The Whistleblower
2011
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British Academy of Film & Television Arts Outstanding British Film 2017 · Nominated
Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref(s) AARP Annual Movies for Grownups Awards: 6 February 2017 Best Supporting Actor Timothy Spall: Nominated British Academy Film Awards: 12 February 2017: Best British Film: Gary Foster, David Hare and Russ Krasnoff Nominated
Oct 21, 2016 · Based on the acclaimed book "History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier," DENIAL recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt's (Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz) legal battle for historical truth against David Irving (Cannes Award winner Timothy Spall), who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier.
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- Biography, Drama
- Mick Jackson
- 2016-10-21
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Sep 11, 2016 · Denial is a film that makes few missteps, ... Like her Academy Award-winning role as the Amnesty activist in The Constant Gardener, she is a rousing, articulate heroine channeling her passion and ...
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Story. Based on the acclaimed book Denial: Holocaust History on Trial, DENIAL recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt’s (Academy Award® winner Rachel Weisz) legal battle for historical truth against David Irving (BAFTA nominee Timothy Spall), who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier.
At the nasty center of the otherwise dutiful “ Denial” is a slimy, self-aggrandizing upper-class blowhard of a bigot who believes he has every right to circulate hateful and hurtful falsehoods to his followers—including white supremacists and Neo-Nazis—without suffering consequences or being called out for his actions.
Also starring two-time Academy Award nominee Tom Wilkinson, the film is directed by Emmy Award winner Mick Jackson ("Temple Grandin") and adapted for the screen by BAFTA and Academy Award nominated writer David Hare (THE READER). Produced by Gary Foster and Russ Krasnoff.
Denial is a 2016 biographical film directed by Mick Jackson and written by David Hare, based on Deborah Lipstadt's 2005 book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier. It dramatises the Irving v Penguin Books Ltd case, in which Lipstadt, a Holocaust scholar, was sued by David Irving,
