Danny Peary's "Alternate Oscars": Best Picture nominees (The 1940's)

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These are the movies that film critic Danny Peary nominated for “best picture” from 1940 to 1949 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. (Note that "The Maltese Falcon" refers to the 1941, though I’ve included the link to the 3-disc collection with the two earlier versions. Also, the double-feature "They Live by Night"/"Side Street" is included for the former movie.)

  1. 1.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford

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  2. 2.
    His Girl Friday
    by Howard Hawks

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  3. 3.
    The Long Voyage Home
    by John Ford

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  4. 4.
    The Philadelphia Story (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by George Cukor

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  5. 5.
    Pinocchio (Disney Gold Classic Collection)
    by Hamilton Luske

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  6. 6.
    The Sea Hawk
    by Michael Curtiz

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  7. 7.
    The Shop Around the Corner
    by Ernst Lubitsch

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  8. 8.
    Citizen Kane
    by Orson Welles

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  9. 9.
    Ball of Fire
    by Howard Hawks

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  10. 10.
    The Maltese Falcon (Three-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by John Huston

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  11. 11.
    That Hamilton Woman (1941)
    by Alexander Korda

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  12. 13.
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Orson Welles

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  13. 14.
    The Palm Beach Story
    by Preston Sturges

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  14. 15.
    To Be or Not to Be
    by Ernst Lubitsch

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  15. 16.
    Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Michael Curtiz

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  16. 17.
    Heaven Can Wait (Criterion Collection)
    by Ernst Lubitsch

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  17. 18.
    The Human Comedy
    by Clarence Brown

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  18. 19.
    The More the Merrier
    by George Stevens

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  19. 20.
    Shadow of a Doubt
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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  20. 21.
    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder

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  21. 22.
    Gaslight
    by George Cukor

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  22. 23.
    Going My Way (Universal Cinema Classics)
    by Leo McCarey

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  23. 24.
    Laura
    by Rouben Mamoulian

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  24. 25.
    Meet Me In St. Louis (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Vincente Minnelli

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  25. 26.
    Murder, My Sweet
    by Edward Dmytryk

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  26. 27.
    They Were Expendable

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  27. 28.
    Scarlet Street (Remastered Edition)
    by Fritz Lang

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  28. 29.
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    The Suspect (1944)
    by Robert Siodmak

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  29. 30.
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    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    by Elia Kazan

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  30. 31.
    It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
    by Frank Capra

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  31. 32.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler

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  32. 33.
    Henry V - Criterion Collection
    by Laurence Olivier

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  33. 34.
    My Darling Clementine (The Ford at Fox Collection)
    by John Ford

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  34. 35.
    Notorious - Criterion Collection

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  35. 36.
    Monsieur Verdoux
    by Charles Chaplin

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  36. 37.
    Black Narcissus - Criterion Collection
    by Michael Powell

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  37. 38.
    Great Expectations - Criterion Collection
    by David Lean

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  38. 39.
    Miracle on 34th Street (Special Edition)
    by George Seaton

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  39. 40.
    Nightmare Alley
    by Edmund Goulding

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  40. 41.
    Out of the Past
    by Jacques Tourneur

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  41. 42.

  42. 43.
    Fort Apache
    by John Ford

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  43. 44.
    Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) with Joan Fontaine
    by Max Ophuls

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  44. 45.
    Red River
    by Howard Hawks

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  45. 46.
    Gun Crazy
    by Joseph H. Lewis

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  47. 48.
    On the Town
    by Gene Kelly

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  48. 49.

  49. 50.
    White Heat
    by Raoul Walsh

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