In his sixty year career, Alfred Hitchcock established himself as one of the most important cultural figures of the 20th century. Robert Walker and Farley Granger in Strangers on a Train   Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly in Rear Window   Grace Kelly, publicity photo for Rear Window Vertigo movie poster   With Kim Novak on the set of Vertigo   Cary Grant, North by Northwest   Eva Marie Saint, North by Northwest   Hitchcock at Mount Rushmore   Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren on the set of Marnie   Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor in The Birds   Hitchcock never won an Academy Award but did receive the Academy's Lifetime Achievement award in 1968