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

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These are the movies with performances that film critic Danny Peary picked as his “best actor” choices from 1927-28 to 1991 in his book “Alternate Oscars” from 1993. Note that Peary selected two “best actors” for 1951.

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  1. 1.
    The Circus: The Chaplin Collection (Two Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin

  2. 2.
    Steamboat Bill, Jr.
    by Charles Reisner

  3. 3.
    The Big House (1930)
    by George W. Hill

  4. 4.
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    Little Caesar
    by Elmer Clifton

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

  6. 6.
    The Private Life of Henry VIII

  7. 7.
    Twentieth Century
    by Howard Hawks

  8. 8.
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    Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
    by directed by Clyde Bruckman, starring W. C. Fields

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

  10. 10.
    The Awful Truth
    by Leo McCarey

  11. 11.
    Angels With Dirty Faces
    by Bobby Connolly

  12. 12.
    Goodbye, Mr. Chips

  13. 13.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford

  14. 14.
    Ball of Fire
    by Howard Hawks

  15. 15.
    Yankee Doodle Dandy (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Michael Curtiz

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

  17. 17.
    Gaslight
    by George Cukor

  18. 18.
    The Body Snatcher
    by Robert Wise

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

  20. 20.
    Monsieur Verdoux
    by Charles Chaplin

  21. 21.
    The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
    by Michael Powell

  22. 22.
    Champion
    by Mark Robson

  23. 23.
    Father of the Bride (Snap Case)
    by Vincente Minnelli

  24. 24.
    A Christmas Carol (Original B&W Version)
    by Brian Desmond Hurst

  25. 25.
    Strangers on a Train (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  26. 26.
    The Quiet Man (Collector's Edition)
    by John Ford

  27. 27.
    From Here to Eternity
    by Fred Zinnemann

  28. 28.
    On the Waterfront (Special Edition)
    by Elia Kazan

  29. 29.
    Rebel Without a Cause (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Nicholas Ray

  30. 30.

  31. 31.
    A Face in the Crowd
    by Elia Kazan

  32. 32.
    The Horse's Mouth (The Criterion Collection)
    by D.A. Pennebaker

  33. 33.
    Some Like It Hot
    by Billy Wilder

  34. 34.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  35. 35.
    The Hustler
    by Robert Rossen

  36. 36.
    Lawrence of Arabia (Single-Disc Edition)
    by David Lean

  37. 37.
    The Nutty Professor (Special Edition)
    by Jerry Lewis

  38. 39.
    The Hill (1965)
    by Sidney Lumet

  39. 40.

  40. 41.
    Chimes At Midnight - Falstaff [Import, All Regions]
    by Orson Welles

  41. 42.
    Bullitt (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Various

  42. 43.
    Midnight Cowboy (Two Disc Collector's Edition)
    by John Schlesinger

  43. 44.
    Five Easy Pieces
    by Bob Rafelson

  44. 45.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Stanley Kubrick

  45. 46.
    Play it Again, Sam
    by Herbert Ross

  46. 47.
    Last Tango in Paris
    by Bernardo Bertolucci

  47. 48.
    The Conversation
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  48. 49.

  49. 50.
    Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

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