The NSA's illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency's employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press... Read allThe NSA's illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency's employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press.The NSA's illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency's employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 7 nominations
Ken Thomas
- Warrenton Gate Guard
- (as Kenneth Thomas)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaTo make sure the screenplay was not hacked or leaked, Oliver Stone wrote the script on a single computer with no Internet connection.
- GoofsDespite being portrayed as an extremely skilled hacker, Snowden uses drag-and-drop to copy the files to his microSD card in the Hawaii NSA base, exposing himself to being found due to the tens of file copy dialogs that pop up on the screen. Any sort of power user, let alone a hacker, would have used the command line, and would have minimized the window so it wouldn't stay visible on the screen.
- Quotes
Edward Snowden: Terrorism is just an excuse.
- SoundtracksSecret Downloading
Written and Produced by Craig Armstrong
Programming by Craig Armstrong and Scott Fraser
Remixed by Boys Noize
Additional Production and Programming by Boys Noize (as Alex Ridha)
Featured review
It's a great Oliver stone movie, seems right up his alley to do a film About a conspiracy and about questioning the government.
It's weird when people do movies about such recent events but hey that's how fast the media works these days.
It's a great ensemble cast as Stone tells the story of Edward Snowden who discovered that the government was spying on us weather we did anything wrong or not and decides to let us all know.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Snowden as a very likable guy, even if he was a Bush supporter, but most importantly he was a dude who loves his country and felt what they were doing to its citizens was wrong.
As Snowden, Levitt had the biggest chunk of screen time in a film filled with well know actors taking small, but important roles, like Zachary Quinto who played the guardian journalist chosen to tell Snowden's story and Nicolas Cage who's character acted like a mentor for Snowden's at the CIA.
Stone's fairness to the whole situation is painting a lovely portrait of the whistle blower himself
It's weird when people do movies about such recent events but hey that's how fast the media works these days.
It's a great ensemble cast as Stone tells the story of Edward Snowden who discovered that the government was spying on us weather we did anything wrong or not and decides to let us all know.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Snowden as a very likable guy, even if he was a Bush supporter, but most importantly he was a dude who loves his country and felt what they were doing to its citizens was wrong.
As Snowden, Levitt had the biggest chunk of screen time in a film filled with well know actors taking small, but important roles, like Zachary Quinto who played the guardian journalist chosen to tell Snowden's story and Nicolas Cage who's character acted like a mentor for Snowden's at the CIA.
Stone's fairness to the whole situation is painting a lovely portrait of the whistle blower himself
- subxerogravity
- Sep 17, 2016
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- Also known as
- The Snowden Files
- Filming locations
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Box office
- Budget
- $40,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $21,587,519
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,000,058
- Sep 18, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $37,357,216
- Runtime2 hours 14 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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