10 Most Successful Film Directors In History

Sir Alfred Hitchcock was an English director and producer whose work is often included on lists of the greatest movies ever made. His work has been highly influential to just about every other director on this list and his work earned him the title of "Master of Suspense."

Over the course of his 61-year-career, Hitchcock directed more than 50 feature films including some that are regarded as the best works ever made.

Some of his most famous and notable works include Rebecca, Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho. His films garnered a total of 46 Academy Award nominations and his technique has been recognized as uniquely Hitchcockian due to his ability to use the camera to mimic a person's gaze.

Hitchcock's work is studied by film students and fans across the world due to his ability to manipulate a camera and form a shot. Film critic Robin Wood once described the style and meaning of a Hitchcock film "is there in the method, in the progression from shot to shot. A Hitchcock film is an organism, with the whole implied in every detail and every detail related to the whole."