Barry Lyndon

- Release Date: December 18, 1975
- Director: Stanley Kubrick
- Screenwriter: Stanley Kubrick
- Novel Writer: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Producer: Stanley Kubrick
- Distributor: Warner Bros.
- Cinematography: John Alcott
- Editing by: Tony Lawson
- Genre: Drama
- MPAA Rating: PG
- Run time: 184 minutes
- Based On: The novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844) by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Budget: $11,000,000

Barry Lyndon is a period drama based on the novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. The 1975 film is situated in eighteenth-century Ireland. A young Irish farm boy named Redmond Barry falls in love with his cousin and soon after kills British Captain John Quin in a duel. To avoid imprisonment, he escapes his home and sets off on a series of erotic and violent adventures.
Awards
- 1976 Oscar
  - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration : Ken Adam, Roy Walker, Vernon Dixon
  - Best Cinematography: John Alcott
  - Best Costume Design: Ulla-Britt Söderlund, Milena Canonero
  - Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation: Leonard Rosenman
- 1976 BAFTA Film Award
  - Best Cinematography: John Alcott
  - Best Direction: Stanley Kubrick
- 1975 British Society of Cinematographers
  - Best Cinematography Award: John Alcott
Cast
- Ryan O'Neal: Barry Lyndon
- Marisa Berenson: Lady Lyndon
- Patrick Magee: The Chevalier
- Hardy Krüger: Captain Potzdorf
- Steven Berkoff: Lord Ludd
- Gay Hamilton: Nora

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- Watched 'Barry Lyndon' last night. More than just a motion picture; a motion oil painting. John Alcott's cinematography was just sublime.
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