The film is the first in Hitchcock's "limited-setting" films, the others being "Rope" (1948), "Dial M for Murder" (1954), and "Rear Window" (1954). It is the only film Hitchcock made for 20th Century Fox. The film received three Oscar nominations for Best Director, Best Original Story and Best CinematographyBlack and White. Tallulah Bankhead won the New York Film Critics Circle award for best actress of the year. Though highly controversial in its time for what many interpreted as its sympathetic depiction of a German U-boat captain, "Lifeboat" is now viewed more favorably and has been listed by several modern critics as one of Hitchcock's more underrated films.