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Retrospective Golden Hourglass Awards: 1947

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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  • Notorious
  • Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • A Matter of Life and Death
  • The Razor's Edge
  • Gilda
  • The Best Years of Our Lives
  • The Killers
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • The Harvey Girls
  • My Darling Clementine
  • The Spiral Staircase
  • Make Mine Music
  • The Dark Mirror
  • Anna and the King of Siam
  • The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
  • The Three Troubledoers
  • The Private Life of a Cat
  • O.S.S.
  • Duel in the Sun
  • The Blue Dahlia
  • A Stolen Life
  • John Henry and the Inky-Poo
  • A Knight for a Day
  • Solid Serenade
  • Willie the Operatic Whale
  • A Boy and His Dog
  • Dear Miss Gloria
  • Got a Penny, Benny?
  • Mr. Noisy
  • Atomic Power!
  • Blow-Ups of 1946
  • Cavalcade of Archery
  • Smart as a Fox
  • Three Little Girls in Blue
  • The Yearling
  • Canyon Passage
  • Blue Skies
  • The Jolson Story
  • She-Wolf of London