Editing Alfred Hitchcock (section)

===Awards and honours===
{{See also|List of awards and nominations received by Alfred Hitchcock}}
[[File:Hitchcock walk of fame.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.9|One of Hitchcock's stars on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]]]]
Hitchcock was inducted into the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] on 8 February 1960 with two stars: one for television and a second for motion pictures.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alfred Hitchcock |url=http://www.walkoffame.com/alfred-hitchcock |publisher=Hollywood Walk of Fame |access-date=16 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161028192011/http://www.walkoffame.com/alfred-hitchcock|archive-date=28 October 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1978, [[John Russell Taylor]] described him as "the most universally recognizable person in the world" and "a straightforward middle-class Englishman who just happened to be an artistic genius".<ref name=Ebert2Jan1980/> In 2002, ''[[MovieMaker]]'' named him the most influential director of all time,<ref name="MovieMaker">{{cite web |last=Wood |first=Jennifer M. |title=The 25 Most Influential Directors of All Time |url=https://www.moviemaker.com/archives/moviemaking/directing/articles-directing/the-25-most-influential-directors-of-all-time-3358/ |work=MovieMaker |date=6 July 2002 |access-date=22 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170429131645/http://www.moviemaker.com/archives/moviemaking/directing/articles-directing/the-25-most-influential-directors-of-all-time-3358 |archive-date=29 April 2017 |url-status=dead |ref=none}}</ref> and a 2007 ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' critics' poll ranked him Britain's greatest director.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wicks|first1=Kevin|title=Telegraph's Top 21 British Directors of All-Time|url=https://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2007/04/telegraphs-top-21-british-directors-of-all-time|website=BBC America|access-date=7 July 2021|archive-date=9 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184716/https://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2007/04/telegraphs-top-21-british-directors-of-all-time|url-status=live}}</ref> David Gritten, the newspaper's film critic, wrote: "Unquestionably the greatest filmmaker to emerge from these islands, Hitchcock did more than any director to shape modern cinema, which would be utterly different without him. His flair was for narrative, cruelly withholding crucial information (from his characters and from us) and engaging the emotions of the audience like no one else."<ref name=Avedon14April2007>{{cite news |last=Avedon |first=Richard |title=The top 21 British directors of all time |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3664474/The-top-21-British-directors-of-all-time.html |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=14 April 2007|access-date=5 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328061236/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3664474/The-top-21-British-directors-of-all-time.html|archive-date=28 March 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1992, the ''[[Sight & Sound]]'' Critics' Poll ranked Hitchcock at No. 4 in its list of "Top 10 Directors" of all time.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sight and Sound Poll 1992: Critics |publisher=[[California Institute of Technology]] |url=http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/sight/1992_1.html |access-date=29 May 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618053015/http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/sight/1992_1.html |archive-date=18 June 2015 }}</ref> In 2002, Hitchcock was ranked second in the critics' top ten poll<ref>{{cite web|url=http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/critics-directors.html|title=BFI {{pipe}} Sight & Sound {{pipe}} Top Ten Poll 2002 – The Critics' Top Ten Directors|date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181654/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/critics-directors.html|archive-date=3 March 2016}}</ref> and fifth in the directors' top ten poll<ref>{{cite web|url=http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/directors-directors.html|title=BFI {{pipe}} Sight & Sound {{pipe}} Top Ten Poll 2002 – The Directors' Top Ten Directors|date=13 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013231353/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/directors-directors.html|archive-date=13 October 2018}}</ref> in the list of "The Greatest Directors of All Time" compiled by ''Sight & Sound''. Hitchcock was voted the "Greatest Director of 20th Century" in a poll conducted by Japanese film magazine ''[[kinema Junpo]]''. In 1996, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' ranked Hitchcock at No. 1 in its "50 Greatest Directors" list.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|title=Greatest Film Directors and Their Best Films |publisher=[[Filmsite.org]] |url=http://www.filmsite.org/directors5.html |access-date=19 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419021840/http://www.filmsite.org/directors2.html|archive-date=19 April 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Greatest Film Directors|url=https://www.filmsite.org/directors.html|website=filmsite.org|access-date=6 July 2021|archive-date=5 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905115334/https://www.filmsite.org/directors.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Hitchcock was ranked at No. 2 on ''[[Empire (film magazine)|Empire]]''{{'}}s "Top 40 Greatest Directors of All-Time" list in 2005.<ref name="auto"/> In 2007, ''[[Total Film]]'' ranked Hitchcock at No. 1 on its "100 Greatest Film Directors Ever" list.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Greatest Directors Ever by ''Total Film'' Magazine |publisher=[[Filmsite.org]] |url=http://www.filmsite.org/greatdirectors-totalfilm2.html |access-date=19 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702113557/http://www.filmsite.org/greatdirectors-totalfilm.html|archive-date=2 July 2014 }}</ref>

