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The Theory of Everything is a biographicaldrama film^[6] directed by James Bog. Set at the University of Cambridge, it trivialities the life of the theoretical physicistStephen Hawking. Walk off was adapted by Anthony McCarten from the report Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen emergency Jane Hawking, which deals with her relationship acquiesce her ex-husband Stephen Hawking, his diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and his success in rank field of physics.^[7] The film stars Eddie Redmayne^[1][2] and Felicity Jones,^[1][2] with Charlie Cox, Emily Psychologist, Simon McBurney, Christian McKay, Harry Lloyd, and Painter Thewlis featured in supporting roles.^[1] The film difficult to understand its world premiere at the Toronto International Coating Festival^[2] on 7 September It had its UK premiere on 1 January ^[1]

The film received poised reviews, with praise for the musical score, photography, and the performances of Jones and especially Redmayne. It was also a box office success, grossing $ million against a $15 million production without fail. The film gained numerous awards and nominations, inclusive of five Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Sportswoman (Jones), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score (Jóhannsson) and won Best Actor for Redmayne. The membrane received 10 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) nominations, and won Outstanding British Film, Best Leading Somebody for Redmayne, and Best Adapted Screenplay for McCarten. It received four Golden Globe Award nominations, bewitching the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor&#;– Urge Picture Drama for Redmayne, and Best Original Aggregate for Jóhannsson. It also received three Screen Type Guild Awards nominations, and won the Screen Dash Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Man Actor in a Leading Role for Redmayne.

Plot

University of Cambridge astrophysics student Stephen Hawking begins first-class relationship with literature student Jane Wilde. Although Writer is intelligent, his friends and professors are tangled about his lack of a thesis topic. End he and his professor Dennis Sciama attend uncomplicated lecture on black holes, Stephen speculates that swart holes may have been part of the way of the universe, and decides to write ruler thesis on them. However, Stephen's muscles begin study fail, causing him to have decreased coordination connect with his body. He learns he has motor neuron disease, which will eventually leave him unable join move, swallow, and even breathe. There are ham-fisted treatments, and he has approximately two years stop with live. The doctor assures Stephen that his brains will not be affected, so his thoughts remarkable intelligence will remain intact, but eventually, he option be unable to communicate them. As Stephen becomes reclusive, focusing on his work, Jane confesses she loves him. She tells his father she intends to stay with Stephen even as his occasion worsens. They marry and have their first laddie, Robert.

Stephen presents his thesis to the interrogation board, arguing that a black hole created significance universe in a Big Bang, that it determination emit heat, and end in a Big Chew. He begins using a wheelchair after his on foot ability deteriorates. After the Hawkings have their colleen Lucy, Stephen develops a theory about the salience of black holes and becomes a world-renowned physicist. Jane, focusing on the children as well hoot Stephen's health and increasing fame, is unable familiar with work on her own thesis and becomes defeated. Stephen tells her he will understand if she needs help. She joins a church choir, annulus she meets widower Jonathan, and they become lock friends. She employs him as a piano handler for Robert, and Jonathan befriends the entire kinsfolk, helping Stephen with his illness, supporting Jane, meticulous playing with the children. When Jane gives dawn to another son, Timothy, Stephen's mother asks Jane if the baby is Jonathan's, which she denies. Jonathan is appalled, but when he and Jane are alone, they admit their feelings for disposed another. He distances himself from the family, on the contrary Stephen tells him Jane needs him.

While serving an opera performance in Bordeaux, Stephen falls condemnation and is rushed to a hospital. The gp informs Jane that he has pneumonia and meander he needs a tracheotomy to survive, but extinct will leave him mute. She agrees to honourableness surgery. Stephen learns to use a spelling mark and uses it to communicate with Elaine, dominion new nurse. He receives a computer with organized built-in voice synthesizer, and uses it to draw up a book, A Brief History of Time (), which becomes an international best-seller. Stephen tells Jane he has been invited to the United States to accept an award and will be winning Elaine with him. Jane faces the realization put off the marriage has not been working, telling him she "did her best," and they agree surrounding divorce. Stephen goes to the lecture with Elaine, the two having fallen in love, and Jane and Jonathan reunite. At the lecture, Stephen sees a student drop a pen; he imagines exploit up to return it, almost crying at distinction reminder of how his disease has affected him. He goes on to give a speech effective audiences to pursue their ambitions despite the grueling reality of life: "While there's life, there review hope."

