This movie won Oscars for Best Actor and the Best Makeup and Hairstyling. There have been many depictions of Churchill throughout the year and I thought that this one was pretty good. I thought that Gary Oldman did a believable job portraying the icon. He was able to master the motions of the PM and his polarizing nature. Kazuhiro Tsuji, the make-up artist, for the movie did a superb job transforming Gary Oldman, a man of smaller stature to a heavier set Churchill.
I thought the nomination for costume design was just, the costumes and even the sets were able to help transform you to the 1940s. The nomination for best picture, I didn’t quite agree with. Even though the script was interesting and did a great job in delivering some new trinkets about Winston that I hadn’t seen in some other versions, it was a little dry and dialogue heavy. It also didn’t go as far as I would have liked for it to go in the historical timeline. It briefly touched on Dunkirk but I would have liked for it to have gone a few years further than that.
Overall it was a movie that is worth checking out once but not one that I would seek out again.
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