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The King’s Speech won the prestigious Best Picture Oscar tonight at the 83rd Annual academy awards ceremony.

It got 12 nominations and won four.

Here is SI’s Review of The King’s Speech:

King’s Speech Review – May All You Schmucks Rot in Hell if You Don’t Watch this Gem

Steven Spielberg presented the award in this category.

Here are the other pictures that were in the running for the Biggest Award at every Oscar ceremony:

* “Black Swan” Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver and Scott Franklin, Producers
* “The Fighter” David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Mark Wahlberg, Producers
* “Inception” Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers
* “The Kids Are All Right” Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and Celine Rattray, Producers
* “127 Hours” Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and John Smithson, Producers
* “The Social Network” Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
* “Toy Story 3” Darla K. Anderson, Producer
* “True Grit” Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
* “Winter’s Bone” Anne Rosellini and Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Producers

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Colin Firth won the Best Actor Oscar this evening at the 83rd Annual Academy awards ceremony for his stirring performance of a stuttering monarch in The King’s Speech.

This is Colin Firth’s first Academy Award and his second nomination.

As SI wrote in the review of The King’s Speech:

For movie buffs, to not see The King’s Speech would be a sacrilege.

The competition in the category was really fierce.

If you’re curious, here are the other nominees:

* Javier Bardem in “Biutiful
* Jeff Bridges in “True Grit”
* Jesse Eisenberg in “The Social Network
* James Franco in “127 Hours”

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By God, we’re rendered speechless!

Rendered speechless, eh?

Yes. Yes. And Yes.

If only you schmucks see the movie, you’d understand how apposite and in sync with the movie the phrase ‘rendered speechless’ is.

Folks, it’s been a while since these ol’ Indian eyes enjoyed such a bloody good movie.

The King’s Speech is an Oscar worthy masterpiece.

Offbeat Story
With an offbeat story topped off by superlative acting, The King’s Speech is a powerful example to Bollywood filmmakers that a magnificent and entertaining movie need not be all about love or the hero beating five baddies to pulp a la Dabbang.

Set in the 1920s and 1930s, the movie is about the serious stammer afflicting the Duke of York, Prince Albert (later King George VI) and the unconventional techniques adopted by an Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue. Continue reading »

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