Amy Adams presented the accolade to Benedict Cumberbatch of The Imitation Game. "Gosh, you make microphones small in this part of the world!" he said onstage. "[Alan Turing] was and is a hero of all time, I think, a man who is a gay icon, who didn't deny his nature, his being, and for that he suffered. … This is a story that celebrates him, that celebrates outsiders; it celebrates anybody who's every felt different and ostracized and ever suffered prejudice."
