Title: North by Northwest
Runtime: 131 Min
Year: 1959
Genres: Adventure - Drama - Mystery
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Josephine Hutchinson, Philip Ober, Adam Williams, Edward Platt, Robert Ellenstein
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
PLOT
New York advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by Philip Vandamm (James Mason), who believe Thornhill is CIA agent George Kaplan. Thornhill escapes, but must find Kaplan in order to clear himself of a murder it is believed he committed. Following Kaplan to Chicago as a fugitive from justice, Thornhill is helped by beautiful Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint). In Chicago, she delivers a message to Kaplan that almost costs Thornhill his life when he is chased across a cornfield by a crop-dusting plane. When he survives, he slowly decides to get to the bottom of all this in order to survive this whole mess that he was dragged into.
Country: U.S.A.
Language: English
Writers: Ernest Lehman
Awards:
1960- Academy Awards, USA (Oscar)
-Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color - William A. Horning, Robert F. Boyle, Merrill Pye, Henry Grace & Frank R. McKelvy (NOMINATED)
-Best Film Editing George Tomasini (NOMINATED)
-Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen Ernest Lehman (NOMINATED)
2001- DVD Exclusive Awards (Video Premiere Award)
-Best DVD Original Retrospective Documentary/Featurette - Peter Fitzgerald For Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest' (2000) (V). (NOMINATED)
1960- David di Donatello Awards (David)
-Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero) - Cary Grant (WON)
1960- Directors Guild of America, USA (DGA Award)
-Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures - Alfred Hitchcock (NOMINATED)
1960- Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Edgar)
-Best Motion Picture - Ernest Lehman (WON)
1960- Laurel Awards (Golden Laurel)
-Top Action Drama (WON)
1959- National Board of Review, USA (NBR Award)
-Top Ten Films (WON)
1995- National Film Preservation Board, USA (National Film Registry)
-North by Northwest (WON)
1959- San Sebastián International Film Festival (Silver Seashell)
-Alfred Hitchcock (WON)
2009- Satellite Awards (Satellite Award)
-Best Classic DVD 50th Anniversary Edition (WON)
1960- Writers Guild of America, USA (WGA Award (Screen))
-Best Written American Comedy - Ernest Lehman (NOMINATED)
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