Alfred Hitchcock tops poll of best Oscar losers
British director Alfred Hitchcock is the best film-maker never to have been handed an Oscar, according to a poll of British movie viewers released a day before the 2005 nominations come out.
Hitchcock was nominated as best director at the Academy Awards six times between 1941 and 1961 for classic thrillers like "Psycho" and "Rear Window", but failed to win a single one.
In a poll of deserving non-Oscar winning directors by British viewers of cable film channel Turner Classic Movies, Hitchcock edged out Martin Scorsese and the late Stanley Kubrick.
Scorsese, who has been nominated five times since 1981, is widely expected to be a favourite for this year's directing Oscar for Howard Hughes biopic "The Aviator".
In a similar list of actors who have never won, US star Samuel L. Jackson, who received a nomination for 1994's "Pulp Fiction", edged out Steve McQueen for the top spot.
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