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.
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- 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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The only Hitchcock film I haven’t seen since moving to United states is Under Capricorn. So I’ve seen 97% of these. However, there is a number of films from his British days that I still have not seen. However, I have seen all those that Steve lists plus Rich and Strange, Juno and the Paycock, the two short propaganda films he made, and Number 17. Some I own, others I’ve seen on TCM etc.
Hey Flora….Thanks for information…so I finish last again in our little competition…I have watched 6 Hitchcock movies in the last 3 or 4 months….and I am about to rewatch Psycho in the near future. And if you count how many times I have seen North by Northwest and Rear Window then I am leading….lol. Thanks for the revisit.
I see you’ve updated your Hitchcock page with some new charts Cogerson, nice work!
So Rear Window was his biggest hit of the 50’s? I wasn’t expecting that, thought it might be North by Northwest, both excellent films.
Spellbound the biggest of the 40’s, I would have guessed Notorious, it was close though.
After North by Northwest many sneered and shook their heads at Hitchcock for making a black and white horror film, they thought he had lost the plot, but Hitch had the last laugh Psycho was his biggest hit.
This is unusual Bruce I’ve seen all the Hitchcock films on your charts and a few more that aren’t on there. That hasn’t happened before! 🙂
Of course, you left out his Pre-Hollywood British output. I’ve seen and own 10 of those, here they are –
1927 Lodger ,The
1929 Blackmail
1930 Murder
1934 Man Who Knew Too Much ,The
1935 Thirty Nine Steps ,The
1936 Sabotage
1936 Secret Agent
1937 Young and Innocent
1938 Lady Vanishes ,The
1939 Jamaica Inn
My favourite from that group is The Lady Vanishes followed by The 39 Steps.
Hey Steve…thanks for checking out my Hitchcock mini update…in my constantly evolving movie page…I have decided to include the ranking of the movie in its main year of release….I am kicking myself for not doing this the first time….when all the information was there but I choose to ignore it…now I have to go back and do the searches all over again.
Like or dislike my Movie Score formula….I need box office numbers for the formula to work…and unfortunately 1930s box office information is very limited and even worse for a foreign film that did not get much of a release in the states…so I had to decide to only look at Hitch’s USA films…which leaves out some great Hitch movies….which I agree with you The Lady Vanishes and The 39-Steps are classics.
The stat that sticks out to me on the latest column…The Wrong Man only being the 91st highest grossing movie in 1957….Our Idiot Brother is currently the 91st highest grossing movie this year….how many people have even heard of Our Idiot Brother….as for my count…I have 21 of the 30 movies I have listed and 3 of the 10 you listed…so 24 for me.
This is great, Cogerson.
I’ve seen nearly all of Hitch’s films since Blackmail. The films before that there are still some missing. My favourite of all time is Rear window, perhaps because this was my first Hitchcock movie. a very close sescond is North By Northwest.
Thanks for the compliment FloraBreenRobison….I am glad you liked my Hitchcock page….I wish I had more information on his England made movies….only a few got released here in the USA…..I think Rear Window and North by Northwest is one heck of a one two punch. Thanks for following me.
Hickox was a great director. I heard that after a while he had his cameos put in earlier in his films because people were watching for him instead of paying attention to the movie. He like to joke around and in the movie family plot during a funeral the protestant minister was quoting from the Book of Mormon.
Hey ruffridyer….his cameos began a very popular thing in his movies and after awhile he got tired of doing them….so he started to put them earlier in the movie, just to get them out of the way. I did not know about the protestant minister quoting the Book of Mormon….very funny stuff…thanks for the comments
I do not like him as much as I do Kubrick, but I do acknowledge that Hitchcock made some outstanding movies, especially when using Cary Grant and James Stewart. I like the rankings but I Spellbound is way too high. No way it is better than North By Northwest, Vertigo or Dial M For Murder. Of the two Gregory Peck movies it the best of those two, but both have not aged well at all.
Thanks for the comments Richard, Hitch and Kubrick have to be some of the greatest directors of all time….as for Spellbound being ranked so high….all I can say is it was Hitchcock’s 2nd biggest hit, earned 6 Oscar nominations…but I do agree it has not aged as well as some of Hitch’s other classics.