CONTRIBUTED BY JAKE THOMPSON
A director is vital to the making of a movie. The director is responsible for getting the best possible performances from the actors. The director is responsible for bringing his/her vision to life through his/her collaborations with the director of photography, writer(s), production designer, makeup designer, costume designer, and all of the other departments (unless he/she is simply a work-for-hire director brought in by the producers to just direct the actors, but even in that scenario a good director should still have some kind of vision for the film). Every now and then, a director that turns in an extraordinary work gets snubbed by the Academy on the day the nominations are announced. It didn’t take me very long to find five major snubs.
One major snub is Alfred Hitchcock for 1958’s Vertigo. Hitchcock’s tale of tragic love and 
extreme obsession became one of the…
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