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Retrospective Golden Hourglass Awards: 1933

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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  • Love Me Tonight
  • Trouble in Paradise
  • Grand Hotel
  • The Sign of the Cross
  • Vampyr
  • Island of Lost Souls
  • Freaks
  • I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
  • The Old Dark House
  • Scarface
  • Chandu the Magician
  • Emma
  • 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
  • Smilin' Through
  • Shanghai Express
  • What Price Hollywood?
  • Horse Feathers
  • One Hour with You
  • A Farewell to Arms
  • Minnie the Moocher
  • Strictly Unreliable
  • Visions of Lourdes
  • The Most Dangerous Game
  • Thirteen Women
  • Movie Crazy
  • Tiger Shark
  • Flowers and Trees
  • The Idea
  • It's Got Me Again!
  • Mickey's Revue
  • Choo-Choo!
  • The Music Box
  • Poem 8
  • Show Business
  • Estampas 1932
  • Romance in a Pond
  • Swing High
  • Window of the World
  • Broken Lullaby
  • Tarzan the Ape Man
  • The Mummy
  • Doctor X
  • Murders in the Rue Morgue