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This article is about the 2017 war drama film. For the 2011 science fiction film, see The Darkest Hour (film).
Darkest Hour
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Joe Wright
Produced by
Tim Bevan
Lisa Bruce
Eric Fellner
Anthony McCarten
Douglas Urbanski
Written by
Anthony McCarten
Starring
Gary Oldman
Kristin Scott Thomas
Lily James
Stephen Dillane
Ronald Pickup
Ben Mendelsohn
Music by
Dario Marianelli
Cinematography
Bruno Delbonnel
Edited by
Valerio Bonelli
Production
company
Perfect World Pictures
Working Title Films
Distributed by
Focus Features
Universal Pictures[1]
Release date
1 September 2017 (2017-09-01) (Telluride)
22 November 2017 (2017-11-22) (United States)
12 January 2018 (2018-01-12) (United Kingdom)
Running time
125 minutes[2]
Country
United Kingdom
United States[3]
Language
English
Budget
$30 million[4]
Box office
$147.6 million[5]
Darkest Hour is a 2017 war drama film directed by Joe Wright and written by Anthony McCarten. It stars Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill, and is an account of his early days as Prime Minister, as Nazi Germany swept across Western Europe, threatening to defeat the United Kingdom during World War II. The Nazi advance leads to friction at the highest levels of government between those who would make a peace treaty with Hitler, and Churchill, who refused. The film also stars Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Ben Mendelsohn, Stephen Dillane, and Ronald Pickup.
The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on 1 September 2017,[6] and also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.[7] It began a limited release in the United States on 22 November 2017, followed by general release on 22 December, and was released on 12 January 2018 in the United Kingdom.[8] The film grossed $147 million worldwide and received positive reviews.
Many critics noted Oldman's performance as one of the best of his career; he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for his work.[9] At the 90th Academy Awards the film earned six nominations, including Best Picture, and won for Best Actor and Best Makeup and Hairstyling. At the 71st British Academy Film Awards it received nine nominations including Best Film and Outstanding British Film.[10]
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
4.1 Box office
4.2 Critical response
5 Historical inaccuracies
6 Awards and honours
7 Sequel
8 Notes
9 References
10 External links
Plot[edit]
In May 1940, the opposition Labour Party in Parliament demands the resignation of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain for being too weak in the face of the Nazi onslaught. Chamberlain tells Conservative Party advisers that he wants Lord Halifax as his successor, but Halifax does not feel the time is right. Chamberlain is forced to choose the only man whom the opposition parties will accept: Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty.
Churchill tries to dismiss his new secretary Elizabeth Layton for mis-hearing him, which earns him a rebuke from his wife Clementine. King George VI, who strongly distrusts Churchill, reluctantly invites him to form a government. Churchill includes Chamberlain and Halifax.
Although he was right about the danger from Adolf Hitler, Churchill has a poor reputation because of his record in the Admiralty, the Gallipoli Campaign in the First World War, his views on India and his support for Edward VIII during the Abdication Crisis. Parliament reacts coolly to Churchill's first speech promising "Blood, toil, tears and sweat," for which he is chastised by the King. Churchill refuses to negotiate for peace, believing that the Germans are untrustworthy, but the French Prime Minister thinks him delusional for not admitting that the Allies are losing the Battle of France. Halifax and Chamberlain are keen to use Italian Ambassador Giuseppe Bastianini as intermediary to negotiate with Germany. They plan to resign from the government if Churchill refuses and use a vote of no confidence to replace him with Halifax.
The British Expeditionary Force is trapped at Dunkirk and Calais. Against the advice of the War Cabinet, Churchill orders Brigadier Claude Nicholson in Calais to lead the 30th Infantry Brigade in a suicide attack to distract the enemy and buy time for the soldiers at Dunkirk to evacuate.
The debacle in France causes the War Cabinet to support negotiating with Germany. George VI unexpectedly visits Churchill; the King encourages the Prime Minister to continue the war. Still uncertain of what to do, Churchill impulsively rides the London Underground (for the first time in his life) and asks the startled passengers their opinion; the civilians unanimously want to continue to fight. Churchill meets with the Outer Cabinet[11] and other Members of Parliament, who also support him. The evacuation of troops from Dunkirk, Operation Dynamo, is successful.
As Churchill prepares to address Parliament, Halifax asks Chamberlain to continue with their plan to resign, but Chamberlain decides to listen to the address first. Towards the end of his speech, Churchill proclaims that "we shall fight on the beaches" should the Germans invade. Chamberlain decides to support Churchill, and Parliament applauds the Prime Minister's defiance.
Cast[edit]
Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill
Kristin Scott Thomas as Clementine Churchill
Lily James as Elizabeth Layton
Ben Mendelsohn as King George VI
Stephen Dillane as Edward Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax
