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 contains a posthumous production credit for Stanley Kubrick at the beginning and the brief dedication "For Stanley Kubrick" at the end. John Williams's score contains many allusions to pieces heard in other Kubrick films. Following "2001: A Space Odyssey", Kubrick originally planned to make a film about the life of the French emperor Napoleon. Fascinated by his life and own "self-destruction", Kubrick spent a great deal of time planning the film's development, and had conducted about two years of extensive research into Napoleon's life, reading several hundred books and gaining access to Napoleon's personal memoirs and commentaries. He also tried