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 2011. Any film that received a wide release in this time is considered eligible.

Categories:
Best Picture:

The Tragedy of Man ***Winner***
The Artist
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Hugo
Juan of the Dead
Martha Marcy May Marlene
My Week with Marilyn
Rango
Sucker Punch
The Tree of Life

Best Director:

Terrence Mallick - The Tree of Life ***Winner***
Marcell Jankovics - The Tragedy of Man
Lynne Ramsay - We Need to Talk About Kevin
Martin Scorsese - Hugo
Zack Snyder - Sucker Punch

Best Actor:

Brad Pitt - The Tree of Life ***Winner***
John Boyega - Attack the Block
Asa Butterfield - Hugo
Thomas Horn - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Alexis Díaz de Villegas - Juan of the Dead

Best Actress:

Elizabeth Olson - Martha Marcy May Marlene ***Winner***
Emily Browning - Sucker Punch
Jessica Chastain - The Tree of Life
Rooney Mara - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Michelle Williams - My Week with Marilyn

Best Supporting Actor:

Oscar Isaac - Sucker Punch ***Winner***
Kenneth Branagh - My Week with Marilyn
John Hawkes - Martha Marcy May Marlene
Ben Kingsley - Hugo
Max von Sydow - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Best Supporting Actress:

Abbie Cornish - Sucker Punch ***Winner***
Sarah Farhadi - A Separation
Jenna Malone - Sucker Punch
Chloë Grace Moretz - Hugo
Kim Wayans - Pariah

Best Voice Actor

Mátyás Usztics - The Tragedy of Man ***Winner***
James Denton - All Star Superman
Johnny Depp - Rango
Gary Oldman - Kung Fu Panda 2
Dan Povenmire - Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension

Best Voice Actress

Abigail Breslin - Rango ***Winner***
Ágnes Bertalan - The Tragedy of Man
Angelina Jolie - Kung Fu Panda 2
Ayane Sakura - Into the Forest of Fireflies' Light
Ashley Tisdale - Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension

Best Casting:

The Tree of Life ***Winner***
The Artist
Hugo
My Week with Marilyn
Sucker Punch

Best Original Screenplay:

The Tree of Life ***Winner***
The Artist
Juan of the Dead
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Rango

Best Adapted Screenplay:

The Tragedy of Man ***Winner***
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
My Week with Marilyn

Best Animated Feature

The Tragedy of Man ***Winner***
All Star Superman
Into the Forest of Fireflies' Light
Kung Fu Panda 2
Rango

Best International Feature Film

The Tragedy of Man - Hungary ***Winner***
Into the Forest of Fireflies' Light - Japan
Juan of the Dead - Cuba
A Separation - Iran
The Skin I Live In - Spain

Best Documentary Feature

5 Broken Cameras ***Winner***
Bully
Comic Con IV: A Fan's Hope
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Page One: Inside the New York Times

Best Animated Short

It's Such a Beautiful Day ***Winner***
Baaa
Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared
The Maker
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Two

Best Live Action Short:

Love is Like Life but Longer ***Winner***
Coffee with Barbie
Fight for Your Rights Revisited
The Hunger Games: The Second Quarter Quell
Scenes from the Suburbs

Best Documentary Short:

Lost Forever: The Art of Film Preservation ***Winner***
American Juggalo
Boatlift
The Umbrella Man
Undercity

Best Original Score

Hugo ***Winner***
The Artist
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Into the Forest of Fireflies' Light
Rango

Best Original Song

A Thousand Years - Twilight: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 ***Winner***
Brand New Best Friend - Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
Determinate - Lemonade Mouth
Get That Snitch - Attack the Block
Man or Muppet - The Muppets

Best Sound:

Sucker Punch ***Winner***
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
Hugo
The Tree of Life
Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Best Art Direction:

Hugo ***Winner***
The Artist
Martha Marcy May Marlene
My Week with Marilyn
The Tree of Life

Best Cinematography

The Tree of Life ***Winner***
The Artist
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Hugo
Sucker Punch

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 ***Winner***
Captain America: The First Avenger
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Juan of the Dead
My Week with Marilyn

Best Costume Design:

The Artist ***Winner***
Hugo
My Week with Marilyn
Sucker Punch
The Tree of Life

Best Stunt Choreography and Coordination

The Raid ***Winner***
Juan of the Dead
Sucker Punch
Thor
X-Men: First Class

Best Film Editing:

The Tragedy of Man***Winner***
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Sucker Punch
The Tree of Life
We Need to Talk About Kevin

Best Visual Effects:

Sucker Punch ***Winner***
Attack the Block
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
Hugo
Transformers: Dark of the Moon

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Films with multiple nominations:
13: Sucker Punch, Hugo
11: The Tree of Life
8: The Tragedy of Man, My Week with Marilyn
6: Rango, The Artist, Juan of the Dead
5: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Martha Marcy May Marlene
4: Kung Fu Panda 2, Phineas and Ferb: The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension, In the Forest of the Fireflies' Light
3: Attack the Block, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
2: A Separation, We Need to Talk About Kevin

Films with multiple wins:
6: The Tragedy of Man
5: The Tree of Life
4: Sucker Punch
2: Hugo