Ronald Pickup as Neville Chamberlain
Nicholas Jones as John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon
Samuel West as Anthony Eden
David Schofield as Clement Attlee
Richard Lumsden as Major-General Hastings Ismay
Malcolm Storry as General Sir Edmund Ironside
Hilton McRae as Arthur Greenwood
Benjamin Whitrow as Sir Samuel Hoare. This film was Benjamin Whitrow's final film before his death on September 28, 2017.[12]
Joe Armstrong as John Evans
Adrian Rawlins as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
David Bamber as Vice-Admiral Bertram Ramsay
David Strathairn as Franklin D. Roosevelt (voice only)
Jeremy Child as James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope
Brian Pettifer as Sir Kingsley Wood
Michael Gould as Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry
John Atterbury as Sir Alexander Cadogan
Production[edit]
Filming took place at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, England as well as the Town Hall.
On 5 February 2015, it was announced that Working Title Films had acquired Darkest Hour, a speculative screenplay by The Theory of Everything screenwriter Anthony McCarten, about Winston Churchill in the early days of World War II.[13]
On 29 March 2016, it was reported that Joe Wright was in talks to direct the film.[14] In April 2016, Gary Oldman was reported to be in talks to play Churchill.[15] On 6 September 2016, it was announced that Focus Features would release the film in the United States on 24 November 2017, while Ben Mendelsohn was set to play King George VI and Kristin Scott Thomas was cast as Clementine Churchill.[8] On 8 November 2016, Stephen Dillane joined the cast.[16]
By November 2016, Darkest Hour had begun principal photography,[17] and it was reported that Dario Marianelli would score the film.[18] For his role as Churchill, Oldman spent over 200 hours having make-up applied, and smoked over 400 cigars (worth about $20,000) during filming.[19][4] Filming took place in Manchester, England at both the Town Hall and John Rylands Library, both doubling for the Houses of Parliament and feature heavily in the film.[20]
John Hurt was initially cast as British prime minister Neville Chamberlain.[21] However, according to Oldman, Hurt was undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer and was unable to attend the read-throughs.[22] Ronald Pickup assumed the role of Chamberlain instead. Hurt died from cancer in January 2017.[23]
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
As of 15 April 2018[update], Darkest Hour has grossed $56.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $91.1 million in other countries (including $28.8 million in the UK), for a worldwide total of $147.5 million.[5]
In the United States and Canada, the film began a limited release on 22 November 2017. In its first five days, it grossed $246,761 from four theatres (an average of $61,690), finishing 21st at the box office over the weekend.[24][25] The film had its wide release on 22 December 2017, alongside the openings of Downsizing, Pitch Perfect 3 and Father Figures, and the wide release of The Shape of Water, and grossed $3.9 million from 804 theatres over that weekend, and $5.5 million over the four-day Christmas frame.[26] 85% of its audience was over the age of 25, with 30% being 50 or older.[27] The following weekend the film made $5.5 million, and a total of $7 million over the four-day New Years frame.[28] The weekend of 27 January 2018, following the announcement of the film's six Oscar nominations, it made $2.1 million.[29]
Critical response[edit]
Gary Oldman's performance as Winston Churchill garnered widespread critical acclaim and earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor.
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 85% based on 252 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Darkest Hour is held together by Gary Oldman's electrifying performance, which brings Winston Churchill to life even when the movie's narrative falters."[30] On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating to reviews, the film has a normalised score of 75 out of 100, based on 50 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[31] PostTrak reported that over 90% of audience members gave the film a rating of either "excellent" or "very good".[25]
Oldman received praise for his performance, with numerous critics labelling him a frontrunner to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, an award he would later go on to win.[32] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote: "Get busy engraving Oldman's name on an Oscar... those fearing that Darkest Hour is nothing but a dull tableau of blowhard stuffed shirts will be relieved to know that they're in for a lively, provocative historical drama that runs on its own nonstop creative fire."[33] David Ehrlich of IndieWire praised Wright's direction and the musical score, writing: "Unfolding with the clockwork precision of a Broadway play... it's a deliciously unsubtle testament to the power of words and their infinite capacity to inspire."[34]
Conversely, Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com called the film "an acting exercise weighed down by costumes, make-up, and over-lighting", adding that "there's nothing new to the approach. It feels often like an obligation—a story that someone felt should be told again and a way to get a great actor his Oscar".[35]
Historical inaccuracies[edit]
