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Retrospective Golden Hourglass Awards: 1941

Every year, starting in 2020, I do my own personal film awards that I call the Golden Hourglass Awards. Recently, I discovered an account, Cláudio Alves, that put together lists of eligible films for every year in Academy Awards history and it got me thinking about how a 1929 version of the Golden Hourglass Awards would have looked.

This list will be part of an ongoing personal project where I go through every Academy Awards and make two lists: The first, a retrospective ballot based off actual eligible films and using official categories for that ceremony. The second will be a retrospective of the Golden Hourglasses that I choose each year, without taking into consideration Academy eligibility or how the…

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  • Rebecca
  • The Great Dictator
  • The Thief of Bagdad
  • The Mark of Zorro
  • His Girl Friday
  • Too Many Husbands
  • Foreign Correspondent
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • Pinocchio
  • Kitty Foyle
  • Abe Lincoln in Illinois
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Road to Singapore
  • The Philadelphia Story
  • Fantasia
  • A Wild Hare
  • Alice in Movieland
  • London Can Take It!
  • The Letter
  • Swiss Family Robinson
  • Waterloo Bridge
  • The Westerner
  • Dots
  • The Milky Way
  • Puss Gets the Boot
  • You Ought to Be in Pictures
  • Pardon My Berth Marks
  • Pursuit of Happiness
  • Service with the Colors
  • You Nazty Spy!
  • Christmas Under Fire
  • A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
  • Power and the Land
  • Quicker'n a Wink
  • Go West
  • Second Chorus
  • Spring Parade
  • Strike Up the Band
  • The Sea Hawk
  • Dr. Cyclops
  • The Invisible Man Returns
  • One Million B.C.