Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

With the Oscar set for this weekend we have been looking at some of the big names who have been overlooked when it comes to this major award.

And it is not just the actors and actresses who have been snubbed but a whole host of iconic filmmakers have also missed out.

- Alfred Hitchcock

And no snub comes more shocking than that of Alfred Hitchcock - one of the greatest filmmakers that this country has ever produced.

With Psycho he changed the way that horror movies were made as he killed off his leading lady in the opening act, something which had never been done before.

He picked up five Oscar nominations during his career for Rebecca, Lifeboat, Spellbound, Rear Window and Psycho, missing out on every occasion.

However he did received the Thalberg Award in 1968 for his fantastic body of work.

- Orson Welles

We have discussed Orson Welles once already this week as he was overlooked as an actor but he also missed out as a filmmaker.

Citizen Kane is still regarded as one of the greatest movies of all time and saw Welles not only star in it but also direct.

Despite the movie's legendary status and the influence that it's had over generations of filmmaker it did not win Best Picture, losing out to How Green Was My Valley.

This would be the only time in his career that he would be a Best Director nominee - however he did walk away with the Best original Screenplay gong.

- Ingmar Bergman

The likes of Woody Allen regard Ingmar Bergman as one of the greatest filmmakers in history and yet this man never won a Best Director Oscar.

Throughout his career he has been behind movies such as Cries and Whispers, Fanny and Alexander, The Virgin Spring and Through a Glass Darkly - and he was nominated three times for his work.

Cries and Whispers, Face to Face and Fanny and Alexander saw Bergman nominated for Best Director only to miss out. However he was awarded the Thalberg award in 1971.

But it wasn't all doom and gloom for the director as The Virgin Spring, Through A Glass Darkly and Fanny and Alexander all went on to win Best Foreign Film.

- Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick enjoyed a career that spanned forty years and made some of the most influential and iconic movies during that time.

Despite iconic works such as Dr Strangelove and 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is still considered one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time, he was never recognised with a Best Director gong.

During his career however he did pick up four nominations for Dr Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon.

- Brian De Palma

Brian de Palma is the director who is responsible for two of the greatest gangster movies in the genre, Scarface and The Untouchables, so it's amazing that he has never even been nominated for Best Director.

Tony Montana remains one of al Pacino's most famous roles while Sean Connery won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in The Untouchables.

- Tim Burton & Christopher Nolan

Tim Burton is one of the most visionary filmmaker currently working in the movie industry with films under his belt such as Edward Scissorhands and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Despite this he is one of the best current filmmaker to not have an Oscar nod to his name.

Similarly Christopher Nolan is yet to be honoured with a nomination despite box office smashes such as The Dark Knight & Inception, both of which SHOULD have earnt him a nod - sadly the Oscars are a little big stuffy when it comes to recognising blockbusters.

And I'm sure that there are very few people who would disagree that Martin Scorsese should have more than his one Best Director gong.

His solitary win came for The Departed but he is in the mix again this year for Hugo.

FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw


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