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2001: A Space Odyssey [1968]
 Country
of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1968
Running Times: 139 [release cut]
156 mins [premiere cut]
Length:
Format: Super Panavision 70
Todd-AO 35mm 70mm [Super-Cinerama]
Colour Format: Metrocolor
Ratio: 2.20:1 2.35:1
[35mm prints]
Sound: 70mm 6-Track [70mm prints]
SELECTED CREDITS
[Full Credits]
 PRODUCTION
Production Company: MGM
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
SCRIPT
Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick,
Arthur C. Clarke
Short Story: Arthur C. Clarke
DIRECTION
Director: Stanley Kubrick
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Geoffrey Unsworth
Additional Photography: John Alcott, Michael Wilson [uncredited]
EDITING
Editor: Ray Lovejoy [uncredited]
MUSIC
Music: Johann Strauss Jr [Blue Danube Waltz]; Richard Strauss [Also
sprach Zarathustra]; Aram Khachaturian (Khachaturyan?) [Ballet Suite
Gayaneh]; György Ligeti [Atmospheres; Lux Aeterna; Adventures; Requiem]
SOUND
Sound Supervisor: A. W. Watkins
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Supervisor: Charles Parker [uncredited]
Make Up: Stuart Freeborn,
Kay Freeborn [uncredited], Graham Freeborn [uncredited], Colin Arthr
[uncredited]
Chief Hair: Alice Holmes [uncredited]
Wardrobe: Hardy Amies
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Designer / Director: Stanley Kubrick
Special Effects Supervisors: Doug Trumbull, Wally Veevers, Con Pederson,
Tom Howard, Wally Gentleman [uncredited]
Additional Special Effects Supervisors: Les Bowie [uncredited], Charles
Staffell [uncredited]
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Tony Masters, Harry Lange, Ernest Archer
Art Director: John Hoesli
CASTING
Casting: James Liggat [uncredited]
LOCATIONS
Locations: Borehamwood Studios; Shepperton Studios
CAST
Keir Dullea [David Bowman]
Gary Lockwood [Frank Poole]
William Sylvester [Dr Heywood Floyd]
Daniel Richter [Moonwatcher]
Leonard Rossiter [Smyslov]
Margaret Tyzack [Elena]
Robert Beatty [Halvorsen]
Douglas Rain [voice of HAL 9000]
Frank Miller [mission controller]
Bill Weston [spacewalker]
Edward Bishop [Lunar
shuttle commander]
Glenn Beck
Alan Gifford [Poole's father]
Ann Gillis
Edwina Carroll [Aries stewardess]
Penny Brahms [stewardess]
Heather Downham
Mike Lovell
John Ashley [astronaut]
Jimmy Bell
David Charkham
Simon Davis
Jonathan Daw
Peter Delmar
Terry Duggan
David Fleetwood
Danny Grover
Brian Hawley
David Hines
Tony Jackson
John Jordan
Scott MacKee
Laurence Marchant
Darryl Paes
Joe Refalo
Andy Wallace
Bob Wilyman
Richard Wood
Vivian Kubrick [Floyd's daughter - uncredited]
Burnell Tucker [photographer - uncredited]
John Swindells [first technician - uncredited]
John Clifford [second technician - uncredited]
Martin Amor [interviewer - uncredited]
Kevin Scott [Miller - uncredited]
Krystyna Marr [Russian scientist - uncredited]
Kenneth Kendall [BBC-12 announcer - uncredited]
Ann Boman (Bomann?) (uncredited)
Penny Pearl (uncredited)
Julie Croft (uncredited)
Sheraton Blount (uncredited)
Penny Francis (uncredited)
Kim Neill (uncredited)
Marcella Markham (uncredited)
Jane Pearl (uncredited)
SUMMARY
A never-seen alien race gives early man a boost up the evolutionary
ladder by teaching it how to use animal bones as hunting tools and weapons.
Millions of years later, the aliens' emissary, an enigmatic black monolith
seen at the dawn of Man, reappears, buried on the moon. It sends a signal
in the direction of Jupiter and, 18 months later, a manned mission is
sent to see who - or what - the signal was aimed at...
CAPSULE REVIEW
Astounding. Quite simply the best science fiction movie ever made and
arguably one of the finest of any genre, Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley
Kubrick's enigmatic rumination on Mankind's first encounter with a higher
civilisation remains as thought-provoking, infuriating and bewitching
as it did at the end of the 60s. It has yet to be equaled let alone
bettered.
