1928-
Film Writer, Director, Producer

Notable Director.

Though producing a film only every few years, writer and director Stanley Kubrick stands out as one of the most notable and unconventional filmmakers of the 1960s. Kubrick is a perfect example of what critics in the 1960s called the auteur theory, the belief that, despite the collaborative nature of film, the director infuses the work with his or her personal artistry and vision.

Early Potential.

He began writing, producing, and directing low-budget films in the 1950s, scoring a success with the World War I film Paths of Glory (1957). One of its stars, Kirk Douglas, was producing Spartacus (1960), and he hired Kubrick as its new director. Though this was his first experience with a larger budget, the 1960 film dissatisfied Kubrick, who preferred doing things his way. His adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita (1962), though memorable for Peter Sellers's antic...