Hitchcock Chronology: American Film Institute Life Achievement Award
Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to American Film Institute Life Achievement Award...
1978
October
- 19th - The American Film Institute's Board of Trustees announce that Hitchcock will the 1979 recipient of the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award.[1]
1979
March
- 7th - Hitchcock receives the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award at a star-studded ceremony hosted by Ingrid Bergman. Due to concerns about his health, Hitchcock pre-records his acceptance speech in the afternoon and this footage is spliced together with the evening's speech into the final TV broadcast version.[2]
May
- 8th - Hitchcock's old friend Victor Saville, who had recently attended the director's AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, dies. Several sources regard Saville's death as a contributing factor to Hitchcock deciding to abandon any attempt to make The Short Night and to shut down his bungalow office at Universal.[3]
References
- ↑ American Film (1978) - AFI news
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, 739
- ↑ Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, pages 742-43
