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Ex Machina is a 2015 British science fiction and drama film directed and written by Alex Garland. The cast includes Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, and Corey Johnson. Produced by Andrew Macdonald and Scott Rudin, the film was distributed by A24 and Universal Pictures. It features music by Geoff Barrow and was edited by Mark Day.
The movie has a runtime of 108 minutes and was filmed in London, Pinewood Studios, Sognefjord, and Valldalen. With a budget of 15,000,000, it generated revenue of 36,869,414. The film received an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Original and Adapted Screenplay, and European Film Award for Best Actress. Its main subjects include artificial intelligence, androids, and mad scientists.
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7.6Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.
Cast
- Domhnall Gleeson as Caleb
- Alicia Vikander as Ava
- Oscar Isaac as Nathan
- Sonoya Mizuno as Kyoko
- Corey Johnson as Jay
- Claire Selby as Lily
Themes
- android
- dancing
- friendship
- man vs machine
- distrust
- artificial intelligence (a.i.)
- isolation
- technology
- manipulation
- high technology
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Alex Garland
- Written by
- Alex Garland
- Produced by
- Andrew Macdonald Allon Reich
- Starring
- Domhnall Gleeson Alicia Vikander Oscar Isaac
- Cinematography
- Rob Hardy
- Edited by
- Mark Day
- Music by
- Ben Salisbury Geoff Barrow
- Production companies
- Film4 DNA Films
- Distributed by
- A24 (United States) Universal Pictures International (International)
- Release dates
- 16 December 2014 ( 2014-12-16 ) ( BFI Southbank ) 21 January 2015 ( 2015-01-21 ) (United Kingdom) 10 April 2015 ( 2015-04-10 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 108 minutes
- Countries
- United Kingdom United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $15 million
- Box office
- $37.3 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Ex Machina is a 2014 science fiction film, written and directed by Alex Garland in his directorial debut. It stars Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, and Oscar Isaac. It follows a programmer who is invited by his CEO to administer the Turing test to an intelligent female humanoid robot.
Ex Machina premiered at the BFI Southbank on 16 December 2014. It was released in the United Kingdom on 21 January 2015, by Universal Pictures International, and in the United States on 10 April 2015, by A24. It grossed over $36.8 million worldwide on a $15 million budget.
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