Filmography and awards of Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick directed 13 feature films and three short documentaries over the course of his career, from Day of the Fight in 1951 to Eyes Wide Shut in 1999. Many of Kubrick's films were nominated for Academy Awards or Golden Globes, but his only personal win of an Academy Award was for his work as director of special effects on 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Filmography

The 2001 film A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, directed by Steven Spielberg, is dedicated to Kubrick. Kubrick originally had rights to the source material, provided the concept for the film, and did much of the groundwork preparation for it, including having supervised both story treatments and the conceptual art that were used in the final project. Spielberg made efforts to be faithful to Kubrick's visual concept for the film.

Two scholarly books that are comparative critical studies of Kubrick's work discuss A.I. and even list it in their filmography.^[1][2] A book on the making of the film with a foreword by Spielberg also treats the film throughout as effectively a collaboration between Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg.^[3] Other scholarly treatments of Kubrick largely ignore the film.^[4]

Awards and nominations

All of Stanley Kubrick's films from Paths of Glory till the end of his career, except for The Shining, were nominated for Academy Awards or Golden Globe Awards, in various categories. 2001: A Space Odyssey received numerous technical awards, including a BAFTA award for cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth and an Academy Award for best visual effects, which Kubrick (as director of special effects on the film) received. This was Kubrick's only personal Academy Award win among 13 nominations. Nominations for his films were mostly in the areas of cinematography, art design, screenwriting, and music. Only four of his films were nominated for either an Academy Award or Golden Globe Award for their acting performances: Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, and A Clockwork Orange.

Personal awards for Kubrick, limited to Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA), and Saturns, are as follows:

Kubrick received two awards from major film festivals: Best Director from the Locarno International Film Festival in 1959 for Killer's Kiss, and Filmcritica Bastone Bianco Award at the Venice Film Festival in 1999 for Eyes Wide Shut. He also was nominated for the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival in 1962 for Lolita. The Venice Film Festival awarded him the Career Golden Lion in 1997. He received the D.W. Griffith Lifetime Achievement Award from the Directors Guild of America, and another life-achievement award from the Director's Guild of Great Britain. Posthumously, the Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival awarded him the Honorary Grand Prize for life achievement in 2008. He also received the Hugo Award three times for his work in science fiction.^[5]

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