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Danny Peary's "Alternate Oscars": Best Picture nominees (The 1960's)

These are the movies that film critic Danny Peary nominated for “best picture” from 1960 to 1969 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 Peary nominated NO movies for "Best Picture" of 1963.)

1. Psycho (Collector's Edition)  
2. The Apartment  
3. Elmer Gantry
by Richard Brooks
 
4. Spartacus - Criterion Collection
by Stanley Kubrick
 
5. West Side Story (Special Edition DVD Collector's Set)
by Jerome Robbins
 
6. Ride the High Country  
7. Lawrence of Arabia (Limited Edition)  
8. Long Day's Journey Into Night
by Sidney Lumet
 
9. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
by John Ford
 
10. The Miracle Worker
by Arthur Penn
 
11. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Stanley Kubrick
 
12. A Hard Day's Night
by Richard Lester
 
13. The Servant
by Joseph Losey
 
14. A Shot in the Dark
by Blake Edwards
 
15. Repulsion
by Roman Polanski
 
16.
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Cul-de-sac
by Roman Polanski
 
17. Bonnie and Clyde
by Arthur Penn
 
18.
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Chimes at Midnight
by Orson Welles
 
19. The Graduate (40th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
by Mike Nichols
 
20. Point Blank
by John Boorman
 
21. Two for the Road
by Stanley Donen
 
22. 2001 - A Space Odyssey (Two-Disc Special Edition)  
23. Oliver!
by Carol Reed
 
24. Petulia
by Richard Lester
 
25. Once Upon a Time in the West
by Sergio Leone
 
26. Medium Cool  
27. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
by Sydney Pollack
 
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Created by RobT2 on Dec 05, 2007.