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

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These are the movies with performances that film critic Danny Peary picked as his “best actress” choices from 1927-28 to 1991 in his book “Alternate Oscars” from 1993. Note that Peary selected two “best actresses” for 1942.

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  1. 1.
    My Best Girl

  2. 2.
    The Wind
    by Victor Sjöström
  3. 3.
    Pandora's Box (The Criterion Collection)
    by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
  4. 4.
    Morocco
    by Josef von Sternberg
  5. 5.
    Grand Hotel (Snap case)
    by Edmund Goulding
  6. 6.
    Queen Christina
    by Rouben Mamoulian
  7. 7.
    Of Human Bondage
    by John Cromwell
  8. 8.
    Alice Adams
    by George Stevens
  9. 9.
    Libeled Lady
    by Jack Conway
  10. 10.
    The Awful Truth
    by Leo McCarey
  11. 11.
    Three Comrades (1938)
    by Frank Borzage
  12. 12.
    Gone with the Wind (Two-Disc Edition)
    by George Cukor
  13. 13.
    His Girl Friday
    by Howard Hawks
  14. 14.
    Ball of Fire
    by Howard Hawks
  15. 15.
    The Major and the Minor (Universal Cinema Classics)
    by Billy Wilder
  16. 16.
    To Be or Not to Be
    by Ernst Lubitsch
  17. 17.
    The More the Merrier
    by George Stevens
  18. 18.
    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder
  19. 19.
    Scarlet Street (Remastered Edition)
    by Fritz Lang
  20. 20.
    Notorious (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  21. 21.
    Black Narcissus (The Criterion Collection)
    by Emeric Pressburger
  22. 22.
    Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) with Joan Fontaine
    by Max Ophuls
  23. 23.
  24. 24.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder
  25. 25.
    A Streetcar Named Desire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Elia Kazan
  26. 26.
    The Marrying Kind
    by George Cukor
  27. 27.
    The Big Heat
    by Fritz Lang
  28. 28.
    A Star Is Born
    by George Cukor
  29. 29.
    The Rose Tattoo
    by Daniel Mann
  30. 30.
    The Rainmaker
    by Joseph Anthony
  31. 31.
    The Three Faces of Eve
    by Nunnally Johnson
  32. 32.
    I Want to Live!
    by Robert Wise
  33. 33.
    Some Like It Hot
    by Billy Wilder
  34. 34.
    Elmer Gantry
    by Richard Brooks
  35. 35.
    Splendor in the Grass
    by Elia Kazan
  36. 36.
    The Miracle Worker
    by Arthur Penn
  37. 37.
    The L-Shaped Room (1963)
    by Bryan Forbes
  38. 38.
    Man's Favorite Sport?
    by Howard Hawks
  40. 40.
  41. 41.
    Two for the Road
    by Stanley Donen
  42. 42.
    Pretty Poison
    by Noel Black
  43. 43.
    The Rain People
    by Francis Ford Coppola
  44. 44.
    Women in Love
    by Ken Russell
  45. 45.
    Klute
    by Alan J. Pakula
  46. 46.
    Cabaret
    by Bob Fosse
  47. 47.
    The Way We Were (Special Edition)
    by Sydney Pollack
  48. 48.
    Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
    by Martin Scorsese
  49. 49.
    The Story of Adele H.
    by Francois Truffaut
  50. 50.
    Carrie (Special Edition)
    by Brian De Palma

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Created by RobT2 on Nov 23, 2006.
 

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RobT2

Just replaced the link for "Alice"... — 6 years ago

…with one that you can get to the amazon.com page for the video. Anybody who checked off the movie because of its appearance on this list needs to do so again!

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