<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $21 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $80.6 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 Cold War espionage film directed by Tomas Alfredson . The screenplay was written by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan, based on John le Carré's 1974 novel of the same name . The film, starring Gary Oldman as George Smiley, along with Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Ciarán Hinds, and featuring David Dencik, is set in London in the early 1970s and follows the hunt for a Soviet double agent at the top of the British secret service . </P> <P> The film was produced and financed by France's StudioCanal . It premiered in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival . It was a critical and commercial success, and was the highest - grossing film at the British box office for three consecutive weeks . It won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film . The film also received three Academy Awards nominations: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and for Oldman, Best Actor . </P>

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