Paul Notley's Alternate Academy Awards List

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1927-1928
The Passion of Joan of Arc
James Murray, The Crowd
Maria Falconetti, The Passion of Joan of Arc(!!)
Director:  Sergei Eisenstein, October

1928-1929
The Man with a Movie Camera
Buster Keaton, Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Louise Brooks, Pandora’s Box

1929-1930
All Quiet on the Western Front
Emil Jannings, The Blue Angel
Louise Brooks, The Diary of a Lost Girl

1930-1931
M
Peter Lorre, M (!!)
Marlene Dietrich, Morocco

1931-1932
Vampyr
Maurice Chevalier, Love Me Tonight
Jeannette MacDonald, Love Me Tonight

1932-1933
Duck Soup
Groucho Marx, Duck Soup  (!!)
Miriam Hopkins, Trouble in Paradise
Director: Ernst Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise
Supporting Actor:  Chico Marx, Duck Soup
Supporting Actress:  Margaret Dumont, Duck Soup

1934
The Thin Man
William Powell, The Thin Man (!!)
Myrna Loy, The Thin Man (!!)
Director:  Josef von Sternberg, The Scarlet Empress

1935
A Night at the Opera
Fred Astaire, Top Hat (!!)
Ginger Rogers, Top Hat
Director:  Mark Sanderich, Top Hat

1936
After the Thin Man
Charles Chaplin, Modern Times (!!)
Carole Lombard, My Man Godfrey
Director:  Charles Chaplin, Modern Times

1937
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Jean Gabin, Pepe le Moko
Greta Garbo, Camille

1938
Grand Illusion
Jean Gabin, Grand Illusion
Katharine Hepburn, Bringing up Baby

1939
The Wizard of Oz
Marcel Diallo, The Rules of the Game
Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz (!!)
Director:  Jean Renoir, The Rules of the Game

1940
His Girl Friday
Cary Grant, His Girl Friday
Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story (!!)
Director:  John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath

1941 Citizen Kane
Humphrey Bogart, The Maltese Falcon
Barbara Stanwyck, Ball of Fire

1942
The Magnificent Ambersons
James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy
Claudette Colbert, The Palm Beach Story
Supporting Actress:  Agnes Moorhead, The Magnificent Ambersons

1943
Casablanca
Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca (!!)
Lisbeth Movin, Day of Wrath
Director:  Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Supporting Actor:  Claude Rains, Casablanca

1944
Ivan the Terrible, Part One
Nikolai Cherkasov, Ivan the Terrible, Part One
Lauren Bacall, To Have and to Have Not
Supporting Actress:  Margaret O’Brien, Meet me in Saint Louis

1945
Children of Paradise
Jean-Louis Barrault, Children of Paradise
Arletty, Children of Paradise (!!)

1946
It’s a Wonderful Life
James Stewart, It’s a Wonderful Life
Ingrid Bergman, Notorious

1947
Black Narcissus
Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux
Deborah Kerr, Black Narcissus

1948
Rope
Anton Walbrook, The Red Shoes
Rita Hayworth, The Lady from Shanghai+
Director:  Howard Haws, Red River

1949
Late Spring
Spencer Tracy, Adam’s Rib
Setsuko Hara, Late Spring (!!)

1950
Sunset Blvd.
George Sanders, All About Eve
Gloria Swanson, Sunset Blvd. (!!)

1951
Alice in Wonderland
Robert Walker, Strangers on a Train
Patricia Walters, The River
Director:  Jean Renoir, The River

1952
Singin’ in the Rain
Gene Kelly, Singin’ in the Rain (!!)
Simone Signoret, Casque D’Or

1953
The Wages of Fear
Jacques Tati, Mr. Hulot’s Holiday
Ingrid Bergman, Voyage in Italy (!!)
Director:  Max Ophuls, The Earrings of Madame de
Supporting Actress:  Nanette Fabray, The Band Wagon

1954
The Seven Samurai
Takashi Shimura, The Seven Samurai
Judy Garland, A Star is Born
Supporting Actor:  Toshiro Mifune, The Seven Samurai