[[File:Sir Alfred Hitchcock (4313226125).jpg|thumb|right|An [[English Heritage]] [[blue plaque]] marks where Hitchcock lived at 153 Cromwell Road, Kensington, London.]]
He won two [[Golden Globes]], eight [[Laurel Awards]], and five [[lifetime achievement awards]], including the first [[BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award]] in 1971,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1971/film/fellowship |title=1971 Film Fellowship {{!}} BAFTA Awards|website=awards.bafta.org|access-date=2 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203064211/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1971/film/fellowship|archive-date=3 February 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> and, in 1979, an [[AFI Life Achievement Award]].<ref name=Todd30April1980/> He was nominated five times for an [[Academy Award for Best Director]]. ''Rebecca'', nominated for eleven Oscars, won the [[Academy Award for Best Picture#1940s|Academy Award for Best Picture of 1940]]; another Hitchcock film, ''[[Foreign Correspondent (film)|Foreign Correspondent]]'', was also nominated that year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1941 |title=The 13th Academy Awards (1941) Nominees and Winners |year=2012 |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=21 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303110034/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/13th-winners.html|archive-date=3 March 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> By 2021, nine of his films had been selected for preservation by the US [[National Film Registry]]: ''Rebecca'' (1940; inducted 2018), ''Shadow of a Doubt'' (1943; inducted 1991), ''Notorious'' (1946; inducted 2006), ''Strangers on a Train'' (1951; inducted 2021), ''Rear Window'' (1954; inducted 1997), ''Vertigo'' (1958; inducted 1989), ''North by Northwest'' (1959; inducted 1995), ''Psycho'' (1960; inducted 1992) and ''The Birds'' (1963; inducted 2016).<ref name=loc/>

In 2001, a series of 17 mosaics of Hitchcock's life and work, which are located in [[Leytonstone tube station]] in the [[London Underground]], was commissioned by the [[London Borough of Waltham Forest]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Leytonstone's Alfred Hitchcock mosaics |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/02/europe/gallery/hitchcock-murals-leytonstone/index.html |access-date=10 May 2024 |publisher=CNN}}</ref> In 2012, Hitchcock was selected by artist [[Peter Blake (artist)|Sir Peter Blake]], author of the Beatles' ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' album cover, to appear in a new version of the cover, along with other British cultural figures, and he was featured that year in a [[BBC Radio 4]] series, ''[[The New Elizabethans]]'', as someone "whose actions during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant impact on lives in these islands and given the age its character".<ref>{{cite news |first=Caroline |last=Davies |title=New faces on Sgt Pepper album cover for artist Peter Blake's 80th birthday |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/apr/02/peter-blake-sgt-pepper-cover-revisited |work=The Guardian |date=4 October 2016|access-date=5 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105095109/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/apr/02/peter-blake-sgt-pepper-cover-revisited|archive-date=5 November 2016|url-status=live}}{{pb}}
{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jxs2c/features/about |publisher=BBC |title=The New Elizabethans – Alfred Hitchcock |access-date=24 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121125012450/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jxs2c/features/about|archive-date=25 November 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> In June 2013 nine restored versions of Hitchcock's early silent films, including ''The Pleasure Garden'' (1925), were shown at the [[Brooklyn Academy of Music]]'s Harvey Theatre; known as "The Hitchcock 9", the travelling tribute was organised by the [[British Film Institute]].<ref name=Kehr>{{cite news |last=Kehr |first=Dave |title=Hitchcock, Finding His Voice in Silents |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/movies/silent-hitchcock-films-come-to-the-harvey-theater-in-brooklyn.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=23 June 2013 |access-date=2 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171109035810/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/movies/silent-hitchcock-films-come-to-the-harvey-theater-in-brooklyn.html|archive-date=9 November 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>