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* [[Award Snub]]: One of the most famous. He never won a competitive Academy Award (he did win an honorary award late in his career). Inexplicably, one of his films (''[[Rebecca]]'') won best picture without him winning anything for it. |
* [[Award Snub]]: One of the most famous. He never won a competitive Academy Award (he did win an honorary award late in his career). Inexplicably, one of his films (''[[Rebecca]]'') won best picture without him winning anything for it. |
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** Alas, he might have won something if he put his name beside David Selznick, as a producer. |
** Alas, he might have won something if he put his name beside David Selznick, as a producer. |
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- Award Snub: One of the most famous. He never won a competitive Academy Award (he did win an honorary award late in his career). Inexplicably, one of his films (Rebecca) won best picture without him winning anything for it.
- Alas, he might have won something if he put his name beside David Selznick, as a producer.
- Fridge Brilliance: In a way this applies to Hitchcock's entire career. For a long time he was not given appropriate credit for his genius; then in the late 1950s French New Wave critics started to look at his films not just as lurid thrillers but as artistic works with extraordinary psychological depth.
- Paranoia Fuel