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 2014. Any film that received a wide release in this time is considered eligible.

Partner to the Retrospective Ballot: 87th Academy Awards

Categories:
Best Picture:

A Master Builder ***Winner***
Before I Disappear
Birdman
Boyhood
Get On Up
The Grand Budapest Hotel
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Interstellar
Oculus
Whiplash

Best Director:

Richard Linklater - Boyhood ***Winner***
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Damien Chazelle - Whiplash
Alejandro González Iñárritu - Birdman
Christopher Nolan - Interstellar

Best Actor:

Chadwick Boseman - Get On Up ***Winner***
Shawn Christensen - Before I Disappear
Michael Keaton - Birdman
Matthew McConaughey - Interstellar
Wallace Shawn - A Master Builder

Best Actress:

Lisa Joyce - A Master Builder ***Winner***
Juliette Binoche - Clouds of Sils Maria
Karren Gillan - Oculus
Anna Kendrick - The Last Five Years
Fátima Ptacek - Before I Disappear

Best Supporting Actor:

J K Simmons - Whiplash ***Winner***
Rodolfo Domínguez - The Golden Dream
Nelsan Ellis - Get On Up
Ethan Hawke - Boyhood
Benjamin Kanes - Birdman

Best Supporting Actress:

Kristen Stewart - Clouds of Sils Maria ***Winner***
Annalise Basso - Oculus
Mackenzie Foy - Interstellar
Julie Hagerty - A Master Builder
Karen Martínez - The Golden Dream

Best Voice Actor

Steve Whitmore - The Muppets Most Wanted ***Winner***
Will Arnett - The Lego Movie
Jay Baruchel - How to Train Your Dragon 2
Gerard Butler - How to Train Your Dragon 2
Bill Irwin - Interstellar

Best Voice Actress

Cate Blanchett - How to Train Your Dragon 2 ***Winner***
Elizabeth Banks - The Lego Movie
America Ferrera - How to Train Your Dragon 2
Rebecca Schoichet - My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Rainbow Rocks
Sara Takatsuki - When Marnie Was There

Best Casting:

The Grand Budapest Hotel ***Winner***
Boyhood
Get On Up
Tokyo Tribe
What We Do in the Shadows

Best Original Screenplay:

What We Do in the Shadows ***Winner***
Get On Up
The Golden Dream
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Interview

Best Adapted Screenplay:

A Master Builder ***Winner***
Before I Disappear
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Oculus
Whiplash

Best Animated Feature

How to Train Your Dragon 2 ***Winner***
Mune: Guardian of the Moon
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Rainbow Rocks
The Lego Movie
Song of the Sea

Best International Feature Film

The Golden Dream - Mexico ***Winner***
Mune: Guardian of the Moon - France
The Pirates - South Korea
Timbuktu - Mauritania
The Way He Looks - Brazil

Best Documentary Feature

The Look of Silence ***Winner***
Alive Inside
Citizenfour
Doc of the Dead
To Be Takei

Best Animated Short

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2 ***Winner***
The Dam Keeper
Duet
Feast
Submarine Sandwich

Best Live Action Short:

Unedited Footage of a Bear ***Winner***
Helium
Pictured
Rob Cantor: Shia Labeouf Live
Too Many Cooks

Best Documentary Short:

Transformers: The Premake ***Winner***
Buffalo Juggalos
Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World
Hotel 22
Remembering the Artist: Robert de Niro, Sr.

Best Original Score

The Theory of Everything ***Winner***
Before I Disappear
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Interstellar
Tokyo Tribe

Best Original Song

For the Dancing and the Dreaming - How to Train Your Dragon 2 ***Winner***
HOPE - Tokyo Tribe
Shine Like Rainbows - My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Rainbow Rocks
Song of the Sea - Song of the Sea
We're Doing a Sequel - The Muppets: Most Wanted

Best Sound:

Whiplash ***Winner***
Get On Up
Interstellar
John Wick
Tokyo Tribe

Best Art Direction:

The Grand Budapest Hotel ***Winner***
Birdman
Interstellar
A Master Builder
Tokyo Tribe

Best Cinematography

Birdman ***Winner***
Before I Disappear
The Grand Budapest Hotel
A Master Builder
Whiplash

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Guardians of the Galaxy ***Winner***
Get On Up
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
What We Do in the Shadows

Best Costume Design:

The Grand Budapest Hotel ***Winner***
Birdman
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Maleficent
What We Do in the Shadows

Best Stunt Choreography and Coordination

Captain America: Winter Soldier ***Winner***
John Wick
The Pirates
Tokyo Tribe
X-Men: Days of Future Past

Best Film Editing:

Whiplash ***Winner***
Birdman
Boyhood
John Wick
Interstellar

Best Visual Effects:

Interstellar ***Winner***
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Hunger Games: Mockingay - Part 1
X-Men: Days of Future Past

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Films with multiple nominations:
10: Interstellar 
9: The Grand Budapest Hotel
8: How to Train Your Dragon 2, Birdman
7: Whiplash, Get On Up, A Master Builder
6: Tokyo Tribe, Before I Disappear
5: Boyhood
4: What We Do in the Shadows, Oculus, The Golden Dream
3: My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Rainbow Rocks, John Wick, The Lego Movie
2: Song of the Sea, Clouds of Sils Maria, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Muppets: Most Wanted, Mune: Guardian of the Moon, The Pirates, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

Films with multiple wins:
3: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Whiplash, A Master Builder, How to Train Your Dragon 2