"The imitation Game", Morter Tyldum, won the Audience Award award -main a contest or competition-without a jury during the last International Film Festival in Toronto. Benedict Cumberbatch plays here Alan Turing, mathematician, code breaker during WWII and computer pioneer, who suffered much of his life social rejection and intolerance for homosexuality. Furthermore, the tape and Matthew Goode Keira Knightley involved. In the vote of the spectators was second Isabel Coixet's film "Learning to drive".
Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing, a key figure but not well known in the annals of World War II. Mathematician, scholar and genius of British code cracker, played a crucial role in ensuring the Allied victory deciphering Nazi communications intercepted before battles key role. Instead of being treated like the hero he was and savior of thousands of lives, was tried and convicted by the British government for his gay tendencies. Turing committed suicide by social pressure in 1954 "For me, it is a tribute to how important it is to have people who are not thinking normally. In many ways, it is a tribute to be different," said the director Morter Tyldum told The Hollywood Reporter.
"The story of Turing was kept secret for more than 30 years after the war. Everything was burned. All paperwork. MI6 kept him locked up. It was a top secret project. Government was keen to remain silent. but it's really one of the unsung heroes. actually saved millions of lives.'s really amazing that their history is not known and celebrated by most, "added the director.
By winning this award, "The imitation Game" automatically becomes a favorite tape to get the Oscar for best film. And the public recognition of the Toronto Film Festival has traditionally been one of the best omens of success in major film awards. Thus, the winners of this award together 122 Oscar nominations, including 12 for Best Picture and 9 to the best foreign language film. 43 nominations were finally done with him, including five best picture "Chariots of Fire / Chariots of fire", "American Beauty", "Slumdog Millionaire", "The King's Speech / The King's Speech" and "12 years of exclavitud / 12 years a slave. "
As for "Learning to drive" (Learning to drive) Isabel Coixet was reunited with two of the three main protagonists of the film "Elegy / Chosen" six years ago, Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson. As happened in that film, also filmed in North America, this time the script is not of Catalan filmmaker but now the Oscar-winning writer and screenwriter Sarah Kernochan ("What Lies Beneath / Revelations / What Lies Beneath") and is based appeared in an article in The New York Times.
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