Alfred Hitchcock filmography for Best Director at the Academy Awards. Three years later he directed horror film "The Birds" starring Tippi Hedren. The following year he reunited with Hedren on the film "Marnie" which also starred Sean Connery. In recognition of his career, Hitchcock garnered the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Fellowship Award, the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Directors Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. He received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame to acknowledge his film and television achievements. In
Hitchcock & Herrmann Hitchcock & Herrmann Hitchcock & Herrmann is a play written by David Knijnenburg which examines the relationship between film director Alfred Hitchcock and musical composer Bernard Herrmann. By combining a talent for self-promotion and producing films that were popular, Alfred Hitchcock became one of the greatest directors of motion pictures. No less of a talent in the world of musical composition, Bernard Herrmann was a child prodigy who had worked with Orson Welles before finding a collaboration with Hitchcock on "The Trouble with Harry", ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"", "The Wrong Man", "North by Northwest", "Vertigo", ""Psycho"", "The Birds"