Darkest Hour ( Film ) - wikipedia Darkest Hour ( Film ) This article is about the 2017 war drama film. For the 2011 science fiction film, see The Darkest Hour ( film ). Darkest Hour Theatrical release poster Directed by Joe Wright Produced by Tim Bevan Lisa Bruce Eric Fellner Anthony McCarten Douglas Urbanski Written by Anthony McCarten Starring Gary Oldman Kristin Scott Thomas Lily James Stephen Dillane Ronald Pickup Ben Mendelsohn Music by Dario Marianelli Cinematography Bruno Delbonnel Edited by Valerio Bonelli Production company Perfect World Pictures Working Title Films Distributed by Focus Features Universal Pictures Release date 1 September 2017 ( 2017 - 09 - 01 ) ( Telluride ) 22 November 2017 ( 2017 - 11 - 22 ) ( United States ) 12 January 2018 ( 2018 - 01 - 12 ) ( United Kingdom ) Running time 125 minutes Country United Kingdom United States Language English Budget $30 million Box office $147.6 million Darkest Hour is a 2017 war drama film directed by Joe Wright and written by Anthony McCarten. It stars Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill, and is an account of his early days as Prime Minister, as Nazi Germany swept across Western Europe, threatening to defeat the United Kingdom during World War II. The Nazi advance leads to friction at the highest levels of government between those who would make a peace treaty with Hitler, and Churchill, who refused. The film also stars Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Ben Mendelsohn, Stephen Dillane, and Ronald Pickup. The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on 1 September 2017, and also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. It began a limited release in the United States on 22 November 2017, followed by general release on 22 December, and was released on 12 January 2018 in the United Kingdom. The film grossed $147 million worldwide and received positive reviews. Many critics noted Oldman 's performance as one of the best of his career ; he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor -- Motion Picture Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for his work. At the 90th Academy Awards the film earned six nominations, including Best Picture, and won for Best Actor and Best Makeup and Hairstyling. At the 71st British Academy Film Awards it received nine nominations including Best Film and Outstanding British Film. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Reception 4.1 Box office 4.2 Critical response 5 Historical inaccuracies 6 Awards and honours 7 Sequel 8 Notes 9 References 10 External links Plot In May 1940, the opposition Labour Party in Parliament demands the resignation of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain for being too weak in the face of the Nazi onslaught. Chamberlain tells Conservative Party advisers that he wants Lord Halifax as his successor, but Halifax does not feel the time is right. Chamberlain is forced to choose the only man whom the opposition parties will accept : Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty. Churchill tries to dismiss his new secretary Elizabeth Layton for mis - hearing him, which earns him a rebuke from his wife Clementine. King George VI, who strongly distrusts Churchill, reluctantly invites him to form a government. Churchill includes Chamberlain and Halifax. Although he was right about the danger from Adolf Hitler, Churchill has a poor reputation because of his record in the Admiralty, the Gallipoli Campaign in the First World War, his views on India and his support for Edward VIII during the Abdication Crisis. Parliament reacts coolly to Churchill 's first speech promising `` Blood, toil, tears and sweat, '' for which he is chastised by the King. Churchill refuses to negotiate for peace, believing that the Germans are untrustworthy, but the French Prime Minister thinks him delusional for not admitting that the Allies are losing the Battle of France. Halifax and Chamberlain are keen to use Italian Ambassador Giuseppe Bastianini as intermediary to negotiate with Germany. They plan to resign from the government if Churchill refuses and use a vote of no confidence to replace him with Halifax. The British Expeditionary Force is trapped at Dunkirk and Calais. Against the advice of the War Cabinet, Churchill orders Brigadier Claude Nicholson in Calais to lead the 30th Infantry Brigade in a suicide attack to distract the enemy and buy time for the soldiers at Dunkirk to evacuate. The debacle in France causes the War Cabinet to support negotiating with Germany. George VI unexpectedly visits Churchill ; the King encourages the Prime Minister to continue the war. Still uncertain of what to do, Churchill impulsively rides the London Underground ( for the first time in his life ) and asks the startled passengers their opinion ; the civilians unanimously want to continue to fight. Churchill meets with the Outer Cabinet and other Members of Parliament, who also support him. The evacuation of troops from Dunkirk, Operation Dynamo, is successful. As Churchill prepares to address Parliament, Halifax asks Chamberlain to continue with their plan to resign, but Chamberlain decides to listen to the address first. Towards the end of his speech, Churchill proclaims that `` we shall fight on the beaches '' should the Germans invade. Chamberlain decides to support Churchill, and Parliament applauds the Prime Minister 's defiance. Cast Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill Kristin Scott Thomas as Clementine Churchill Lily James as Elizabeth Layton Ben Mendelsohn as King George VI Stephen Dillane as Edward Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax Ronald Pickup as Neville Chamberlain Nicholas Jones as John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon Samuel West as Anthony Eden David Schofield as Clement Attlee Richard Lumsden as Major - General Hastings Ismay Malcolm Storry as General Sir Edmund Ironside Hilton McRae as Arthur Greenwood Benjamin Whitrow as Sir Samuel Hoare. This film was Benjamin Whitrow 's final film before his death on September 28, 2017. Joe Armstrong as John Evans Adrian Rawlins as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding David Bamber as Vice-Admiral Bertram Ramsay David Strathairn as Franklin D. Roosevelt ( voice only ) Jeremy Child as James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope Brian Pettifer as Sir Kingsley Wood Michael Gould as Charles Vane - Tempest - Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry John Atterbury as Sir Alexander Cadogan Production Filming took place at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, England as well as the Town Hall. On 5 February 2015, it was announced that Working Title Films had acquired Darkest Hour, a speculative screenplay by The Theory of Everything screenwriter Anthony McCarten, about Winston Churchill in the early days of World War II. On 29 March 2016, it was reported that Joe Wright was in talks to direct the film. In April 2016, Gary Oldman was reported to be in talks to play Churchill. On 6 September 2016, it was announced that Focus Features would release the film in the United States on 24 November 2017, while Ben Mendelsohn was set to play King George VI and Kristin Scott Thomas was cast as Clementine Churchill. On 8 November 2016, Stephen Dillane joined the cast. By November 2016, Darkest Hour had begun principal photography, and it was reported that Dario Marianelli would score the film. For his role as Churchill, Oldman spent over 200 hours having make - up applied, and smoked over 400 cigars ( worth about $20,000 ) during filming. Filming took place in Manchester, England at both the Town Hall and John Rylands Library, both doubling for the Houses of Parliament and feature heavily in the film. John Hurt was initially cast as British prime minister Neville Chamberlain. However, according to Oldman, Hurt was undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer and was unable to attend the read - throughs. Ronald Pickup assumed the role of Chamberlain instead. Hurt died from cancer in January 2017. Reception Box Office As of 15 April 2018, Darkest Hour has grossed $56.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $91.1 million in other countries ( including $28.8 million in the UK ), for a worldwide total of $147.5 million. In the United States and Canada, the film began a limited release on 22 November 2017. In its first five days, it grossed $246,761 from four theatres ( an average of $61,690 ), finishing 21st at the box office over the weekend. The film had its wide release on 22 December 2017, alongside the openings of Downsizing, Pitch Perfect 3 and Father Figures, and the wide release of The Shape of Water, and grossed $3.9 million from 804 theatres over that weekend, and $5.5 million over the four - day Christmas frame. 85 % of its audience was over the age of 25, with 30 % being 50 or older. The following weekend the film made $5.5 million, and a total of $7 million over the four - day New Years frame. The weekend of 27 January 2018, following the announcement of the film 's six Oscar nominations, it made $2.1 million. Critical response Gary Oldman 's performance as Winston Churchill garnered widespread critical acclaim and earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 85 % based on 252 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3 / 10. The website 's critical consensus reads, `` Darkest Hour is held together by Gary Oldman 's electrifying performance, which brings Winston Churchill to life even when the movie 's narrative falters. '' On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating to reviews, the film has a normalised score of 75 out of 100, based on 50 critics, indicating `` generally favorable reviews ''. PostTrak reported that over 90 % of audience members gave the film a rating of either `` excellent '' or `` very good ''. Oldman received praise for his performance, with numerous critics labelling him a frontrunner to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, an award he would later go on to win. