Which is the only Hitchcock film to win a Best Picture Oscar (in 1940)?
"romance—and, through their style, put their own personal stamp on it. It is this auteur style that concerns formalism. A perfect example of formalist criticism of auteur style would be the work of Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock primarily made thrillers, which, according to the ""Cahiers du cinema"" crowd, were popular with the public but were dismissed by the critics and the award ceremonies, although Hitchcock's ""Rebecca"" won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 1940 Academy Awards. Though he never won the Oscar for directing, he was nominated five times in the category. Truffaut and his colleagues argued that Hitchcock had"
"1940 Academy Award for Best Cinematography, black-and-white category, was awarded to Gregg Toland for his work. Nominated for original score (but losing to ""The Wizard of Oz"") was the prolific film composer, Alfred Newman, whose poignant ""Cathy's Theme"" does so much ""to maintain its life as a masterpiece of romantic filmmaking."" It was largely filmed in Thousand Oaks, California, with scenes shot in Wildwood Regional Park and at the current site of California Lutheran University. In 2007, ""Wuthering Heights"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or"
"the only film Hitchcock made for 20th Century Fox. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Best Original Story and Best CinematographyBlack and White. Tallulah Bankhead won the New York Film Critics Circle award for best actress of the year. Though highly controversial in its time for what many interpreted as its sympathetic depiction of a German U-boat captain, ""Lifeboat"" is now viewed more favorably and has been listed by several modern critics as one of Hitchcock's more underrated films. Several British and American civilians, service members and merchant mariners are stuck in a lifeboat in the North"
"Wright, Virginia Mayo, and Harold Russell. The film won nine Academy Awards. 1940s in film Hundreds of full-length films were produced during the decade of the 1940s. The great actor Humphrey Bogart made his most memorable films in this decade. Frank Capra's masterpiece ""It's a Wonderful Life"" and Orson Welles's masterpiece ""Citizen Kane"" were released. The film noir genre was at its height. Alfred Hitchcock made his American debut with the film ""Rebecca"", and made many classics throughout the 1940s. The most successful film of the decade was Samuel Goldwyn's ""The Best Years of Our Lives""; the film was directed"
"progression from shot to shot. A Hitchcock film is an organism, with the whole implied in every detail and every detail related to the whole."" By 1960 Hitchcock had directed four films often ranked among the greatest of all time: ""Rear Window"" (1954), ""Vertigo"" (1958), ""North by Northwest"" (1959), and ""Psycho"" (1960). In 2012 ""Vertigo"" replaced Orson Welles's ""Citizen Kane"" (1941) as the British Film Institute's greatest film ever made. By 2016 seven of his films had been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, including his personal favourite, ""Shadow of a Doubt"" (1943). He received the"
"1940s in film Hundreds of full-length films were produced during the decade of the 1940s. The great actor Humphrey Bogart made his most memorable films in this decade. Frank Capra's masterpiece ""It's a Wonderful Life"" and Orson Welles's masterpiece ""Citizen Kane"" were released. The film noir genre was at its height. Alfred Hitchcock made his American debut with the film ""Rebecca"", and made many classics throughout the 1940s. The most successful film of the decade was Samuel Goldwyn's ""The Best Years of Our Lives""; the film was directed by William Wyler, and starred Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa"
"Streaming audio Suspicion (1941 film) Suspicion is a 1941 romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple. It also features Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel, and Leo G. Carroll. ""Suspicion"" is based on Francis Iles's novel ""Before the Fact"" (1932). For her role as Lina, Joan Fontaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1941. This is the only Oscar-winning performance in a Hitchcock film. In the film, a shy spinster runs off with a charming playboy, who turns out to"
"Suspicion (1941 film) Suspicion is a 1941 romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple. It also features Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel, and Leo G. Carroll. ""Suspicion"" is based on Francis Iles's novel ""Before the Fact"" (1932). For her role as Lina, Joan Fontaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1941. This is the only Oscar-winning performance in a Hitchcock film. In the film, a shy spinster runs off with a charming playboy, who turns out to be penniless,"
