2001: A Space Odyssey
| Released: | April 6, 1968 |
| Director: | Stanley Kubrick |
| Producer: | Stanley Kubrick |
| Studio: | MGM Pictures |
| Cast: | Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi |
| Length: | 141 minutes |
2001: A Space Odyssey Overview
Stanley Kubrick's dazzling, Academy Award-winning achievement (Special Visual Effects) is an allegorical puzzle on the evolution of man and a compelling drama of man vs. machine. Featuring a stunning meld of music and motion, the film was also Oscar nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay. Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first visits the prehistoric age-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality.