Keira Knightley gets Best Actress BIFA Nomination for 'The Imitation Game', to attend Hollywood Film Awards, to make Broadway debut in 'Therese Raquin,' and will be featured on Variety's 'Actors on Actors' conversations series!

Some interesting Keira Knightley news to post here to get you going this Friday morning/afternoon (depending on which location or time zone you're in)...First of, the fourth movie (the previously 3 were Jack Ryan, Begin Again, and Laggies) for Keira Knightley to be released in US theaters this year is The Imitation Game, which will be opening in select theaters later this month. Previously scheduled for November 21st, it has recently been pushed back a week for November 28th. Also, Keira is nominated for Best Actress in her supporting role for The Imitation Game. She's confirmed to attend next Friday's Hollywood Film Awards, and will be featured in Variety's "Actors on Actors" conversation series. Plus two new The Imitation Game promotional images of Keira. Scroll down below to read more...

The Imitation Game

English mathematician and logician, Alan Turing, helps crack the Enigma code during World War II.

Also starring Matthew Goode, Allen Leech, Rory Kinnear, Charles Dance, and Matthew Beard, the film opens in US Theaters November 21st November 28th, 2014. 

 (source: The Imitation Game FB page)

The 2014 Moet British Independent Film Awards
The 2014 British Independent Film Awards will be announced on Sunday 7th December, at Old Billingsgate in central London.

BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM
'71
Calvary
Mr Turner
Pride
The Imitation Game

BEST SCREENPLAY
Graham Moore – The Imitation Game
Gregory Burke – '71
John Michael McDonagh – Calvary
Jon Ronson, Peter Straughan – Frank
Stephen Beresford – Pride

BEST ACTRESS
Alicia Vikander – Testament of Youth
Cheng Pei Pei – Lilting
Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Belle
Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game
Sameena Jabeen Ahmed – Catch Me Daddy

BEST ACTOR
Asa Butterfield – X+Y
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
Brendan Gleeson – Calvary
Jack O'Connell – '71
Timothy Spall – Mr Turner

See complete list of BIFA Nominations here.

From Hollywood Film Awards website:

More stars announced to attend the Hollywood Film Awards

The Hollywood Film Awards today (October 30th) announced additional stars scheduled to appear at the inaugural broadcast of The Hollywood Film Awards live from the Hollywood Palladium, Friday, November 14, 2014 (8:00-10:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network. Host Queen Latifah will welcome Amy Adams, Ben Affleck, Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr., Jonah Hill, Keira Knightley and Kristen Stewart. Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Janelle Monáe will also take to the stage for a special musical performance. They join previously announced guests Gerard Butler, Robert Duvall, Michael Keaton, Julianne Moore, Jack O’Connell, Chris Pratt, Channing Tatum, Jean-Marc Vallée, Reese Witherspoon and Shailene Woodley. The Hollywood Film Awards, the official launch of the awards season™, has recognized excellence in the art of cinema and filmmaking for 17 years, honoring some of the world’s biggest stars.

Speaking of the Hollywood Film Awards (HFA), it just unveiled some of its 9 winners including the following:

The 2014 “Hollywood Film Awards” winners are:

• Hollywood Film Composer Award

Alexandre Desplat, “The Imitation Game”

• Hollywood Sound Award

Ren Klyce, “Gone Girl”

And Keira will be featured on Variety's "Actors on Actors" conversations and she will be in conversation with Boyhood's Ethan Hawke.

Here's an article via Variety...

Variety‘s awards season events continue to grow with the “Actors on Actors” conversations set to be shown on PBS SoCal. The interview show features one-on-one conversations between actors and actresses including Benedict Cumberbatch, Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon and Jessica Chastain in discussion with one another about their craft and films.

Four episodes of the Variety Studio series will air, starting on December 21 at 7 p.m. Subsequent episodes are set for Sunday, December 28 at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. and on January 4 at 7 p.m. WNET in New York will also air the series, which will be distributed to PBS stations around the country in January. The videos will also stream on Variety.com beginning November 18.

Featured conversations will include: Cumberbatch (“The Imitation Game”) with Ed Norton (“Birdman”), Gyllenhaal (“Nightcrawler”) with Patricia Arquette (“Boyhood”), Josh Brolin (“Inherent Vice”) with J.K. Simmons (“Whiplash”), Oscar Isaac (“A Most Violent Year”) with Gugu Mbatha Raw (“Belle”), Eddie Redmayne (“Theory of Everything”) with Laura Dern (“Wild”), Witherspoon (“Wild”) with Michael Keaton (“Birdman”), Hilary Swank (“Homesman”) with Tilda Swinton (“Snowpiercer”), Keira Knightley “(The Imitation Game”) with Ethan Hawke (“Boyhood”), Jessica Chastain (“A Most Violent Year & Interstellar”) with Mark Ruffalo (“Foxcatcher”), David Oyelewo (“Selma”) with Jack O’Connell (“Unbroken”), Jenny Slate (“Obvious Child”) with Felicity Jones (“Theory of Everything”), Marion Cotillard (“Two Days, One Night”) with Timothy Spall (“Mr. Turner”), Christoph Waltz (“Big Eyes”) with Ralph Fiennes (“Grand Budapest Hotel”), Jennifer Aniston (“Cake”) with Emily Blunt (“Into The Woods”), and James Corden (“Into The Woods”) with Kevin Costner (“Black and White”).

 Plus, according to THR...

 Keira Knightley to Make Broadway Debut in 'Therese Raquin'

A 19^th century novel about adultery, madness and guilt that caused a scandal when it was first published and brought its young author, Emile Zola, lifelong notoriety will provide the stage vehicle for Keira Knightley’s Broadway debut. Knightley will star in British playwright Helen Edmundson’s adaptation of the French classic, Therese Raquin, directed by Evan Cabnet. The production will kick off Roundabout Theatre Company’s 50^th anniversary season, beginning previews on Oct. 1, 2015, with official opening set for Oct. 29.

The casting of Knightley represents a major coup for Roundabout. The actress has made successful theatrical appearances in London’s West End in The Misanthrope and Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour, but was believed to have long been looking for a project to bring to Broadway.

The title character in the Paris-set Therese Raquin is a bored woman trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly, egocentric cousin. Her life is irrevocably changed when she enters into a torrid affair with a friend of her husband’s, which compels them to commit a violent crime that will prove as damaging to the perpetrators as it is to its victim.

The full cast and design team for the production are to be announced, along with the Broadway venue.