I don’t think BC is a household name, but he is pretty well known. Sherlock was a massive hit and really put him on the map (on on Time’s cover last year). Plus his name is odd but catchy- and probably some people know the name and not the actor. That will change soon. Oddly enough- Alan Turing is not really well known in the USA- and his name will surely become more known very soon too. And that’s a good thing.
Wasn’t he on the cover last year? I’m sure there are a few cumberb*tches working in the TIME offices. He looks great. I’m looking forward to The Imitation Game and I’m especially pulling for a Keira Knightley victory. The Oscar prognosticators are under Arquette’s spell but Ms. Knightley, I feel, is a threat. She’s delivering eloquent speeches, pushing her feminist agenda and charming audiences. She’s paid her dues and AMPAS might be itching to reward her.
Re Cumberbatch on Time covers for two consecutive years, well, perhaps, it is mainly just the right timing considering last year’s subject (Anglophone) journalist and publisher/editor-in-chief of Wikileaks Julian P. Assange, and this year’s British “mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and pioneering computer scientist” [let me take one-minute break . . . ] Alan Turing, “a key figure in cracking Nazi Germany’s Enima Code”. The nature and gravity of what they both have done, as well as considering Time, its own nature and prestige, etc., and perhaps, some great PR efforts either directly from Cumberbatch’s camp, the respective studios’, or both, I could see this happen almost like a walk in the park for BP and all involved.
Anyway, I love this cover. Nice camera work and, I guess, some good photoshop, etc. The bottom line is that it is a beautiful portrait piece. BC is in a sense a lucky guy in my book, considering the mag’s global prestige.
Can’t wait for the film either; pretty excited. Heard he’s great in it.
“I have nothing against the Cucumber, but still, does any else think he is overexposed?”
Actually, I don’t think that manyt Americans really know who he is. Maybe it’s different in England.
There seems to be a lot of momentum with both THE IMITATION GAME and Benedict Cumberbatch – audience prize at Toronto, cover story on TIME. Shortly before they won their Academy Awards, both Emma Thompson (for HOWARDS END) and Daniel Day Lewis (for LINCOLN) made the cover of TIME.
Christophe, I wouldn’t be surprised if he won the Oscar this year. He’s campaigning his ass off. But then again so did Leo last year and we all know how that turned out.
I have nothing against the Cucumber, but still, does any else think he is overexposed? He seems to be everywhere all the time. Seriously, two covers on Time in two years?
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I don’t think BC is a household name, but he is pretty well known. Sherlock was a massive hit and really put him on the map (on on Time’s cover last year). Plus his name is odd but catchy- and probably some people know the name and not the actor. That will change soon. Oddly enough- Alan Turing is not really well known in the USA- and his name will surely become more known very soon too. And that’s a good thing.
Wasn’t he on the cover last year? I’m sure there are a few cumberb*tches working in the TIME offices. He looks great. I’m looking forward to The Imitation Game and I’m especially pulling for a Keira Knightley victory. The Oscar prognosticators are under Arquette’s spell but Ms. Knightley, I feel, is a threat. She’s delivering eloquent speeches, pushing her feminist agenda and charming audiences. She’s paid her dues and AMPAS might be itching to reward her.
Re Cumberbatch on Time covers for two consecutive years, well, perhaps, it is mainly just the right timing considering last year’s subject (Anglophone) journalist and publisher/editor-in-chief of Wikileaks Julian P. Assange, and this year’s British “mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and pioneering computer scientist” [let me take one-minute break . . . ] Alan Turing, “a key figure in cracking Nazi Germany’s Enima Code”. The nature and gravity of what they both have done, as well as considering Time, its own nature and prestige, etc., and perhaps, some great PR efforts either directly from Cumberbatch’s camp, the respective studios’, or both, I could see this happen almost like a walk in the park for BP and all involved.
Anyway, I love this cover. Nice camera work and, I guess, some good photoshop, etc. The bottom line is that it is a beautiful portrait piece. BC is in a sense a lucky guy in my book, considering the mag’s global prestige.
Can’t wait for the film either; pretty excited. Heard he’s great in it.
“I have nothing against the Cucumber, but still, does any else think he is overexposed?”
Actually, I don’t think that manyt Americans really know who he is. Maybe it’s different in England.
What is the deal with Time and Benedict Cumberbatch?
There seems to be a lot of momentum with both THE IMITATION GAME and Benedict Cumberbatch – audience prize at Toronto, cover story on TIME. Shortly before they won their Academy Awards, both Emma Thompson (for HOWARDS END) and Daniel Day Lewis (for LINCOLN) made the cover of TIME.
Christophe, I wouldn’t be surprised if he won the Oscar this year. He’s campaigning his ass off. But then again so did Leo last year and we all know how that turned out.
Nick Johnson,
He’ll probably break away, once he has broken the Oscar code.
Unless the code remains unbroken, and the gold goes to Unbroken.
I have nothing against the Cucumber, but still, does any else think he is overexposed? He seems to be everywhere all the time. Seriously, two covers on Time in two years?
They must really love him! He was already on the cover last year:
http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2013/10/benedict-cumberbatch-on-the-cover-of-time/
Hopefully, it will bring him Oscar luck this time around!