Janet Leigh
Psycho
(1960)
Joseph Stefano (screenplay), Robert Bloch (novel)
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 8 nominations.
Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.
The Fog
(1980)
John Carpenter, Debra Hill
1 win & 2 nominations.
As the centennial of the small town of Antonio Bay, California approaches, paranormal activity begins to occur at midnight. 100 years ago, the wealthy leper Blake bought the clipper ship Elizabeth Dane and sailed with his people to form a leper colony. However, while sailing through a thick fog, they were deliberately misguided by a campfire onshore, steering the course of the ship toward the light and crashing it against the rocks. While the town's residents prepare to celebrate, the victims of this heinous crime that the town's founders committed rise from the sea to claim retribution. Under cover of the ominous glowing fog, they carry out their vicious attacks, searching for what is rightly theirs.
The Manchurian Candidate
(1962)
Richard Condon (based upon a novel by), George Axelrod (screenplay)
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 6 nominations.
A former Korean War POW is brainwashed by Communists into becoming a political assassin. But another former prisoner may know how to save him.