# What's Your Favourite Hitchcock Movie?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 9, 2001, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-hitchcock-movie/75581 "2001-08-09T13:44:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2001, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-hitchcock-movie/75581/21 "2001-08-10T00:43:01Z")

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> _Redboss says:_ It’s a nice mantra sometimes when the bad guys seem to be winning:  
> “Hitchcock never won an Oscar  
> Garbo never won an Oscar  
> Chaplin never won an Oscar”

Actually, Chaplin did win a competitive Oscar–for his score of **Limelight** in 1972, which was finally eligible for Academy consideration 20 years after he made it.

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**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2001, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-hitchcock-movie/75581/22 "2001-08-10T00:53:07Z")

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_Strangers on a Train_. Dunno why. Runner-up: _Rear Window_.  
And I’m gonna take some heat for this, but I think _North by Northwest_ was highly overrated. And _The Birds_ I found silly.

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