Tom Cruise Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and his second Academy Award nomination. In 1999, Cruise starred in the erotic thriller "Eyes Wide Shut" opposite his then wife Nicole Kidman and also appeared in the ensemble drama "Magnolia", for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. After receiving a Saturn Award for Best Actor for his performance in the psychological thriller "Vanilla Sky" (2001), Cruise collaborated with director Steven Spielberg on the science fiction thrillers "Minority Report"
Stanley Kubrick saying that "Stanley is unusually perceptive, and delicately attuned to people. He has an adroit intellect, and is a creative thinker—not a repeater, not a fact-gatherer. He digests what he learns and brings to a new project an original point of view and a reserved passion". The two worked on a script for six months, begun by a then unknown Sam Peckinpah. Many disputes broke out over the project, and in the end, Kubrick distanced himself from what would become "One-Eyed Jacks" (1961). In February 1959, Kubrick received a phone call from Kirk Douglas asking him to direct "Spartacus" (1960),