"Hitchcock (film) Hitchcock is a 2012 American biographical drama film directed by Sacha Gervasi, based on Stephen Rebello's non-fiction book ""Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho"". The film was released in selected cities on November 23, 2012, with a worldwide release on December 14, 2012. ""Hitchcock"" centers on the relationship between film director Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) during the making of ""Psycho"", a controversial horror film that became one of the most acclaimed and influential works in the filmmaker's career. In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock opens his latest film, ""North by Northwest"", to"
"book ""The Fifty Worst Films of All Time"". Jamaica Inn (film) Jamaica Inn is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name, the first of three of du Maurier's works that Hitchcock adapted (the others were her novel ""Rebecca"" and short story ""The Birds""). It stars Charles Laughton and features Maureen O'Hara in her first major screen role. It is the last film Hitchcock made in the United Kingdom before he moved to the United States. The film is a period piece set in Cornwall in 1819; the"
"out of four stars in his ""Movie Guide"", and included the film in his list of 100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century. ""The Guardian"" called the film ""one of the greatest train movies from the genre's golden era"", and a contender for the ""title of best comedy thriller ever made"". The film frequently ranks among the best British films of all time. ""The Lady Vanishes"" was named Best Picture of 1938 by ""The New York Times"". In 1939, Hitchcock received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director, the only time Hitchcock received an award for his"
"Donat's son, John Donat, (1933–2004), was an architectural photographer, and actors Peter Donat and Richard Donat are his nephews. Robert Donat Friedrich Robert Donat (18 March 1905 – 9 June 1958) was an English film and stage actor. He is best remembered for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The 39 Steps"" (1935) and ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"" (1939), winning for the latter the Academy Award for Best Actor. In his book, ""The Age of the Dream Palace, Jeffrey Richards"" wrote that Donat was ""The British cinema's one undisputed romantic leading man in the 1930s"". ""The image he projected was that of"
"for Best Director at the Academy Awards. Three years later he directed horror film ""The Birds"" starring Tippi Hedren. The following year he reunited with Hedren on the film ""Marnie"" which also starred Sean Connery. In recognition of his career, Hitchcock garnered the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Fellowship Award, the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Directors Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. He received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame to acknowledge his film and television achievements. In"
"Samuel M. Comer, Frank McKelvy) and Best Sound (George Dutton). In the 21st century and starting with the 2002 ""Sight & Sound"" polls, ""Vertigo"" was ranked just behind ""Citizen Kane"" (1941) as the best film ever made. Years later, in the same magazine, it was voted by critics as the best film ever made. Already in the 1960s, the French ""Cahiers du cinéma"" critics began re-evaluating Hitchcock as a serious artist, rather than just a populist showman. However, even François Truffaut's important 1962 book of interviews with Hitchcock (not published in English until 1967) devotes only a few pages to"
"If one doesn't accept them then one doesn't understand and can't possibly like Hitchcock. In the 2012 ""Sight & Sound"" poll of the greatest films ever made, ""Marnie"" received nine total votes—six (out of 846) from critics and three (out of 358) from directors. Notes Bibliography Marnie (film) Marnie is a 1964 American psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay by Jay Presson Allen was based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Winston Graham. The film stars Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery. The music was composed by Bernard Herrmann, his last of seven critically acclaimed"
"sent out for considering of the expanded Best Picture category as well as for Best Documentary. There was disappointment when ""Anvil"" was one of the higher-profile films not short-listed in the Best Documentary category. The film went on to win Best Documentary at the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards in Los Angeles and Best Music Film and Best Documentary Feature at the International Documentary Association Awards. ""Anvil! The Story of Anvil"" won an Emmy Award in 2010 in the category of Outstanding Arts and Cultural Programming. In 2012, Gervasi directed ""Hitchcock"" starring Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock, Helen Mirren as his"
"George Coulouris (Captain Searle), Frank Readick (the Idiot), Alfred Shirley (Frith), Eustace Wyatt (Coroner) and Agnes Moorehead (Mrs Van Hopper). Bernard Herrmann composed and conducted the score, which later formed the basis of his score for the 1943 film, ""Jane Eyre"". ""Rebecca"" has been adapted several times. The best known of these is the Academy Award winning 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film version ""Rebecca"", the first film Hitchcock made under his contract with David O. Selznick. The film, which starred Sir Laurence Olivier as Max, Joan Fontaine as the heroine, and Dame Judith Anderson as Mrs Danvers, was based on the"
