1934 Alternate Oscars

My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔.

Note: I picked Bette Davis over Claudette Colbert and Myrna Loy because her blistering performance in Of Human Bondage pretty much finished the job James Cagney started in The Public Enemy, putting a fork in the genteel British stage style that had dominated the early sound era. I'll concede, though, that Davis gave better performances in her career, especially once she started working with director William Wyler in 1938 who stripped away the last of her actorly pretenses. Your call.

1933 Alternate Oscars

My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔.

I have previously posted about some of the movies and performers from 1933. Click the highlighted link to read those essays: King Kong, Duck Soup, Zero For Conduct, the Marx Brothers, Jean Harlow, Barbara Stanwyck, James Whale, John Barrymore, Margaret Dumont, and the groundbreaking musicals of 1933.

1932 Alternate Oscars

My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔.

I have previously posted about some of the movies and performers from 1932. Click the highlighted link to read those essays: Scarface, Trouble in Paradise, Laurel and Hardy, I Was Born, But ..., Mädchen in Uniform, Paul Muni, Fredric March, Jean Harlow, Kay Francis, Miriam Hopkins, Ernst Lubitsch, and cinematographer Lee Garmes.

1931 Alternate Oscars

My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔.

I have previously written essays about several of the movies and performers from 1931. Click the highlighted link to read them: City Lights, Dracula, Frankenstein, Le Million, the Marx Brothers' Monkey Business, Norma Shearer, Peter Lorre, Joan Blondell, Rene Clair, The Public Enemy and Little Caesar.