The Imitation Game is a 2014 American period biographical thriller film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, based on the 1983 biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges.
Bletchley Park, "the home of the codebreakers" where parts of the film were shot
Desplat composed the film's score in under three weeks.
Cumberbatch at the premiere of the film at TIFF, September 2014
Cumberbatch signing autographs at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 2014
Morten Tyldum is a Norwegian film director. He is best known in his native Norway for directing the thriller film Headhunters (2011), based on the novel by Jo Nesbø, and internationally for directing the historical drama The Imitation Game (2014), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, and the science fiction drama Passengers (2016).
Tyldum in 2013