"life and imagination, it's undeniably lively and provocative."" Hitchcock (film) Hitchcock is a 2012 American biographical drama film directed by Sacha Gervasi, based on Stephen Rebello's non-fiction book ""Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho"". The film was released in selected cities on November 23, 2012, with a worldwide release on December 14, 2012. ""Hitchcock"" centers on the relationship between film director Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) during the making of ""Psycho"", a controversial horror film that became one of the most acclaimed and influential works in the filmmaker's career. In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock"
"4th Academy Awards The 4th Academy Awards were awarded to films completed and screened released between August 1, 1930, and July 31, 1931, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. At the ceremony, nine-year-old Jackie Cooper, nominated for Best Actor in ""Skippy"", fell asleep on the shoulder of Best Actress nominee Marie Dressler. When Dressler was announced as the winner, Cooper had to be eased onto his mother’s lap. ""Cimarron"" was the first Western to win Best Picture, and would remain the only one to do so for 59 years (until ""Dances with Wolves"" won in 1991). It"
"Joel McCrea. Mixing footage of European scenes with scenes filmed on a Hollywood backlot, the film avoided direct references to Nazism, Nazi Germany, and Germans to comply with Hollywood's Motion Picture Production Code censorship at the time. In September 1940 the Hitchcocks bought the Cornwall Ranch near Scotts Valley, California, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Their primary residence was an English-style home in Bel Air, purchased in 1942. Hitchcock's films were diverse during this period, ranging from the romantic comedy ""Mr. & Mrs. Smith"" (1941) to the bleak film noir ""Shadow of a Doubt"" (1943). ""Suspicion"" (1941) marked Hitchcock's first"
"and was nominated for Best Picture of 1940 by the National Board of Review. ""Foreign Correspondent"" was adapted to the radio program ""Academy Award Theater"" on July 24, 1946, with Joseph Cotten starring. Foreign Correspondent (film) Foreign Correspondent (a.k.a. Imposter and Personal History) is a 1940 American spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of an American reporter who tries to expose enemy spies in Britain who are involved in a fictional continent-wide conspiracy in the prelude to World War II. It stars Joel McCrea and features 19-year old Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert"
"test was sub par, but Laughton could not forget her eyes). After filming finished, Laughton brought her to Hollywood to play Esmeralda opposite his Quasimodo in 1939 version of ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"", where she became an international star. In March 1939, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood to begin his contract with David O. Selznick. Thus ""Jamaica Inn "" was his last British picture, as well as one of his most successful. Critics disparaged the film, largely because of the lack of atmosphere and tension which was present in the book, with its light-hearted, often camp banter, and portly landlord,"
"noteworthy that it may definitely be recommended to all film-viewers."" In Peter Bogdanovich's interview with Alfred Hitchcock, Bogdanovich mentions that French critics writing for ""Cahiers du cinéma"" in the 1950s considered ""Under Capricorn"" one of Hitchcock's finest films. Under Capricorn Under Capricorn is a 1949 British historical thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock about a couple in Australia who started out as lady and stable boy in Ireland, and who are now bound together by a horrible secret. The film was based on the novel ""Under Capricorn"" (1937) by Helen Simpson, with a screenplay by James Bridie. It was adapted"
"later ""Arsenic and Old Lace"" (1944) and ""I Was a Male War Bride"" (1949); these films are frequently cited as among the all-time great comedy films. Having established himself as a major Hollywood star, he was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for ""Penny Serenade"" (1941) and ""None but the Lonely Heart"" (1944). In the 1940s and 1950s, Grant forged a working relationship with the director Alfred Hitchcock, appearing in films such as ""Suspicion"" (1941), ""Notorious"" (1946), ""To Catch a Thief"" (1955) and ""North by Northwest"" (1959). Hitchcock admired Grant and considered him to have been the"
"Best Picture: ""The Exorcist"" (1973), ""Jaws"" (1975), ""The Sixth Sense"" (1999), ""Black Swan"" (2010), and ""Get Out"" (2017). No documentary has yet been nominated for Best Picture, although ""Chang"" was nominated in the ""Unique and Artistic Production"" category at the 1927/28 awards. In 2017, at the 89th Academy Awards, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty read ""La La Land"" as the winner of the award. However, they had mistakenly been given the envelope for the ""Best Actress in a Leading Role"" award, which Emma Stone had won for her role in ""La La Land"" moments prior. When the mistake was"
