Alternate Oscars: Vote For The Best Picture Of 1945

Best Picture of 1945 (Poll Closed)

• Brief Encounter  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Children Of Paradise  9.52%  (4 votes)  
   
• I Know Where I'm Going!  2.38%  (1 votes)  
   
• The Lost Weekend  14.29%  (6 votes)  
   
• Mildred Pierce  7.14%  (3 votes)  
   
• Rome, Open City  4.76%  (2 votes)  
   
• Spellbound  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• They Were Expendable  7.14%  (3 votes)  
   
• To Have And Have Not  28.57%  (12 votes)  
   
• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn  26.19%  (11 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 42

 

Alternate Oscars: Vote For The Best Picture Of 1944

Best Picture of 1944 (Poll Closed)

• Arsenic And Old Lace  7.14%  (3 votes)  
   
• Double Indemnity  42.86%  (18 votes)  
   
• Gaslight  19.05%  (8 votes)  
   
• Going My Way  4.76%  (2 votes)  
   
• Hail The Conquering Hero  2.38%  (1 votes)  
   
• Henry V  2.38%  (1 votes)  
   
• Laura  11.9%  (5 votes)  
   
• Meet Me In St. Louis  4.76%  (2 votes)  
   
• The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek  4.76%  (2 votes)  
   
• Murder, My Sweet  0%  (0 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 42

 

Alternate Oscars: Vote For The Best Picture Of 1943

Best Picture of 1943 (Poll Closed)

• Casablanca  86.36%  (38 votes)  
   
• Day Of Wrath  2.27%  (1 votes)  
   
• Heaven Can Wait  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• I Walked With A Zombie  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• The More The Merrier  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Ossessione  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• The Ox-Bow Incident  9.09%  (4 votes)  
   
• Shadow Of A Doubt  2.27%  (1 votes)  
   
• Watch On The Rhine  0%  (0 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 44

 

Alternate Oscars: Vote For The Best Picture of 1942 (Revised)

Alternate Oscar guru Erik Beck of the Boston Becks writes "Thought you would include Casablanca here since it was released in November of 1942 though it didn't get an Oscar eligible L.A. release until February of 1943.

But where, where, where, where is Sullivan's Travels, my number one film of the year? How is it not here?"

He makes a good point. I have been placing movies in the year of their release rather than Oscar eligibility to avoid a situation where, say, 1953's Tokyo Story winds up competing for best picture in 1972 simply because nobody in Japan thought American audiences would cotton to Ozu. But for voting purposes, Casablanca works so much better in 1943 than 1942.

Then I got to thinking why not do a hybrid, with American films competing in their year of Oscar eligibility and foreign (including British) films competing in the year of release in their home countries.

I know, you don't care.

But here, in case you do, is a revised poll for 1942. Eventually, when I transfer these polls to their permanent pages, I'll revise polls for 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937 and 1941 as well.

Best Picture of 1942 (Poll Closed)

• Cat People  5%  (2 votes)  
   
• The Magnificent Ambersons  37.5%  (15 votes)  
   
• Mrs. Miniver  12.5%  (5 votes)  
   
• Now, Voyager  7.5%  (3 votes)  
   
• The Palm Beach Story  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Random Harvest  2.5%  (1 votes)  
   
• Sullivan's Travels  17.5%  (7 votes)  
   
• The Talk Of The Town  2.5%  (1 votes)  
   
• To Be Or Not To Be  7.5%  (3 votes)  
   
• Yankee Doodle Dandy  7.5%  (3 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 40

 

Alternate Oscars: Vote For The Best Picture Of 1942

Best Picture of 1942 (Poll Closed)

• Cat People  7.14%  (2 votes)  
   
• The Magnificent Ambersons  39.29%  (11 votes)  
   
• Mrs. Miniver  10.71%  (3 votes)  
   
• Now, Voyager  7.14%  (2 votes)  
   
• The Palm Beach Story  3.57%  (1 votes)  
   
• The Pride Of The Yankees  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Random Harvest  3.57%  (1 votes)  
   
• The Talk Of The Town  3.57%  (1 votes)  
   
• To Be Or Not To Be  17.86%  (5 votes)  
   
• Yankee Doodle Dandy  7.14%  (2 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 28

 

Alternate Oscars: Vote For The Best Picture Of 1941

Best Picture of 1941 (Poll Closed)

• Ball Of Fire  2.17%  (1 votes)  
   
• Citizen Kane  71.74%  (33 votes)  
   
• Dumbo  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Here Comes Mr. Jordan  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• High Sierra  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• How Green Was My Valley  4.35%  (2 votes)  
   
• The Lady Eve  2.17%  (1 votes)  
   
• The Little Foxes  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• The Maltese Falcon  19.57%  (9 votes)  
   
• Sullivan's Travels  0%  (0 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 46

 

Alternate Oscars: Vote For The Best Picture Of 1940

Best Picture of 1940 (Poll Closed)

• Fantasia  4.17%  (2 votes)  
   
• The Grapes Of Wrath  14.58%  (7 votes)  
   
• The Great Dictator  6.25%  (3 votes)  
   
• His Girl Friday  10.42%  (5 votes)  
   
• The Philadelphia Story  16.67%  (8 votes)  
   
• Pinocchio  2.08%  (1 votes)  
   
• Rebecca  2.08%  (1 votes)  
   
• The Shop Around The Corner  10.42%  (5 votes)  
   
• The Thief Of Bagdad  4.17%  (2 votes)  
   
• The Three Stooges Comedy Shorts (You Nazty Spy!; A Plumbing We Will Go; Nutty But Nice; How High Is Up?; From Nurse To Worse; No Census, No Feeling; Cookoo Cavaliers; and Boobs In Arms)  29.16%  (14 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 48

 

Alternate Oscars: Vote For The Best Picture Of 1939

Best Picture of 1939 (Poll Closed)

• Destry Rides Again  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Gone With The Wind  35.56%  (16 votes)  
   
• Mr. Smith Goes To Washington  2.22%  (1 votes)  
   
• Ninotchka  4.44%  (2 votes)  
   
• Only Angels Have Wings  2.22%  (1 votes)  
   
• The Rules Of The Game  37.78%  (17 votes)  
   
• Stagecoach  4.44%  (2 votes)  
   
• The Wizard Of Oz  11.11%  (5 votes)  
   
• The Women  2.22%  (1 votes)  
   
• Wuthering Heights  0%  (0 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 45

 

Alternate Oscars: Vote For The Best Picture Of 1938

Best Picture of 1938 (Poll Closed)

• The Adventures Of Robin Hood  34.04%  (16 votes)  
   
• Alexander Nevsky  4.26%  (2 votes)  
   
• Angels With Dirty Faces  2.13%  (1 votes)  
   
• Bringing Up Baby  14.89%  (7 votes)  
   
• Holiday  4.26%  (2 votes)  
   
• Jezebel  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• The Lady Vanishes  2.13%  (1 votes)  
   
• Port Of Shadows  2.13%  (1 votes)  
   
• Pygmalion  4.26%  (2 votes)  
   
• You Can't Take It With You  31.9%  (15 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 47

 

Alternate Oscars: Vote For The Best Picture Of 1937

Best Picture of 1937 (Poll Closed)

• The Awful Truth  28.57%  (14 votes)  
   
• Captains Courageous  4.08%  (2 votes)  
   
• Grand Illusion  32.65%  (16 votes)  
   
• Lost Horizon  2.04%  (1 votes)  
   
• Make Way For Tomorrow  2.04%  (1 votes)  
   
• The Prisoner Of Zenda  4.08%  (2 votes)  
   
• Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs  18.37%  (9 votes)  
   