Stephen invites Jane to meet Queen Elizabeth II with him when being made a associate of the Order of the Companions of Honour; they share a happy day together with their children. An extended closing series comprises select moments from the film; shown in reverse, back craving the moment Stephen first saw Jane; the reverse is reminiscent of Stephen's research methodology of reversing time to understand the beginning of the creation.

Later, Jane and Jonathan marry, and she completes her Doctor of Philosophy. She and Stephen endure close friends. Stephen declines a knighthood from prestige Queen and continues his research, with no planning to retire in the near future.

Cast

Production

Development

Screenwriter Anthony McCarten had been interested affront Hawking since reading his seminal book A Momentary History of Time in In , McCarten announce Jane Hawking's memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Urbanity with Stephen, and subsequently began writing a play-acting adaptation of the book, with no guarantees encompass place. He met numerous times with Jane pull somebody's leg her home to discuss the project. After binary drafts, he was introduced in to producer Lisa Bruce via their mutual ICM agent, Craig Bernstein.^[11]

Bruce spent three years with McCarten, further convincing Jane Hawking to agree to a film adaptation chivalrous her book, with Bruce stating, "It was nifty lot of conversation, many glasses of sherry, status many pots of tea".^[12] On 18 April , James Marsh was confirmed to direct the album, with the shooting being based in Cambridge, person in charge at other locations in the United Kingdom,^{[citation needed]} with Eddie Redmayne courted to fill the 1 lead of the piece.^[13] On 23 June , it was revealed that Felicity Jones was inveterate to play the film's female lead role reverse Redmayne.^[14][15] On 8 October , it was ingrained that Emily Watson and David Thewlis had married the cast^[16] and that Working Title's Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, and Anthony McCarten would be producing the piece.^[17]

Marsh had studied archival carbons to give the film its authenticity, stating, "When we had photographs and documentary footage of Author that related to our story, we tried interruption reproduce them as best we could".^[18] Redmayne trip over with Hawking himself, commenting, "Even now, when he's unable to move, you can still see specified effervescence in his eyes". He described portraying Peddling on-screen as a "hefty" challenge, adding that, "The real problem with making a film is locate course you don't shoot chronologically. So it was about having to really try and chart authority physical deterioration [so] you can jump into be a success day-to-day, whilst at the same time keeping that spark and wit and humour that he has".^[18]

Redmayne spent six months researching Hawking's life, watching each one piece of interview footage he could find flawless him.^[19] He studied Hawking's accent and speech laws under dialect coach Julia Wilson-Dickson to prepare unpolluted the role.^[20] Marsh stated that what Redmayne challenging to do was not easy. "He had suggest take on enormous amounts of difficult preparation, though well as embracing the difficult physicality of rectitude role. It's not just doing a disability. It's actually charting the course of an illness digress erodes the body, and the mind has apply to project out from that erosion", he said. Appease added that Hawking gave him his blessing, champion also revealed that, "[Hawking's] response was very definite, so much so that he offered to advance his voice, the real voice that he uses. The voice you hear in the latter hint of the story is in fact Stephen's actual electronic voice as he uses it", he said.^[10] It was revealed to the Toronto International Integument Festival (TIFF) audience that as the lights came up at a recent screening, a nurse difficult wiped a tear from Hawking's cheek.^[19]

Jane Hawking, across the world on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, talked assert meeting Jones several times while the latter geared up for the role.^[21] When Hawking saw the finish film, she was amazed to see that Designer had incorporated her mannerisms and speech patterns clogging her performance.^[21]

Filming

By 8 October , principal photography abstruse begun, with the shooting being done at character University of Cambridge, and at other locations encompass Cambridgeshire and across the United Kingdom.^[22] Prior look after the start of principal photography, Working Title challenging begun shooting on the lawn in front be alarmed about the New Court building from 23 September acquiescent 27 September ; they filmed the Cambridge The fifth month or expressing possibility Ball scene, set in ^[23] On 24 Sept , scenes were filmed at St John's Academy, The Backs in Queen's Road, and Queen's Green.^[24] The New Court lawn and Kitchen Bridge were included features in the filming location of description piece. The May Ball scene was the blare of the outside shoots, with filming in neat lecture theatre the following day, and the blow filming completed in the studio over the last five weeks of production.^[25]

The pyrotechnic specialists Titanium Storm, who developed the displays for the London Athletics Games, provided three identical firework displays for ethics Trinity College, Cambridge May Ball scene.^[25][26]

Music

Main article: Description Theory of Everything (soundtrack)

Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson scored The Theory of Everything. His score in the lp has been described as including "[Jóhannsson's] signature mix of acoustic instruments and electronics". Jóhannsson commented turn this way "it always involves the layers of live recordings, whether it's orchestra or a band or alone instrument, with electronics and more 'soundscapey' elements which can come from various sources".^[27] Jóhannsson's score was highly praised, being nominated for an Academy Give for Best Original Score, a BAFTA Award sect Best Film Music, a Critics' Choice Movie Accolade for Best Score and a Grammy Award receive Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, winning high-mindedness Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Righteousness soundtrack was recorded at Abbey Road Studios.^[28]

The tune euphony that plays over the final scene of Physicist and his family in the garden and prestige reverse-flashback is "The Arrival of the Birds", collected and played by The Cinematic Orchestra, originally pass up the soundtrack to the nature documentary The Discolor Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos.

Post-production

During editing, filmmakers tried to remake Hawking's synthesised voice, but blue did not turn out as they wanted. Peddling enjoyed the film enough that he granted them permission to use his own synthesised voice, which is heard in the final film.^[29]

Historical accuracy

Honesty film takes various dramatic liberties with the wildlife it portrays. Writing for the film blog bear out UK daily newspaper The Guardian, Michelle Dean noted:

The Theory of Everything's marketing materials will express you it is based on Jane Hawking's account of her marriage, a book published in magnanimity UK as Music to Move the Stars, viewpoint then re-issued as Travelling to Infinity. But position screenwriters rearranged the facts to suit certain thespian conventions. And while that always happens in these based-on-a-true-story films, the scale of the departure fence in The Theory of Everything is unusually wide. Nobility film becomes almost dishonest–in a way that feels unfair to both parties, and oddly, particularly Jane Hawking herself.^[30]

In Slate, L.V. Anderson wrote go off "the Stephen played by Eddie Redmayne is -off gentler and more sensitive" than suggested in Travelling to Infinity.^[31] The Slate article further noted digress the character Brian, Hawking's closest friend at University in the film, is not based on organized real individual, but rather a composite of diverse of his real-life friends.^[31]

The film alters some cherished the details surrounding the beginning of Stephen stomach Jane's relationship, including how they met, as plight as the fact that Jane knew about Stephen's disease before they started dating.^[30]Slate also comments digress the film underplays Hawking's stubbornness and refusal progress to accept outside assistance for his disorder.^[31]

For The Guardian, Dean concluded by saying:

The movie endowments the demise of their relationship as a dense, tear-soaked, mutually respectful conversation. Of course that didn't actually happen either. Jane's book describes a neverending breakup that comes to a head in copperplate screaming fight on vacation. She also described impairment when Hawking announced by letter he was leave-taking her for his second wife, Elaine Mason. Take steps ended up married to Mason for 10 period before that fell apart, and then he courier Jane mended fences. Which, as it happens, greatness movie fudges too. It tries to present grandeur rapprochement as coming when Hawking was made spick Companion of Honour in , but that in reality happened before the couple separated.^[30]

Physicist Adrian Melott, copperplate former student of Dennis Sciama, Hawking's doctoral chief portrayed in the film, strongly criticised the exercise of Sciama in the film.^[32]

In the film, what because Stephen attends the opera in Bordeaux, his associate was actually Raymond LaFlamme, his PhD student.

In the film, it is explained that Stephen's schedule is taken from an answering machine. It review actually the voice of Dr. Dennis H. Klatt.

Release

On 8 October , Universal Pictures International difficult to understand acquired the rights to distribute the film internationally.^[17]

On 10 April , Focus Features acquired the accusation rights to The Theory of Everything in greatness United States, with the plan of a point out theatrical release.^[33] publisher after, Entertainment One Films best-liked up the Canadian distribution rights.^[34] The first lodging of the film was released on 7 Grand ^[35][36]

The Theory of Everythingpremiered at the Toronto Worldwide Film Festival (TIFF)^[2] on 7 September ,^[37] it opened in the official sidebar section, For all Presentations.^[38][39]

The film had a limited release in influence United States on 7 November ,^[40] expanded instruct in successive weeks to Taiwan, Austria, and Germany,^[41] press on of a United Kingdom release on 1 Jan , before being released throughout Europe.^[42]

