Hitchcock

In the 1950s the work of the influential British/American director Alfred Hitchcock was championed by a group of French critics (and later film-makers) writing for the journal Cahiers du Cinéma, who saw in his films the mark of individual authorship that they felt was lacking in conventional films produced within the Hollywood system. Among these critics, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol jointly wrote an appreciation of his work in the book Hitchcock: the First Forty-Four Films (1957), while François Truffaut published a book of interviews with Hitchcock in 1966. However, throughout his lifetime, Hitchcock was ignored by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and never won a Best Director Oscar despite being nominated five times, for Rebecca (1940), Lifeboat (1944), Spellbound (1945), Rear Window (1954), and Psycho (1960)—it was not until 1967 that he was finally granted the Irving Thalberg Award by the Academy.

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