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The Imitation Game is a 2014 war, biographical, drama, and historical film directed by Morten Tyldum. The screenplay was written by Graham Moore, who also served as an executive producer, alongside Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, and Teddy Schwarzman. The cast includes Benedict Cumberbatch, Matthew Goode, Charles Dance, and Mark Strong. Alexandre Desplat composed the music, while William Goldenberg edited the film. The narrative focuses on Alan Turing, World War II, the cryptanalysis of the Enigma, and homosexuality in the United Kingdom, drawing from a work by Andrew Hodges.
Filming took place at locations including Bicester Airfield, London King's Cross railway station, Chesham, and Aldwych tube station. The story is set in London, Sherborne School, Bletchley Park, and Manchester. The film has a runtime of 114 minutes according to IMDb, though TMDb lists it as 113 minutes. It was produced by Bristol Automotive, Black Bear Pictures, and FilmNation Entertainment, with origins in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The film received the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, and was named to the National Board of Review's Top Ten Films. It was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Film Editing. On IMDb, it holds a rating of 8.0 based on 879,258 votes, while TMDb reports a vote average of 7.984 from 18,059 votes. The film had a budget of 14,000,000 and generated revenue of 233,555,708.
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8.0Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
Cast
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing
- Keira Knightley as Joan Clarke
- Matthew Goode as Hugh Alexander
- Rory Kinnear as Detective Robert Nock
- Allen Leech as John Cairncross
- Matthew Beard as Peter Hilton
Themes
- england
- homophobia
- world war ii
- mathematician
- genius
- biography
- based on true story
- male homosexuality
- code breaking
- lgbt
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- LGBTQ-related film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- homophobia
- Creator
- Graham Moore
- Director
- Morten Tyldum
- Screenwriter
- Graham Moore
- Cast member
- Adolf Hitler
- Composer
- Alexandre Desplat
- Producer
- Teddy Schwarzman
- Production company
- Black Bear Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Óscar Faura
- Narrative location
- Manchester
- Filming location
- Sherborne School
- Duration
- 114
- FilmAffinity ID
- 617730
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- theimitationgamemovie.com
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- Commons category
- The Imitation Game
- publication date
- 2014-11-14
- title
- O Jogo Da Imitação
- executive producer
- Graham Moore
- after a work by
- Andrew Hodges
- film editor
- William Goldenberg
- distributed by
- Fandango at Home
- box office
- 233555708
- capital cost
- 14000000
- set in period
- 1930s
- social media followers
- 13085
- references work, tradition or theory
- Turing test
- review score
- 71/100
- characters
- Adolf Hitler
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Encyclopedic overview
The Imitation Game is a 2014 American biographical thriller film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, based on the 1983 biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. The film's title quotes the name of the game cryptanalyst Alan Turing proposed for answering the question "Can machines think?", in his 1950 seminal paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing, who devised new methods for decrypting German intelligence messages for the British government during World War II. Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Charles Dance, and Mark Strong appear in supporting roles.
Following its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on August 29, 2014, The Imitation Game was released theatrically in the United States by The Weinstein Company on November 14. It grossed over $233 million worldwide on a $14 million production budget, making it the highest-grossing independent film of 2014. The film received critical acclaim but faced significant criticism for its historical inaccuracies, including depicting several events that had never taken place in real life. It received eight nominations at the 87th Academy Awards (including Best Picture), winning for Best Adapted Screenplay. It also received five nominations at the Golden Globes, three at the SAG Awards and nine at the BAFTAs. Cumberbatch and Knightley's highly acclaimed performances were nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively at each award.
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