Writing in Slate, historian and academic John Broich calls Darkest Hour "a piece of historical fiction that undertakes a serious historical task," presenting the British decision to fight Hitler as a choice, not as inevitable. The situation in 1940 was as dire as depicted, but liberties were taken with the facts.[36] The on-screen shouting matches over possible peace negotiations were fictional. Churchill privately said he would consider terms offered by Hitler, but the film implies he never considered this. The ride on the London Underground was fictional, and there is historical evidence that most British people were not immediately inspired by Churchill's speeches. George Orwell believed that ordinary people already felt subjugated and might not object to a "new order."[36]
There is no conclusive evidence that Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax were planning an imminent vote of no confidence, though that threat existed until early victories, and it is also historical fact that Churchill was an object of suspicion by his fellow Tories.[36]
In The New Yorker in January 2018, Adam Gopnik wrote: "…in late May of 1940, when the Conservative grandee Lord Halifax challenged Churchill, insisting that it was still possible to negotiate a deal with Hitler, through the good offices of Mussolini, it was the steadfast anti-Nazism of Attlee and his Labour colleagues that saved the day - a vital truth badly underdramatized in the current Churchill-centric film, Darkest Hour".[37] This criticism was echoed by Adrian Smith, emeritus professor of modern history at the University of Southampton, who wrote in the New Statesman that the film was "yet again overlooking Labour's key role at the most dangerous moment in this country's history ... in May 1940 its leaders gave Churchill the unequivocal support he needed when refusing to surrender. Ignoring Attlee's vital role is just one more failing in a deeply flawed film".[38]
Referring to Charles Moore's comment that the film was "superb Brexit propaganda", Afua Hirsch wrote in The Guardian: "I would call the film propaganda, more generally – and a great example of the kind of myth we like to promote in modern Britain. Churchill has been re-branded as a tube-travelling, minority-adoring genius, in line with a general understanding of him as 'the greatest Briton of all time'."[39]
The film gives the impression that both Clemmie and the King were able to listen to the 'beaches' speech live from Parliament. This was impossible as radio broadcasts from Parliament did not start until the 1970s. Whilst Churchill did record the speech for posterity he did not make the recording until 1949. Nor did he, unlike some other speeches, repeat the speech on the radio shortly after he made it in Parliament.[40]
Awards and honours[edit]
Award
Date of ceremony
Category
Recipient(s) and nominee(s)
Result
Ref(s)
AACTA International Awards
5 January 2018 Best Actor Gary Oldman Won [41]
Best Supporting Actor Ben Mendelsohn Nominated
Academy Awards
4 March 2018 Best Picture Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski Nominated [42]
Best Actor Gary Oldman Won
Best Production Design Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer Nominated
Best Cinematography Bruno Delbonnel Nominated
Best Makeup and Hairstyling Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick Won
Best Costume Design Jacqueline Durran Nominated
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
9 January 2018 Best Actor Gary Oldman Won [43]
American Society of Cinematographers
17 February 2018 Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases Bruno Delbonnel Nominated [44]
Art Directors Guild
27 January 2018 Excellence in Production Design for a Period Film Sarah Greenwood Nominated [45]
Austin Film Critics Association
8 January 2018 Best Actor Gary Oldman Nominated [46]
Best Cinematography Bruno Delbonnel Nominated
British Academy Film Awards
18 February 2018 Best Film Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski Nominated [47]
Best Actor in a Leading Role Gary Oldman Won
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Kristin Scott Thomas Nominated
Best Cinematography Bruno Delbonnel Nominated
Best British Film Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Urbanski and Joe Wright Nominated
Best Film Music Dario Marianelli Nominated
Best Production Design Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer Nominated
Best Costume Design Jacqueline Durran Nominated
Best Makeup and Hair David Malinowski, Ivana Primorac, Lucy Sibbick and Kazuhiro Tsuji Won
Cinema For Peace Awards
19 February 2018 Most Valuable Film of the Year Darkest Hour Nominated [48]
Chicago Film Critics Association
12 December 2017 Best Actor Gary Oldman Nominated [49]
[50]
Critics' Choice Movie Awards
11 January 2018 Best Picture Darkest Hour Nominated [51]
[52]
[53]
Best Actor Gary Oldman Won
Best Score Dario Marianelli Nominated
Best Makeup Darkest Hour Won
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association
13 December 2017 Best Film 10th Place [54]
Best Actor Gary Oldman Won
Detroit Film Critics Society
7 December 2017 Best Actor Nominated [55]
Dorian Awards
24 February 2018 Best Performance of the Year – Actor Nominated [56]
[57]
Empire Awards
18 March 2018 Best British Film Darkest Hour Pending [58]
[59]
Best Actor Gary Oldman Pending
Evening Standard British Film Awards
8 February 2018 Best Actor Nominated [60]
Florida Film Critics Circle
23 December 2017 Best Actor Runner-up [61]
[62]
Georgia Film Critics Association
12 January 2018 Best Actor Nominated [63]
Best Original Score Dario Marianelli Nominated
