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 Academy defines the release of each film.

This is my retrospective ballot for the Golden Hourglass Awards, using my own personal categories, and using the eligibility period of 1929. Any film that received a wide release in this time is considered eligible.

Partner to the Retrospective Ballot: Second Academy Awards List

Categories:
Best Picture:

Applause ***Winner***
The Cocoanuts
Coquette
The Divine Lady
Eternal Love
Hell's Heroes
The Iron Mask
Man with a Movie Camera
Pandora's Box
The Taming of the Shrew

Best Director:

Rouben Mamoulian - Applause ***Winner***
Alfred Hitchcock - Blackmail
G. W. Pabst - Pandora's Box
Dziga Vertov - Man with a Movie Camera
William Wyler - Hell's Heroes

Best Actor:

Douglas Fairbanks - The Iron Mask ***Winner***
John Barrymore - Eternal Love
Charles Bickford - Hell's Heroes
Daniel L. Haynes - Hallelujah
Paul Muni - The Valiant

Best Actress:

Helen Morgan - Applause ***Winner***
Louise Brooks - Pandora's Box
Greta Garbo - The Kiss
Corinne Griffith - The Divine Lady
Mary Pickford - Coquette

Best Supporting Actor:

Fred Kohler - Hell's Heroes ***Winner***
Carl Goetz - Pandora's Box
Raymond Hatton - Hell's Heroes
Anders Randolf - The Kiss
Krafft-Raschig - Pandora's Box

Best Supporting Actress:

Alice Roberts - Pandora's Box ***Winner***
Julia Faye - Dynamite
Nina Mae McKinney - Hallelujah
Mona Rico - Eternal Love
Joan Peers - Applause

Best Casting:

Hell's Heroes ***Winner***
The Cocoanuts
Disraeli
The Iron Mask
Pandora's Box

Best Original Screenplay:

A Cottage on Dartmoor  ***Winner***
Dynamite
The Kiss
The Last Performance
Our Modern Maidens

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Applause ***Winner***
The Cocoanuts
Coquette
Hell's Heroes
Pandora's Box 

Best Art Direction:

The Divine Lady ***Winner***
Applause
Broadway
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Pandora's Box

Best Costume Design:

Applause ***Winner***
Broadway
Coquette
Divine Lady
Pandora's Box

Best Cinematography

Man with a Movie Camera ***Winner***
Applause
The Eternal Love
Pandora's Box
The Taming of the Shrew

Best Film Editing:

Man with a Movie Camera ***Winner***
Applause
The Cocoanuts
The Divine Lady
The Mysterious Island

Best Visual Effects:

The Mysterious Island ***Winner***
The Divine Lady
Rio Rita

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Films with multiple nominations:
10: Pandora's Box
9: Applause
7: Hell's Heroes
6: The Divine Lady
4: The Cocoanuts, The Hollywood Revue of 1929, Man with a Movie Camera, The Taming of the Shrew, Coquette, Eternal Love
3: The Iron Mask, The Kiss
2: Broadway, The Mysterious Island, Hallelujah, Dynamite

Films with multiple wins:
5: Applause
2: Hell's Heroes, Man with a Movie Camera