The Imitation Game

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Original title: The Imitation Game
Year: 2014
Running time: 114 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Morten Tyldum
Screenwriter: Graham Moore (Book: Andrew Hodges)
Music: Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography: Óscar Faura
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Charles Dance, Matthew Goode, Matthew Beard, Allen Leech, Tuppence Middleton, Rory Kinnear, Tom Goodman-Hill, Hannah Flynn, Steven Waddington, Alex Lawther, Jack Bannon, James Northcote, Ancuta Breaban, Victoria Wicks
Producer: Black Bear Pictures / Ampersand Pictures. Distributed by The Weinstein Company
Genre: Thriller. Drama | Biography. II World War. 1940s. 1950s. Gay & Lesbian. Mathematics
Synopsis / Plot: Alan Turing was a British mathematician and codebreaker who helped the Allies to victory over Nazi Germany during World War II and was highly influential in the development of the computer through his invention of the Turing machine. He was also persecuted for his sexual identity, and was prosecuted for homosexual acts by the UK government in 1952, which at that time were still criminalised, and forced to undergo hormonal treatment. He died two years later from cyanide poisoning. This historical drama portrays the race against time Turing and his team of code-breakers were embroiled in during World War II, and the personal anguish of his subsequent conviction.

Awards: 2014: Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay. 8 Nom. including Best Picture

2014: Golden Globes: 5 Nominations including Best Picture - Drama

2014: BAFTA Awards: 9 Nominations including Best Film

2014: Toronto Film Festival: Best Film (Audience Award)

2014: National Board of Review: Top Ten Films

2014: Satellite Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay. 8 Nominations

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2014: American Film Institute (AFI): Top Ten Films

2014: Producers Guild Awards (PGA): Nominated for Best Film

2014: Directors Guild of America (DGA): Nominated for Best Director

2014: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Best Adapted Screenplay

2014: Screen Actors Guild (SAG): 3 Nominations including Best Cast in a Motion Picture

2014: Critics Choice Awards: 6 Nominations including Best Picture

2014: Chicago Film Critics Awards: 3 Nominations including Best Actor (Cumberbatch)

2014: San Francisco Film Critics Circle: 3 Nominations including Best Film

2014: British Independent Film Awards (BIFA): 4 Nominations including Best Movie

Critics' reviews

"The film's prime force is Cumberbatch, a great actor whose talent shines here on its highest beams. It's an explosive, emotionally complex performance. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out four)"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"An engrossing and moving film that features a standout, Oscar-worthy performance by Benedict Cumberbatch (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"

Claudia Puig: USA Today
"[It] is overly reluctant to dive into the nitty gritty (...) But dominating it all is Cumberbatch, whose charisma (...) and (...) talent at indicating a mind never at rest (...) to create an entirely credible portrait of genius at work."

Todd McCarthy: The Hollywood Reporter
"A veddy British biopic of prodigal mathematician (...) Alan Turing, rendered in such unerringly tasteful (...) that every one of Turing’s professional triumphs and personal tragedies arrives right on schedule and with nary a hair out of place."

Scott Foundas: Variety
"It's a marvelous story about science and humanity, plus a great performance by Benedict Cumberbatch, plus first-rate filmmaking and cinematography"

Joe Morgenstern: The Wall Street Journal
"Turing will survive this film with his enigma intact, but the movie itself is the opposite of enigmatic, and Cumberbatch merits more"

Anthony Lane: The New Yorker
"It's a sad and heartbreaking story that keeps you nailed to the screen for its entire 114-minute running time. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"

Rex Reed: The New York Observer
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