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Stanley Kubrick stands among film cameras outdoors, gesturing while directing on the set of Barry Lyndon, with crew members and trees in the background. Stanley Kubrick: photograph for Look magazine Stanley Kubrick: photograph for Look magazine Stanley Kubrick: photograph for Look magazine Virginia Leith and Paul Mazursky in an intense close-up scene outdoors from Stanley Kubrick's film Fear and Desire. Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax crouches in a trench during a battle scene in the World War I film Paths of Glory, with soldiers and sandbags around him. Kirk Douglas Kirk Douglas as Spartacus, wearing Roman armor and holding a sword aloft while riding a horse, with soldiers carrying spears behind him in the film Spartacus (1960). scene from Spartacus Sue Lyon as Lolita hula-hoops in the yard while James Mason as Humbert Humbert sits nearby reading, in a scene from the film Lolita directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: BFI - Sight and Sound - Stanley Kubrick, cinephile. Jun 29, 2026
Anniversary information added. Mar 03, 2026
Add new Web site: CNN - Why Stanley Kubrick was a design genius. Jan 02, 2026
Add new Web site: NPR - Stanley Kubrick. Nov 21, 2025
Anniversary information added. Jul 22, 2025
Deleted statement that O'Neal's character is the voice-over narrator in Barry Lyndon (1975). Jul 14, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Overnights - Profiling the life and work of Stanley Kubrick. Apr 21, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Drama on 4 - The Kubrick Test. Feb 07, 2025
Add new Web site: American Society of Cinematographers - Stanley Kubrick: Quest for Perfection. Dec 09, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 20, 2024
Cross-reference added. Feb 24, 2023
Noted several Oscar nominations and mentioned that he won an Oscar for special effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey. Apr 24, 2020
In the discussion of 2001, noted that a number of the technologies depicted in the film have since come into existence. Apr 25, 2018
Revised the characterization of The Shining's critical standing. Mar 28, 2018
Added cross-references. Feb 23, 2018
Add new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Biography of Stanley Kubrick. Oct 23, 2017
Add new Web site: The New York Times - Stanley Kubrick, Film Director With a Bleak Vision, Dies at 70. Oct 23, 2017
Added cross-references. Sep 29, 2017
Replaced photograph. Feb 03, 2017
Added photographs. Jun 03, 2015
Add new Web site: BFI Screenonline - Biography of Stanley Kubrick. May 25, 2015
Added photograph. Jun 11, 2014
Article thoroughly revised. Oct 07, 2013
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Stanley Kubrick. Apr 22, 2013
Add new Web site: Matinee Classics - Biography of Stanley Kubrick. Apr 22, 2013
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Stanley Kubrick. Dec 02, 2011
Media added. Apr 08, 2011
Article revised and updated. Jul 18, 2007
Media added. Jan 08, 2007
Added new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Stanley Kubrick. Sep 08, 2006
Article revised. May 25, 2001
Article revised. Sep 17, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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