STANLEY KUBRICK

STANLEY KUBRICK

Born – July 26, 1928

New York city, New York, U.S.

Died - March 7, 1999(aged 70)
Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England

Years active - 1951 - 1999

Spouse(s) - Toba Metz (1948–1951)
Ruth Sobotka(1954–1957)
Christian Harlan(1958-1999)

Children - Anya Kubrick (b.1959)
Vivian kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an influential and acclaimed Oscar winning American film director and producer considered among the greatest of the 20th Century. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and sometimes controversial films.

Stanley Kubrick was born at the Lying-In Hospital in Manhattan, the first of two children born to Jacques Leonard Kubrick (1901–1985) and his wife Gertrude (née Perveler; 1903–1985); his sister, Barbara, was born in 1934. Jacques Kubrick, whose parents were of Jewish AUstrian origin, was a doctor. At Stanley's birth, the Kubricks lived in an apartment at 2160 Clinton Avenue in The bronx.

Kubrick's father taught him chess at age twelve; the game remained a life-long obsession. When Stanley was thirteen years old, Jacques Kubrick bought him a Graflex camera camera, triggering Kubrick's fascination with still photography. He was also interested in jazz, attempting a brief career as a drummer.

Kubrick attended William Howard Taft high school 1941–1945. He was a poor student with a meager 67 grade average. On graduation from high school in 1945, when soldiers returning from the Second World war crowded colleges, his poor grades eliminated hopes of higher education. Later in life, Kubrick spoke disdainfully of his education and of education in general, maintaining that nothing about school interested him.

In high school, he was chosen official school photographer for a year. Eventually, he sought jobs on his own, and by graduation time had sold a photographic series to Look magazine in NYC. Kubrick supplemented his income playing "chess for quarters" in Washington Square park and in various manhattan chess clubs. He registered for night school at the City College to improve his grade-point average. He worked as a freelance photographer for Look, becoming an apprentice photographer in 1946, and later a full-time staff photographer.

During his Look magazine years, on May 29, 1948, Kubrick married Toba Metz (b. 1930) and they lived in Greenwich village, divorcing in 1951. It was then that Kubrick began frequenting film screenings at the Museum of Modern Art and in the cinemas of New York City. He was particularly inspired by the complex, fluid camera movement of Max Ophuls, whose films influenced Kubrick's later visual style.

Many early-period (1945–1950) photographs by Kubrick were published in the book "Drama and Shadows" (2005, Phaidon Press).

Filmography

• Documentary short films
• Day of flight (1951)
• Flying Padre (1951)
• The sea farers(1953)

Feature films

Year	Title	Awards
1953	Fear and desire
1955	Killer’s Kiss
1956	The Killing	Nominated for BAFTA Award: Best Film from any Source
1957	Paths of Glory	Nominated for BAFTA Award: Best Film from any Source
!960	Spartacus	Nominated for 6 Oscars, Won 4: Best Supporting Actor, Best Art-Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Editing, Best Original Score Nominated for 6 Golden Globes, Won 1: Best Drama Picture, Best Drama Actor, Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Supporting Actor Nominated for BAFTA Award: Best Film from any Source
1962	Lolita	Nominated for Oscar: Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated for 5 Golden Globes, Won 1: Most Promising Newcomer - Female, Best Drama Actor, Best Drama Actress, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor Nominated for BAFTA Award: Best Actor
1964	Dr. Strangelove/How I learned to stop Worrying and love The bomb	Nominated for 4 Oscars:Best Actor, Best Director, Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated for 6 BAFTA Awards, Won 3: Best British Art-Direction, Best British Film, Best Film from any Source, Best British Actor, Best British Screenplay, Best Foreign Actor
1968	2001: A Space Odyssey	Nominated for 4 Oscars, Won 1 : Best Special Effect, Best Director, Best Art-Direction, Best Original Screenplay Nominated for 4 BAFTA Awards, Won 3: Best Art-Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Track, Best Film
1971	A Clockwork Orange	Nominated for 4 Oscars: Best Director, Best Editing, Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated for 3 Golden Globes: Best Director, Best Drama Picture, Best Drama Actor Nominated for 7 BAFTA Awards: Best Art-Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Direction, Best Film, Best Film Editing, Best Screenplay, Best Sound Track
1975	Barry Lyndon	Nominated for 7 Oscars, Won 4: Best Art-Direction, Best Cinmatography, Best Costume Design, Best Original Score, Best Director, Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated for 2 Golden Globes: Best Director, Best Drama Picture Nominated for 5 BAFTA Awards, Won 2: Best Cinmatography, Best Direction, Best Art-Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Film
1980	The Shining
1987	Full Metal Jacket	Nominated for Oscar: Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated for Golden Globe: Best Supporting Actor Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards: Best Sound, Best Special Effect
1999	Eyes Wide Shut	Nominated for Golden Globe: Best Original Score