Alfred Hitchcock:The most influential and extensively studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.

 For more than 50 years, and more than 50 films, Alfred Hitchcock amused, thrilled, and terrified audiences all over the world. Hitchcock was the master of photographic techniques, he’d play with the camera to create terror and suspense. “To me the language of the camera is the most important thing. I believe that a real artist can even create an interesting picture in a phone booth.”.Alfred Hitchcock was the most influential and extensively studied filmmakers in the history of cinema

Hitchcock’s fascination with the cinema began when he was seventeen years old. After completing university, he was employed by the famous German director Emil Jennings as a writer and assistant director. A few months later he directed the film "The Pleasure Garden", the film was a success — and that was just the beginning. In the years to follow he made classics like "The man who knew too much", "The 39 steps" and "The Lady Vanishes".

The artiste won four Oscar nominations, but never an Oscar. In 1969 he was presented the Irving Thalberg Award for the category Consistent High Productions by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 1979, the American Film Institute awarded him with the Lifetime Achievement Award. The director at the award ceremony was described by John Forsythe as a ‘gentleman farmer who raises gooseflesh and has the genius to put so much life into death.’

Hitchcock had neither the physique or the demeanour of a man who made his living by finding new appealing ways of killing people on screen. He was short and plump with an egg-shaped profile that later became a trademark of his telly series. The telly series also featured sly, wry introductions and closing remarks from the witty filmmaker.

The maker of "Spellbound", "Birds", "Rear Window", and "Psycho" — the names of a few of his brilliant productions — was afraid of going to see any of his films at the threatre where there was an audience present. “I only tried it once ....1 am afraid of seeing the mistakes I have made. And this is not all that I am afraid off, I’m terrified of policemen and entanglements with the law, even though I make my living dramatizing such situations”.

Despite decades of success, and his outward arrogance and self-assurance Hitchcock never forgot that fame was fleeting. He always strived to get the best out of his staff when making a movie. He never failed to amaze his audience with something new in every film that he made. We can undoubtedly say that Hitchcock shared his experiences with the audience all over the world and left the theatre world a much richer place.