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Gary Oldman and Joe Wright sing 'Hey Jude' with 450 extras on set of Darkest Hour

Oldman is tipped as a frontrunner for the Oscar for Best Actor thanks to his performance in the film

Roisin O'Connor

Saturday 13 January 2018 15:59

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Darkest Hour's 450 MPs perform Hey Jude with Gary Oldman

Director Joe Wright was filmed leading a warmup singalong of “Hey Jude” by The Beatles with 450 film extras as Gary Oldman made his entrance as Winston Churchill.

The footage was taken by actor Samuel West who said he had been waiting for a year to be able to post it.

The film recreated the political chamber at Leavesden Studios near Watford, and also stars Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James.

Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018

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Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Director: Martin McDonagh

Cast: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Caleb Landry Jones

Plot: In this darkly comic drama, a mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder, when they fail to catch the culprit.

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Call Me By Your Name

Director: Luca Guadagnino

Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg

Plot: A young man named Elio, living in Italy during the 1980s, meets Oliver, an academic who has come to stay at his parents' villa, and a passionate relationship develops between them, as they bond over their sexuality, their Jewish heritage, and the landscape.

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Dunkirk

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Cast: Harry Styles, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance

Plot: In May 1940, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk. Under air and ground cover from British and French forces, troops were slowly and methodically evacuated from the beach using every serviceable naval and civilian vessel that could be found. At the end of this heroic mission, 330,000 French, British, Belgian and Dutch soldiers were safely evacuated.

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Get Out

Director: Jordan Peele

Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener

Plot: This horror drama follows a young interracial couple who visit the girl's parents only for her boyfriend to uncover a conspiracy whereby young black adults are being captured.

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Downsizing

Director: Alexander Payne

Cast: Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christopher Waltz, Alec Baldwin

Plot: A man and his wife join a community of miniaturized people after undergoing a process to shrink themselves.

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The Florida Project

Director:Sean Baker

Cast:Willem Dafoe, Bria Vinaite, Brooklynn Prince

Plot: A precocious 6-year-old and her friends are homeless, living in extended-stay motels, but their summer is still filled with childhood wonder and adventure.

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The Post

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Alison Brie, Sarah Paulson

Plot: Ben Bradlee and Kay Graham of The Washington Post challenge the federal government for the right to publish classified information in 1971.

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The Shape of Water

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Cast: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer, Doug Jones

Plot: In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.

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Molly's Game

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The Big Sick

Director: Michael Showalter

Cast: Kumail Najiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano

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Mudbound

Director: Dee Rees

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Phantom Thread

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Lady Bird

Director: Greta Gerwig

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Beanie Feldstein, Tracy Letts

Plot: Gerwig's deirectorial debut is a coming-of-age story about a high-school senior (Ronan) and her turbulent relationship with her mother (Metcalf).

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Darkest Hour

Director: Joe Wright

Cast: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Ben Mendelsohn

Plot: The film follows Winston Churchill's early days as Prime Minister while Hitler closes in on Britain during World War II.

West, aged 51, took to Twitter with the video and captioned it: “Been waiting to post this for a year. Joe Wright, director of Darkest Hour, leads 450 MPs in a warmup sing of ‘Hey Jude’ between takes. ‘Gary Oldman as Churchill makes an entrance at the end. Darkest Hour is released in the UK today. Hope you like it.”

As Oldman enters the room he is immediately noticed by the film extras, who stop to give him cheers and applause.

The actor recently won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama for his portrayal of Churchill and also received a Bafta nomination, with several critics tipping him as an Oscars frontrunner for Best Actor.

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