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

Send to Printer Danny Peary's "Alternate Oscars": Best Picture nominees (The 1940's) 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.		The Grapes of Wrath by John Ford
	2.		His Girl Friday by Howard Hawks
	3.		The Long Voyage Home by John Ford
	4.		The Philadelphia Story (Two-Disc Special Edition) by George Cukor
	5.		Pinocchio (Disney Gold Classic Collection) by Hamilton Luske
	6.		The Sea Hawk by Michael Curtiz
	7.		The Shop Around the Corner by Ernst Lubitsch
	8.		Citizen Kane by Orson Welles
	9.		Ball of Fire by Howard Hawks
	10.		The Maltese Falcon (Three-Disc Collector's Edition) by John Huston
	11.		That Hamilton Woman (1941) by Alexander Korda
	12.		Sullivan's Travels - Criterion Collection
	13.	?	The Magnificent Ambersons by Orson Welles
	14.		The Palm Beach Story by Preston Sturges
	15.		To Be or Not to Be by Ernst Lubitsch
	16.		Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition) by Michael Curtiz
	17.		Heaven Can Wait (Criterion Collection) by Ernst Lubitsch
	18.	?	The Human Comedy by Clarence Brown
	19.		The More the Merrier by George Stevens
	20.		Shadow of a Doubt by Alfred Hitchcock
	21.		Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series) by Billy Wilder
	22.		Gaslight by George Cukor
	23.		Going My Way (Universal Cinema Classics) by Leo McCarey
	24.		Laura by Rouben Mamoulian
	25.		Meet Me In St. Louis (Two-Disc Special Edition) by Vincente Minnelli
	26.		Murder, My Sweet by Edward Dmytryk
	27.		They Were Expendable
	28.		Scarlet Street (Remastered Edition) by Fritz Lang
	29.	?	The Suspect (1944) by Robert Siodmak
	30.	?	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Elia Kazan
	31.		It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition) by Frank Capra
	32.		The Best Years of Our Lives by William Wyler
	33.		Henry V - Criterion Collection by Laurence Olivier
	34.		My Darling Clementine (The Ford at Fox Collection) by John Ford
	35.		Notorious - Criterion Collection
	36.		Monsieur Verdoux by Charles Chaplin
	37.		Black Narcissus - Criterion Collection by Michael Powell
	38.		Great Expectations - Criterion Collection by David Lean
	39.		Miracle on 34th Street (Special Edition) by George Seaton
	40.		Nightmare Alley by Edmund Goulding
	41.		Out of the Past by Jacques Tourneur
	42.		The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Two-Disc Special Edition) by John Huston
	43.	?	Fort Apache by John Ford
	44.	?	Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) with Joan Fontaine by Max Ophuls
	45.		Red River by Howard Hawks
	46.		Gun Crazy by Joseph H. Lewis
	47.		The Heiress (Universal Cinema Classics)
	48.		On the Town by Gene Kelly
	49.		They Live by Night / Side Street (Film Noir Double Feature) by Nicholas Ray
	50.		White Heat by Raoul Walsh
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