Darkest Hour

film by Wright [2017]

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Darkest Hour is a 2017 biographical drama film directed by Joe Wright. The film stars Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill during the early days of World War II. It focuses on Churchill's leadership in May 1940, when he became Prime Minister and faced the immense pressure of a potential Nazi invasion of Britain. The movie depicts his struggle to rally the British people and his cabinet, ultimately leading to the decision to evacuate Allied troops from Dunkirk. Oldman's performance earned him an Academy Award for best actor.1

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Lily James
Baby Driver, Darkest Hour, and other roles from the late 2010s
…who played Winston Churchill, in Darkest Hour (both 2017). Her parts from 2018 include a successful writer who visits the island of Guernsey, which was occupied by Germany during World War II, in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society; the struggling sister of a reforming drug dealer (played…
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…who played Winston Churchill, in Darkest Hour (both 2017). Her parts from 2018 include a successful writer who visits the island of Guernsey, which was occupied by Germany during World War II, in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society; the struggling sister of a reforming drug dealer (played…
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Gary Oldman
Darkest Hour, Mank, and Slow Horses
…Winston Churchill in the drama Darkest Hour, set during the early years of World War II when the prime minister must rally Britain to carry on against encroaching German troops rather than pursue a peace treaty. For his performance in the latter film, Oldman won his first Academy Award as…
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…Winston Churchill in the drama Darkest Hour, set during the early years of World War II when the prime minister must rally Britain to carry on against encroaching German troops rather than pursue a peace treaty. For his performance in the latter film, Oldman won his first Academy Award as…
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