Awaiting For a Miracle

Awaiting For a Miracle is a 2014 American Drama film written and directed by Alfonso Cuáron starring Robert Downey, Jr., Tony Todd, Ron Perlman, Jodie Foster, Chloe Grace Moretz, Tommy Lee Jones, Elijah Wood, Thomas-Brodie Sangster, Robert Englund and Maggie Smith.

The film was teatrically released on December 12th, 2014, and was screened into selected audiences at Cairns and New York Film Festivals to phenomenal praise.

The film worked as a both critical, commercial and box office success, generally praised for it's strong story, characters, realism and acting.

Robert Downey, Jr. was awarded with his first Oscar for Best Lead Actor, being his third nomination. The film itself was awarded with many more nominations.

Chloe Grace Morets was awarded with her first Oscar nomination, but losing out to Vera Farmiga in Truce. Tony Todd was nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Jodie Foster was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. The film itself was awarded for Best Picture.

The film is set in Ohio witch served as the principal location for filming. Filming also took place in Chicago and Manhattan.

Production
Production for Awaiting For a Miracle began very early in 2013 following the commercial success of Cuáron's Gravity, Alfonso stated he would like to pursue ways of invating his films more.