"the run. It also featured the first of his famous cameo appearances. Two years later he directed ""Blackmail"" (1929) which was his first sound film. In 1935 Hitchcock directed ""The 39 Steps"". Three years later he directed ""The Lady Vanishes,"" starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. Hitchcock's British films – and many of his early American ones – are often mistakenly believed to be in the public domain. In fact, all of his films are under copyright in the US and UK. Nonetheless, bootlegs of his work continue to be widely disseminated. In 1940, Hitchcock transitioned to Hollywood productions, the"
"Spellbound (1945 film) Spellbound is a 1945 American film noir psychological mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of the new head of a mental asylum who turns out not to be what he claims. The film stars Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov and Leo G. Carroll. It is an adaptation by Angus MacPhail and Ben Hecht of the novel ""The House of Dr. Edwardes"" (1927) by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer. Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) is a psychoanalyst at Green Manors, a therapeutic community mental hospital in Vermont. She is perceived"
"on the Best Actress race between sibling rivals Joan Fontaine in Alfred Hitchcock’s ""Suspicion"" and Olivia de Havilland for ""Hold Back the Dawn"". Fontaine’s victory was the only time a performer won for a role in a Hitchcock film. This was also the first year in which documentaries were included. The first Oscar for a documentary was awarded to ""Churchill's Island"". ""The Little Foxes"" established a new high of nine nominations without winning a single Oscar. Its mark was matched by ""Peyton Place"" in 1957, and exceeded by ""The Turning Point"" and ""The Color Purple"", both of which received 11"
"get away with it. The fact that many scenes of the film were set in a cinema allowed Hitchcock to include references to contemporary films and storylines. Perhaps the most famous of these is the final film sequence, an excerpt from a Walt Disney Silly Symphony ""Who Killed Cock Robin?"" (1935). Sabotage (1936 film) Sabotage, also released as The Woman Alone, is a 1936 British espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, and John Loder. It is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novel ""The Secret Agent"", about a woman who discovers that her husband,"
"captioned photographs inviting the reader to find clues to the murderer's identity; Hitchcock cast the performers as themselves, such as Woolley, Doris Merrick, and make-up man Guy Pearce. ""Shadow of a Doubt"" (1943) was Hitchcock's personal favourite and the second of the early Universal films. Charlotte ""Charlie"" Newton (Teresa Wright) suspects her beloved uncle Charlie Oakley (Joseph Cotten) of being a serial killer. Hitchcock again filmed extensively on location, this time in the Northern California city of Santa Rosa. Working at 20th Century Fox, Hitchcock adapted a script of John Steinbeck's, which recorded the experiences of the survivors of a"
"for the CIA. During its opening two-week run at Radio City Music Hall, the film grossed $404,056 (), setting a record in that theatre's non-holiday gross. ""Time"" magazine called the film ""smoothly troweled and thoroughly entertaining"". ""Psycho"" (1960) is arguably Hitchcock's best-known film. Based on Robert Bloch's novel ""Psycho"" (1959), which was inspired by the case of Ed Gein, the film was produced on a constrained budget of $800,000 () and shot in black-and-white on a spare set using crew members from ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"". The unprecedented violence of the shower scene, the early death of the heroine, and the"
"and was released in late 1940. Years later, Hitchcock made the statement about the lack of true Hollywood leading ladies with the quote, ""Where are the Norma Shearers?"" In 1945, Hitchcock was brought in as a supervising director for a documentary film about Nazi crimes and Nazi concentration camps. The film was originally to include segments produced by military film units from the United Kingdom, United States, France, and the Soviet Union. Cold War developments meant that the USSR segment was withdrawn, and the film remained uncompleted, with some footage kept in the collection of the Imperial War Museum. However,"
"office” for theaters presenting Hitchcock’s latest work, although in its detailed review of ""Shadow of a Doubt"" the paper does mistakenly refer to the director’s 1941 film ""Suspicion"" as ""'Suspense'"": In a 1964 interview on ""Telescope"" with host Fletcher Markle, Markle noted, ""Mr Hitchcock, most critics have always considered ""Shadow of a Doubt"", which you made in 1943, as your finest film."" Hitchcock replied immediately, ""Me too."" Markle then asked, ""That is your opinion of it still?"" Hitchcock replied, ""Oh, no question."" At the time, Hitchcock's most recent work was ""Marnie"". When later interviewed by François Truffaut, Hitchcock denied the"