Oscar discusses America's relationship with the UK and how European talent influenced the growing 'film noir' genre in America. You'll learn how, when soldiers returned from the Second World War, movie attendance started to decline and art house theatres sprung up, showing foreign imports. As a result, Britain slowly built its film industry into one that rivalled Hollywood, causing the producers who created the Academy to pull their funding for the Awards ceremony.

This great decline in international relations starts with Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca and ends with Laurence Olivier's Hamlet.