Hitchcock or Kubrick, Who Deserves an Oscar More?
Betcha didn't know neither one of them won one...
I was checking out Kris Tapley's review of The Incredible Hulk since everyone seems to be batting it around as if it was passed down by God and will be added to the right wing's political strategy, and while on his site (InContention.com) I noticed a little poll he was running asking, "Which Oscarless director deserves it more? Alfred Hitchcock or Stanley Kubrick?" Quickly making my decision I clicked on Hitch's name and made my voice heard. The results popped up and to my surprise after 116 votes my 117th vote was the one that broke a tie between the two helmers (sorta cool).
Considering Tapley's site is probably read by more industry folks than casual moviegoers I thought it was interesting that such a question could be so close. I don't say this thinking Hitch is the obvious choice, but because I assumed there would be more like minded thinking people, but it appears this isn't an easy question at all.
Hitchcock was nominated for five Oscars, all for Best Director. They are for Psycho, Read Window, Spellbound, Lifeboat and Rebecca. Of course, he didn't win and is yet to receive a posthumous honorary award. As for Kubrick he was nominated for Best Director four times and Best Writing five times. On top of that Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange, 2001 and Dr. Strangelove were all nominated for Best Picture. It should be mentioned that 2001 did win an Oscar for Best Effects, and while Kubrick is credited as Special Photographic Effects Designer/Director you can see on IMDb's page right here that he is sharing that award with a slew of people so I don't think it counts just as much as I don't think it really would have counted if he had won a shared Writing Oscar. Kubrick and Hitchcock were visionary directors first and foremost and that is pretty much the discussion that is on the table here.
Both Hitchcock and Kubrick brought so much to the world of filmmaking and it is strange to think neither one of them ever took home the golden hardware. Kubrick lived to be 70-years-old with his last film being Eyes Wide Shut (not counting his uncredited work on A.I.) and Hitch passed away at the age of 80 with his last film being the 1976 comedy/thriller Family Plot.
It was an interesting quesiton Tapley posed and I never thought people would be so split down the middle on it. I wonder,
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