• Stage Door  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• A Star Is Born  8.16%  (4 votes)  
   
• You Only Live Once  0%  (0 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 49

 

Alternate Oscars: Vote For The Best Picture Of 1936

Best Picture of 1936 (Poll Closed)

• Camille  6.25%  (3 votes)  
   
• Dodsworth  10.42%  (5 votes)  
   
• Flash Gordon  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Fury  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Libeled Lady  4.17%  (2 votes)  
   
• Mr. Deeds Goes To Town  4.17%  (2 votes)  
   
• Modern Times  22.92%  (11 votes)  
   
• My Man Godfrey  43.75%  (21 votes)  
   
• The Petrified Forest  4.17%  (2 votes)  
   
• Swing Time  4.15%  (2 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 48

 

Alternate Oscars: Vote For The Best Picture Of 1935

Best Picture of 1935 (Poll Closed)

• Bride Of Frankenstein  10.42%  (5 votes)  
   
• Captain Blood  4.17%  (2 votes)  
   
• David Copperfield  4.17%  (2 votes)  
   
• The Informer  2.08%  (1 votes)  
   
• Mutiny On The Bounty  10.42%  (5 votes)  
   
• A Night At The Opera  12.5%  (6 votes)  
   
• Ruggles Of Red Gap  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• A Tale Of Two Cities  2.08%  (1 votes)  
   
• The 39 Steps  41.67%  (20 votes)  
   
• Top Hat  12.49%  (6 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 48

 

Alternate Oscars: Vote For The Best Picture Of 1934

Best Picture of 1934 (Poll Closed)

• L'Atalante  7.84%  (4 votes)  
   
• The Black Cat  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• The Gay Divorcee  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• It Happened One Night  29.41%  (15 votes)  
   
• It's A Gift  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• The Scarlet Empress  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Shen Nu (The Goddess)  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• A Story Of Floating Weeds  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• The Thin Man  58.82%  (30 votes)  
   
• Twentieth Century  3.92%  (2 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 51

 

Alternate Oscars: Vote For The Best Picture Of 1933

Best Picture of 1933 (Poll Closed)

• Dinner At Eight  9.43%  (5 votes)  
   
• Duck Soup  49.06%  (26 votes)  
   
• 42nd Street  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Gold Diggers Of 1933  3.77%  (2 votes)  
   
• The Invisible Man  1.89%  (1 votes)  
   
• King Kong  28.3%  (15 votes)  
   
• Liebelei  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• The Private Life Of Henry VIII  1.89%  (1 votes)  
   
• Queen Christina  5.66%  (3 votes)  
   
• Zero For Conduct  0%  (0 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 53

 

Alternate Oscars: Vote For The Best Picture Of 1932

Best Picture of 1932 (Poll Closed)

• Boudu Saved From Drowning  1.75%  (1 votes)  
   
• Freaks  1.75%  (1 votes)  
   
• Grand Hotel  8.77%  (5 votes)  
   
• I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang  12.28%  (7 votes)  
   
• I Was Born, But ...  1.75%  (1 votes)  
   
• The Music Box  1.75%  (1 votes)  
   
• Red Dust  40.35%  (23 votes)  
   
• Scarface  14.04%  (8 votes)  
   
• Trouble In Paradise  17.54%  (10 votes)  
   
• Vampyr  0%  (0 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 57

 

Alternate Oscars: Vote For The Best Picture Of 1931

Best Picture of 1931 (Poll Closed)

• À Nous La Liberté  2%  (1 votes)  
   
• City Lights  22%  (11 votes)  
   
• Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde  8%  (4 votes)  
   
• Dracula  4%  (2 votes)  
   
• Frankenstein  4%  (2 votes)  
   
• Le Million  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• M  56%  (28 votes)  
   
• Monkey Business  4%  (2 votes)  
   
• The Public Enemy  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• The Smiling Lieutenant  0%  (0 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 50