Golden Globe Awards
7 January 2018 Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Gary Oldman Won [64]
Hollywood Film Awards
6 November 2017 Hollywood Career Achievement Award Won [65]
Hollywood Director Award Joe Wright Won
Hollywood Costume Design Award Jacqueline Durran[a] Won
IGN Awards
19 December 2017 Best Drama Movie Darkest Hour Nominated [66]
Best Lead Performer in a Movie Gary Oldman Nominated
IndieWire Critics Poll
19 December 2017 Best Actor 5th Place[b] [67]
London Film Critics' Circle
28 January 2018 Actor of the Year Nominated [68]
British/Irish Actor of the Year Nominated
Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild
24 February 2018 Feature Motion Picture: Best Period and/or Character Makeup Ivana Primorac and Flora Moody Won [69]
Feature Motion Picture: Best Period and/or Character Hair Ivana Primorac and Flora Moody Nominated
Feature Motion Picture: Best Special Makeup Effects Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick Won
New York Film Critics Online
10 December 2017 Best Actor Gary Oldman Won [70]
[71]
Online Film Critics Society
28 December 2017 Best Actor Won [72]
[73]
Palm Springs International Film Festival
2 January 2018 Desert Palm Achievement Award for Best Actor Won [74]
San Diego Film Critics Society
11 December 2017 Best Actor Nominated [75]
[76]
San Francisco Film Critics Circle
10 December 2017 Best Actor Nominated [77]
Satellite Awards
10 February 2018 Best Actor – Motion Picture Won[c] [78]
Best Cinematography Bruno Delbonnel Nominated
Best Original Score Dario Marianelli Nominated
Best Editing Valerio Bonelli Nominated
Best Sound (Editing and Mixing) Darkest Hour Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards
21 January 2018 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Gary Oldman Won [79]
[80]
Seattle Film Critics Society
18 December 2017 Best Actor Nominated [81]
Best Costume Design Jacqueline Durran Nominated
St. Louis Film Critics Association
17 December 2017 Best Actor Gary Oldman Won [82]
Best Supporting Actress Kristin Scott Thomas Nominated
Best Cinematography Bruno Delbonnel Nominated
Best Editing Valerio Bonelli Nominated
Toronto Film Critics Association
10 December 2017 Best Actor Gary Oldman Runner-up [83]
Vancouver Film Critics Circle
6 January 2018 Best Actor Nominated [84]
Visual Effects Society Awards
13 February 2018 Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature Stephane Naze, Warwick Hewitt, Guillaume Terrien, Benjamin Magana Nominated [85]
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
8 December 2017 Best Actor Gary Oldman Won [86]
Women Film Critics Circle
17 December 2017 Best Actor Won [87]
[88]
Sequel[edit]
Gary Oldman has said that there is talk of a sequel to Darkest Hour that could also include President Franklin D. Roosevelt (who had been voiced by David Strathairn in Darkest Hour) and take place during the Yalta Conference in 1945.[89]
Notes[edit]
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Jump up ^ Tied with Daniel Kaluuya for Get Out.
Jump up ^ Tied with Harry Dean Stanton for Lucky
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2022 FIFA World Cup
كأس العالم لكرة القدم 2022
Kaʾs al-ʿālam li-kurat al-qadam 2022
Qatar 2022
Bid logo
Tournament details
Host country
Qatar
Dates
21 November – 18 December (28 days)
Teams
32 (from 5 or 6 confederations)
Venue(s)
8 or 12 (in 7 municipalities) (in 8 host cities)
← 2018
2026 →
The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be the 22nd edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international men's football championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It is scheduled to take place in Qatar in 2022. This will be the first World Cup held in Asia since the 2002 tournament in South Korea and Japan. This will also be the first World Cup ever to be held in the Middle East, and in an Arab and a Muslim-majority country. This tournament will be the last to involve 32 teams, with an increase to 48 teams scheduled from the 2026 tournament.
This will also mark the first World Cup not to be held in May, June or July; the tournament is instead scheduled for late November until mid-December.[1] It is to be played in a reduced timeframe of around 28 days, with the final being held on 18 December 2022, which is also Qatar National Day.[2]
Accusations of corruption have been made relating to how Qatar won the right to host the event. FIFA completed an internal investigation into these allegations and a report cleared Qatar of any wrongdoing, but the chief investigator Michael J. Garcia has since described FIFA's report on his inquiry as "materially incomplete and erroneous".[3] On 27 May 2015, Swiss federal prosecutors opened an investigation into corruption and money laundering related to the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.[4][5]
On 7 June 2015, it was announced that Qatar would possibly no longer be eligible to host the event, if evidence of bribery was proven. According to Domenico Scala, the head of FIFA's Audit And Compliance Committee: "Should there be evidence that the awards to Qatar and Russia came only because of bought votes, then the awards could be cancelled".[6][7]
Qatar has faced strong criticism due to the treatment of foreign workers involved in preparation for the World Cup, with Amnesty International referring to "forced labour" and stating that workers have been suffering human rights abuses, despite worker welfare standards being drafted in 2014.[8]
Contents
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1 Host selection
