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The Long Road to ‘The Imitation Game’
Director Morten Tyldum and writer and producer Graham Moore tell Kim Masters how the journey of making their Oscar-nominated film about codebreaker Alan Turing started years ago at a fateful cocktail party.
By Kim Masters • • 29m ListenFormer sitcom writer and novelist Graham Moore and Norwegian director Morten Tyldum may seem like an unlikely pair to be behind The Imitation Game, a movie about a British mathematician in World War II. They were brought together by an independent producer who snatched up the script after it languished at a studio for a year. Now, their indie about Alan Turing is up for eight Academy Awards, including best picture, best director and best screenplay.
Banner Image: Benedict Cumberbatch and Director Morten Tyldum on set of The Imitation Game; Credit: Jack English courtesy of Black Bear Pictures
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Today, Alan Turing is considered the father of computer science. But the genius who broke Germany's Enigma code during World War II--saving countless lives as a result--was never publicly recognized for his achievements during his lifetime--or for many years after his death at age 41 in 1954.
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