The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the score album to the 2014 film of the same name. The film is scored by Alexandre Desplat who replaced the original composer Clint Mansell before the film's production commenced. The London Symphony Orchestra performed the original score that featured various instruments such as keyboards, clarinets, strings, arpeggio and bombe. The album was released on November 7, 2014 by Sony Music Entertainment. The album received critical acclaim and was nominated for several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Original Score but lost to The Grand Budapest Hotel, also composed by Desplat. Background In September 2013, Clint Mansell was scheduled to score for The Imitation Game, but was replaced by Alexandre Desplat in June 2014. Desplat was initially scheduled to score for Unbroken, before signing for the film, but as production for the former got delayed, led him to do the film first. He was extremely moved and impressed by Tyldum's vision and preparation, though he had only three weeks before the film's production commences. He felt it as "extremely delicate" as the pace is being set to "jump over the rhythm of its film". As like his previous films, he creates his own demos and pre-orchestrate those tunes before recording it in studio. As the film progresses over three periods in Turing's life, the structure of the film is extremely complex, where "there are a lot of flashbacks that resonate with something in the flashforwards needed to get a handle on the person". The film consisted of several layers that are "extremely nuanced", as the film follows several journeys, including the war, the Enigma code, Turing's trauma, calculations, dream for an invention of the century and his relationships, hence the music "needed to focus on him and keep all these elements within one theme". Composition