SusiGo wrote:

Here is Benedict's complete answer to the above gif:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K14N06HzaSo

Thank you for bringing this, SusiGo, it's wonderful!

My two favourite parts of the show (not counting seeing Ben and Sophie on the red carpet, Ben's little bit with the flask in the opening production number and Ben presenting on stage) was Graham's win for TIG for Best Adapted Screenplay (the speech, the hugs from Ben and others, the standing ovation - the whole thing made me cry) and the performance of Glory on stage (which was so moving and absolutely spectacular - it gave me shivers).

-Val

Here is an interesting article from Forbes about the profitability of the movies that were Oscar contenders.

The Imitation Game stands out as the number one film that got good (actually stellar to be precise) return for the money spent.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/vannale/2015/02/22/oscar-money-watch-the-most-profitable-2015-oscar-movies/

Here highlighted are the TIG parts (but the whole article is an interesting read) -

The Oscar movie with the highest-percentage return by our calculation (a lofty 1,129%) was The Imitation Game. It had a production budget of $14 million and grossed $158 million in global box office sales...American Sniper made the most money of the main Oscar contenders, pulling in $395.4 million globally. Even though Sniper had the widest release of them, opening in 3,885 theaters, The Imitation Game, which was released in 2,235, almost doubled Sniper‘s return-on-investment percentage.While big-budget movies may seem like the best way to roll up big money, our list shows smaller movies can earn a healthy return, too — not just credibility and prestige.

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Currently, according to Box Office Mojo, TIG has a world-wide BO close to $178,000,000 USD and still is in the top ten movies for the domestic US market after 88 days of release (with a US/Canada BO of slightly over $84 million as of 2/23/15). 

Box Office.com estimates its total budget to be about $33 million (that includes publicity and marketing which the Forbes article didn't include) and even with that added in the movie was a roaring success no matter what. 

The significance of this is that it shows that the project was well worth the investment and that it increased the profile of all involved (not only of BC and the other actors but also for Moore, and Mortum Tyldum as well as the folks at Black Bear Pictures which is a relatively new outfit). 

-Val

 

Oh, absolutely REReader!

From a humanistic, sociological standpoint the movie's biggest achievement was to disseminate the incredible story of Alan Turing to as wide as audience possible and, as well, to bring into focus the idea that "weird" and "different" people can contribute greatly to our society (and so should be welcomed and treated with respect rather than shunned or treated unjustly). 

-Val

I do believe that Ben would get another nomination soon and so take this as a rehersal and warm-up
And I admire Ben most is he grasps every chance to talk about Mr Turing and homeosexual campaign. In fact the role of Alan Turing brings Ben a lot recognization but he would rather draw these attention to Mr Turning , not himself. It is valuable
 

ivywind wrote:

I do believe that Ben would get another nomination soon and so take this as a rehersal and warm-up
 

I don't think he will get any Oscar, Bafta or GG nomination "soon" because at the moment he has not a single project which could potentally land such award - certainly not dr Strange film. But in 4-5 years time... who knows? )