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote : `` Get busy engraving Oldman 's name on an Oscar... those fearing that Darkest Hour is nothing but a dull tableau of blowhard stuffed shirts will be relieved to know that they 're in for a lively, provocative historical drama that runs on its own nonstop creative fire. '' David Ehrlich of IndieWire praised Wright 's direction and the musical score, writing : `` Unfolding with the clockwork precision of a Broadway play... it 's a deliciously unsubtle testament to the power of words and their infinite capacity to inspire. '' Conversely, Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com called the film `` an acting exercise weighed down by costumes, make - up, and over-lighting '', adding that `` there 's nothing new to the approach. It feels often like an obligation -- a story that someone felt should be told again and a way to get a great actor his Oscar ''. Historical inaccuracies Writing in Slate, historian and academic John Broich calls Darkest Hour `` a piece of historical fiction that undertakes a serious historical task, '' presenting the British decision to fight Hitler as a choice, not as inevitable. The situation in 1940 was as dire as depicted, but liberties were taken with the facts. The on - screen shouting matches over possible peace negotiations were fictional. Churchill privately said he would consider terms offered by Hitler, but the film implies he never considered this. The ride on the London Underground was fictional, and there is historical evidence that most British people were not immediately inspired by Churchill 's speeches. George Orwell believed that ordinary people already felt subjugated and might not object to a `` new order. '' There is no conclusive evidence that Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax were planning an imminent vote of no confidence, though that threat existed until early victories, and it is also historical fact that Churchill was an object of suspicion by his fellow Tories. In The New Yorker in January 2018, Adam Gopnik wrote : ``... in late May of 1940, when the Conservative grandee Lord Halifax challenged Churchill, insisting that it was still possible to negotiate a deal with Hitler, through the good offices of Mussolini, it was the steadfast anti-Nazism of Attlee and his Labour colleagues that saved the day - a vital truth badly underdramatized in the current Churchill - centric film, Darkest Hour ''. This criticism was echoed by Adrian Smith, emeritus professor of modern history at the University of Southampton, who wrote in the New Statesman that the film was `` yet again overlooking Labour 's key role at the most dangerous moment in this country 's history... in May 1940 its leaders gave Churchill the unequivocal support he needed when refusing to surrender. Ignoring Attlee 's vital role is just one more failing in a deeply flawed film ''. Referring to Charles Moore 's comment that the film was `` superb Brexit propaganda '', Afua Hirsch wrote in The Guardian : `` I would call the film propaganda, more generally -- and a great example of the kind of myth we like to promote in modern Britain. Churchill has been re-branded as a tube - travelling, minority - adoring genius, in line with a general understanding of him as ' the greatest Briton of all time '. '' The film gives the impression that both Clemmie and the King were able to listen to the ' beaches ' speech live from Parliament. This was impossible as radio broadcasts from Parliament did not start until the 1970s. Whilst Churchill did record the speech for posterity he did not make the recording until 1949. Nor did he, unlike some other speeches, repeat the speech on the radio shortly after he made it in Parliament. Awards and honours Award Date of ceremony Recipient ( s ) and nominee ( s ) Result Ref ( s ) AACTA International Awards 5 January 2018 Best Actor Gary Oldman Won Best Supporting Actor Ben Mendelsohn Nominated Academy Awards 4 March 2018 Best Picture Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski Nominated Best Actor Gary Oldman Won Best Production Design Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer Nominated