Alfred Hitchcock receiving the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

[VaporizerBrothers]

i feel like im the only one from listverse here 

[anko30]

el debio recibir el oscar mucho anteees!

[bbaggins1298]

Now how does the filmmaker that most deserves an Oscar was nominated 5 TIMES BUT NEVER WON ONE!!

[vadimzdonutube]

academy members have no balls to give oscars to people who rightfully deserve them

[Addehful]

Outstanding speach Mr.Hitchcock

[AxonMoses]

SHould have won it for Rebecca

[TheAngelEyes7]

@AxonMoses no. but for spellbound

[techn0destruct0]

charming!

[searchanddiscover]

if only all the oscars awards played out like that...most of us don't care about all the people you want to thank. just get your award, say thank you and sit down so we can enjoy the movie clips and host jokes.

[clolohea16]

pesci and hitchcock - best oscar speeches ever.

[metalheart06]

Why can't imagine Robert Wise and Alfred Hitchcock walk whitout any music on the background

[ASRIBEIRIO]

Yeah, the presenter should have ended his bit by apologizing for the fuck up the academy committed over the years. Yeah, the 1959 best picture when to a shitty My Fair Lady ripoff, Gigi, - without even a nomination for Vertigo. The academy awards are a complete joke.

[OldHollywoodJunkie7]

@ASRIBEIRIO while i completely agree that it is ridiculous that they didn't nominate vertigo, as it is a very special movie to me, i still love gigi. not really my fair lady; france not england, they actually get together in the end, she is a young girl, etc. but i do not think gigi is best picture WINNING worthy. nominated, sure. not a win. i think it's because of minnelli and the music tho...

[88mphsss]

Come on goddamn it this thing should have been in the shape of a gold man this is embarrassing. I'd throw this thing in the trash or sell it on Pawn Stars

[indiejohn87]

But want he says exactly?

[megalosauru]

A legend is pretty much legendary in everything he did!!

[megalosauru]

Class act, sir!!

[holly03282008]

For shame, Academy, for continuing to bypass and overlook what SIR Alfred Hitchcock brought to the plate of cinema. This Irving G. Thalberg Award was the Academy's "token" to Mr. Hitchcock, and Mr. Hitchcock took it well. I can't say enough great things about Mr. Hitchcock; the Academy had many chances to do so, but overlooked this Filmmaking genius.

[j4unumber1]

KickAssWrestlingShow:

Actually, Kubrick did win ONE Oscar although it was not for directing. He won his only Oscar for Best Visual Effects for the film "2001: A Space Odyssey."

The fact that the incomparable Alfred Hitchcock never won an Oscar for Best Director is a shame. Stanley Kubrick never winning an Oscar for Best Director is a shame as well. Both of them were among the best directors in the history of cinema and definitely deserved this honor.

[Richard40171]

I thought Wise's introductory remarks were perfunctory and random. Even the phrase 1/3 of a century seems wrong; surely half a century would have been more precise even if one dated Hitch's career from 1925. Hitch was a critical favorite almost from the beginning. And why leave out VERTIGO, NORTH BY NORTHWEST? In this case I think the speech should have been far more reverential; you're talking about a man who created some of the most iconic moments in movie history.

[EmmaWatsonStar]

Makes me feel quite bad, but I love the music together with his run...

[Robin4ever1970]

i strongly admire that speech.

if i ever win an oscar, i'll just say "Thank you" and leave :)

[spider1g5]

that floor was never washed again!!!

[BleedingOne1]

I think he said "very much indeed" at the end.

[michaelsturn]

He did the right thing.You can pass over The Birds... maybe.. But there is no way that Psycho was not the best directed picture of that year. That picture took over the country and to this day is stil thought about by all of us who stil use a shower curtain.

Admit it. He knew.

[legoman769]

the shortets oscar speech ever

[Jackchiefs6717]

What a lad

[sonaliegh]

And this is why I take the Oscars with a grain of salt. This left over consolation crap they gave to Hitchcock knowing damn well that almost all of his films are revered and have been long remembered beyond a lot of the stuff they've honored. This man wrote the book on directing suspense! They're always pulling crap like this they made Spielberg and Scorsese wait decades for their Oscars and who knows how long David Fincher is going to wait in the cold until he gets his. Sigh.

[KickAssWrestlingShow]

How can anyone take these awards seriously? When the greatest director of all time never wins an award for best director, your awards are shit. Hitch did the right thing and stuck it to them for trying to give him a CONSOLATION prize. Screw the academy KUBRICK never got one either. How these awards are still credible today is beyond me.

[miley231295]

LMAO

[therathores]

he should have got oscars for his movies not such memorial award. why this was presented this time. Academy always forgets people life him and others.

[Minimejer05]

godly.

[Gacoi]

He deserved more than that left-over shit.

[WaldronicTomotron]

Hitchcock was nominated a staggering 5 times for 'Best Director', his only ever win was for his official American film "Rebecca" which was awarded to the producer Selznick instead ofcourse.

I just think Hitch was so tired of seeing his own masterful creations be constantly overlooked for more 'Academy friendly topic films'.

I think his 'acceptance speech' is not only daringly amusing and representative of his quick witted celebrity self, but a stand testament to simply not caring for it.

[iknowrosey]

What's with that? He was insulted? He didn't care? Sorry, but that is rude of him to not say more, it's a prestigious award.

[lucasaiosa]

@iknowrosey Hitchcock never recieved an Oscar for Best Director, in 6 nominations, although he was considered favourite in many of them. He used to have a big grievance of the Academy, that's why he reacted like this.

[WaldronicTomotron]

@lucasaiosa Five, Rebecca, Lifeboat, Spellbound, Rear Window and Pyscho. The genius filmmaker did though win the best award that could be bestowed to anyone in the film industry, an AFI Life Achievement award on the year of his death...

[Poleschs]

@lucasaiosa Stanley Kubrick never received an Oscar for Best Director either, that sort of discredit the entire enterprise of the Oscars for me.

[85JWF]

@iknowrosey

Maybe that was just him. Laconic.

[konway87]

I think Gregory Peck has a huge role in giving Irving Thalberg Award to Hitchcock. Peck was the President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1967 to 1970.

[fourtoedsloth]

Dammit! I was gonna do that if I ever won an oscar...

[progressivas]

He actually said : "Fuck you... very much indeed."

[robbiejohnson2001]

Best speech ever

[ViperRob42]

if all u gozta say is Ty then it seems more like a WHATEVRZ

[fallflies]

well deserved

[MariieeWasoski]

The best!! :D

[eaguayo001]

He's so adorable!

[SpringSkies]

WHAT DID HE SAY AFTER, "Thank You." ?!

The world may never know...

[bonzoforlife]

@SpringSkies he said "very much indeed"

[cobolsaurus]

I'm a die hard fan of Hitchcock. I think there hasn't been and will never be a better director. But I'm reading a bio about him and it turns out he was a real jackass with his actors. He made poor Tippi Hedren absolutely miserable because she didn't abide with his sexual advances...

[lasuriuss]

@cobolsaurus Well,Hitchcock said something close to:"The actors are not livestock,but we should use them as a livestock!"

Besides that - one of the titans of cinema.

[Paint]

He didn't want that. HE WANTED AN OSCAR YOU FOOLS!

[Libertinus79]

inspiring

[FishRabies]

This is what acceptance speeches should be like.

[ofotcnest]

He did care about it, its an extremeley great Honour, he just didnt want to stand there and give a speech. At the end of the day, Thank you is all you should be saying when you win an award, if you want to thank others you can thank them urself.

[dovestones]

HAHA, good old Hitch. He created more great movies in his career than a thousand phoney Oscar awards could honour.

[RolandRhodes1]

Hitchcock was a great director . He once said he was scared of people. Not everybody likes huge crowds and standing in front of people. I think Hitchcockwas one of them.

[Paperbagman555]

He so deserved a nice skinny man holding i don't no what rather than some random head of a guy nobody cares about....

[DFenomenal1]

What he said: "Thank you"

What he meant: "Where's my Best Director Oscar you pricks!"

[JustJokingYou]

@DFenomenal1 I think its stupid that he didnt win any other awards just because he was a jew. Religion has NOTHING to do with it.

[TheTerryE]

@JustJokingYou Are you a crazy? He was a Roman Catholic.

[savannah92able]

I don't know why, but I find this very amusing. I think it has to do with the music, the tall doors, Hitchock looking extremely short walking in through the doors, the way he walked in, his facial expression, and most of all his speech and tone. Even though I haven't watched all his movies, I consider him an amazing director that has paved a way whether people want to admit it or not.

[theakstonsrock]

Thankyou indeed.

[arcaperdida]

Gracias a ti Hitchcock por tus peliculas de suspensos, tù eres el mentor del genero!!! no hay premio que se compare con tu genialidad!!!

[captainkill1]

@dancingdiplodocus : he was class. but yeah your right.

[MaxlsGay]

When I win my first Oscar, I have to one up him and say "Thanks."

[mastermovies10000]

whahahhaa XDXDXD

[skittlesareyum48]

it was so short because he was never nominated before even though best picture multiple times have gone t omovies that were clearlyy not as good as his - and not eve nbest picture but hsi films were almsot NEVER recognized for any nomination at the awards - and the one he won that for he honestly didnt think was his best movie and he should have won for some other movies not that one

[MyUsername156]

1.49 he looked like a midget when he walked out because those doors are so big

[BrightProductions]

Greatest acceptance speech yet at the academy

[hrlaser]

@BrightProductions

It's the opinion of many film historians, that Hitchcock's "Thank You" was really his way of saying "F You", for AMPAS never having given him an Oscar for Best Director or Best Picture..

He also won the AFI's Lifetime Achievement award in 1979.. do a search for "Hitchcock Lifetime Achievement" and you'll find the video here.. he gave a much longer acceptance speech, seated at their banquet.. my sense is that he WAS truly Thankful to the AFI..

[Psifonian2]

@hrlaser He won Best Picture in 1940 for "Rebecca."

[griffin324]

@Psifonian2 But, he didn't win. Selznick was the producer, so he won the Oscar.

[dovestones]

Hopefully people accepting Oscars this year will take a leaf out of Hitchcocks book and keep it brief.

[bobzilla211]

you'd hope so but nobody ever does. he's probably made the best acceptance speech in history.

[John27346]

William Holden said "Thank you" also

[choppingbokchoy]

he so deserved it. the guy is an absolute legend- love all his movies!

[danthebard]

complete bullshit that kubrick never got one

maybe one day a few years from now tarantino could win one :3

[pro2101]

actually hitchcock is slightly better than kubrick and a lot better than tarantino(who i admire as well but he doesnt hold a candle to these directors)

[dunklefester]

Kubrick won for Best Visual Effects in 1968 for 2001: A Space Odyssey. He is an Oscar winner.

[alwayswinit4real]

Its not the same as best director though.

And when you consider the fantastic movies kubrick and hitchcock made, you realise how big of a snub it was.

[MilwaukeeIrishJoe]

How he didn't win the Best Director Oscar for Psycho is beyond me.

[kutuluu]

Hitch was clearly not too impressed with that. It wasn't an oscar so no wonder. Oscars don't have much relevance in my view since they snubbed so many great directors like Hitchcock, Kubrick and Leone.

[pro2101]

kutuluu

 let us not forget fellini and kurosawa

[TrevorKingKwong]

it's a tragedy if Kubrick never got one of these.

[Unus1Mundus]

Kubrick got one Oscar for the special effects he designed for 2001 A Space Odyssey, but I know what you mean, he should have won at least 5 Oscars for best director...

[Neptunesque]

'The `Master' indeed.

Nothing could have been greater than to have been in an auidence honoring Mr. Hitchcock with a standing ovation.

Meeting him would have been something else: I admit I'd be too intimidated.

[AlannTH]

I have to say I love the Oscars but sometimes the Oscar voters screw up and looking at the body of work Hitchcock made and the impact to cinema and society and he didnt pick up an award is shocking. What ever way you look at it these honoury awards are second rate to the real deal of winning for Director or best picture. His films are masterworks that are watched and loved and studied and analysed. I think in the end Oscar history shows that sometimes they get it badly wrong.

[PirateKing86]

That's why the Oscars are crap. The same thing happened to Kubrick.

[TMTGeneralDeath]

F.U

[Sqrchybyk]

Well, you know - with each famous and important award (in all branches) come "the great snubs". The more prestigous the award is, the biggest snubs become ;-) Nobel Prize for example - Leo Tolstoj didn't get it, neither did Gandhi. Or, returning to films, Palme d'Or - Bergman didn't get any, neither did Tarkovsky. Such things are inevitable.

[VascoRosa]

After "Thank you" what does he say?

[Gumbyrearygood]

@VascoRosa "Very much, indeed."

[Presgipper]

According to Donald Spoto's book, Hitch was hurt and insensed at never having won and being given an honorary (and not even an Oscar statuette at that), so he purposely kept his comments to 'thank you'.

[melollylolly]

truly a legend

[lua03]

well done!!

[grtas1]

He should have won 20 oscars - the guy changed cinema.

[TwisterVision5]

Why the fuck didn't Hitch win for "Psycho"?

[cskor]

Where is the speech?

[perfectajo]

His thank you was his speech.

[srh1son]

What a pimp. Didn't really have to say anything. Everybody knows he's the best.

[christopherhoughton1]

The filmmakers who never won an Oscar for best direction: Hitch, Kubrick, Orson Welles, Robert Altman, Howard Hawks, Sidney Lumet, Bogdanovich (I'll leave out the foreign filmmakers because the Oscars are for English-language films for the most part, even though guys like Fellini and Kurosawa probably deserved it more than the people I just mentioned)... it's an esteemed group.

[frtw4428]

Let's also not forget: Stanley Kramer, Arthur Penn, Irving Kirschner, Stuart Rosenberg, Michael Apted, Costa-Gavras, Hector Babenco, and Alan Parker. I know there are many others. But these aforementioned names are directors who consistently make great films, yet have been "sunbbed" by the Academy. Such a shame! Especially since it's other directors who vote for the Best Director Oscar.

[smichelle65]

i hate that they trivialized his film career by having the orchestra play the theme from his tv show, when they could have picked any of the legendary scores from one of his films.

[TMTGeneralDeath]

i know more who are more fat

[futureshocker]

Alfred Hitchcock is a legend period

[richmond436]

When he walks to that music, it makes him look even fatter

[redegel1985]

HAHAHA! oh my god, I was thinking the SAME exact thing when I first saw this lol... was this the shortest oscar speech or was Joe Pesci's???

[kangaroosbraun]

what actual calendar year was this? the set is weird

[prokoscho]

1968. For whatever reason, the set was designed after a drawing room of Louis XIV. Outside of some of the nominees it was not a terribly in-touch year for the Oscars (and, adding to the incongruity of the ornate set design, MLK had been assassinated only six days prior).

[selma1930]

the oscars were actually postponed due to MLK assination of 4/4/68.

the set was out of tune that year consider the groundbreaking movies nominated

[billythehick]

I've known for ages that he just said "thank you" and walked off. never knew that the music cut him off saying something else. now i'm more confounded than ever.

[GEVMM]

Some 50 years too late... Can't believe he didn't win for Rear Window or Vertigo...

Shame on you, Academy, shame on you...

[grandafar]

Il miglio regista di tutti i tempi!!! Grazie a te

Hitchcock

[xaxie1]

he is rather petit

[Guilherme0212]

thank you hitchcock

[thittatto]

i can't believe this chubby guy once existed in our planet. He's a legend

[konway87]

It must be noted that Gregory Peck was the President of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1967 to 1970. Hitchcock directed Gregory Peck in 2 films - Spellbound and The Paradine Case. He may have an important role in giving Irving Thalberg Award to Alfred Hitchcock.

[Haflor]

r u saying he didn't deserve it?

[LTCProduction]

'Thank you".

Brilliant

[thebassetthound]

If you've ever watch episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" they are always intro'd and outro'd by Alfred Hitchcock...and usually have a very black comedic approach.

I think this was a very fitting 'thumbed nose' to the Academy!

Viva la Hitchcock!

[SteVin89]

Robert Wise and Alfred Hitchcock. Two awesome filmmakers.

[Allancarlostani]

Alfred Hitchcock was a great master of cinema.

[mwbaker1979]

Bob Hope

[OJSFIlms]

bob hope

[ashburn247]

of course he is a man of few words. a thank you is all you really need. i love how the band was ready for a short speech.

[dialF4flipit]

No-one now can beat the shortest speech in the oscars.

[panterist]

i dont get it, hitchcock wanted a oscar so much and by the time he received an Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award all he got to say is "thank you"?!

[ashleyg325]

Personally it is a bit disrespectful to me that they only gave him an Honorary one. He probably felt a bit snubbed, even if he did have so many nominations. I think his "thank you" was meant to be humorous, not snobbish

[dimitrismihas]

Hitchcock is not the only one.

Joe Pesci gave the same acceptance speech when he won for Goodfellas in 1991.

[dialF4flipit]

He gave a small speech because he thought he wouldn't win.

[BillyAlabama]

Note that this wasn't an award for which several people were nominated. This is an honorary award.

[Titanium640]

You are thinking of Joe Pesci when he won for best supporting actor for 'Good Fellas' when he did just that.

[AGentertainment]

What did he say after thank you? Fuck Howard Houdini?

[shteeeeeven12345]

i think he said "very much indeed" at the end of his speech

[lonelygnome1]

Hitchcock ftw.

[dimitrismihas]

what did he say after "thank you" ?

[SGAK]

"very much indeed"

... I think.

[somenglishguy]

I Think He Said "Indeed"

[zeldamania]

indeed

[TMTGeneralDeath]

indeed'

[klausweasley]

Best speech ever!

[nwaamw]

The Master!

[UFOSPACE1999]

backstory:

Alfred been working in the film industry for many years, and the ACADEMY never should Alfred any love. YES, Rebecca his film won best picture, but Alfred never won for best director. NOW over at the AFI when he won lifetime award, he did give a speech. HE thanked his cook, writer, editor, and mother of his child, ALMA. The academy never got it right with Alfred Hitchcock.

[TulseLuper]

Good for him.

[DavidMagno1986]

What a genius... and what a bad audience who ovation him so little

[UFOSPACE1999]

A lil history before U ALL get onto Hitch's back. Alfred knows he should of won for his great work years ago. HE never liked the academy for their past actions. He felt like they truly snub'd him. AND this was his way of saying fuck u. with a lil thank you. NOW when he got the AFI award that meant more to him, and thank'ed everyone, including his beloved wife Alma., how did he put it, his cook, wife, editor, and so on.

[griffin324]

Typical Hitchcock... being snubbed all those times must have depleted his speech ideas.

[proverbialbucket]

Classic.

[vicandsar09]

I love this dude! "Thank you" Why can't all oscar speeches be this way! :)

[geisler78]

2nd

[tarahloveshentai]

What did he also say?

Was it, "Good Evening"?

[jasonmorales1106]

Best speech ever! "Thank You."