‘King’s Speech’ claims best-picture Oscar, best-actor for Colin Firth
Posted Feb 27, 2011 11:44 pm.
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LOS ANGELES – “The King’s Speech” has been crowned best picture at an Academy Awards ceremony as precise as a state coronation, the monarchy drama leading as expected with four Oscars and predictable favourites claiming acting honours.
Colin Firth as stammering British ruler George VI in “The King’s Speech” earned the best-actor prize Sunday, while Natalie Portman won best actress as a delusional ballerina in “Black Swan.”
The boxing drama “The Fighter” claimed both supporting-acting honours, for Christian Bale as a boxer-turned-drug-abuser and Melissa Leo as a boxing clan’s domineering matriarch.
“The King’s Speech” also won the directing prize for Tom Hooper and the original-screenplay Oscar for David Seidler, a boyhood stutterer himself.
