Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in cinema history. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, many of which are still widely watched and studied today. Known as the "Master of Suspense", Hitchcock became as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, cameo appearances in most of his films, and hosting and producing the television anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–65). His films garnered 46 Academy Award nominations, including six wins. However, despite five nominations, he never won the Best Director award. Hitchcock initially trained as a technical clerk and copywriter before entering the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer. The British–German silent film The Pleasure Garden (1925) was his directorial debut. His first successful film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), helped to shape the thriller genre, and Blackmail (1929) was the first British "talkie". His thrillers The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938) are ranked among the greatest British films of the 20th century. By 1939, he had international recognition and producer David O. Selznick persuaded him to move to Hollywood. A string of successful films followed, including Rebecca(1940), Foreign Correspondent (1940), Suspicion (1941), Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and Notorious (1946). Rebecca won the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Hitchcock nominated as Best Director. He also received Oscar nominations for Lifeboat (1944), Spellbound (1945), Rear Window (1954) and Psycho (1960). Hitchcock's other notable films include Rope (1948), Strangers on a Train (1951), Dial M for Murder (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), The Trouble with Harry (1955), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), The Birds (1963), Marnie (1964) and Frenzy (1972), all of which were also financially successful and are highly regarded by film historians. Hitchcock made several films with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, including four with Cary Grant, four with James Stewart, three with Ingrid Bergman and three consecutively with Grace Kelly. Hitchcock became an American citizen in 1955. In 2012, Hitchcock's psychological thriller Vertigo, starring Stewart, displaced Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941) as the British Film Institute's greatest film ever made based on its worldwide poll of hundreds of film critics. As of 2021, nine of his films had been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, including his favourite, Shadow of a Doubt (1943). He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 1971, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979, and was knighted in December of that year, four months before his death on 29 April 1980.
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Alfred Hitchcock: The Unseen Home Movies
2026·0.0
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025·7.5
Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail
2024·6.2
Hitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film?
2023·6.0
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
2023·6.7
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
2023·7.2
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
2023·7.0
Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin
2022·0.0
Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft
2021·7.5
Normandie ne partira pas ce soir
2021·7.0
Morceaux de Cannes
2021·2.0
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
2021·7.3
Her Name Was Grace Kelly
2021·6.6
Tales of the Uncanny
2020·7.0
When Hitchcock met O'Casey
2019·0.0
Hitchcock Confidential
2019·7.8
Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock?
2018·0.0
Hitch x 4
2018·0.0
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017·6.0
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
2017·6.8
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
2017·7.3
Night Will Fall
2014·7.6
Documenting John Grierson
2014·0.0
What Is Cinema?
2013·6.5
Hollywood Invasion
2011·6.0
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009·0.0
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009·0.0
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
2008·0.0
Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
2008·0.0
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
2008·6.8
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
2008·0.0
Hitchcock in the News
2008·0.0
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
2007·7.8
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
2006·7.4
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
2006·7.2
Hitchcocked!
2006·6.0
The Making of 'Psycho'
2005·7.5
Shepperton Babylon
2005·8.5
Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years
2004·6.0
Hitchcock and Dial M
2004·6.4
Alfred Hitchcock And To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation
2002·0.0
Writing And Casting To Catch A Thief
2002·10.0
Heart of the Festival
2002·6.5
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002·8.0
Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin
2001·6.6
Plotting 'Family Plot'
2001·6.9
'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
2001·7.5
'The Trouble with Harry' Isn't Over
2001·7.3
The Story of 'Frenzy'
2001·6.0
Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'
2000·6.9
The Trouble with 'Marnie'
2000·7.8
All About 'The Birds'
2000·7.2
The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'
2000·6.9
A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years
2000·7.2
Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock
1999·6.8
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999·7.8
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996·6.4
The Universal Story
1996·8.0
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996·6.7
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
1994·7.0
Innocent Blood
1992·6.2
Intimate Portrait: Grace Kelly
1990·0.0
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988·7.0
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
1988·6.7
All-Time Movie Greats
1988·0.0
Memory of the Camps
1985·4.5
Terror in the Aisles
1984·6.2
Family Plot
1976·6.8
The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock
1973·6.8
The Illustrated Hitchcock
1972·10.0
Masters Of Cinema - Alfred Hitchcock
1972·0.0
Frenzy
1972·7.1
Hitchcock at the N.F.T.
1969·7.0
Topaz
1969·6.0
The Movie Orgy
1968·6.7
Mondo Hollywood
1967·6.7
Torn Curtain
1966·6.6
Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock
1966·0.0
Marnie
1964·7.1
A Talk with Hitchcock
1964·7.3
The Birds
1963·7.5
Suspense Story: Nat'l Press Club Hears Hitchcock
1963·0.0
The Children of Alda Nuova
1962·8.0
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961·4.4
The Man Who Found the Money
1960·0.0
Psycho
1960·8.4
North by Northwest
1959·8.0
Vertigo
1958·8.1
The Wrong Man
1956·7.1
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956·7.4
The Trouble with Harry
1955·7.0
To Catch a Thief
1955·7.3
Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid
1955·0.0
Rear Window
1954·8.3
Dial M for Murder
1954·8.0
I Confess
1953·7.1
Strangers on a Train
1951·7.7
Stage Fright
1950·6.8
Under Capricorn
1949·6.0
Rope
1948·7.9
Notorious
1946·7.7
Spellbound
1945·7.4
Show-Business at War
1943·7.0
Shadow of a Doubt
1943·7.5
Saboteur
1942·6.9
Suspicion
1941·7.1
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941·6.0
Foreign Correspondent
1940·7.0
Rebecca
1940·7.9
The Lady Vanishes
1938·7.4
Young and Innocent
1937·6.6
Sabotage
1937·6.7
The 39 Steps
1935·7.3
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934·6.5
Murder!
1930·6.0
Blackmail
1929·6.5
Sound Test for Blackmail
1929·6.1
Easy Virtue
1928·5.3
The Ring
1927·5.9
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927·7.1