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Retrospective Golden Hourglass Awards: 1937

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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  • My Man Godfrey
  • Modern Times
  • Show Boat
  • The Great Ziegfeld
  • Swing Time
  • Fury
  • Dodsworth
  • The General Died at Dawn
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  • These Three
  • Three Godfathers
  • The Charge of the Light Brigade
  • Mary of Scotland
  • Theodora Goes Wild
  • The Story of Louis Pasteur
  • Somewhere in Dreamland
  • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
  • The Plow That Broke the Plains
  • San Francisco
  • The Gorgeous Hussy
  • I Love to Singa
  • Thru the Mirror
  • Bluebeard
  • The Cobweb Hotel
  • Every Sunday
  • Grand Slam Opera
  • Killer Dog
  • Pay As You Exit
  • Houses of Poverty
  • Night Mail
  • Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
  • Yellowstone Park: 'Nature's Playground'
  • Captain January
  • Gold Diggers of 1937
  • Anything Goes
  • Poor Little Rich Girl
  • The Walking Dead
  • The Invisible Ray