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Retrospective Golden Hourglass Awards: 1938

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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  • Stage Door
  • Make Way for Tomorrow
  • The Prisoner of Zenda
  • Shall We Dance
  • Black Legion
  • Conquest
  • One Hundred Men and a Girl
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • You Only Live Once
  • The Good Earth
  • Captains Courageous
  • The Edge of the World
  • The Firefly
  • A Star Is Born
  • Way Out West
  • Broadway Melody of 1938
  • King Solomon's Mines
  • The Old Mill
  • The Man Without a Country
  • Voyage to the Sky
  • Jericho
  • They Won't Forget
  • Stella Dallas
  • First Lady
  • They Gave Him a Gun
  • Glens Falls Sequence
  • Pluto's Quin-puplets
  • Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
  • Skeleton Frolic
  • The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning
  • Goofs and Saddles
  • How to Undress in Front of Your Husband
  • The King Without a Crown
  • People of the Cumberland
  • The Romance of Celluloid
  • A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios
  • We Work Again
  • A Day at the Races
  • Topper
  • The Hurricane