This one just has Academy Award nominations written all over it. Not just in the Best Picture race where a slot seems likely, but also directing for Norwegian helmer Morten Tyldum (Headhunters), debuting screenwriter Graham Moore, and certainly the stunning lead actor performance of new Emmy winner Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing, the brilliant British math nerd who cracked the code of Nazi Germany’s military maneuvers , but also led a complex, and ultimately tragic, personal life.
Also sure to get strong consideration is Keira Knightley, as good as she has ever been, as a colleague of Turing who becomes so much more. Although she has lead billing with Cumberbatch, producers tell me they plan to put her in Supporting Actress and that seems appropriate unless the actors branch who votes on these things disagrees, but the thrust of the film is really Cumberbatch.
Come on Harvey. Time to send out those corrupt emails again.
i ain't got no one, sleeping with me
and you ain't got nowhere that you need to be
maybe i love you, or maybe i'm just kinda bored?
IT IS WHAT IT IS, TILL IT AIN'T ANYMORE!