ALFRED HITCHCOCK: born - 13th august 1899
died - 29th april 1980

• British filmmaker and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres
• Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades. He remains one of the best-known and most popular filmmakers of all time.
• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Hitchcock the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, in 1967. His other Oscar nominations were:
  Best Director in 1960 for Psycho.
  Best Director for Rebecca (1940), Lifeboat (1944), Spellbound (1945), and Rear Window (1954).
  Producer for Best Picture: Suspicion (1941).
  Rebecca, which Hitchcock directed, won the 1940 Best Picture Oscar for its producer David O. Selznick. In addition to Rebecca and Suspicion, two other films Hitchcock directed, Foreign Correspondent and Spellbound, were nominated for Best Picture.
  Hitchcock is considered the Best Film Director of all time by The Screen Directory. Hitchcock was knighted in 1980.