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

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. The Circus (2 Disc Special Edition)
by Charles Chaplin
  
2. Steamboat Bill, Jr.
by Charles Reisner
  
3.
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 The Big House (1930)
by George W. Hill
  
4. Little Caesar
by Mervyn LeRoy
  
5.
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 Scarface (1932)
by Howard Hawks (dir.)
  
6. The Private Life of Henry VIII
by Alexander Korda
  
7. Twentieth Century
by Howard Hawks
  
8.
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 Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
by directed by Clyde Bruckman, starring W. C. Fields
  
9. Modern Times (2 Disc Special Edition)  
10. The Awful Truth
by Leo McCarey
  
11. Angels With Dirty Faces
by Michael Curtiz
  
12. Goodbye, Mr. Chips
by Sam Wood
  
13. The Grapes of Wrath
by John Ford
  
14. Ball of Fire
by Howard Hawks
  
15. Yankee Doodle Dandy (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Michael Curtiz
  
16. Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Michael Curtiz
  
17. Gaslight
by George Cukor
  
18. The Body Snatcher
by Robert Wise
  
19. It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
by Frank Capra
  
20. Monsieur Verdoux
by Charles Chaplin
  
21. The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
by Emeric Pressburger
  
22. Champion
by Mark Robson
  
23. Father of the Bride (Snap case)
by Vincente Minnelli
  
24. A Christmas Carol (Original B&W Version)
by Brian Desmond Hurst
  
25. Strangers on a Train (Two-Disc Special Edition)  
26. The Quiet Man (Collector's Edition)
by John Ford
  
27. From Here to Eternity  
28. On the Waterfront (Special Edition)  
29. Rebel Without a Cause (Two-Disc Special Edition)  
30. Richard III - Criterion Collection  
31. A Face in the Crowd
by Elia Kazan
  
32. The Horse's Mouth - Criterion Collection
by Ronald Neame
  
33. Some Like It Hot (Special Edition)  
34. Psycho (Collector's Edition)  
35. The Hustler
by Robert Rossen
  
36. Lawrence of Arabia (Single Disc Edition)  
37. The Nutty Professor (Special Edition)  
38. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Stanley Kubrick
  
39.
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 The Hill (1965)
by Sidney Lumet
  
40. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Mike Nichols
  
41. Falstaff Chimes At Midnight [Import]
by Orson Welles
  
42. Bullitt (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Mimi Freedman
  
43. Midnight Cowboy (Two Disc Collector's Edition)
by John Schlesinger
  
44. Five Easy Pieces
by Bob Rafelson
  
45. A Clockwork Orange
by Stanley Kubrick
  
46.
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 Play It Again, Sam
by Herbert Ross
  
47. Last Tango in Paris
by Bernardo Bertolucci
  
48. The Conversation  
49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Milos Forman
  
50. Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)  
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Created by RobT2 on Nov 21, 2006.