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Retrospective Golden Hourglass Awards: 1948

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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  • Brute Force
  • Monsieur Verdoux
  • Black Narcissus
  • The Paradine Case
  • Odd Man Out
  • Good News
  • Miracle on 34th Street
  • The Fugitive
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  • A Double Life
  • Crossfire
  • Down to Earth
  • Fun and Fancy Free
  • The Perils of Pauline
  • Road to Rio
  • Dark Passage
  • Gentleman's Agreement
  • Song of the South
  • Mourning Becomes Electra
  • The Cat Concerto
  • Shy Guy
  • The Impossible Map
  • 13 Rue Madeleine
  • Possessed
  • Uncle Silas
  • The Long Night
  • The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
  • Fiddle De-Dee
  • Slick Hare
  • Tubby the Tuba
  • The Way of Peace
  • Champagne for Two
  • Hold That Lion!
  • A Present for Santa Claus
  • So You Want to Be in Pictures
  • First Steps
  • Freshwater Assassins
  • Now You See It
  • The Village Church
  • Life with Father
  • Green Dolphin Street