Who is Alfred Hitchcock?

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was a British-American film director closely associated with the suspense thriller genre. He began directing in Britain before working in the United States from 1939 onwards. With more than fifty feature films to his credit, in a career spanning six decades, from silent film to talkies to the color era, Hitchcock remains one of the best known and most popular directors of all time, famous for his expert and often unrivaled control of pace and suspense throughout his films. Hitchcock’s first film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, was released in 1926 and depicted a serial killer similar to Jack the Ripper. In 1929, Hitchcock made one of the first “talkies” in England, Blackmail, before having his biggest commercial success with The Man Who Knew Too Much.  Hitchcock’s film Rebecca (1940) won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1940, although the award was given to producer David O. Selznick. As a producer, Hitchcock received one Academy Award Best Picture nomination for Suspicion (1941). He was nominated for Best Director for five of his films: Rebecca, Lifeboat* (1944), Spellbound (1945), Rear Window, and Psycho. He received an honorary Oscar in 1968 and was knighted in 1980.

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