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Retrospective Golden Hourglass Awards: 1939

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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  • The Adventures of Robin Hood
  • Angels with Dirty Faces
  • Bringing Up Baby
  • Test Pilot
  • Jezebel
  • Marie Antoinette
  • The Citadel
  • Holiday
  • You Can't Take It with You
  • Boys Town
  • Carefree
  • Alexander's Ragtime Band
  • Algiers
  • Little Miss Broadway
  • If I Were King
  • Listen, Darling
  • The Adventures of Marco Polo
  • Porky in Wackyland
  • Swingtime in the Movies
  • Breakdowns of 1938
  • Going Places
  • Vivacious Lady
  • You and Me
  • Brave Little Tailor
  • Daffy Duck in Hollywood
  • Ferdinand the Bull
  • An Optical Poem
  • The Face Behind the Mask
  • Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb
  • Hollywood Handicap
  • The Little Ranger
  • Another Romance of Celluloid
  • Inside Nazi Germany
  • The Farm
  • Paris on Parade
  • The Cowboy and the Lady
  • A Christmas Carol
  • The Dawn Patrol
  • In Old Chicago
  • Suez