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Retrospective Golden Hourglass Awards: 1945

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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  • Meet Me in St. Louis
  • Double Indemnity
  • Gaslight
  • Since You Went Away
  • Lifeboat
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
  • Laura
  • The Woman in the Window
  • Tomorrow, the World!
  • Cover Girl
  • Henry V
  • Going My Way
  • The Uninvited
  • Ivan the Terrible, Part I
  • The Adventures of Mark Twain
  • Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
  • Christmas Holiday
  • Secret Command
  • Wing and a Prayer
  • None But the Lonely Heart
  • The Million Dollar Cat
  • Mail Call: Who's On First
  • Jammin' the Blues
  • Mr. Skeffington
  • The Fighting Seabees
  • Alouette
  • And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
  • Keep Your Mouth Shut
  • Plane Daffy
  • At Land
  • Bon Voyage
  • Boogie-Woogie Dream
  • Idle Roomers
  • Breakdowns of 1944
  • Hymn of the Nations
  • New Americans
  • Who's Who in Animal Land
  • Hollywood Canteen
  • Up in Arms