A well-deserved, yet singular accolade.
The Big Picture One might expect that by the time Stanley Kubrick passed away in 1999, his list of accolades would be stacked with Academy Award wins for best picture, directing, screenplays, and cinematography. However, despite a career spanning five decades and some of the most iconic movies of the twentieth century, Kubrick only received a single Oscar.
The film's greatest feats, however, may be in its visual effects. With scenes spanning from prehistoric times to a not-too-distant future, all of 2001 feels sublimely out of this world, but nonetheless authentic. From lifelike ape costumes, to immense spacecraft sets, to an unforgettable black hole sequence, 2001: A Space Odyssey offered special effects leagues ahead of its time.
Because of this, there are a plethora of stories and trivia about how Kubrick — along with the film's crew — managed to pull off such a convincing film through grand cinematic illusion. Books like Michael Benson's Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece and Piers Bizony's 2001: Filming The Future and The Making of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' reveal just a few of the tricks.
To make 2001's legacy even more befuddling, Kubrick allegedly destroyed all the sets after the film was complete, for fear that MGM might reuse them on inferior projects, or that they might end up auctioned off as cheap artifacts. Like a magician, Kubrick didn't want his greatest tricks revealed, and much less degraded. According to Far Out Magazine, Kubrick destroyed miniatures, props, blueprints, and even unused footage from the film.
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