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 Academy defines the release of each film.

This is my retrospective ballot for the Golden Hourglass Awards, using my own personal categories, and using the eligibility period of 2018. Any film that received a wide release in this time is considered eligible.

Partner to the Retrospective Ballot: 91st Academy Awards

Categories:
Best Picture:

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ***Winner***
Anna and the Apocalypse
Burning
Hereditary
I Kill Giants
Liz and the Blue Bird
Madeline's Madeline
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Searching
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Best Director:

Terry Gilliam - The Man Who Killed Don Quixote***Winner***
Ari Aster - Hereditary
Aneesh Chaganty - Searching
Lee Chang-Dong - Burning
Josephine Decker - Madeline's Madeline

Best Actor:

Zain Al-Rafeea - Capernaum ***Winner***
John Cho - Searching
Jason Clarke - Chappaquiddick
Logan Marshall-Green - Upgrade
John David Washington - BlacKkKlansman

Best Actress:

Helena Howard - Madeline's Madeline***Winner***
Toni Colette - Hereditary
Olivia Cooke - Thoroughbreds
Saoirse Ronan - Mary, Queen of Scots
Madison Wolfe - I Kill Giants

Best Supporting Actor:

Steven Yeun - Burning ***Winner***
Riz Ahmed - The Sisters Brothers
Adam Driver - BlacKkKlansman
Chris Mulkey - The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
Jonathan Pryce - The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

Best Supporting Actress:

Margot Robbie - Mary, Queen of Scots ***Winner***
Jeon Jong-seo - Burning
Milly Shapiro - Hereditary
Sarah Swire - Anna and the Apocalypse
Anya Taylor-Joy - Thoroughbreds

Best Voice Actor

Shameik Moore - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ***Winner***
Jim Cummings - Christopher Robin
Stephen Lang - Mortal Engines
Simon Maiden - Upgrade
Jerry O’Connell - The Death of Superman

Best Voice Actress

Mao Ichimichi - Digimon Adventure tri. Part 6: Future ***Winner***
Hailee Steinfeld - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Tara Strong - Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay
Atsumi Tanezaki - Liz and the Blue Bird
Nao Toyama - Liz and the Blue Bird

Best Casting:

BlacKkKlansman ***Winner***
Anna and the Apocalypse
Annihilation
Madeline's Madeline
A Star is Born

Best Original Screenplay:

Madeline's Madeline ***Winner***
Eighth Grade
Game Night
Hereditary
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Best Adapted Screenplay:

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ***Winner***
Anna and the Apocalypse
BlacKkKlansman
I Kill Giants
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

Best Animated Feature

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ***Winner***
The Death of Superman
Digimon Adventure tri. Part 6: Future
Godzilla: The Planet Eater
Liz and the Blue Bird

Best International Feature Film

Godzilla: The Planet Eater - Japan ***Winner***
Birds of Passage - Colombia
Burning - South Korea
Capernaum - Lebanon
Roma - Mexico

Best Documentary Feature

Minding the Gap ***Winner***
Behind the Curve
The Cleaners
Dominion
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

Best Animated Short

Lost and Found ***Winner***
Bao
The Bird and the Whale
Don't Feed the Freaks
La Noria

Best Live Action Short:

Papers, Please: The Short Film ***Winner***
Fauve
Hair Wolf
May I Please Enter?
Shiva Baby

Best Documentary Short:

Fourth Era ***Winner***
In the Absence
My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes
The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm
Pandas

Best Original Score

BlacKkKlansman ***Winner***
The Endless
I Kill Giants
A Star is Born
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Original Song

Sunflower - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ***Winner***
Girls, Dance, Staircase - Liz and the Blue Bird
Give Them a Show - Anna and the Apocalypse
Shallow - A Star is Born
Under the Stars - I Kill Giants

Best Sound:

A Quiet Place ***Winner***
Anna and the Apocalypse
The Endless
Madeline's Madeline
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Best Art Direction:

Mary, Queen of Scots ***Winner***
The Favourite
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Mortal Engines
Thoroughbreds

Best Cinematography

Burning ***Winner***
Hereditary
Madeline's Madeline
Roma
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Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Mary, Queen of Scots ***Winner***
Aquaman
Colette
The Favourite
Vice

Best Costume Design:

Mary, Queen of Scots ***Winner***
Black Panther
Colette
The Favourite
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

Best Stunt Coordination and Choreography

Upgrade ***Winner***
Aquaman
Black Panther
Deadpool 2
Game Night

Best Film Editing:

Madeline's Madeline ***Winner***
Hereditary
Searching
Unsane
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Best Visual Effects:

Mortal Engines ***Winner***
Annihilation
I Kill Giants
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
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Films with multiple nominations:
9: Upgrade
8: Madeline's Madeline
7: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Hereditary
6: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, I Kill Giants, Anna and the Apocalypse, Burning, Liz and the Blue Bird
5: Mary Queen of Scots, BlacKkKlansman
4: Searching
3: Thoroughbreds, The Favourite, A Star is Born
2: Aquaman, Capernaum, Godzilla: The Planet Eater, Black Panther, Digimon Adventure tri. Part 6: Future, Annihilation, Colette, Game Night, Roma, The Endless, Isle of Dogs

Films with multiple wins:
5: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
4: Mary Queen of Scots
3: Madeline's Madeline
2: BlacKkKlansman, Burning