he 91st Academy Awards take place on Sunday night (24 February), and the occasion reminds us that sometimes Oscar doesn’t always get it right.
There have been many notable injustices since the first ceremony took place in 1929, but surely none more surprising than the absence of Alfred Hitchcock’s name from the list of winners.
The man responsible for some of the greatest films ever made, and who committed many of cinema’s most deathless images to celluloid, never won an Academy Award despite being nominated for best director on five occasions: Rebecca in 1940, Lifeboat in 1944, Spellbound in 1945, Rear Window in 1954 and Psycho in 1960.
However, these five movies represent just a small percentage of Hitchcock’s magnificent oeuvre of 52 films.
To counteract this injustice, here is my selection of his 20 greatest. Click through the gallery below to begin.
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