LOS ANGELES (AP) — Graham Moore brought the Academy Awards audience to its feet in a standing ovation when the Oscar winner for best adapted screenplay revealed during an emotional acceptance speech that as an awkward, unhappy teenager he had attempted suicide. Moore had begun his acceptance speech in a more lighthearted tone, thanking numerous people, before noting that his film's subject, Alan Turing, never got the chance to stand on a stage and accept a similar honor. "[...] that's the most unfair thing I think I've ever heard," he said. Turing, the emotionally fragile genius whose work helped crack the Nazi code and shorten World War II, committed suicide in 1954 after being prosecuted by British authorities for being gay, which was unlawful in the U.K.
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