Kubrick filming
Barry Lyndon in 1975
Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999)
[1] directed thirteen
feature films and three short
documentaries over the course of his career. His work as a director, spanning diverse genres,
[2] is
widely regarded as extremely influential .
[3]
[4]
[5]
Kubrick made his directorial debut in 1951 with the documentary short
Day of the Fight , followed by
Flying Padre later that year. In 1953, he directed his first feature film,
Fear and Desire .
[6] The
anti-war allegory's themes reappeared in his later films.
[7]
[8] His next works were the
film noir pictures
Killer's Kiss (1955) and
The Killing (1956).
[9]
[10] Critic
Roger Ebert praised The Killing and retrospectively called it Kubrick's "first mature feature".
[9] Kubrick then directed two
Hollywood films starring
Kirk Douglas :
Paths of Glory (1957) and
Spartacus (1960).
[11]
[12] The latter won the
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama .
[13] His next film was
Lolita (1962), an adaptation of
Vladimir Nabokov 's
novel of the same name .
[14] It was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay .
[15] His 1964 film, the
Cold War satire
Dr. Strangelove featuring
Peter Sellers and
George C. Scott ,
[16] received the
BAFTA Award for Best Film .
[17] Along with The Killing , it remains the highest rated film directed by Kubrick according to
Rotten Tomatoes .
In 1968, Kubrick directed the space epic
2001: A Space Odyssey . Now widely regarded as among the
most influential films ever made ,
[18] 2001 garnered Kubrick his only personal
Academy Award for his work as director of special effects.
[19] His next project, the dystopian
A Clockwork Orange (1971), was an initially
X-rated adaptation of
Anthony Burgess '
1962 novella .
[20]
[21]
[22] After reports of crimes inspired by the film's depiction of "ultra-violence", Kubrick had it withdrawn from distribution in the United Kingdom.
[21] Kubrick then directed the period piece
Barry Lyndon (1975), in a departure from his two previous futuristic films.
[23] It did not perform well commercially and received mixed reviews, but won four Oscars at the
48th Academy Awards .
[24]
[25] In 1980, Kubrick adapted a
Stephen King novel into
The Shining , starring
Jack Nicholson and
Shelley Duvall .
[26] Although Kubrick was nominated for a
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director,
[27] The Shining is now widely regarded as one of the greatest horror films ever made.
[26]
[28]
[29] Seven years later, he released the
Vietnam War film
Full Metal Jacket .
[30] It remains the highest rated of Kubrick's later films according to Rotten Tomatoes and
Metacritic . In the early 1990s, Kubrick abandoned
his plans to direct a
Holocaust film titled The Aryan Papers . He was hesitant to compete with
Steven Spielberg 's
Schindler's List and had become "profoundly depressed" after working extensively on the project.
[2]
[31] His final film, the erotic thriller
Eyes Wide Shut starring
Tom Cruise and
Nicole Kidman , was released posthumously in 1999.
[32] An unfinished project that Kubrick referred to as Pinocchio was completed by Spielberg as
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001).
[33]
[34]
In 1997, the
Venice Film Festival awarded Kubrick the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. That same year, he received a
Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award , then called the D.W. Griffith Award.
[35]
[36] In 1999, the
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) presented Kubrick with a
Britannia Award .
[37] After his death, BAFTA renamed the award in his honor: "The Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film".
[38] He was posthumously awarded a
BAFTA Fellowship in 2000.
[39]
Film
Poster for
Paths of Glory (1957)
Poster for
Lolita (1962)
Poster for
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Documentary shorts
Other
Television
In 1952, sounds, effects, and music brought the production of Fear and Desire over budget to around $53,000, and had to be bailed out by producer
Richard de Rochemont , on condition that he work as a second unit director
[66]
[67] on de Rochemont's production of a
James Agee -written
Norman Lloyd -co-directed
[68]
[69] five-part biographic series about
Abraham Lincoln for the educational TV series
Omnibus , filmed on location in
Hodgenville, Kentucky ,
[71] starring
Royal Dano and
Joanne Woodward .
[62]
[72]
Critical response
See also
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