2 Possible expansion
3 Qualification
3.1 Qualified teams
4 Venues
5 Schedule
6 Controversies
6.1 Workers' conditions
6.2 Move to November and December
6.3 Bidding corruption allegations
7 Broadcasting rights
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
Host selection[edit]
Main articles: 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids and Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup bid
The bidding procedure to host the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups began in January 2009, and national associations had until 2 February 2009 to register their interest.[9] Initially, eleven bids were made for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, but Mexico later withdrew from proceedings,[10][11] and Indonesia's bid was rejected by FIFA in February 2010 after the Indonesian Football Association failed to submit a letter of Indonesian government guarantee to support the bid.[12] Indonesian officials had not ruled out a bid for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, until Qatar took the 2022 cup. During the bidding process, all non-UEFA nations gradually withdrew from the 2022 bids for the 2018 one, thus making the UEFA nations ineligible for the bid.
In the end, there were five bids for the 2022 FIFA World Cup: Australia, Japan, Qatar, South Korea and the United States. The twenty-two member FIFA Executive Committee convened in Zürich on 2 December 2010 to vote to select the hosts of both tournaments.[13] Two FIFA executive committee members were suspended before the vote in relation to allegations of corruption regarding their votes.[14] The decision to host the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, which was graded as having "high operational risk",[15] generated criticism from media commentators.[16] It has been criticised as many to be part of the FIFA corruption scandals.[17]
The voting patterns were as follows:[18]
2022 FIFA bidding (majority 12 votes)
Bidders
Votes
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Qatar 11 10 11 14
United States 3 5 6 8
South Korea 4 5 5 Eliminated
Japan 3 2 Eliminated
Australia 1 Eliminated
There have been allegations of bribery and corruption in the selection process involving members of FIFA's executive committee. These allegations are being investigated by FIFA. (See § Bidding corruption allegations, below.)
Qatar is the smallest nation by area ever to have been awarded a FIFA World Cup – the next smallest by area is Switzerland, host of the 1954 FIFA World Cup, which is more than three times as large as Qatar and only needed to host 16 teams instead of the current 32.
Possible expansion[edit]
On 12 April 2018, CONMEBOL requested FIFA to expand the 2022 FIFA World Cup from 32 to 48 teams, four years before the 2026 FIFA World Cup initially. FIFA President Infantino expressed an opening on this request.[19]
Qualification[edit]
The qualification process for the 2022 World Cup has not yet been announced. All FIFA member associations, of which there are currently 211, are eligible to enter qualification. Qatar, as hosts, qualified automatically for the tournament. However, the AFC allowed Qatar to participate in the Asian qualifying stage as the first two rounds also act as qualification for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup. If they reach the final stage, their choice on whether to continue with World Cup qualifying is subject to FIFA approval. If the hosts choose not to compete, the next-ranked team will advance instead.[20] For the first time after the initial two tournaments of 1930 and 1934, the World Cup will be hosted by a country whose national team has never played in the finals before.[21]
The allocation of slots for each confederation was discussed by the FIFA Executive Committee on 30 May 2015 in Zürich after the FIFA Congress.[22] It was decided that the same allocation as 2014 would be kept for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.[23]
The qualifying draw is scheduled to take place in July 2019.[24]
Qualified teams[edit]
Team
Qualified as
Qualified on
Previous appearances in tournament1
Previous best
performance
Qatar Host nation 01 !2 December 2010 None (debut) —
1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.
Venues[edit]
The first five proposed venues for the World Cup were unveiled at the beginning of March 2010. The stadiums aim to employ cooling technology capable of reducing temperatures within the stadium by up to 20 °C (36 °F), and the upper tiers of the stadiums will be disassembled after the World Cup and donated to countries with less developed sports infrastructure.[25] Qatar aims to build the stadiums with the highest sustainability and environmental standards. The stadiums will be equipped with cooling systems that are environmentally friendly overcoming the challenging environmental nature of the country. The plan is to build Zero Waste stadiums using environmentally friendly materials, harmless equipment, and ecologically sustainable solutions through the implementation of renewable and low energy solutions.[26] Qatar aspires to be compliant and certified by the Global Sustainability Assessment System (GSAS) for all the world cup stadiums. All of the five stadium projects launched have been designed by German architect Albert Speer & Partners.[27] Leading football clubs in Europe wanted the World Cup to take place from 28 April to 29 May rather than the typical June and July staging, due to concerns about the heat.[28]
