Although Stanley Kubrick was well respected in his time, he did not win as much Oscars as he would probably think. Of course, he got the best nominee director for "Dr. Strigelove", "2001: Space Odyssey", "Orange Clocks" and "Barry Lindon", but he did not win any of them. One of his most respected films, "Glitter", didn't get any Oscar nodes at all. (The Razi Awards, on the other hand, were happy to have "honored" the movie, What does more about the risks than a horror classic of Kubrick.)

Kubrick's only Oscar win was for the best special visual effects for his 1968 scientific film, "2001: Space Odyssey". The film competed against the Zebra Ice Station, a spy thriller starring Rock Hudson, who was released for mixed reviews and box office performance. If the Academy had any outcry against Kubrick, because some fans of his suspect, they still couldn't deny that the "Space Odyssey" deserved the victory here; Even more than half a century later, the film looks fantastic.

What must seal the film's victory in this category was the Sequence of the Starwelles in the last act, where David (Cyrus Dulea) is a nine -minute string of tripoli lights. To complete this scene, Kubrick is 2001 collaborator Douglas Trajbel had to invent a special machine "Scan-scan"which will later be used in shows such as "Doctor" and "Star Trek". With this visually stunning sequence, there was simply no way of avoiding the film in this category.

"2001" was also nominated for the best original scenario, but this time he lost it to Mel Brooks's "producers". I think this decision is quite understandable, given how Kubrick's dialogue film is compared to "producers", but not everyone agreed. Critic Giles M. Fouls wrote in the consequences of the ceremony"I can think of just one comprehensive travesty-a selection of" producers "as the best original scenario. It was a very funny sketch, but clumsyly adapted to his medium. "

Meanwhile, Kubrick lost his best race in the year on Carroll Reed, who won for Oliver! " (The musical drama of the British period based on the novel by Charles Dickens, "Oliver Twist"). "Oliver!" It also won the best picture that year, the category "2001" was excluded from full. In retrospect, this seems like an obvious wrong choice, given the wider "2001: Space Odyssey" remembers today. But even at that time, some critics seemed quite disappointed with this outcome. Like the Ilesiles M. Fouls wrote in an article After the ceremony:

"Perhaps the worst blow from my point of view, was the choice of Carol Reed as the best director. Reid couldn't be guilty of his job, which was great, but he did not approach Kubrick's stunning inventiveness in "2001". (...) This is how I swear not to award the Academy Awards another thought or look at them again, sometimes.

However, Kubrick himself never cared about the prizes. When he won his Oscar for visual effects in "2001", he was not there even at the ceremony. Fans can Debate which movie Kubrick deserved to win the best Oscar forBut the real director just never put much stock in how his pictures were received in the period immediately after their release. As he once put it during Interview with film critic Michel Timen:

"From the beginning, all my films were shared by critics. Some considered them wonderful, and others found very little to say. But subsequent critical thinking has always resulted in a very remarkable change to favorable. how much is that. "