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
  2. 2.
    His Girl Friday

  3. 3.
    The Long Voyage Home
    by John Ford
  4. 4.
    The Philadelphia Story (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Basil Wrangell
  5. 5.
    Pinocchio (Disney Gold Classic Collection)
    by Hamilton Luske
  6. 6.
    The Sea Hawk
    by Michael Curtiz
  7. 7.
    The Shop Around the Corner
    by Ernst Lubitsch
  8. 8.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles
  9. 9.
    Ball of Fire
    by Howard Hawks
  10. 10.
    The Maltese Falcon (Three-Disc Special Edition)
    by John Huston
  11. 11.
    That Hamilton Woman (1941)
    by Alexander Korda
  12. 12.
    Sullivan's Travels: The (The Criterion Collection)
    by Preston Sturges
  13. 13.
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Orson Welles
  14. 14.
    The Palm Beach Story

  15. 15.
    To Be or Not to Be
    by Ernst Lubitsch
  16. 16.
    Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Michael Curtiz
  17. 17.
    Heaven Can Wait (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ernst Lubitsch
  18. 18.
    The Human Comedy
    by Clarence Brown
  19. 19.
    The More the Merrier
    by George Stevens
  20. 20.
    Shadow of a Doubt
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  21. 21.
    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder
  22. 22.
    Gaslight
    by George Cukor
  23. 23.
    Going My Way (Universal Cinema Classics)
    by Leo McCarey
  24. 24.
    Laura (Fox Film Noir)
    by Otto Preminger
  25. 25.
    Meet Me In St. Louis (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Roy Mack
  26. 26.
    Murder, My Sweet
    by Edward Dmytryk
  27. 27.
    They Were Expendable

  28. 28.
    Scarlet Street (Remastered Edition)
    by Fritz Lang
  29. 29.
    The Suspect (1944)
    by Robert Siodmak
  30. 30.
    ?
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    by Elia Kazan
  31. 31.
    It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
    by Frank Capra
  32. 32.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler
  33. 33.
    Henry V (The Criterion Collection)
    by Laurence Olivier
  34. 34.
    My Darling Clementine (The Ford at Fox Collection)
    by John Ford
  35. 35.
    Notorious (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  36. 36.
    Monsieur Verdoux
    by Charles Chaplin
  37. 37.
    Black Narcissus (The Criterion Collection)
    by Emeric Pressburger
  38. 38.
    Great Expectations (The Criterion Collection)
    by David Lean
  39. 39.
    Miracle on 34th Street (Special Edition)
    by George Seaton
  40. 40.
    Nightmare Alley (Fox Film Noir)
    by Edmund Goulding
  41. 41.
    Out of the Past

  42. 42.
  43. 43.
    Fort Apache
    by John Ford
  44. 44.
    Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) with Joan Fontaine
    by Max Ophuls
  45. 45.
    Red River
    by Arthur Rosson
  46. 46.
    Gun Crazy
    by Joseph H. Lewis
  47. 47.
  48. 48.
    On the Town
    by Gene Kelly
  49. 49.
  50. 50.
    White Heat
    by Raoul Walsh
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Created by RobT2 on Dec 03, 2007.
 

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