Apparently Hitchcock's "Rebecca" was the only film he won an Oscar for, and yet I don't remember it AT ALL. It was adapted from a novel that was released only two years before the film came out, so maybe that had something to do with its popularity?
What other films have won awards but we're all like, "their other films were better - why didn't THOSE get awards?!"
Also, there is a new adaptation for the novel now out with Armie Hammer: https://variety.com/2020/film/news/armie-hammer-lily-james-rebecca-netfl...
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One of my favorite movies, the Hitchcock version that is.
Vertigo, Rear Window, Psycho, The Birds, North by Northwest - those are the ones I think of first.
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Karen - I had the rare honor and privilege of working with Hitch in his latter years and the films you mentioned come to mind too but I have watched Rebecca, The Paradine Case , The Mountain Eagle (1926) and others of his early Players-Lask days. They're all masterpieces. He was a charming, devious paradoxical master of suspense. Alma was a dear, sweet hostice and I really think was the support for his success.
Love that film, one of my favorites.