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 2012. Any film that received a wide release in this time is considered eligible.

Categories:
Best Picture:

It's Such a Beautiful Day ***Winner***
Anna Karenina
The Cabin in the Woods
Chronicle
Dredd
Moonrise Kingdom
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Silver Linings Playbook
Wolf Children

Best Director:

Don Hertzfeldt - It's Such a Beautiful Day ***Winner***
Wes Anderson - Moonrise Kingdom
Drew Goddard - The Cabin in the Woods
Terence Nance - An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Joe Wright - Anna Karenina

Best Actor:

Jared Gilman - Moonrise Kingdom ***Winner***
Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
Dane DeHaan - Chronicle
Logan Lerman - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Suraj Sharma - Life of Pi

Best Actress:

Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook ***Winner***
Kristen Connolly - The Cabin in the Woods
Kara Hayward - Moonrise Kingdom
Keira Knightley - Anna Karenina
Emma Watson - The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Best Supporting Actor:

Alex Russell - Chronicle ***Winner***
Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook
Aaron Taylor-Johnson - Anna Karenina
Irrfan Khan - Life of Pi
Edward Norton - Moonrise Kingdom

Best Supporting Actress:

Amanda Seyfried - Les Miserables ***Winner***
Lena Headey - Dredd
Frances McDormand - Moonrise Kingdom
Amandla Stenberg - The Hunger Games
Jacki Weaver - Silver Linings Playbook

Best Voice Actor

Don Hertzfeldt - It's Such a Beautiful Day ***Winner***
Reg E Cathey - An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Jude Law - Rise of the Guardians
Yukito Nishii - Wolf Children
Chris Pine - Rise of the Guardians

Best Voice Actress

Aoi Miyazaki - Wolf Children ***Winner***
Selena Gomez - Hotel Transylvania
Haru Kuroki - Wolf Children
Kelly MacDonald - Brave
Sarah Silverman - Wreck-It-Ralph

Best Casting:

Moonrise Kingdom ***Winner***
Anna Karenina
The Cabin in the Woods
Dredd
Silver Linings Playbook

Best Original Screenplay:

It's Such a Beautiful Day ***Winner***
The Cabin in the Woods
Chronicle
Moonrise Kingdom
Wolf Children

Best Adapted Screenplay:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower ***Winner***
Anna Karenina
Argo
Dredd
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

Best Animated Feature

It's Such a Beautiful Day ***Winner***
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
Rise of the Guardians
Wolf Children

Best International Feature Film

Wolf Children - Japan ***Winner***
The Act of Killing - Denmark
After Lucia - Mexico
Ernest & Celestine - Belgium
No - Chile

Best Documentary Feature

The Act of Killing ***Winner***
Elena
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man
Side by Side

Best Animated Short

Pingu's The Thing ***Winner***
Fresh Guacamole
It's a Spongebob Christmas!
The Life of Death
Paperman

Best Live Action Short:

Curfew ***Winner***
Giant God Warrior Appears In Tokyo
I Think This Is The Closest To How The Footage Looked
Pizza Brothers
Pockets

Best Documentary Short:

God Is The Bigger Elvis ***Winner***
Fear Himself: The Life and Crimes of Freddy Kreuger
Kubrick: One Point Perspective
Old Man
Stanley Kubrick In Focus

Best Original Score

Wolf Children ***Winner***
Anna Karenina
Life of Pi
Moonrise Kingdom
Silver Linings Playbook

Best Original Song

Me and You - Let It Shine ***Winner***
Mother's Song - Wolf Children
Noble Maiden Fair - Brave
Safe and Sound - The Hunger Games
Who Did That to You - Django Unchained

Best Sound:

Les Miserables ***Winner***
The Avengers
The Cabin in the Woods
Chronicle
Dredd

Best Art Direction:

Anna Karenina ***Winner***
The Cabin in the Woods
Dredd
The Hunger Games
Les Miserables

Best Cinematography

Moonrise Kingdom ***Winner***
Anna Karenina
Chronicle
Life of Pi
Lincoln

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

The Hunger Games ***Winner***
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Lincoln

Best Costume Design:

Anna Karenina ***Winner***
The Hunger Games
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Twilight: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

Best Stunt Choreography and Coordination

Dredd***Winner***
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hunger Games
Jack Reacher

Best Film Editing:

It's Such a Beautiful Day ***Winner***
Anna Karenina
Chronicle
Moonrise Kingdom
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

Best Visual Effects:

The Cabin in the Woods ***Winner***
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
Dredd
Life of Pi

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Films with multiple nominations:
12: Anna Karenina
11: Moonrise Kingdom
9: Wolf Children
8: The Cabin in the Woods, Dredd
7: Chronicle, Silver Linings Playbook
6: It's Such a Beautiful Day, The Hunger Games
5: Life of Pi, Les Miserables, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
4:The Perks of Being a Wallflower
3: Rise of the Guardians, Lincoln
2: Brave, The Act of Killing, The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers

Films with multiple wins:
6: It's Such a Beautiful Day
3: Wolf Children, Moonrise Kingdom
2: Anna Karenina, Les Miserables,