The Theory of Everything (2014 James Marsh)

Eddie Redmayne's astonishing as Hawking, easily matched by Felicity Jones in Anthony McCarten's well-written adaptation of Jane Hawking's book. (It must be easier to give a better performance if the person you're opposite is fantastic.) Felicity's face - to steal Orson Welles - would make a stone cry.

With David Thewlis, Simon McBurney (who's getting around a lot these days), Emily Watson and Charlie Cox.

Shot in diffused manner by Benoit Delhomme and featuring a stunning closing montage - in which the film flies backwards - by Jinx Godfrey, who also cut Marsh's Man on Wire and that Red Riding episode.

That great line "I predict that I am wrong" sure sounds like one of Hawkings' own, but I can't corroborate that.