Focus Features makes its Oscar play this year with a biopic about Stephen Hawking, starring Eddie Redmayne as the famous scientist. This mainly looks to me to be an acting showcase for the two leads (Felicity Jones plays his wife, and was in last year's The Invisible Woman). It does look pretty good, but it will probably have to compete for attention with the other British biopic coming out at the same time, The Imitation Game, which centers on Alan Turing. Theory comes out in November.
