Program Series: The Hollywood Ten at 75

Spartacus

Special guests: Introduction by film historian and critic Ed Rampell and Nancy Escher.

Sat, Apr 29, 2023 | 7:30pm PT

David Geffen Theater
Spartacus

The first grand-scale production from director Stanley Kubrick, Spartacus remains one of the most visually epic films produced on 70mm. Producer Kirk Douglas stars as the brazen gladiator who leads his enslaved colleagues in an uprising against their Roman oppressors. Packed with memorable turns from a stunning cast—Sir Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Tony Curtis, Nina Foch, Herbert Lom, and Academy Award–winner Peter Ustinov—plus superlative production value, Spartacus garnered a total of four Academy Award wins including Art Direction, Costume Design, and Cinematography, Color. The film is also the first time since 1950 that a member of the Hollywood Ten, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, received an onscreen writing credit, in effect helping to break the blacklist.   

DIRECTED BY: Stanley Kubrick. WRITTEN BY: Dalton Trumbo. WITH: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton. 1960. 195 min. USA. Color. 70mm. Print courtesy of The Film Foundation Conservation Collection at the Academy Film Archive.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. 
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