![]() No one better understood how you could use cinematic technique to play on people's emotions, to tell a story using images instead of exposition. The Academy frowns on anything that smacks of popularity (when was the last time a comedy or science-fiction film won Best Picture?), and Hitchcock's movies were very, very popular. ![]() He enjoyed scaring his audience, tying them into knots and making them squirm in their seats. So why the snub by the self-appointed keepers of cinema as Art? Simple answer: he liked suspense movies. It's a total how-to on film directing and was recently made into a film featuring dozens of today's most celebrated directors discussing how these interviews influenced their own work. ![]() A star-struck Francois Truffaut, the iconic French film director, interviewed Hitch for eight days in 1962 and published their conversations in a book that's a bible for many directors. Directors all over the planet have idolized Hitch. And the smart ones would have the good grace to admit it. Because if you take all of the directors who actually have won and lined them up, you'd see that none of them could do what Hitch did. ![]() This is one of those facts that turns the whole Academy Awards thing into a collective facepalm. Alfred Hitchcock never won an Oscar for directing. ![]()
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