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Retrospective Golden Hourglass Awards: 1942

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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  • Hellzapoppin'
  • Citizen Kane
  • That Hamilton Woman
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • All That Money Can Buy
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Suspicion
  • The Little Foxes
  • Hold Back the Dawn
  • How Green Was My Valley
  • The Wolf Man
  • Blossoms in the Dust
  • Ziegfeld Girl
  • You'll Never Get Rich
  • Dive Bomber
  • Dumbo
  • They Died with Their Boots On
  • The Lady Eve
  • Sullivan's Travels
  • Superman
  • Ain't Misbehavin'
  • Words for Battle
  • Blues in the Night
  • Early to Bed
  • The Fighting 69½th
  • Hollywood Steps Out
  • Tortoise Beats Hare
  • An Airman's Letter to His Mother
  • I'll Never Heil Again
  • The Tell-Tale Heart
  • Third Dimensional Murder
  • Breakdowns of 1941
  • Forty Boys and a Song
  • Ordinary People
  • A Place to Live
  • Road to Zanzibar
  • Sun Valley Serenade
  • Babes on Broadway
  • Sergeant York
  • Lydia
  • Ball of Fire
  • The Invisible Woman
  • The Sea Wolf