Ryan O'Neal and Marisa Berenson star in director Stanley Kubrick's lavish adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic 18th-century novel about the rise and fall of a sensitive and dashing rogue, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. Forced to leave Ireland after killing an English officer in a duel, handsome young Redmond Barry (O'Neal) seeks his fortune as a soldier in Prussia, as a spy then as a gambler living among the elite of Europe. He changes his name and marries an aristocrat (Berenson) for her wealth, but the acceptance he seeks finally eludes him. Winner of four Academy Awards: Best Cinematography Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Best Costume Design Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score Academy Award nominations for: Best Picture Best Director (Stanley Kubrick) Best Writing, Screenplay Adapted From Other Material (Stanley Kubrick)