1955
Ordet
James Dean, East of Eden (!!)
Uma Das Gupta, Pather Panchali*

1956
A Man Escaped
David Niven, Around the World in 80 Days
Karuna Bannerjee, Aparajito

1957
Twelve Angry Men
Henry Fonda, Twelve Angry Men
Giulietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria
Director:  Federico Fellini, Nights of Cabiria
Supporting Actress:  Isuzu Yamada, Throne of Blood

1958
Vertigo
James Stewart, Vertigo (!!)
Kim Novak, Vertigo
Supporting Actor:  Orson Welles, Touch of Evil
Supporting Actress:  Barbara Bel Geddes, Vertigo

1959
North by Northwest
Cary Grant, North by Northwest (!!)
Marilyn Monroe, Some Like it Hot (!!)

1960
Psycho
Laurence Olivier, The Entertainer
Supriya Choudhury, Cloud Capped Star
Director:  Michaelangelo Antonioni, L’Avventura

1961
Last Year in Marienbad
Paul Newman, The Hustler
Jeanne Moreau, Jules et Jim

1962
Lawrence of Arabia
Peter O’Toole, Lawrence of Arabia (!!)
Jolanta Umecka, Knife in the Water
Supporting Actress:  Angela Lansbury, The Manchurian Candidate

1963
The Leopard
Burt Lancaster, The Leopard (!!)
Delphine Seyrig, Muriel
Supporting Actor:  Alain Delon, The Leopard
Supporting Actress:  Claudia Cardinale, The Leopard

1964
A Hard Day’s Night
Peter Sellers, Dr. Strangelove or How I stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb
Nina Pens Rode, Gertrud (!!)
Supporting Actor:  George C. Scott, Dr. Strangelove or How I stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb

1965
Help!
Jean-Pierre Belmondo, Pierrot le Fou
Madhabi Mukherjee, Charulata (!!)
Director:  Satyajit Ray, Charulata
Supporting Actor:  Leo McKern, Help!

1966
A Man for all Seasons
Paul Scofield, A Man for all Seasons (!!)
Liv Ullmann, Persona (!!)
Director:  Ingmar Bergman, Persona
Supporting Actor:  Leo McKern, A Man for all Seasons
Supporting Actress:  Anne Wiazemsky, Au Hasard Balthazar

1967
Two for the Road
Albert Finney, Two for the Road
Audrey Hepburn, Two for the Road
Director:  Jean-Luc Godard, Weekend
Supporting Actress:  Francoise Dorleac, The Young Girls of Rochefort

1968
Yellow Submarine
Douglas Rain, 2001:  A Space Odyssey
Mia Farrow, Rosemary’s Baby
Director:  Stanley Kubrick, 2001:  A Space Odyssey

1969
Andrei Rublev
Dustin Hoffman, Midnight Cowboy
Diana Rigg, The Assassination Bureau

1970
The Confession
Yves Montand, The Confession
Catherine Deneuve, Tristana

1971
The Sorrow and the Pity
Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange
Jane Fonda, Klute

1972
The Godfather
Al Pacino, The Godfather (!!)
Liza Minnelli, Cabaret
Director:  Luis Bunuel, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

1973
Cries and Whispers
Jean-Pierre Leaud, The Mother and the Whore (!!)
Ana Torrent, The Spirit of the Beehive (!!)

1974
Murder on the Orient Express
Albert Finney, Murder on the Orient Express (!!)
Dominique Labourier, Celine and Julie Go Boating (!!)
Supporting Actor:  John Cazale, The Conversation, The Godfather Part II

1975
Barry Lyndon
Michael Caine, The Man who Would Be King
Delphine Seyrig, Jeanne Dielman, 2300 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (!!)
Supporting Actor:  Michael Palin, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Cinematography:  John Alcott, Barry Lyndon

1976
All the President’s Men
Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver
Eiko Matsuda, In the Realm of the Senses

1977
Annie Hall
Woody Allen, Annie Hall
Diane Keaton, Annie Hall (!!)
Supporting Actor:  Dirk Bogarde, Providence

1978
Death on the Nile
Peter Ustinov, Death on the Nile
Goldie Hawn, Foul Play
Director:  Robert Zemeckis, I Wanna Hold your Hand