A report released on 9 December 2010 quoted FIFA President Sepp Blatter as stating that other nations could host some matches during the World Cup. However, no specific countries were named in the report.[29] Blatter added that any such decision must be taken by Qatar first and then endorsed by FIFA's executive committee.[30] Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan told the Australian Associated Press that holding games in Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and possibly Saudi Arabia would help to incorporate the people of the region during the tournament.[31]
According to a report released in April 2013 by Merrill Lynch, the investment banking division of Bank of America, the organisers in Qatar have requested FIFA to approve a smaller number of stadiums due to the growing costs.[32] Bloomberg.com said that Qatar wishes to cut the number of venues to eight or nine from the 12 originally planned.[33]
Although as of April 2017, FIFA had yet to finalise the number of stadiums Qatar must have ready in five years' time, Qatar's Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy said it expected there would be eight.[34][35]
Doha
Khalifa International Stadium Qatar Foundation Stadium Ras Abu Aboud Stadium Al Thumama Stadium
Capacity: 40,000
(upgraded)[36] Capacity: 40,000
(under construction)[37] Capacity: 40,000
(planned)[38] Capacity: 40,000
(under construction)[39]
Al Khor
Lusail
Doha
Al-Khor
Al-Wakrah
Al-Rayyan
2022 FIFA World Cup (Qatar)
Al Wakrah
Al-Bayt Stadium Al Wakrah Stadium
Capacity: 60,000
(under construction)[40] Capacity: 40,000
(under construction)[41]
Al Rayyan
Lusail
Ahmed bin Ali Stadium Lusail Iconic Stadium
Capacity: 21,282
(being expanded to 40,000)[42] Capacity: 86,250
(under construction)
Schedule[edit]
The final draw is scheduled to take place in April 2022.[24]
Controversies[edit]
Main article: List of 2022 FIFA World Cup controversies
A number of groups and media outlets have expressed concern over the suitability of Qatar to host the event,[43][44] with regard to interpretations of human rights, particularly worker conditions, the rights of fans in the LGBT community,[44][45][46][47] climatic conditions and accusations of Qatar for supporting terrorism both diplomatically and financially.[48]
The selection of Qatar as the host country has been controversial; FIFA officials were accused of corruption and allowing Qatar to "buy" the World Cup,[49] the treatment of construction workers was called into question by human rights groups,[50] and the high costs needed to make the plans a reality were criticised. The climate conditions caused some to call hosting the tournament in Qatar infeasible, with initial plans for air-conditioned stadiums giving way to a potential date switch from summer to winter. Sepp Blatter, who was FIFA President when Qatar was selected, later remarked that awarding the World Cup to Qatar was a "mistake" because of the extreme heat.[51][52]
Workers' conditions[edit]
The issue of migrant workers' rights has also attracted attention, with an investigation by The Guardian newspaper claiming that many workers are denied food and water, have their identity papers taken away from them, and that they are not paid on time or at all, making some of them in effect slaves. The Guardian has estimated that up to 4,000 workers may die due to lax safety and other causes by the time the competition is held.[50] These claims are based upon the fact that 522 Nepalese[53] workers and over 700 Indian[54] workers have died since 2010, when Qatar's bid as World Cup's host was won, about 250 Indian workers dying each year.[55] Given that there are half a million Indian workers in Qatar, the Indian government says that is quite a normal number of deaths.[55] In the United Kingdom, in any group of half a million 25–30-year-old men, an average of 300 die each year, a higher rate than among Indian workers in Qatar.[55]
In 2015, a crew of four journalists from the BBC were arrested and held for two days after they attempted to report on the condition of workers in the country.[56] The reporters had been invited to visit the country as guests of the Qatari government.[56]
The Wall Street Journal reported in June 2015 the International Trade Union Confederation's claim that over 1,200 workers had died while working on infrastructure and real-estate projects related to the World Cup, and the Qatar government's counter-claim that no-one had.[57] The BBC later reported that this often-cited figure of 1,200 workers having died in World Cup construction in Qatar between 2011 and 2013 is not correct, and that the 1,200 number is instead representing deaths from all Indians and Nepalese working in Qatar, not just of those workers involved in the preparation for the World Cup, and not just of construction workers.[55] Most Qatar nationals avoid doing manual work or low-skilled jobs; additionally, they are given preference at the workplace.[58]
In October 2017, The International Trade Union Confederation said that Qatar has signed an agreement to improve the situation of more than 2 million migrant workers in the country. According to the ITUC, the agreement provided for establishing substantial reforms in labour system, including ending Al-Kafala system. ITUC also said the agreement would positively affect the general situation of the worker, especially, who work in the projects of Qatar World Cup 2022. The workers will no longer need their employer's permission to leave the country or change their jobs.[59]
Move to November and December[edit]
