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Retrospective Golden Hourglass Awards: 1936

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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  • Bride of Frankenstein
  • Les Misérables
  • The Crusades
  • Top Hat
  • The 39 Steps
  • The Informer
  • A Night at the Opera
  • The Whole Town's Talking
  • Ruggles of Red Gap
  • Anna Karenina
  • Curly Top
  • Naughty Marietta
  • Call of the Wild
  • Becky Sharp
  • Hollywood Capers
  • Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life
  • Housing Problems
  • Go Into Your Dance
  • Alice Adams
  • The Dark Angel
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • Annie Oakley
  • 'G' Men
  • The Band Concert
  • A Cartoonist's Nightmare
  • A Colour Box
  • Papageno
  • How to Sleep
  • Thicker Than Water
  • Two Hearts in Wax Time
  • Uncivil Warriors
  • Audioscopiks
  • Hollywood Hobbies
  • Shipyard
  • Things You Never See on the Screen
  • Broadway Melody of 1936
  • Gold Diggers of 1935
  • She
  • The Tunnel
  • Werewolf of London