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.

  2. 2.
    The Circus (Two Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin
  4. 4.
    The Wind
    by Victor Sjöström
  5. 5.
    The Wedding March
    by Erich von Stroheim
  6. 6.
    All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics)
    by Lewis Milestone
  7. 7.
  8. 8.
    The Criminal Code
    by Howard Hawks
  9. 9.
    Tabu
    by F.W. Murnau
  10. 10.
  11. 11.
    Grand Hotel (Snap case)
    by Edmund Goulding
  12. 12.
    King Kong (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Ernest B. Schoedsack
  13. 13.
    Dinner at Eight

  14. 14.
    Duck Soup

  15. 15.
    42nd Street (Keep Case Packaging)
    by Lloyd Bacon
  16. 16.
    I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
    by Mervyn LeRoy
  17. 17.
    Queen Christina
    by Rouben Mamoulian
  18. 18.
    Trouble in Paradise (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ernst Lubitsch
  20. 20.
    The Gay Divorcee
    by Mark Sandrich
  21. 21.
    It Happened One Night

  22. 22.
    It's a Gift
    by Norman Z. McLeod
  23. 23.
    Twentieth Century

  24. 24.
    The 39 Steps (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  25. 25.
    The Informer
    by John Ford
  26. 26.
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    Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
    by directed by Clyde Bruckman, starring W. C. Fields
  27. 27.
    Mutiny on the Bounty
    by Frank Lloyd
  28. 28.
    A Night at the Opera
    by Edmund Goulding
  29. 29.
    Top Hat
    by Lloyd French
  30. 30.
    Modern Times (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin
  31. 31.
    Libeled Lady
    by Jack Conway
  32. 32.
    Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

  33. 33.
    Swing Time

  34. 34.
    Stage Door
    by Gregory La Cava
  35. 35.
    The Awful Truth

  36. 36.
    A Star Is Born

  38. 38.
    Angels With Dirty Faces
    by Bobby Connolly
  39. 39.
    Grand Illusion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir
  40. 40.
  41. 41.
    The Wizard of Oz (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Jack Haley Jr.
  42. 42.
    Destry Rides Again
    by George Marshall
  43. 43.
  44. 44.
    Gunga Din
    by George Stevens
  45. 45.
    The Lady Vanishes (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  46. 46.
    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

  47. 47.
    Stagecoach (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by John Ford
  48. 48.
    The Women (Keepcase)
    by George Cukor
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Created by RobT2 on Dec 02, 2007.
 

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