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2001: A Space Odyssey(1968)
Released
1968 · FILM

2001: A Space Odyssey

descend to examine the monolith, they trigger a signal that reaches Jupiter, awakening an ancient alien intelligence.

“An epic drama of adventure and exploration.”

Directed by
Stanley Kubrick
Written by
Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C Clarke
Rated
MPA · G
Runtime
149 min
AdventureSci-Fi

Synopsis

When a mysterious artifact is discovered on the Moon, a spacecraft crewed by two humans and a supercomputer is dispatched to Jupiter to investigate its origins.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 202+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Ray LovejoyShot by Geoffrey UnsworthDesigned by Ernest Archer

Box Office

1968 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$71.9M

Budget$12.0M
Worldwide gross$71.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

201813 theaters
$3.8M($5.0M today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • 2001: Odyssee im Weltraumde
  • Two Thousand and One: A Space Odysseyen
  • 2001: Una odisea del espacioes
  • 2001 Odyssée de l'espacefr
  • 2001, l'Odyssée de l'espacefr
  • 2001: Odissea nello spazioit

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