Nominations (11):
Best Picture*
Best Director
Best Actor - Laurence Olivier
Best Actress - Joan Fontaine
Best Supporting Actress - Judith Anderson
Best Writing, Screenplay
Best Art Direction, Black-and-White
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White*
Best Film Editing
Best Music, Original Score
Best Special Effects

Here it is. The one Hitchcock film to ever walk away with the Best Picture Oscar: "Rebecca." It racked up 11 nominations. And yet, it would produce the first of many Best Director losses throughout his career. John Ford would keep him from it this time, winning for "The Grapes of Wrath." Three of Hitchcock's actors would be recognized, though none would win. Joan Fontaine would wait a year for her Oscar, while Laurence Olivier would actually lose to future Hitchcock leading man James Stewart in "The Philadelphia Story" -- the film that also kept "Rebecca" from the adapted screenplay prize. Judith Anderson's creepy Mrs. Danvers was passed over, too. Nearly all below-the-line elements would fall to various other films ("The Thief of Bagdad," "Pinocchio" and "Pride and Prejudice" among them), leaving only the black-and-white cinematography to grab a statue alongside the Best Picture prize. Nevertheless, it was a big year for Hitchcock at the Oscars with this and "Foreign Correspondent," and "Rebecca" seemed to mark a certain shift to a new aesthetic for the director, one that would define him.

*Denotes win