Just four years later, he was given a blank check to produce the confounding and highly influential sci-fi hit “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968), a decidedly non-narrative look at man’s intergalactic journeys through time and the solar system. Considered by many to be one of the funniest film ever made, it brought Kubrick nominations for writing, directing and producing, and earned Sellers a Best Actor bid. Strangelove” (1964), a pitch-black nuclear war satire that featured Peter Sellers in three of his best roles.
He hit the Oscar jackpot for the first time with “Dr. It was with the noir thriller “The Killing” (1956) and the antiwar drama “Paths of Glory” (1957) that his talent fully blossomed, and before long he was helming the epic “Spartacus” (1960) and an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov‘s controversial novel “Lolita” (1962), both of which brought him Golden Globe nominations for Best Director.
His first features, “Fear and Desire” (1953) and “Killer’s Kiss” (1955), were produced out of his own pocket on shoestring budgets. Let’s take a look back at all 13 of those films, ranked worst to best.īorn in 1928 in New York City, Kubrick got his start as a photographer for Look magazine before directing short documentaries. The notoriously meticulous Stanley Kubrick only completed 13 features before his death in 1999, but several of those titles remain groundbreaking classics, spanning a variety of genres and themes.
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