Under the direction of Commander Alastair Denniston, he joins the cryptography team of Hugh Alexander, John Cairncross, Peter Hilton, Keith Furman, and Charles Richards. When Britain declares war on Germany in 1939, Turing travels to Bletchley Park. Turing develops romantic feelings for him, but Christopher soon dies from tuberculosis. He develops a friendship with Christopher Morcom, who sparks his interest in cryptography. In 1928, the young Turing is unhappy and bullied at boarding school. During his interrogation by Nock, Turing tells of his time working at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. In 1951, two policemen, Nock and Staehl, investigate the mathematician Alan Turing after an apparent break-in at his home. 9.3 Personalities and actions of other characters.9.2 Turing's personality and personal life.
However, the LGBT civil rights advocacy organization the Human Rights Campaign honored it for bringing Turing's legacy to a wider audience with its subtle and realistic approach. The film was criticized by some for its inaccurate portrayal of historical events, and for downplaying Turing's homosexuality, a key element of his original struggles. It also received nine BAFTA nominations, and won the People's Choice Award at the 39th Toronto International Film Festival. It received eight nominations at the 87th Academy Awards, winning for Best Adapted Screenplay, five nominations at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards, and three nominations at the 21st Screen Actors Guild Awards. The film grossed over $233 million worldwide on a $14 million production budget, making it the highest-grossing independent film of 2014. The Imitation Game was released theatrically in the United States on November 28, 2014. Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Charles Dance, and Mark Strong appear in supporting roles. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing, who decrypted German intelligence messages for the British government during World War II. 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". See more reactions to her booty-popping display below.The Imitation Game is a 2014 American historical drama film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, based on the 1983 biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. (It won.)Īhead of this year’s ceremony, Close landed a surprise supporting actress nomination for her turn as Mamaw in Netflix’s critically panned drama “Hillbilly Elegy.” (She also scored a Razzie nomination for the same performance.) Close left empty-handed Sunday night, tying a record for most nominated actor without a win. Some contended that meant “Purple Rain” the song did indeed win.)Īfter some witty banter about their Oscar-winning 2017 film, “Get Out,” Howery also challenged “Judas and the Black Messiah” actor Daniel Kaluuya, who mistakenly guessed that Donna Summer’s “Last Dance” from the 1978 film “Thank God It’s Friday” was not nominated.
(The Prince question also sparked Twitter controversy, as “Purple Rain” the movie won the now-defunct Oscar category of “original song score,” which required a film to have five original songs. Billie Holiday” actress Andra Day correctly determined that Prince’s song “Purple Rain” did not receive an Oscar nomination when the film of the same name debuted in 1984. Read our predictions and analysis, and follow our updates and takeaways from tonight’s potentially historic ceremony.īefore Close, “The United States vs.
Here’s our full coverage of the historic 2021 Oscars “A lady her age, doing Da Butt like that? Come on, man.” (He’s a fan of Close’s work in the 1987 thriller “Fatal Attraction.”) frontman Sugar Bear, who was pleasantly surprised by the homage from the “great actress” and didn’t mind that the skit wasn’t entirely organic. But that was nothing compared to what came next: When asked by Howery if she knew “Da Butt” dance, Close didn’t miss a beat before rising from her chair and shaking her booty on live television.
go-go legend Gregory ‘Sugar Bear’ Elliot turned on his TV just in time to catch Glenn Close do ‘Da Butt’ at the Oscars: ‘She did a great job.’įor the lighthearted segment, Howery gave a handful of nominees a chance to identify a random tune from a film soundtrack - selected by Oscars DJ Questlove - and guess whether it scored an Oscar nomination or win the year it was released.ĭuring her turn in the hot seat, Close stunned the room by correctly identifying Experience Unlimited’s “Da Butt” from director Spike Lee’s 1988 film “School Daze,” which did not receive a nomination. ‘A lady her age, doing Da Butt like that?’ E.U.'s Sugar Bear on Glenn Close’s Oscars rump shake