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Retrospective Ballot: 8th Academy Awards

While going through Letterbox, I found this account, Cláudio Alves that has put together a list of films eligible for Oscars throughout the entire history of the Academy Awards. And I was incredibly impressed and thrilled to find such lists.

And such lists got me thinking: I've often ranted about how the Oscars get it wrong, every year, and have always done so. So how would I have done it? If I had been presented with these ballots every year, how would I have voted every time? In contrast, not taking into consideration Academy eligibility rules, which are often confusing and contradictory, what films would have stood out to me each year? So, this list was born.

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  • Bride of Frankenstein
  • Top Hat
  • The Crusades
  • The 39 Steps
  • Naughty Marietta
  • Les Misérables
  • The Informer
  • Anna Karenina
  • The Whole Town's Talking
  • Call of the Wild
  • Curly Top
  • The Dark Angel
  • Ruggles of Red Gap
  • 'G' Men
  • Go Into Your Dance
  • Roberta
  • Uncivil Warriors
  • Things You Never See on the Screen
  • Hollywood Capers
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
  • Alice Adams
  • Annie Oakley
  • How to Sleep
  • Thicker Than Water
  • Audioscopiks
  • Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life
  • The Band Concert
  • A Colour Box
  • Captain Blood
  • Broadway Melody of 1936
  • Gold Diggers of 1935