  12. 14.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  13. 15.
    Sullivan's Travels: The (The Criterion Collection)
    by Preston Sturges

  14. 16.
    Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Michael Curtiz

  15. 17.
    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder

  16. 18.
    They Were Expendable
    by Robert Montgomery

  17. 19.
    It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
    by Frank Capra

  18. 20.
    Monsieur Verdoux
    by Charles Chaplin

  19. 21.

  20. 22.
    Gun Crazy
    by Joseph H. Lewis

  21. 23.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

  22. 24.
    Strangers on a Train (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  23. 25.
    Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Gene Kelly

  24. 26.
    Shane

  25. 27.

  26. 28.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

  27. 29.
    The Searchers (Two-Disc 50th Anniversary Edition)
    by John Ford

  28. 30.
    Paths of Glory
    by Stanley Kubrick

  29. 31.

  30. 32.
    Some Like It Hot
    by Billy Wilder

  31. 33.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  32. 34.
    West Side Story (Special Edition Collector's Set)
    by Jerome Robbins

  33. 35.
    Ride the High Country

  34. 37.
    Repulsion
    by Roman Polanski

  35. 38.
    Cul-de-sac [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]
    by Roman Polanski

  36. 39.
    Bonnie and Clyde
    by Arthur Penn

  37. 40.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick

  38. 42.
    Five Easy Pieces
    by Bob Rafelson

  39. 43.
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller
    by Robert Altman

  40. 44.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  41. 45.

  42. 46.
    Chinatown
    by Roman Polanski

  43. 47.
    The Man Who Would Be King
    by Ed Apfel

  44. 48.
    The Front

  45. 49.
    Annie Hall
    by Woody Allen

  46. 50.
    Coming Home
    by Greg Carson

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Created by RobT2 on Nov 21, 2006.
 

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