AVAILABILITY
France
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Brothers [2001 re-release]
UK
Video Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment
[SO65002]
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: K-8
Germany
Rating:12
Netherlands
Video Rating:12
Norway
Rating: 11
Portugal
Rating: M/12
Sweden
Rating: 11
UK
Rating: U
USA
Rating: G
TIMELINE
1968
April
3: USA - theatrical release
August
28: Sweden - theatrical release
September
20: Finland - theatrical release
December
11: Italy - theatrical release
2000
December
31: Canada, USA - theatrical re-release
2001
January
1: UK - television broadcast [on TCM as part of 2001: A Space
Odyssey Day]; shown at the National Film Theatre, London
March
7: France - theatrical re-release
POSTER TAGS
The Ultimate Trip
An epic drama of adventure and exploration
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
How the Solar System Was Won - working
title
Journey Beyond the Stars - early title
2001: En rom odysse - Norwegian title
2001 - Odyssee im Weltraum - German title
2001 Odissea nello spazio - Italian title
LINKS
SEQUEL
2010 [1984]
SEE ALSO
2001: A Space Travesty [2000]
The Abyss [1989]
The
Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle [2000]
AFI's 100 Years, 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies [2000]
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies [1998) [TV]
Airplane II: The Sequel [1982]
Aliens [1986]
Arthur
C. Clarke: The 2001 Ideas of the Prophet of the Space Age
[1972]
Being There [1979]
The Big Bus [1976]
A Bug's Life [1998]
A Clockwork Orange
[1971]
Close Encounters
of the Third Kind [1977]
The Creature Wasn't Nice [1981]
Dark Star [1973]
Demolition Man [1993]
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex [1972]
The Fifth Element [1997]
Free Enterprise [1998]
Galaxy Quest [1999]
The Groove Tube [1974]
Gumby: The Movie [1995]
Hell Comes to Frogtown [1987]
History of the
World: Part I [1981]
Hollywood-Monster [1987]
Howard the Duck [1986]
Independence Day [1996]
Kikujiro no natsu [1999]
Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace [1996]
The Magical Eye [1989]
The Matrix [1999]
Men in Black [1997]
Men In White [1998]
Mission to Mars [2000]
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl [1982]
Moonraker [1979]
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie [1996]
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps [2000]
Outland [1981]
Penn and Teller Get Killed [1989]
Return of the Killer Tomatoes! [1988]
Rowan and Martin at the Movies [1968]
The Rugrats Movie [1998]
Schlock [1971]
Simon [1980]
Sleeper [1973]
Small Soldiers [1998]
Space Jam [1996]
Space Truckers [1997]
Spaceballs [1987]
Star Trek: First Contact [1996]
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
[1977]
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace [1999]
Stargate [1994]
The Stöned Age [1994]
The Strawberry Statement [1970]
The Stupids [1996]
Titan A.E. [2000]
Toy Story 2 [1999]
Transformers: The Movie[1986]
Tron [1982]
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me [1992]
Universal Soldier: The Return [1999]
Universe [1960]
Weird Science [1985]
Zardoz [1973]
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
100 Years at the Movies [1994]
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies [1998]
Destiny in Space [1994]
Lionpower From MGM [1967]
My Science Fiction
Life [2006]
Natural Born Killers [1994]
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies [1995]
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
American Cinematographer v49 n6 June
1968 pp.412-413, 420-422, 416-419, 441 - 447, 451-454, 459-461 [USA]
illustrated articles [Filming 2001 by Herb A. Lightman; Creating Special
Effects For 2001: A Space Odyssey by Douglas Trumbull; Front Projection
For 2001: A Space Odyssey by Herb A. Lightman]
American Cinematographer v50 n10 [October
1969] p.99 [USA]
American Cinematographer v80 n3 [March
1999] pp.100-165 [USA]
illustrated article
Avent-scene du cinema n231/232 [July
1979] pp.5-17, 19-53 [France]
[credits]
British National Film Catalogue v6 [1968]
p.? [UK]
credits
Cahiers du Cinema n209 [February 1969]
p.56 [France]
Cinefantastique v25 n3 [June
1994] pp.32-47 [USA]
illustrated article, review
Cinema n109 [September / October 1966]
p.18
Cinema n131 [December 1968] pp.30-53
Daily Cinema n9515 [1 May 1968] pp.5-10
Daily Cinema n9516 [3 May] 1968 p.9
Dreamwatch 44 pp.57-62
Empire n1 [June / July 1989] p.99 [illustrated
review]
Empire n85 July 1996 p.44
letter about HAL / IBM from Molly Byrne in Dublin, Ireland]; p.128 [illustrated
review by Caroline Westbrook
Empire n102 December 1997 p.150
illustrated article by Ian Freer
Empire April 1998 p.50
illustrated interview with Keir Dullea, by Ian Freer
Empire February 1998 Sc-Fi Supplement
pp.10-11
illustrated article by Adam Smith
Empire November 1998 p.103
Enclitic Special 1982 p.172-180
Extrapolation 10 (December 1968) pp 67-68
article [2001: Odyssey to Byzantium by Morris Beja]
Extrapolation 11 (December 1969) pp 23-24
article [1001 Interpretations of 2001 by Robert Plank]
Extrapolation 11 (December 1969) pp.6-14
article [Dream Literature and Science Fiction by Joanna Russ]
Filmfax 73 [June / July 1999] pp.28-30,
36, 38 [illustrated article]
Film Comment v5 n4 [Winter 1969] pp.6-15
Film Culture n48/49 [Winter / Spring]
1970 p.53
Film Heritage v3 n4 [Summer 1968] pp.1-20
Film Journal v2 n1 [1972] p.65
Films and Filming v14 n10 July 1968 pp.24-26
illustrated review by David Austen
Hollywood Reporter v200 n19 [3 April
1968] p.3
Hollywood Reporter v283 n13 [15 August
1984] p.9
Interview v1 n8 [1970] p.20
Journal of Popular Culture vol.4 no.4
[Spring 1971]
article [Mythic Patterns in 2001: A Space Odyssey by David G. Hoch]
Journal of Popular Film v6 n3 [1978]
pp.202-215
Journal of Popular Film and Television v18
n3 [Autumn 1990] pp.94-102 [illustrated article]
Journal of Popular Film and Television v25
n4 [Winter 1998] pp.172-182 [illustrated article]
Kine Weekly n3160 [4 May 1968] p.11
Kinematograph Weekly no.3051 [24 March
1996] p.17 [UK]
production note [Here Today]
The Listener v121 n3098 [26 January 1989]
p.35
Literature / Film Quartely v21 n3 [1993]
pp.209-217 [illustrated article]
Monthly Film Bulletin v35 n413 June 1968
pp.88-89
review by J.I.
Motion Picture Herald v238 n15 [10 April
1968] p.793
New Yorker 24 April 1965
interview Beyond the Stars by Jeremy Bernstein]
Positif n439 [September 1997] pp.82-86
[illustrated article]
Premiere [USA] vol.12 no.11 [July 1999]
pp.116
illustrated article [Classic Scene: 2001: A Space Odyssey]
Quarterly Review of Film Studies v3 n3
[Summer 1978] pp.297-316
Radio Times v234 n3037 [23 January 1982]
p.77
Screen v34 n2 [Summer 1993] pp.137 -
161 [illustrated article]
Sight and Sound v35 n2 [Spring 1966]
p.58
Sight and Sound v37 n3 Summer 1968 pp.153-154
illustrated review by Philip Strick
Sight and Sound v38 n4 [Autumn 1969]
pp.204-207
article [2001: Out of the Silent Planet by Mel McKee]
Sight and Sound v40 n1 [Winter 1970 /
1971] pp.28-33
Sight and Sound v4 n1 [January 1994]
pp.18-25 [illustrated article, synopsis]
Sight and Sound v4 n2 [February 1994]
p.72 [letter]
Sight and Sound v5 n5 May 1995 pp.14-19
illustrated article on Doug Trumbull (Escape From Gravity by Janet Abrams)
Sight and Sound vol.5 no.8 [August 1995]
pp.6-10 [UK]
illustrated article [Big and Loud by Larry Gross]
Der Spiegel no.21 [20 May 1968] [review]
Starburst n34 [1981] pp.28-32
Starburst Special 36 [Summer 1998] pp.48-55
illustrated article [2001 30 Years On by Howard Maxford]
Stardock n2 [April 1969] pp.24-30
Trumpet 9 (1969) p.37
article [Notes on 2001: A Space Odyssey by Richard Hodgens]
Variety 3 April 1968 p.6
Die Welt 27 April 1968 [review by Hans
Sahl]
Weltwunder der Kinematographie vol. 1/1994
[March 1994] pp.4-9
25th anniverary of 2001 special issue; review [2001: Eine strukturalistische
Odyssee. Ansaetze zur medienvergleichenden Kritik by Bernhard Kempen];
article [Versuch ueber einen raetselhaften Film by Joachim Polzer];
article [Die Geschichte des 70-mm-Breitwand-Films by Hans-Joachim Heuel]
BOOKS
Agel, Jerome [ed.]: The Making of Kubrick`s 2001
[New York City: New American Library, 1970]
Bizony, Piers: 2001: Filming the Future [London:
Aurum Press Ltd, 1994 ISBN 1-85410-365-2]
Clareson, Thomas D. [ed.]: SF: The Other Side
of Realism [Bowling Green University/Popular Press] pp 263-271
Clarke, Arthur C.: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Clarke, Arthur: The Lost Worlds of 2001
[New York: New American Library, 1972]
Harrison, Harry and Aldiss, Brian W.: The
Year's Best Science Fiction No 2
article [Apeman, Superman; or, 2001's Answer to the World Riddle by
Leon E. Stover; review by Ed Emshwiller; review by Samuel R. Delaney;
review by Lester del Rey]
Stork, David G. [ed.]: HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer
As Dream and Reality
Wheat, Leonard F: Kubrick's 2001: A Triple Allegory
[Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2000. ISBN 081083796X]
KEYWORDS
space travel, spaceships, the moon, cavemen, aliens, evolution,
jupiter, stargates, hotels
Last Updated:
6 March, 2007
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