When HAL reports the imminent failure of an antenna control device, Dave retrieves it in an extravehicular activity (EVA) pod, but finds nothing wrong. Most of Discovery 's operations are controlled by HAL, a HAL 9000 computer with a human-like personality. As he and others examine the object and are taking photographs, it emits a high-powered radio signal.Įighteen months later, the American spacecraft Discovery One is bound for Jupiter, with mission pilots and scientists Dr Dave Bowman and Dr Frank Poole on board, along with three other scientists in suspended animation. His mission is to investigate a recently found artefact, a monolith buried four million years earlier near the lunar crater Tycho.

At Clavius, Heywood addresses a meeting of personnel to whom he stresses the need for secrecy regarding their newest discovery. He refuses to discuss rumours of an epidemic at the base. During a stopover at Space Station Five, he meets Russian scientists who are concerned that Clavius seems to be unresponsive. Millions of years later, Dr Heywood Floyd, Chairman of the United States National Council of Astronautics, travels to Clavius Base, an American lunar outpost. The tribe then learn how to use a bone as a weapon and, after their first hunt, return to drive their rivals away with it. The next day, they find an alien monolith has appeared in their midst. In a prehistoric veld, a tribe of hominins is driven away from its water hole by a rival tribe. A sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, was released in 1984, based on the novel 2010: Odyssey Two. In 2022, 2001: A Space Odyssey placed in the top ten of Sight & Sound 's decennial critics' poll, and topped their directors' poll. In 1991, it was selected by the United States Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry. The film is now widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning Kubrick the award for his direction of the visual effects. Critics noted its exploration of themes such as human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The film received diverse critical responses, ranging from those who saw it as darkly apocalyptic to those who saw it as an optimistic reappraisal of the hopes of humanity. The soundtrack incorporates numerous works of classical music, including pieces by composers such as Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss II, Aram Khachaturian, and György Ligeti. Kubrick avoided conventional cinematic and narrative techniques dialogue is used sparingly, and there are long sequences accompanied only by music. The film is noted for its scientifically accurate depiction of space flight, pioneering special effects, and ambiguous imagery. The film stars Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, and Douglas Rain and follows a voyage by astronauts, scientists, and the sentient supercomputer HAL to Jupiter to investigate an alien monolith. Clarke also published a novelisation of the film, in part written concurrently with the screenplay, after the film's release. Clarke, and was inspired by Clarke's 1951 short story ' The Sentinel' and other short stories by Clarke. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and science fiction author Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

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