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Retrospective Golden Hourglass Awards: 1934

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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  • 42nd Street
  • King Kong
  • Duck Soup
  • The Bitter Tea of General Yen
  • The Invisible Man
  • A Bedtime Story
  • Design for Living
  • Lady for a Day
  • Little Women
  • Emperor Jones
  • The Story of Temple Drake
  • Supernatural
  • The Private Life of Henry VIII
  • Gold Diggers of 1933
  • The Power and the Glory
  • The Mascot
  • Lot in Sodom
  • Jazz a la Cuba
  • The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
  • The Mayor of Hell
  • Footlight Parade
  • Experimental Animation
  • The Mad Doctor
  • A Night on Bald Mountain
  • Snow-White
  • The Bargain of the Century
  • Buzzin' Around
  • The Fatal Glass of Beer
  • Nothing Ever Happens
  • Brewster's Magic
  • Cats
  • Land Without Bread
  • New Earth
  • Roman Scandals
  • The Ghoul
  • Morning Glory
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • Queen Christina
  • Deluge
  • The Eagle and the Hawk
  • Mystery of the Wax Museum