Sports Illustrated reported on 18 February 2015 that the event will be staged from mid-November to mid-December.[60] Owing to the climate in Qatar, concerns have been expressed since the bid was made about holding the event during the traditional months for the World Cup finals of June and July. In October 2013, a task force was commissioned to consider alternative dates and report after the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.[61] On 24 February 2015, the FIFA Task Force proposed that the tournament be played from late November to late December 2022,[62] to avoid the summer heat between May and September and also avoid clashing with the 2022 Winter Olympics in February and Ramadan in April.[63]
The notion of staging the tournament in November is controversial since it would interfere with the regular season schedules of domestic leagues around the world. Commentators have noted the clash with the Western Christmas season is likely to cause disruption, whilst there is concern about how short the tournament is intended to be.[64] It would also force the postponement of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations from January to June to prevent African players from having a quick turnaround. FIFA executive committee member Theo Zwanziger said that awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar's desert state was a "blatant mistake".[65] Frank Lowy, chairman of Football Federation Australia, said that if the 2022 World Cup were moved to November and thus upset the schedule of the A-League, they would seek compensation from FIFA.[66] Richard Scudamore, chief executive of the Premier League, stated that they would consider legal action against FIFA because a move would interfere with the Premier League's popular Christmas and New Year fixture programme.[67] On 19 March 2015, FIFA sources confirmed that the 2022 World Cup final would be played on 18 December.[68]
Bidding corruption allegations[edit]
See also: Garcia Report
Qatar has faced growing pressure over its hosting of the World Cup in relation to allegations over the role of former top football official Mohammed bin Hammam played in securing the bid.[69]
A former employee of the Qatar bid team alleged[year needed] that several African officials were paid $1.5 million by Qatar.[70] She retracted her claims, but later said she was coerced to do so by Qatari bid officials.[71][72] More suspicions emerged in March 2014 when it was discovered that disgraced former CONCACAF president Jack Warner and his family were paid almost $2 million from a firm linked to Qatar's successful campaign. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating Warner and his alleged links to the Qatari bid.[73]
Five of FIFA's six primary sponsors, Sony, Adidas, Visa, Hyundai and Coca-Cola, have called upon FIFA to investigate the claims.[74][75] The Sunday Times published bribery allegations based on a leak of millions of secret documents.[76] FIFA vice-president Jim Boyce has gone on record stating he would support a re-vote to find a new host if the corruption allegations are proven.[77][78] FIFA completed a lengthy investigation into these allegations and a report cleared Qatar of any wrongdoing.
Despite the claims, the Qataris insist that the corruption allegations are being driven by envy and mistrust while Sepp Blatter said it is fueled by racism in the British media.[79][80]
In the 2015 FIFA corruption case, Swiss officials, operating under information from the United States Department of Justice, arrested many senior FIFA officials in Zurich, Switzerland. They also seized physical and electronic records from FIFA's main headquarters. The arrests continued in the United States where several FIFA officers were arrested and FIFA buildings raided. The arrests were made on the information of at least a $150 million (USD) corruption and bribery scandal.[81]
On 7 June 2015, Phaedra Almajid, the former media officer for the Qatar bid team claimed that the allegations would result in Qatar not hosting the World Cup.[82] In an interview published on the same day, Domenico Scala, the head of FIFA's Audit And Compliance Committee, stated that "should there be evidence that the awards to Qatar and Russia came only because of bought votes, then the awards could be cancelled".[6][7]
Broadcasting rights[edit]
Albania – RTSH[83]
Armenia – ARMTV[83]
Australia – SBS[84]
Austria – ORF[83]
Azerbaijan – İTV[83]
Belarus – BTRC[83]
Belgium – VRT, RTBF[83]
Bosnia and Herzegovina – BHRT[83]
Brazil – Rede Globo, SporTV[85]
Bulgaria – BNT[83]
Canada – CTV, TSN, RDS[86]
Caribbean – International Media Content, SportsMax[87]
China – CCTV[88]
Croatia – HRT[83]
Cyprus – CyBC[83]
Czech Republic – ČT[83]
Estonia – ERR[83]
Finland – Yle[83]
Georgia – GPB[83]
Hungary – MTVA[83]
Iceland – RÚV[83]
India – Sony SIX[citation needed]
Iran – IRIB[citation needed]
Europe – European Broadcasting Union (37 countries)[83]
Germany – ARD, ZDF[89]
Ireland – RTÉ[83]
Israel – IPBC[83]
Latvia – LTV[83]
Lithuania – LRT[83]
Macedonia – MRT[83]
Malta – PBS[83]
Middle East – beIN Sports
Mexico – Televisa, TV Azteca[83]
Moldova – TRM[83]
Montenegro – RTCG[83]
Netherlands – NOS[83]
New Zealand – Sky Sport[90]
Poland – TVP[83]
Portugal – RTP[91]
Romania – TVR[83]
Serbia – RTS[83]
Slovakia – RTVS[92]
South Korea – SBS, KBS, MBC
Turkey TRT
United Kingdom – BBC, ITV
United States – Fox Sports,[93] Telemundo Deportes[94]
See also[edit]
2021 FIFA Confederations Cup
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values: FIFA Sokker-Wêreldbekertoernooi in 2022 – Afrikaans

