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

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. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans  
2.
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 The Wind
by Victor Sjöström
  
3. All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics)
by Lewis Milestone
  
4. City Lights (2 Disc Special Edition)
by Charles Chaplin
  
5.
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 Scarface (1932)
by Howard Hawks (dir.)
  
6. King Kong (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Ernest B. Schoedsack
  
7. The Scarlet Empress - Criterion Collection
by Josef von Sternberg
  
8. The 39 Steps - Criterion Collection  
9. Modern Times (2 Disc Special Edition)  
10. Stage Door
by Gregory La Cava
  
11. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Michael Curtiz
  
12. The Wizard of Oz (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Victor Fleming
  
13. The Grapes of Wrath
by John Ford
  
14. Citizen Kane
by Orson Welles
  
15. Sullivan's Travels - Criterion Collection  
16. Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Michael Curtiz
  
17. Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
by Billy Wilder
  
18. They Were Expendable  
19. It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
by Frank Capra
  
20. Monsieur Verdoux
by Charles Chaplin
  
21. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by John Huston
  
22. Gun Crazy
by Joseph H. Lewis
  
23. Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
by Billy Wilder
  
24. Strangers on a Train (Two-Disc Special Edition)  
25. Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Donen, Stanley
  
26. Shane  
27. Salt of the Earth
by Rosaura Revueltas
  
28. The Night of the Hunter
by Charles Laughton
  
29. The Searchers (Two-Disc Anniversary Edition)
by John Ford
  
30. Paths of Glory
by Stanley Kubrick
  
31.
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 Touch of Evil (Restored to Orson Welles' Vision)  
32. Some Like It Hot (Special Edition)  
33. Psycho (Collector's Edition)  
34. West Side Story (Special Edition DVD Collector's Set)
by Jerome Robbins
  
35. Ride the High Country  
36. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Stanley Kubrick
  
37. Repulsion
by Roman Polanski
  
38. Cul-de-sac [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]  
39. Bonnie and Clyde
by Arthur Penn
  
40. 2001 - A Space Odyssey
by Stanley Kubrick
  
41. Once Upon a Time in the West
by Sergio Leone
  
42. Five Easy Pieces
by Bob Rafelson
  
43. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
by Robert Altman
  
44. The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola
  
45. American Graffiti (Collector's Edition)
by George Lucas
  
46. Chinatown  
47. The Man Who Would Be King
by John Huston
  
48. The Front
by Martin Ritt
  
49. Annie Hall  
50. Coming Home
by Greg Carson
  
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Created by RobT2 on Nov 21, 2006.