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Retrospective Golden Hourglass Awards: 1944

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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  • Cabin in the Sky
  • Casablanca
  • Hangmen Also Die!
  • Stormy Weather
  • The Song of Bernadette
  • The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
  • The Sky's the Limit
  • The Ox-Bow Incident
  • Phantom of the Opera
  • Heaven Can Wait
  • Madame Curie
  • Stage Door Canteen
  • Jane Eyre
  • Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls
  • Air Force
  • Day of Wrath
  • The More the Merrier
  • Thank Your Lucky Stars
  • Super-Rabbit
  • Little Miss Pinkerton
  • The Grain That Built a Hemisphere
  • The Seventh Victim
  • The North Star
  • Figaro and Cleo
  • Fifth Column Mouse
  • The Underground World
  • The Yankee Doodle Mouse
  • Heavenly Music
  • Seeing Hands
  • They Stooge to Conga
  • When Hitler Kicks the Bucket
  • Cameramen at War
  • Cavalcade of Dance
  • Fala: The President's Dog
  • The Voice That Thrilled the World
  • Saludos Amigos
  • Destination Tokyo