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Retrospective Golden Hourglass Awards: 1935

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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  • The Gay Divorcee
  • The Scarlet Empress
  • Imitation of Life
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • The Rise of Catherine the Great
  • The Phantom of the Monastery
  • The Goddess
  • The Barretts of Wimpole Street
  • The Thin Man
  • Of Human Bondage
  • Cleopatra
  • Viva Villa!
  • The Lost Patrol
  • It Happened One Night
  • Flirtation Walk
  • Dames
  • Bright Eyes
  • The Case of the Howling Dog
  • Treasure Island
  • Born to Be Bad
  • Crime Without Passion
  • The Stolen Heart
  • King for a Day
  • Granton Trawler
  • Hell's Fire
  • Two-Gun Mickey
  • Poor Cinderella
  • Sock-a-Bye, Baby
  • Babes in the Goods
  • The Camera Speaks
  • The Live Ghost
  • The Spectacle Maker
  • City of Wax
  • Death Day
  • The Sea Horse
  • The Song of Ceylon
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
  • Tarzan and His Mate
  • Anne of Green Gables
  • The Merry Widow
  • Gold
  • Babes in Toyland