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Danny Peary's "Alternate Oscars": Best Picture nominees (The 1970's)

These are the movies that film critic Danny Peary nominated for “best picture” from 1970 to 1979 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.

1. Five Easy Pieces
by Bob Rafelson
 
2. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
by Sam Peckinpah
 
3. Burn!
by Gillo Pontecorvo
 
4. The Honeymoon Killers - Criterion Collection
by Leonard Kastle
 
5. Little Big Man  
6. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
by Robert Altman
 
7. Dirty Harry  
8. Klute
by Alan J. Pakula
 
9. The Last Picture Show (Definitive Director's Cut Special Edition)  
10. Macbeth
by Roman Polanski
 
11. Walkabout - Criterion Collection
by Nicolas Roeg
 
12. The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola
 
13. Cabaret
by Bob Fosse
 
14.
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Deliverance (Deluxe Edition)
by John Boorman
 
15.
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Play It Again, Sam
by Herbert Ross
 
16. American Graffiti (Collector's Edition)
by George Lucas
 
17. Bang The Drum Slowly
by John D. Hancock
 
18. The Long Goodbye
by Robert Altman
 
19. Mean Streets (Special Edition)  
20. The Way We Were (Special Edition)
by Sydney Pollack
 
21. Chinatown (Special Collector's Edition)
by Roman Polanski
 
22. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
by Martin Scorsese
 
23. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Extraordinarily Deluxe Two-Disc Edition)  
24. The Parallax View
by Alan J. Pakula
 
25. Thieves Like Us
by Robert Altman
 
26. The Man Who Would Be King
by John Huston
 
27. Jaws (30th Anniversary Edition)  
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Milos Forman
 
29. The Front
by Martin Ritt
 
30. Annie Hall  
31. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition)  
32. Julia
by Fred Zinnemann
 
33. 3 Women - Criterion Collection
by Robert Altman
 
34. Coming Home
by Greg Carson
 
35. Go Tell the Spartans
by Ted Post
 
36. Interiors
by Woody Allen
 
37. Manhattan
by Woody Allen
 
38. Breaking Away  
39. Norma Rae  
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Created by RobT2 on Dec 06, 2007.