REBECCA was Alfred Hitchcock’s first American film. After winning a following here with THE 39 STEPS and THE LADY VANISHES, he established himself as a major Hollywood director with this picture. It is the only Hitchcock film to win the Oscar for Best Picture. | Turner Classic Movies: TCM

The Alfred Hitchcock Films Rebecca is a 1940 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was Hitchcock's first American project, and his first film under contract with producer David O. Selznick. The screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison, and adaptation by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan, were based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. The film stars Laurence Olivier as the brooding, aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter and J