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'The King's Speech' Tops Oscars
Source: AMPAS
The 83rd Academy Awards was last night, and if you didn't watch along with us during our live commentary you should know that it was a night filled with awkward moments and uncomfortable jokes while the Academy's "hip and new" ceremony quickly became "stale and tired". Host Anne Hathaway did her best to exude unending cheerfulness while her co-host James Franco... well, yes. He showed up.
In a night that will probably be best remembered for Kirk Douglas proving he's still alive (and boy is he alive!), former host Billy Crystal outstaging the new hosts, and actress Melissa Leo dropping an F-Bomb during her speech (which should at least get her an honorary mention here), here is an overview of the winners for the 2011 Academy Awards:
Best Picture: 'The King's Speech'
Winning against the whopping nine other nominees in the category and taking home four Oscars over the course of the evening, Bedlam Productions' 'The King's Speech' won the evening's top honor. Directed by Tom Hooper and starring Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, and Geoffrey Rush, 'The King's Speech' tells the story of King George VI - a nervous stutterer who ascends to the throne and his unorthodox attempts to cure his speech impediment with the help of a language therapist. The film has garnered critical acclaim worldwide, and now adds this award to it's list of accolades.
Actor in a Leading Role: Colin Firth, 'The King's Speech'
Beating out five time Oscar nominee Jeff Bridges as well as host James Franco, British actor Colin Firth won the award for his brilliant portrayal of King George VI - a nervous monarch with a stutter who seeks the help of a language therapist and through their bond comes into his own as a ruler. This is the first time the actor has won the prestigious award.
Actress in a Leading Role: Natalie Portman, 'Black Swan'
While there were many talented actresses nominated for this award, Natalie Portman indisputably deserved to win for her tragic role as an uptight and repressed ballerina in Darren Aronofsky's 'Black Swan'. Her nuanced performance about a young woman slowly unraveling into psychotic hallucinations and paranoia was one of the most memorable performances of the year and set her apart from her fellow nominees. This is also the first time she has won an Academy Award.
Actor in a Supporting Role: Christian Bale, 'The Fighter'
Actress in a Supporting Role: Melissa Leo, 'The Fighter'
Completely overshadowing their lead actors, both Christian Bale and Melissa Leo brought their considerable talents to the David O. Russell film about a down-and-out boxer (played by Mark Wahlberg) and his dysfunctional family that kept him down. Bale, as the irascible brother Dicky, stole nearly every scene he was in while Melissa Leo also put forth an impressive performance as their overbearing mother. 
Best Animated Film: Toy Story 3
C'mon, who didn't see this coming? At this point, the Academy should really just rename this award "The Pixar". Since the category was added in 2001, Pixar has been nominated for every film it's made since then and has won the award 6 out of 8 times. 'Monsters, Inc.' lost to the original 'Shrek' in 2001 and later in 2006, 'Cars' lost to 'Happy Feet'... which you'd think would tell Pixar something about the Cars franchise.
Other Notable Awards:
Directing: Tom Hooper 'The King's Speech'
Cinematography: Wally Pfister, 'Inception'
Makeup: Rick Baker and Dave Elsey, 'The Wolfman'
Original Score: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, 'The Social Network'
Original Song: Randy Newman for "We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3
Visual Effects: 'Inception'
Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin for 'The Social Network'
Original Screenplay: David Seidler 'The King's Speech'
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Comment by CHEEZYSPAM on March 1, 2011 at 1:02pm -
I just think (despite the King's Speech being a decent film in it's own right) the Academy went with the safest choice. It makes you wonder the common age of the voters... I don't see older people going with Black Swan which was a little dark & edgy and had a lesbian scene, Social Network was a behind the scenes Facebook movie with fast dialog and tech speak... and then we have a slow paced British movie that was both charming and historic.
The reflection of the outcome suggests I'm right. As much as they wanted to lower the viewing demographic by casting Franco & Hathaway as hosts, it was the same old tired stuffy award show.
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Comment by AACRO on March 1, 2011 at 11:05am -
@Maxamus
I have heart, for animation that transcends the odd-couple journey-rescue-return formula. people go on and on how people do not take animation seriously and it's reguard as a childrens genre(when it is actually a MEDIUM!) and yet every year we go for a pixar film with as much sentimentality as a ASPCA commercial. yes, the pixar formula is getting boring for me and better animated films are coming out that walk circles around pixar, but with them being the masters of obvvious heart string pulling and having the bankroll(disney) to garner votes every oscar season, they SEEM to have the best film every year.
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Comment by Shero on March 1, 2011 at 6:38am -
My thoughts about the Oscars ! ... 83rd Academy Awards !!
One big person was missing in the nomination : Christopher Nolan for best Director !
