Danny Peary's "Alternate Oscars": Best Picture nominees (1927-1939)

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These are the movies that film critic Danny Peary nominated for “best picture” from 1927-28 to 1939 in his book “Alternate Oscars” from 1993. I’ve put the winners at the head of each year, with the non-winning nominees following in alphabetical order.

  1. 2.
    The Circus: The Chaplin Collection (Two Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin

  2. 4.
    The Wind
    by Victor Sjöström

  3. 5.
    The Wedding March
    by Erich von Stroheim

  4. 6.
    All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics)
    by Lewis Milestone

  5. 7.

  6. 8.
    The Criminal Code
    by Howard Hawks

  7. 9.
    Tabu
    by F.W. Murnau

  8. 10.

  9. 11.
    Grand Hotel (Snap case)
    by Edmund Goulding

  10. 12.
    King Kong (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Ernest B. Schoedsack

  11. 13.
    Dinner at Eight

  12. 14.
    Duck Soup
    by Leo McCarey

  13. 15.
    42nd Street (Keep Case Packaging)
    by Lloyd Bacon

  14. 16.
    I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
    by Mervyn LeRoy

  15. 17.
    Queen Christina
    by Rouben Mamoulian

  16. 18.
    Trouble in Paradise (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  17. 19.
    The Scarlet Empress (The Criterion Collection)
    by Josef von Sternberg

  18. 20.
    The Gay Divorcee
    by Mark Sandrich

  19. 21.
    It Happened One Night
    by Frank Capra

  20. 22.
    It's a Gift
    by Norman Z. McLeod

  21. 23.
    Twentieth Century
    by Howard Hawks

  22. 24.
    The 39 Steps (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  23. 25.
    The Informer
    by John Ford

  24. 26.
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    Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
    by directed by Clyde Bruckman, starring W. C. Fields

  25. 27.
    Mutiny on the Bounty
    by Frank Lloyd

  26. 28.
    A Night at the Opera
    by Sam Wood

  27. 29.
    Top Hat
    by Mark Sandrich

  28. 30.
    Modern Times (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin

  29. 31.
    Libeled Lady
    by Jack Conway

  30. 32.
    Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
    by Frank Capra

  31. 33.
    Swing Time

  32. 34.
    Stage Door
    by Gregory La Cava

  33. 35.
    The Awful Truth
    by Leo McCarey

  34. 36.
    A Star Is Born

  35. 38.
    Angels With Dirty Faces
    by Bobby Connolly

  36. 39.
    Grand Illusion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir

  37. 40.

  38. 41.
    The Wizard of Oz (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by George Cukor

  39. 42.
    Destry Rides Again
    by George Marshall

  40. 43.
    Gone with the Wind (Two-Disc Edition)
    by George Cukor

  41. 44.
    Gunga Din
    by George Stevens

  42. 45.
    The Lady Vanishes (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  43. 46.
    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    by Frank Capra

  44. 47.
    Stagecoach (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by John Ford

  45. 48.
    The Women (Keepcase)
    by George Cukor

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Created by RobT2 on Dec 02, 2007.
 

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