Between 19, Hitchcock directed four films often ranked among the greatest of all time: Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), and Psycho (1960), the first and last of these garnering him Best Director nominations.
After a brief lull in commercial success in the late 1940s, Hitchcock returned to form with Strangers on a Train (1951) and Dial M for Murder (1954). Rebecca won the Academy Award for Best Picture, although Hitchcock himself was only nominated as Best Director he was also nominated for Lifeboat (1944) and Spellbound (1945). A string of successful films followed, including Rebecca (1940), Foreign Correspondent (1940), Suspicion (1941), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and Notorious (1946). Selznick persuaded him to move to Hollywood. By 1939, Hitchcock was a filmmaker of international importance, and film producer David O. Two of his 1930s thrillers, The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938), are ranked among the greatest British films of the 20th century. His first successful film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), helped to shape the thriller genre, while his 1929 film, Blackmail, was the first British " talkie". He made his directorial debut with the British-German silent film The Pleasure Garden (1925). In 1955, Hitchcock became an American citizen.īorn in Leytonstone, London, Hitchcock entered the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer after training as a technical clerk and copy writer for a telegraph-cable company. His films garnered 46 Academy Award nominations including six wins, although he never won for Best Director despite having had five nominations. Known as the " Master of Suspense", he directed over 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades, becoming as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing the television anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–65). He is one of the most influential and widely studied filmmakers in the history of cinema. Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director, producer, and screenwriter.
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