{"id":12072,"date":"2011-02-27T23:43:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T04:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=12072"},"modified":"2018-12-05T20:38:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:38:28","slug":"kings-speech-wins-big-at-this-years-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/27\/kings-speech-wins-big-at-this-years-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"KING’S SPEECH Wins Big At This Year’s Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The King’s Speech<\/strong> was the\u00a0 big winner at tonight’s Academy Awards showing, taking home the prizes for Best Picture, Director, Lead Actor for Colin Firth and Original Screenplay. Christopher Nolan’s mindbending science-fiction adventure Inception<\/strong> also won four Oscars for Cinematography, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing and Visual Effects. The Social Network<\/strong>, director David Fincher’s look at the rise of internet phenomenon Facebook took home three awards for Film Editing, Original Soundtrack and Adapted Screenplay.<\/p>\n

The list of tonight’s winners are –<\/p>\n

Best Picture – The King\u2019s Speech<\/strong>, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers<\/p>\n

Performance by an actor in a leading role – Colin Firth, The King’s Speech<\/strong><\/p>\n

Performance by an actor in a supporting role –\u00a0 Christian Bale in The Fighter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Performance by an actress in a leading role – Natalie Portman in Black Swan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Performance by an actress in a supporting role – Melissa Leo in\u00a0The Fighter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best animated feature film of the year –\u00a0 Toy Story 3<\/strong>, director Lee Unkrich<\/p>\n

Art Direction –\u00a0 Alice in Wonderland<\/strong> (Walt Disney), Robert Stromberg (Production Design), Karen O\u2019Hara (Set Decoration)<\/p>\n

Achievement in Cinematography – Inception<\/strong> (Warner Bros.) Wally Pfister<\/p>\n

Achievement in costume design – Alice in Wonderland<\/strong>, Colleen Atwood<\/p>\n

Achievement in directing – The King\u2019s Speech<\/strong>, Tom Hooper<\/p>\n

Best Documentary Feature – Inside Job<\/strong>, Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs<\/p>\n

Best documentary short subject – Strangers No More<\/strong>, Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon<\/p>\n

Achievement in film editing – The Social Network<\/strong>, Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter<\/p>\n

Best foreign language film of the year – In a Better World<\/strong>,\u00a0 Denmark<\/p>\n

Achievement in makeup – The Wolfman<\/strong>, Rick Baker and Dave Elsey<\/p>\n

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score) – The Social Network<\/strong>, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross<\/p>\n

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song) – “We Belong Together” from Toy Story 3<\/strong>, Music and Lyric by Randy Newman<\/p>\n

Best animated short film – The Lost Thing <\/strong>(Nick Batzias for Madman Entertainment) A Passion Pictures Australia Production Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann<\/p>\n

Best live action short film –\u00a0God of Love<\/strong> , Luke Matheny<\/p>\n

Achievement in sound editing – Inception<\/strong>, Richard King<\/p>\n

Achievement in sound mixing – Inception<\/strong>, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick<\/p>\n

Achievement in visual effects – Inception<\/strong>, Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb<\/p>\n

Adapted screenplay – The Social Network<\/strong> Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin<\/p>\n

Original screenplay – The King\u2019s Speech<\/strong> Screenplay by David Seidler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The King’s Speech was the\u00a0 big winner at tonight’s Academy Awards showing, taking home the prizes for Best Picture, Director, Lead Actor for Colin Firth and Original Screenplay. Christopher Nolan’s mindbending science-fiction adventure Inception also [click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[29],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-academy-awards"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t