20 Things You Didn't Know About Psycho
1. The Movie Gave Hitchcock His Final Best Director Oscar Nomination
One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Oscar history is that Hitchcock never won a Best Director Oscar, all despite receiving five nominations between 1941 and 1961.
His fifth and final nomination, aptly, was for his splendid work on Psycho, even if he ultimately lost out to Billy Wilder's similarly exemplary effort directing The Apartment.
In an act of contrition by the Academy, however, Hitch did receive an honorary Oscar in 1968, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, which he accepted with an amusingly to-the-point speech, simply saying, "Thank you...very much indeed."
While a competitive Oscar win may have eluded him his entire career, the fact that Psycho continues to endure as an all-timer classic 60 years on is surely a greater reward than any gold statue - even an Academy Award.