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Qualities Of Alfred Hitchcock As An Auteur

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Due to his success in Britain, Hitchcock moves to Hollywood to direct Rebecca (1940), which wins the Academy Award for best picture and Hitchcock earns his first Oscar nomination for best director. This became the start to his lasting legacy as an Auteur in the film industry and companies start referring to his films as Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1953), Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), or Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) and he became “The Master of Suspense”. According to Hitchcock, the traits his films have in common are “Murder, mayhem, violence, sex, beautifully, pictorially expressed, lovely costumes, perfect cutting, and err … a joke or two.” As an Auteur, he gives off recurring themes or running motifs in his films such as
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