Atonement — France
The film's extraordinary five-minute single tracking shot across the Dunkirk beach — chaos, exhaustion, horses being shot, a choir singing on the dunes.
Director Joe Wright's Dunkirk tracking shot was filmed at Redcar beach in Yorkshire with 1,000 extras. It took a week to set up and was shot in a single take. The sequence depicts the psychological disintegration of the British Expeditionary Force — a defeat the British chose to remember as a triumph of improvisation.