Hitchcock: Polls & Rankings
Hitchcock's best films
Sight & Sound ranking by a panel of directors, 1999

1. Psycho
2. Vertigo
3. Notorious
4. The Birds
5. North by Northwest
6. Shadow of a Doubt
7. Foreign Correspondent
8. Frenzy
9. The Lady Vanishes
10. Marnie
Sight & Sound poll
Beginning in 1952, the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound conducts polls ranking the best films in history. One poll includes film critics, one one film directors.
Best films:
2002 poll of critics

1. Citizen Kane
2. Vertigo
3. Rules of the Game
4. The Godfather, I & II
5. Tokyo Story
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. Battleship Potemkin
8. Sunrise
9. 8 1/2
10.Singin' in the Rain

Psycho was also in the 60 films receiving multiple votes from critics.

 Best films:
2002 poll of directors
[ties for #6 and #9]

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Godfather, I & II
3. 8 1/2
4. Lawrence of Arabia
5. Dr. Strangelove
6. Vertigo
6. Raging Bull
6. Bicycle Thieves
9. Rules of the Game
9. Rashomon
9. Seven Samurai

Psycho was also in the 50 films receiving multiple votes from directors.
Best directors:
2002 poll of critics

1. Orson Welles
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Jean-Luc Godard
4. Jean Renoir
5. Stanley Kubrick
6. Akira Kurosawa
7. Federico Fellini
8. John Ford
9. Sergei Eisenstein
10. Francis Ford Coppola
10. Yasujiro Ozu

 Best directors:
2002 poll of directors

1. Orson Welles
2. Federico Fellini
3. Akira Kurosawa
4. Francis Ford Coppola
5. Alfred Hitchcock
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. Billy Wilder
8. Ingmar Bergman
9. Martin Scorsese
9. David Lean
9. Jean Renoir
American Film Institute polls
AFI poll (1998): top 100 American films

18. Psycho
40. North by Northwest
42. Rear Window
61. Vertigo

 AFI poll (2001): top 100 "most heart pounding films"

1. Psycho
4. North by Northwest
7. The Birds
14. Rear Window
18. Vertigo
32. Strangers on a Train
38. Notorious
48. Dial M for Murder
80. Rebecca
AFI poll (2002): top 100 most passionate films

18. Vertigo
46. To Catch a Thief
86. Notorious
British Film Institute poll
BFI poll (1999): top 100 British films:

4. The 39 Steps
35. The Lady Vanishes
Academy Awards (Oscars)
Hitchcock was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Director: for Rebecca, Lifeboat, Spellbound, Rear Window, and Psycho. He never won. In 1967 he was given a special Oscar, the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award.

Four Hitchcock films were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Rebecca, Foreign Correspondent, Suspicion, and Spellbound. The only Hitchcock movie to win an Oscar for Best Picture was Rebecca.

Seven actors were nominated for Oscars for performances in Hitchcock films: two for best acting awards (Lawrence Olivier for Rebecca and Joan Fontaine for Suspicion) and five for supporting actor awards (Judith Anderson for Rebecca, Claude Rains for Notorious, Michael Chekhov for Spellbound, Ethel Barrymore for The Paradine Case, and Janet Leigh for Psycho. The only actor to win an Oscar for a performance in a Hitchcock picture was Joan Fontaine, for Suspicion.
Directors Guild of America Awards
Hitchcock was nominated eight times for the annual Directors Guild award for best direction of a motion picture, for Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Trouble with Harry, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho. He never won.