The Imitation Game is a 2014 British-American historical drama film about British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst
and pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing, a key figure in cracking Nazi Germany's Enigma code that helped the
Allies win World War II, only to later be criminally prosecuted for his homosexuality. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch as
Turing and is directed by Morten Tyldum with a screenplay by Graham Moore, based on the biography Alan Turing: The
Enigma by Andrew Hodges.
The film's screenplay topped the annual Black List for best unproduced Hollywood scripts in 2011. After a bidding
process against five other studios, The Weinstein Company acquired the film for $7 million in February 2014, the highest
ever amount paid for US distribution rights at the European Film Market.
The film had its world premiere at the 41st Telluride Film Festival in August, it also featured at the 39th Toronto
International Film Festival in September where it won "People's Choice Award for Best Film," the highest award of the
festival. It had its European premiere as the opening film of the 58th BFI London Film Festival on October 2014.
The Imitation Game was released in the United Kingdom on 14 November 2014, and will be released theatrically in the
United States on 28 November 2014.