Want to know the best Alfred Hitchcock movies? How about the worst Alfred Hitchcock movies? Curious about Alfred Hitchcock’s box office grosses or which Alfred Hitchcock movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Alfred Hitchcock movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place …. because we have all of that information.
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) directed well over 50 films in his six decade career. Hitchcock directed his first 26 movies in England from 1922 to 1939. He directed his last 30 movies in the United States from 1940 till 1976. Some of his early successes in England were 1926’s The Lodger, 1929’s Blackmail (considered to be the first movie from England with sound), 1934’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1935’s The 39-Steps and 1938’s The Lady Vanishes.
Legendary producer David O. Selznick signed Hitchcock to a seven-year contract beginning in March 1939, when the Hitchcock family moved to the United States. Talk about getting off to a good start, Hitchcock’s first Hollywood movie was 1940’s Rebecca. Rebecca would be a smash hit, earned 11 Oscar® nominations, including Hitchcock’s first ever nomination for Best Director and won the Oscar® for Best Picture of the year. The 1940s produced the classic Hitchcock movies Suspicion, Shadow of a Doubt, Spellbound and Notorious. The 1950s were the peak years for Hitchcock…with movies like Strangers on a Train, To Catch A Thief, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much and Dial M for Murder.
This page will only be ranking Alfred Hitchcock’s Hollywood movies….not because I have anything against England…..other than they kept very poor box office records in the 1930s. Alfred Hitchcock movies are ranked in five sortable columns of information in the following table.
Alfred Hitchcock Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Alfred Hitchcock Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about ther table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort by the star of the Alfred Hitchcock movie
- Sort Alfred Hitchcock movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
- Sort Alfred Hitchcock movies by yearly box office ranking
- Sort Alfred Hitchcock movies by critic reviews and audiences voting. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Alfred Hitchcock movie received.
- Sort Alfred Hitchcock movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Alfred Hitchcock Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses
Possibly Interesting Facts About Alfred Hitchcock
1. Alfred Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England.
2. Alfred Hitchcock’s opinion about actors….”I never said all actors are: what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle”.
3. Alfred Hitchcock love to have MacGuffins in his movies. MacGuffins are basically decoys…they get the audience to think something is important and by the end of the movie the audience realizes they were not really important at all.
4. Alfred Hitchcock was nominated five times for a Best Director Oscar®…but he never won…he was nominated for Rebecca, Spellbound, Lifeboat, Psycho and Rear Window.
5. Alfred Hitchcock made 4 movies with James Stewart and Cary Grant. The Stewart 4….Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rear Window and Vertigo. The Grant 4….Suspicion, Notorious, To Catch A Thief and North by Northwest.
6. Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite actress was Grace Kelly…..they made three movies together…..Dial M For Murder, To Catch A Thief and Rear Window…..Hitchcock kept hoping Kelly would return to movies….but she never did.
7. Alfred Hitchcock has been described as the most influential filmmaker of all time.
8. Alfred Hitchcock wanted to call North by Northwest….”The Man on Lincoln’s Nose”….he was overruled….but he sneak a Shakespeare reference into the title.
9. Alfred Hitchcock was given an honorary Oscar®….the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1968.
10. Alfred Hitchcock was famous for his cameo appearances in almost all of his movies….for a great movie page on his cameos check out Film Historian Steve Lensman’s Hitchcock’s Cameos which also includes a video of the Hitchcock cameos.
Steve Lensman’s Alfred Hitchcock Expanded You Tube Video
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For some strange reason, when I try to click on the link, I’m taken to a page telling me I don’t have the right software. I have flash, so I do not understand. Fate does not want me to take that test….
Don’t tell Flora but I got 2 wrong on that quiz, oh the shame of it! I thought Psycho was his most violent film but apparently it isn’t. And I got that last question wrong, forgot what it was now. My memory is getting bad! Who are you people?
Flora would probably beat me, I think she watches them more frequently than I do. And my memory isn’t what it used to be. I can tell you the character names in Psycho and North by Northwest but can’t remember Ray Milland’s name in Dial M for Murder, was it Frank, John, Robert? But I do know who the composer was. 🙂
Here’s a Hitchcock quiz you and Flora might enjoy –
http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Movies/Hitchcock
Hey Steve…it is hell getting old…but it is better than the alternative….lol. Surprised you are conceding to Flora on Hitchcock trivia…thanks for the link…on my way to checking it out.
SteveLensman
Well I scored a 552 on that test…I was rolling into we got into Sabotage and Sabateur territory.
Rear Window is one of the few films I’ve watched twice in one evening. I remember renting it and watching it with a friend who was also a Hitchcock fan back in the early 80’s. First viewing for both of us after reading about it for years, as soon as it finished we rewound the tape and watched it again. Great film
Hey Flora and Steve….I acknowledge you two know have seen more Hitchcock than me…as well as having tons more information about Hitch….seeing that I am third ….I wonder who is second in Hitch knowledge and who is first in Hitch knowledge….now that would be a great idea for a game show….put two experts on a subject together and find out who is more knowledgeable.
Don’t be too sure about the number of times you’ve seen Rear Window and North by Northwest. I watch both of them several times a year…:)
Hey Flora and Steve….I acknowledge you two know have seen more Hitchcock than me…as well as having tons more information about Hitch….seeing that I am third ….I wonder who is second in Hitch knowledge and who is first in Hitch knowledge….now that would be a great idea for a game show….put two experts on a subject together and find out who is more knowledgeable.