Alfred Hitchcock is the acknowledged master of the thriller genre he basically invented. He was an English film director and producer. Between 1940-1960 he was nominated for best director 5 times, he never won an Academy Award. In 1919 he began his film making business by illustrating title cards for Paramount Famous Players-Lasky studio in London. Whilst working here, he learned editing, art direction and scripting, and in 1992, he rose to assistant director.His shots were framed in order to maximize anxiety, fear or empathy. Later that year, he directed an unfinished film, No.13 or Mrs. Peabody. Hitchcock/s first completed film as a director was The Pleasure Garden (1925), an Anglo- German production filmed in Munich.
His breakthrough film was The Lodger (1926), was a typical example of the class Hitchcock plot: an innocent protagonist is falsely accused of a crime and becomes involved in a web of intrigue.
His creation of "subjective sound" is an early example of Hitchcock's technical virtuosity, in Blackmail(1929), which was his first film including sound. In "Blackmail" and in his 1930s film "Murder!", he first made the connection between sex and violence. He directed more than 50 feature films during his career which lasted over 6 decades.
Often regarded as the greatest British film maker, he came first in a 2007 poll of film critics in Britain's Daily Telegraph, which said: "Unquestionably the greatest film maker 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 (form his characters and from us) and engaging the emotions of the audience like no one else. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock)
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