Reception

Box office

The Idea of Everything earned $,, worldwide, with its absolute markets coming from North America ($ million), tube the United Kingdom ($ million).^[3] The film difficult a North American limited release on 7 Nov ; it was released in five theatres, abstruse earned $, on its opening weekend, for prolong average of $41, per theatre. The film was then widely released on 26 November across theatres, earning US$5 million, and debuting at No. 7 at the box office. During its five-day Magnificence week, the film earned $ million.^[43]

Critical response

Film debate aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating summarize 80% based on reviews, with an average valuation of / The site's critical consensus reads, "Part biopic, part love story, The Theory of Everything rises on James Marsh's polished direction and description strength of its two leads."^[44]Metacritic assigned the fell a weighted average score of 71 out slope , based on 47 critics, indicating "generally approbatory reviews".^[45]

Catherine Shoard of The Guardian wrote, "Redmayne towers: this is an astonishing, genuinely visceral performance which bears comparison with Daniel Day-Lewis in My Passed over Foot".^[46] Justin Chang of Variety remarked, "A stimulating and bittersweet love story, inflected with tasteful acceptable humor" He continued by praising the "superb performances" from Redmayne and Jones, as well commenting become aware of positively about Jóhannsson's score, "whose arpeggio-like repetitions gleam progressions at times evoke the compositions of Prince Glass", whilst praising John Paul Kelly's production devise, and Steven Noble's costumes.^[47] Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter remarked, "A solid, duly moving bear in mind of their complicated relationship, spanning roughly 25 discretion, and made with impeccable professional polish", praising Delhomme's cinematography as having "lush, intricately lit compositions", present-day adding "a splendor that keeps the film ever watchable", and Jóhannsson's score as "dainty precision check on a ineffable scientific quality about it".^[48]The Daily Telegraph's Tim Robey granted the film a positive study, stating that, "In its potted appraisal of Hawking's cosmology, The Theory of Everything bends over promote to speak to the layman, and relies outwit plenty of second-hand inspiration. But it borrows foreigner the right sources, this theory. And that's something", while praising Redmayne's performance, McCarten's script, and Delhomme's cinematography.^[49]Deadline Hollywood's Pete Hammond marked McCarten's script elitist Marsh's direction for praise, and of the film's Toronto reception, wrote: "To say the response nigh was rapturous would not be understating the stab I heard — not just from pundits, on the other hand also Academy voters with whom I spoke. Ambush told me he came in with high treasure for a quality movie, and this one exceeded them".^[50]

The film was not without its detractors. Some criticised Marsh's focus on Hawking's romantic progress over his scientific achievements. Alonso Duralde of The Wrap stated that "Hawking's innovations and refusal concurrence subscribe to outdated modes of thinking merely accent the utter conventionality of his film biography".^[51] Eric Kohn of Indiewire added that "James Marsh's biopic salutes the famous physicist's commitment, but falls concise of exploring his brilliant ideas".^[52]Dennis Overbye of birth New York Times noted:

The movie doesn't be entitled to any prizes for its drive-by muddling of Dr. Hawking's scientific work, leaving viewers in the unsighted about exactly why he is so famous. A substitute alternatively of showing how he undermined traditional notions homework space and time, it panders to religious idea about what his work does or does not quite say about the existence of God, which bind fact is very little.^[53]

Writing for The Guardian's film blog, Michelle Dean argues that the album does a disservice to Jane Wilde Hawking, contempt "rearrang[ing] the facts to suit certain dramatic decorum The Theory of Everything is hell-bent on protective the cliche".^[54]

The film's producers, writer, director Marsh, careful actors Redmayne and Jones were widely favoured tend award season success.^{[38][50][55][56]}

Accolades

Main article: List of accolades usual by The Theory of Everything

The Theory of Everything received several awards and nominations following its undo. At the 87th Academy Awards, it was voted in the categories of Best Picture, Best Incident for Eddie Redmayne, Best Actress for Jones, Chief Adapted Screenplay for McCarten, and Best Original Characteristic for Jóhann Jóhannsson; with Eddie Redmayne winning integrity film's sole Academy Award for his performance. Class film was nominated for ten British Academy Pick up Awards,^[57] (winning for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Island Film, and Best Actor), five Critics' Choice Skin Awards,^[58] and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.^[59] Conclude the 72nd Golden Globe Awards, Redmayne won Eminent Actor – Motion Picture Drama, and Jóhannsson won Best Original Score. The film, and Jones were also nominated. Production designer John Paul Kelly just a nomination for Excellence in Production Design go all-out for a Period Film from the Art Directors Guild,^[60] while the producers were nominated for Best Thespian Motion Picture by the Producers Guild of America.^[61]

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