Best Cinematography Bruno Delbonnel Nominated Best Makeup and Hairstyling Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick Won Best Costume Design Jacqueline Durran Nominated Alliance of Women Film Journalists 9 January 2018 Best Actor Gary Oldman Won American Society of Cinematographers 17 February 2018 Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases Bruno Delbonnel Nominated Art Directors Guild 27 January 2018 Excellence in Production Design for a Period Film Sarah Greenwood Nominated Austin Film Critics Association 8 January 2018 Best Actor Gary Oldman Nominated Best Cinematography Bruno Delbonnel Nominated British Academy Film Awards 18 February 2018 Best Film Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski Nominated Best Actor in a Leading Role Gary Oldman Won Best Actress in a Supporting Role Kristin Scott Thomas Nominated Best Cinematography Bruno Delbonnel Nominated Best British Film Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Urbanski and Joe Wright Nominated Best Film Music Dario Marianelli Nominated Best Production Design Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer Nominated Best Costume Design Jacqueline Durran Nominated Best Makeup and Hair David Malinowski, Ivana Primorac, Lucy Sibbick and Kazuhiro Tsuji Won Cinema For Peace Awards 19 February 2018 Most Valuable Film of the Year Darkest Hour Nominated Chicago Film Critics Association 12 December 2017 Best Actor Gary Oldman Nominated Critics ' Choice Movie Awards 11 January 2018 Best Picture Darkest Hour Nominated Best Actor Gary Oldman Won Best Score Dario Marianelli Nominated Best Makeup Darkest Hour Won Dallas -- Fort Worth Film Critics Association 13 December 2017 Best Film 10th Place Best Actor Gary Oldman Won Detroit Film Critics Society 7 December 2017 Best Actor Nominated Dorian Awards 24 February 2018 Best Performance of the Year -- Actor Nominated Empire Awards 18 March 2018 Best British Film Darkest Hour Pending Best Actor Gary Oldman Pending Evening Standard British Film Awards 8 February 2018 Best Actor Nominated Florida Film Critics Circle 23 December 2017 Best Actor Runner - up Georgia Film Critics Association 12 January 2018 Best Actor Nominated Best Original Score Dario Marianelli Nominated Golden Globe Awards 7 January 2018 Best Actor -- Motion Picture Drama Gary Oldman Won Hollywood Film Awards 6 November 2017 Hollywood Career Achievement Award Won Hollywood Director Award Joe Wright Won Hollywood Costume Design Award Jacqueline Durran Won IGN Awards 19 December 2017 Best Drama Movie Darkest Hour Nominated Best Lead Performer in a Movie Gary Oldman Nominated IndieWire Critics Poll 19 December 2017 Best Actor 5th Place London Film Critics ' Circle 28 January 2018 Actor of the Year Nominated British / Irish Actor of the Year Nominated Make - Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild 24 February 2018 Feature Motion Picture : Best Period and / or Character Makeup Ivana Primorac and Flora Moody Won Feature Motion Picture : Best Period and / or Character Hair Ivana Primorac and Flora Moody Nominated Feature Motion Picture : Best Special Makeup Effects Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick Won New York Film Critics Online 10 December 2017 Best Actor Gary Oldman Won Online Film Critics Society 28 December 2017 Best Actor Won Palm Springs International Film Festival 2 January 2018 Desert Palm Achievement Award for Best Actor Won San Diego Film Critics Society 11 December 2017 Best Actor Nominated San Francisco Film Critics Circle 10 December 2017 Best Actor Nominated Satellite Awards 10 February 2018 Best Actor -- Motion Picture Won Best Cinematography Bruno Delbonnel Nominated Best Original Score Dario Marianelli Nominated Best Editing Valerio Bonelli Nominated Best Sound ( Editing and Mixing ) Darkest Hour Nominated Screen Actors Guild Awards 21 January 2018 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Gary Oldman Won Seattle Film Critics Society 18 December 2017 Best Actor Nominated Best Costume Design Jacqueline Durran Nominated St. Louis Film Critics Association 17 December 2017 Best Actor Gary Oldman Won Best Supporting Actress Kristin Scott Thomas Nominated Best Cinematography Bruno Delbonnel Nominated Best Editing Valerio Bonelli Nominated Toronto Film Critics Association 10 December 2017 Best Actor Gary Oldman Runner - up Vancouver Film Critics Circle 6 January 2018 Best Actor Nominated Visual Effects Society Awards 13 February 2018 Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature Stephane Naze, Warwick Hewitt, Guillaume Terrien, Benjamin Magana Nominated Washington D.C. 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Question: who played winston churchill in the movie darkest hour
Answer: Gary Oldman