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2001: A Space Odyssey

1968 2h 40m Stanley Kubrick

2001: A Space Odyssey

★ 8.3 IMDb

Science-Fiction Mystery & Thriller

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

Writers Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke

Cast Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain

DP Geoffrey Unsworth

Music Richard Strauss

Essays and Criticism

On this film

2001: A Space Odyssey by Michael Koresky, Reverse Shot 2001: A Space Odyssey by Jonathan Rosenbaum MUBI Podcast: "2001: A Space Odyssey"—Stanley Kubrick Finds Heavenly Music on Vinyl by MUBI Podcast, MUBI Notebook Stanley Kubrick’s2001: An Existential Odyssey by Pedro Blas Gonzalez, Senses of Cinema

On Stanley Kubrick

Kubrick at Cluj by Alberto Castellano, FIPRESCI Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick Film, and the Uses of History by D.B. Jones, Screening the Past

In conversation with other films

Star Wars: Laura Poitras’ Astro Noise by Jerry White, Cinema Scope Personal time in alternative and time travel narrative: the cases of Groundhog Day, Twelve Monkeys and 2001: A Space Odyssey by Elisa Pezzotta, Alphaville

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Awards & Festivals

Won Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

Nominated Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film

Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Film

Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Sound

Nominated Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Nominated Academy Award for Best Director

Nominated Academy Award for Best Production Design

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