The entire ceremony went almost as I liked !!! From 19 prediction 14 of them was exactly as I liked and predict... another 5 were not as I wishes .. But still believe 3 of them were a big mistake .. Best Score Best Picture and Best Director ... !!!
The Ending was a big let down !!!! As I mentioned 3 big mistakes were been made specially in the end : Best Director and Best Picture ... !!! Even I like King's Speech but it can't be called better than Inception or Social Network or even Black Swan !!! ...
I will repeat my words for a great movie once more .. What make a great movie is : Time !!!
How many times you can watch that movie ? How many hours from your life you can give to watch again and again the same movie ? That is what make a great movie .. to be a classic .. a movie you can talk about it after 20 years !!! And still like to watch ;-)
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Comment by Valo Palomares on March 1, 2011 at 1:37am -
Have you ever heard of a fella named William Shakespeare? Well. He once said that "Brevity is the soul of wit." This same principle can also be applied to music. When you consider how the score was for a film about FACEBOOK. Vs. a film about dreams. I thought Trent Reznors was faaaaaaaaaaaaaar superior to Hanz Zimmer. I can listen to every song on the Social Network soundtrack over and over and over again.
Hanz Zimmer's score just sounds like any other loud obnoxious OST to me. Trent Reznor did something very different. I also especially love his use of the swarmatron.
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Comment by Kian410 on March 1, 2011 at 1:29am -
Darker Knight read my fucking mind.
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Comment by Maxamus on February 28, 2011 at 11:45pm -
@jiggypop
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU DO HAVE NO HEART!!! What the fuck does "just another pixar film" even mean?
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Comment by AACRO on February 28, 2011 at 9:26pm
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best animated feature is my only gripe. i felt how to train your dragon was better than toy story 3, which was just another Pixar film. It hit all the beats of every other pixar film that came before and yanked on your heart strings obviously for dramatic effect @ all the expected moments. I think the line between popular and good has more than blurred when it comes to animation, not to mention how Summer Wars got snubbed for a nom.
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Comment by SkellingJACK154 on February 28, 2011 at 8:58pm -
And I'll say one other thing. That montage with all the Best Picture nominees during Colin Firth's speech from the King's Speech was pretty freaking incredible if you ask me. It was a great end montage for the final award and all the clips from each movie flowed soo well with Colin's speech. My only problem with it is that it does kinda give away that the King's Speech was going to win, but other than that, I thought that was the highlight of the awards.
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Comment by SkellingJACK154 on February 28, 2011 at 8:55pm
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With all the hate coming from the King's Speech at the moment, to be honest, I actually didn't mind that it won. Sure, I thought The Social Network, Toy Story 3, Inception and Black Swan(which was my personal pick to win) were far superior films, but The King Speech was quite good as well even if it was mainly for the acting. While, it was nominated for too many awards, it's not a bad movie either and I doesn't anger me that it did won. Besides Atleast the films I was rooting didn't go empty handed this year. Since Toy Story 3, Black Swan, and Inception won atleast 1 or 2 awards at the Oscars and what they won for, they definitely deserved it.
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Comment by The Dork Knight on February 28, 2011 at 7:45pm -
Heres another possible reason why The King's Speech won...
Not all of the voters for the Academy Awards even watch a FULL nominated picture...they are given scenes to watch, or screeners, or just anything thats much quicker and easier.
SO...obviously The King's Speech they would feel SAFE voting for.
like "WELL...the other ones SEEM ok from the clips, but The King's Speech seems more Oscar-ish."
its obvious, because if ALL of them were forced into watching every single full length film...I would think they would fine The Social Network (atleast) more important to today's generation and culture. They would have realized how remarkably well done it was from beginning to end. The ENTIRE film is important in some way or another.
While The King's Speech...yes it WAS good. It did have great...ACTING...but thats it.
Its hilarious to know that Tom Hooper would win Best Directing though. Yea I guess a very, VERY few parts were "impressive" looking. As in "hey cool room"..."wow hes stammering a lot, thats a big crowd, that must suck"..."YAY he is doing good w/ his speech in that tiny room filled w/ blankets"...THE END.
"WOW his directing was BRILLIANT, he took 2 men talking to eachother and made it seem like 2 INTERESTING men talking to eachother...HOW DID HE PULL THAT OFF?".
While David Fincher and Darren Aranofsky basically made their films into thrillers/horror. David makes "a facebook movie" seem like a backstabbing thriller full of lies and a broken friendship that was once so important....while Darren made a movie about ballet, into a haunting paranoid film that felt so unique and creepy. Both had very fitting endings, and left you thinking LONG after both movies were over. As in weeks or months of thinking back on it.
What did I think after The King's Speech??? "Damn, I remember feeling like that during school presentations. Must have been harder being a King and all"...days later..."oh yea, The King's S
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