Filmography and awards of Stanley Kubrick Filmography and awards of Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick directed 13 feature films and three short documentaries over the course of his career, from "Day of the Fight" in 1951 to "Eyes Wide Shut" in 1999. Many of Kubrick's films were nominated for Academy Awards or Golden Globes, but his only personal win of an Academy Award was for his work as director of special effects on "". Two scholarly books that are comparative critical studies of Kubrick's work discuss "A.I." and even list it in their filmography. A book on the making of the film with a foreword by Spielberg
Stanley Kubrick of higher education. Later in life, Kubrick spoke disdainfully of his education and of contemporary American schooling as a whole, maintaining that schools were ineffective in stimulating critical thinking and student interest. His father was disappointed in his son's failure to achieve excellence in school, of which he felt Stanley was fully capable. Jack also encouraged Stanley to read from the former's library at home, while at the same time permitting Stanley to take up photography as a serious hobby. While still in high school, Kubrick was chosen as an official school photographer. In the mid-1940s, since he was not