The Imitation Game Takes Top Prize at Toronto Film Festival

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War, injustice and Benedict Cumberbatch combine in the biopic of British cryptologist Alan Turing

The Imitation Game Takes Top Prize at Toronto Film Festival
Elizabeth Barber
2:53 AM ET

The Imitation Game, a World War II drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch as a cryptologist who helps the British score a huge intelligence coup against the Nazis, won the 2014 Grolsch People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The People’s Choice Award is the festival’s most prestigious prize and considered a bellwether for Oscar wins.

Morten Tyldum’s film — set for release on Nov. 21 — casts Sherlock star Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, the computer genius who cracked the German Enigma code — a massive boost for the Allied war effort. Unfortunately, an ungrateful government prosecuted Turing in 1952 for being gay and revoked his security clearance. (Homosexuality was not decriminalized in the U.K. until 1967.) Turing committed suicide in 1954.

Keira Knightley co-stars in the film as a code breaker and Turing’s jilted fiancée.

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1. I didn't know what the movie was about...

Now that I do, I want to see it.