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Stanley Kubrick

American filmmaker (1928–1999)

  • Fame78.7
  • Momentum0.7
  • Directors rank#14
Source-basedStable
  • Fame78.7
  • Momentum0.7
  • Directors rank#14
  • Wikipedia323.4K
Lived 1928–1999, aged 71United States
United States flagUnited StatesGB flagDirectorsMovie Director
  • Wikipedia
    133 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1928–1999
    Aged 71
  • Known for
    The Shining
    1980
Summary
Updated 2026-08-29

He shot fewer than a dozen features across five decades, yet each became a technical benchmark or a cultural argument — the director who turned obsessive control and endless retakes into films that redefined what the medium could look like.

Biography

About

Born in New York City in 1928, Kubrick worked as a photographer for Look magazine in the late 1940s before making his first major Hollywood film, The Killing, in 1956. After two collaborations with Kirk Douglas — the anti-war Paths of Glory (1957) and the epic Spartacus (1960) — he settled in England in 1961, eventually centralizing all his work at Childwickbury Manor with his wife Christiane in 1978. There he secured near-total artistic control, backed by major studios, and made a string of films that broke ground: the Cold War satire Dr. Strangelove (1964), the scientifically precise 2001: A…

Voice

In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick
said
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
— Quoted in The Edmonton Journal (8 March 1999), C3
Stanley Kubrick
said
Think [Schindler's List] was about the Holocaust?... That was about success, wasn’t it? The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed.
— Quoted in Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick (1999) by Frederic Raphael, p. 107
Stanley Kubrick
said
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.
— Quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (1988), p. 403. Seems that this sentence first appeared in an 1968 Playboy
Stanley Kubrick
said
I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.
— "Kubrick on Barry Lyndon : An interview with Michel Ciment" (1982)
Stanley Kubrick
said
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it.
— Newsweek (26 May 1980)
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Filmography

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TV credits

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Awards

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  • Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame
  • Sitges Grand Honorary Award
  • BAFTA Fellowship
By the numbers

Score breakdown

The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.

Fame
Stable
78.7
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum0.7
Historical35.6
Now attention14.0
Source confidence70.0
Completeness80.0
Global rank
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Country rank
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Category rank
#14
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Sources

  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
    High confidence
  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
    High confidence
  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence