2001: A Space Odyssey

Genre: Sci-Fi

Worldwide gross$68.0M

"2001" is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon's surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and human (Bowman) to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.

🏆 Won 1 Oscar. 18 wins & 14 nominations total

Genres

Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Cast

Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

Released

12 May 1968

Runtime

2h 29m

Certificate

G

IMDb rating

8.3 / 10

Votes

777,993

Metascore

84

Rotten Tomatoes

90%

Box office

$60,481,243

Budget

$12,000,000

Edition

Base