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values: كأس العالم لكرة القدم 2022 – Arabic

values: Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2022 – Aragonese

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values: ২০২২ ফিফা বিশ্বকাপ – Bangla

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values: Чэмпіянат свету па футболе 2022 – Belarusian

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values: Чэмпіянат сьвету па футболе 2022 году – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)

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values: Световно първенство по футбол 2022 – Bulgarian

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values: Svjetsko prvenstvo u nogometu 2022. – Bosnian

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values: Copa del Món de Futbol de 2022 – Catalan

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values: Mistrovství světa ve fotbale 2022 – Czech

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values: 2022. aasta jalgpalli maailmameistrivõistlused – Estonian

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values: Παγκόσμιο Κύπελλο Ποδοσφαίρου 2022 – Greek

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values: Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2022 – Spanish

values: جام جهانی فوتبال ۲۰۲۲ – Persian

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values: Coupe du monde de football de 2022 – French

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values: Ֆուտբոլի աշխարհի առաջնություն 2022 – Armenian

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values: २०२२ फीफा विश्व कप – Hindi

values: Svjetsko prvenstvo u nogometu - Katar 2022. – Croatian

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values: Campionato mondiale di calcio 2022 – Italian

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values: Футболдан әлем чемпионаты 2022 – Kazakh

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values: Certamen Mundanum Pedilusorium (2022) – Latin

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values: 2022. gada FIFA Pasaules kauss – Latvian

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values: XXII pasaulio futbolo čempionatas – Lithuanian

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values: 2022-es labdarúgó-világbajnokság – Hungarian

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values: Светско првенство во фудбал 2022 – Macedonian

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values: Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 2022 – Dutch

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values: २०२२ फिफा विश्वकप – Nepali

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values: Futbol boʻyicha jahon chempionati 2022 – Uzbek

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values: Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 2022 – Polish

values: Campionatul Mondial de Fotbal 2022 – Romanian

values: Piluta Hayt'ay Pachantin Kupa 2022 – Quechua

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values: Чемпионат мира по футболу 2022 – Russian

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values: Majstrovstvá sveta vo futbale 2022 – Slovak

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values: Светско првенство у фудбалу 2022. – Serbian

values: Jalkapallon maailmanmestaruuskilpailut 2022 – Finnish

values: Världsmästerskapet i fotboll 2022 – Swedish

values: 2022 உலகக்கோப்பை காற்பந்து – Tamil

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values: ฟุตบอลโลก 2022 – Thai

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values: Чемпіонат світу з футболу 2022 – Ukrainian

values: 2022ء فیفا عالمی کپ – Urdu

values: Giải bóng đá vô địch thế giới 2022 – Vietnamese

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