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Retrospective Golden Hourglass Awards: 1943

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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  • The Magnificent Ambersons
  • To Be or Not to Be
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • The Pied Piper
  • Commandos Strike at Dawn
  • Mrs. Miniver
  • Road to Morocco
  • This Gun for Hire
  • Bambi
  • The Pride of the Yankees
  • Random Harvest
  • Now, Voyager
  • The Palm Beach Story
  • The Talk of the Town
  • Orchestra Wives
  • Wake Island
  • The Black Swan
  • Jungle Book
  • The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall
  • Cactus Makes Perfect
  • Moods of the Sea
  • Woman of the Year
  • Crossroads
  • In This Our Life
  • Saboteur
  • Blitz Wolf
  • Horton Hatches the Egg
  • The Olympic Champ
  • Tulips Shall Grow
  • Inflation
  • Jam Session
  • Minnie the Moocher
  • A Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat
  • Breakdowns of 1942
  • Joan Crawford's Home Movies
  • Listen to Britain
  • We Must Have Music
  • The Ghost of Frankenstein
  • Invisible Agent