Alfred Hitchcock was known as the “Master of Suspense” and made some of the greatest movies of all time but just how well do you know his work? Find out with our fun free Alfred Hitchcock movie trivia questions and answers. Good luck!
Alfred Hitchcock Movie Trivia Questions
1. How many Hitchcock movies won the Academy Award for Best Picture?
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One – Rebecca in 1940.
2. Which Hitchcock movie was based on a 1942 short story by Cornell Woolrich called “It Had to Be Murder”?
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Rear Window.
3. Hitchcock’s psychological horror thriller Psycho was released in what year?
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1960.
4. Who stars as former police detective John “Scottie” Ferguson in the 1958 movie Vertigo?
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James Stewart.
5. How many Hitchcock movies did Cary Grant star in?
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Four – Suspicion, Notorious, To Catch a Thief, and North by Northwest.
6. Which of Hitchcock’s early movies is often cited as the first British “talkie”?
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Blackmail.
7. Which actress made her screen debut as Melanie Daniels in The Birds?
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Tippi Hedren.
8. Which was the first of the four movies Hitchcock and James Stewart made together?
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Rope.
9. What was Hitchcock’s final film, released in 1976?
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Family Plot.
10. Who starred as Michael Armstrong and Sarah Sherman in the 1966 political thriller Torn Curtain?
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Paul Newman and Julie Andrews.
11. Hitchcock is famous for his cameo appearances in his films. In which 1944 movie starring Tallulah Bankhead did he appear in the “before” and “after” pictures in a newspaper ad for “Reduco Obesity Slayer”.
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Lifeboat.
12. Which was Hitchcock’s first color movie?
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Rope.
13. Hitchcock’s movies The Birds, Jamaica Inn and Rebecca are all based on novels by which British author?
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Daphne du Maurier.
14. Who is the only person to win an Oscar for Best Actor or Actress for appearing in a Hitchcock movie?
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Joan Fontaine for her appearance in the 1941 thriller Suspicion.
15. Which was the first Hitchcock movie to star Grace Kelly?
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Dial M for Murder.
16. Which actress starred opposite Cary Grant and Claude Rains in the 1946 spy film noir Notorious?
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Ingrid Bergman.
17. Which of Hitchcock’s movies was nominated for the most Academy Awards?
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Rebecca. It was nominated for 11 awards, although it only won two.
18. Which 1955 movie, starring Cary Grant as a retired cat burglar, was the first Hitchcock movie to be filmed using the VistaVision format?
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To Catch a Thief.
19. Which 1943 psychological thriller was Hitchcock’s own personal favorite out of all his films?
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Shadow of a Doubt.
20. Who starred as Norman Bates in Hitchcock’s classic horror thriller of 1960, Psycho?
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Anthony Perkins.
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