Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most renowned and influential film directors. His career ushered in two key periods of cinema history – the arrival of sound and the introduction of colour. He perfected his art in both disciplines, reverting back to black and white when he felt the need, and mastering not only silent pictures but sound and colour ones too. Hitchcock, surprisingly, never won an Oscar for Best Director but he did lose out to John Ford and Billy Wilder twice so remained in good company. For many, however, he is the greatest director who ever lived. The following ten films are my picks for his best work. What are your favourite Hitchcock films?

ISABELLA ROSSELLINI’S TOP 10 FILMS
“Blue Velvet” actress and Lancome model Isabella Rossellini picks the films that have brought most joy into her heart. Listed here courtesy of Time Out, she explains each of her choices as she presents a diverse and eclectic mix of movies.
Incidentally, Isabella only lists her top 8 films, which appear below.

1. Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959)
She says: “I think Marilyn Monroe was never in sexier form than here in her third-last film playing the uber-zaftig Sugar Kane Kowalczyk. As wonderfully as Orry-Kelly made the gowns …

MIKE NEWELL’s TOP 10 FILMS
1. The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
2. Bad Day at Black Rock (J Sturges, 1955)
3. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)
4. La Grande Illusion (Renoir, 1937)
5. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer, 1949)
6. Lacombe Lucien (Malle, 1974)
7. The Leopard (Visconti, 1963)
8. My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)
9. Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
10. War and Peace (Vidor, 1956)