1979
Apocalypse Now
Peter Sellers, Being There
Diane Keaton, Manhattan

1980
Tess
Robert De Niro, Raging Bull
Natassja Kinski, Tess (!!)

1981
The Raiders of the Lost Ark
Warren Beatty, Reds
Karen Allen, Raiders of the Lost Ark

1982
Pink Floyd:  the Wall
Ben Kingsley, Gandhi (!!)
Julie Andrews, Victor/Victoria
Director:  Richard Attenborough, Gandhi
Art Direction:  Blade Runner

1983
Fanny and Alexander
Peter Guive, Fanny and Alexander
Jane Alexander, Testament
Supporting Actress:  Grun Wallgreen, Fanny and Alexander

1984
Splash
Tom Hanks, Splash
Daryl Hannah, Splash (!!)
Director:  Wim Wenders, Paris, Texas

1985
Shoah
Jonathan Pryce, Brazil
Norma Aleandro, The Official Story
Supporting Actor, Michael Palin, Brazil

1986
Aliens
Erland Josephson, The Sacrifice
Sigourney Weaver, Aliens

1987
Angel Heart
Babek Ahmed Poor, Where is the Friend’s Home?
Holly Hunter, Raising Arizona

1988
A Fish Called Wanda
John Cleese, A Fish Called Wanda (!!)
Lena Olin, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1989
Henry V
Tom Cruise, Born on the Fourth of July
Jessica Lange, The Music Box
Director:  Hou Hsiao-Hsien, A City of Sadness

1990
C’est la vie
Jeremy Irons, Reversal of Fortune
Julie Bataille, C’est la Vie (!!)
Director:  Michael Scorsese, Goodfellas

1991
JFK
Michel Piccoli, La Belle Noiseuse
Jodie Foster, The Silence of the Lambs
Supporting Actress:  Christina Ricci, The Addams Family

1992
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Jack Lemmon, Glengarry Glen Ross
Pernilla August, The Best Intentions
Director:  Robert Altman, The Player

1993
Schindler’s List
Bill Murray, Groundhog Day
Michelle Pfeiffer, The Age of Innocence

1994 Pulp Fiction
Donald Sutherland, The Puppet Masters
Sandra Bullock, Speed

1995
Richard III
Morgan Freeman, Se7en (!!)
Susan Sarandon, Dead Man Walking
Director:  Bryan Singer, The Usual Suspects

1996
Matilda
Ralph Fiennes, The English Patient
Mara Wilson, Matilda (!!)
Director:  Andy and Larry Wachowski, Bound

1997
L.A. Confidential
Kevin Spacey, L.A. Confidential
Julianne Moore, Boogie Nights
Director:  Atom Egoyan, The Sweet Hereafter

1998
Saving Private Ryan
Steve Martin, The Spanish Prisoner
Cameron Diaz, There’s Something about Mary
Director:  Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line

1999
Time Regained
Marcello Mazzarella, Time Regained
Hilary Swank, Boys Don’t Cry
Supporting Actor:  John Malkovich, Time Regained, Being John Malkovich
Supporting Actress:  Melora Walters, Magnolia
Costume Design:  The Matrix

2000
Requiem for a Dream
John Cusack, High Fidelity
Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich

2001
The Lord of the Rings:  The Fellowship of the Ring
Joel Haley Osment, A.I.
Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive
Director:  David Lynch, Mulholland Drive

2002
The Pianist
Adrian Brody, The Pianist (!!)
Maribel Verdu, Y Tu Ma Tambien
Director:  Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away
Editing:  Russian Ark

2003
The Lord of the Rings:  The Return of the King
Johnny Depp, The Pirates of the Carribean:  The Curse of the Black Pearl
Samantha Morton, In America

2004
A Very Long Engagement
Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake

2005
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Robert Downey Jr., Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Juliette Binoche, Cache
Director:  David Cronenberg, A History of Violence

2006
Children of Man
Cillian Murphy, The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Helen Mirren, The Queen

2007
There will be Blood
Daniel Day-Lewis, There will be Blood
Julie Christie, Away from Her


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