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Retrospective Golden Hourglass Awards: 1940

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 Wizard of Oz
  • Wuthering Heights
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Union Pacific
  • Stagecoach
  • The Roaring Twenties
  • The Women
  • Ninotchka
  • Gone with the Wind
  • Of Mice and Men
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • At the Circus
  • Babes in Arms
  • Peace on Earth
  • Smith
  • Artie Shaw's Class in Swing
  • Dark Victory
  • Each Dawn I Die
  • Love Affair
  • Only Angels Have Wings
  • Young Mr. Lincoln
  • Confessions of a Nazi Spy
  • Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
  • Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur
  • Donald's Cousin Gus
  • The Ugly Duckling
  • The Bill of Rights
  • Dog Daze
  • Pest from the West
  • We Want Our Mummy
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Another Romance of Celluloid: Electrical Power
  • Breakdowns of 1939
  • The First Days
  • Some Like It Hot
  • The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex