How many actors or actresses have won an acting Oscar in a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock?
One (Joan Fontaine, Best Actress, Suspicion)
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Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (22 October 1917 ? 15 December 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was a British-American actress. Fontaine began her career on the stage in 1935 and signed a contract with RKO Pictures that same year.
In 1941, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role in Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The following year, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941), making Fontaine the only actor to ever win an Academy Award in a film directed by Hitchcock.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
One
Charlie wrote:
One.
Joan Fontaine won Best Actress for Suspicion (1941).
Adam answered:
That sounds like kind of a trick question- I'm going to say zero.
Marian replied:
1 - Joan Fontaine
Sally said:
I believe that only one person won an Oscar, for acting in a motion picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and that was Joan Fontaine for the movie, "Suspicion" circa 1941. I could be wrong...
Here's Joan, wearing a popular hat of that day...
PS: Don't know about anyone else, but after food shopping today, I have retired to my chair where I intend to lodge indefinitely...or so.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Zero
Dale of Dry Diamond Springs, Norcali answered:
Just Joan Fontaine. Wow, what an unreal bunch of oversights and stiff jobs, for a truly great filmmaker and his actors and actresses. Looking at all the lists of nominations, it's hard to believe that the academy ignored so many grand performances. But, how many Hitchcock have passed the test of time and are more loved than most of the movies Hollywood has created? Not many!!!
Lois The Elder Of Oregon said:
Unbelievable! Joan Fontaine was the ONLY actor in a
Hitchcock film to win an oscar!?! Well, there WAS a lot more
talented competition back in them days. Of course, they
probably felt the same back in the days of Edwin Booth, too.
I tried but couldn't find a picture of my favorite
introduction to an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents",
where Alfred was standing next to a Saint Bernard doggie,
complete with rescue cask of brandy on his collar, and said
"Here I am with man's best friend. Oh, and a dog".
MAM wrote:
One ~Joan Fontaine (1917 - 2013) as Lina McLaidlaw, in the 1941 movie 'Suspicion', a shy spinster runs off with a charming playboy, who turns out to be penniless, a gambler, and dishonest in the extreme. She comes to suspect that he is also a murderer, and that he is attempting to kill her.
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