king's speech academy awards

• Cast & crew
• User reviews

The King's Speech

Academy awards, usa.

• Best Motion Picture of the Year
• Iain Canning
• Emile Sherman
• Gareth Unwin

• Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
• Colin Firth

• Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
• Geoffrey Rush

• Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
• Helena Bonham Carter

• Best Achievement in Directing

American Cinema Editors, USA

• Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic
• Tariq Anwar

American Society of Cinematographers, USA

• Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases
• Danny Cohen

Aspen Filmfest

• Audience Favorite Feature

Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards

• Best Foreign Film - English Language

Bodil Awards

• Best Non-American Film (Bedste ikke-amerikanske film)

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

Bafta awards.

• Best Leading Actor
• Best Supporting Actor
• Best Supporting Actress
• Best Director

• Best Screenplay (Original)
• David Seidler

British Independent Film Awards

• Best Screenplay

British Society of Cinematographers

• Feature Film
• Zac Nicholson (camera operator)

Critics Choice Awards

• Best Screenplay, Original
• Main Competition

Casting Society of America, USA

• Outstanding Achievement in Casting - Feature - Studio or Independent Drama
• Nina Gold (Casting Director)

César Awards, France

• Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger)

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

• Best Picture

Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain

• Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera)

Costume Designers Guild Awards

• Excellence in Period Film
• Jenny Beavan

Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards

David di donatello awards.

• Best European Film (Miglior Film dell'Unione Europea)

Directors Guild of America, USA

• Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
• Erica Bensly (production manager) (plaque)
• Martin Harrison (first assistant director) (plaque)
• Chris Stoaling (second assistant director) (plaque)

European Film Awards

• European Actor
• European Editor

• European Composer
• Alexandre Desplat
• European Film

Evening Standard British Film Awards

• Best Technical/Artistic Achievement

Florida Film Critics Circle Awards

Golden globes, usa.

• Best Motion Picture - Drama
• Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
• Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
• Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
• Best Director - Motion Picture

Satellite Awards

• Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
• Best Actor in a Supporting Role
• Best Costume Design
• Best Motion Picture, Drama

Goya Awards

• Best European Film (Mejor Película Europea)

Hamptons International Film Festival

Humanitas prize.

• Feature Film Category

Film Independent Spirit Awards

• Best Foreign Film

Irish Film and Television Awards

• Best International Actress

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists

• Best European Director (Regista del Miglior Film Europeo)

Awards of the Japanese Academy

• Best Foreign Language Film

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards

Las vegas film critics society awards, london critics circle film awards.

• Film of the Year
• British Film of the Year
• Actor of the Year
• British Actor of the Year
• British Actress of the Year

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

• Best Production Design
• Eve Stewart

Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA

• Best Sound Editing - Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film
• Lee Walpole (supervising sound editor)
• Andre Schmidt (supervising dialogue editor)
• Matthew Skelding (dialogue editor)

National Board of Review, USA

• Top Ten Films

National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA

New york film critics circle awards, online film critics society awards.

• Best Original Screenplay

Palm Springs International Film Festival

• Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

Rembrandt Awards

• Best International Film (Beste Buitenlandse Film)
• Best International Actor (Beste Buitenlandse Acteur)

Danish Film Awards (Robert)

• Best Non-American Film (Årets ikke-amerikanske film)

Russian Guild of Film Critics

San diego film critics society awards, santa barbara international film festival.

• Best Motion Picture Ensemble of the Year
• Anthony Andrews
• Claire Bloom
• Jennifer Ehle
• Michael Gambon
• Derek Jacobi
• Timothy Spall

Screen Actors Guild Awards

• Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
• Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
• Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
• Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Art Directors Guild

• Period Film
• Eve Stewart (production designer)
• David Hindle (supervising art director)
• Leon McCarthy (art director)
• Netty Chapman (standby art director)
• Amy Merry (graphic designer)
• Douglas Ingram (storyboard artist)
• Judy Farr (set decorator)

Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards

Toronto film critics association awards, toronto international film festival, world soundtrack awards.

• Soundtrack Composer of the Year
• Best Original Soundtrack of the Year

AFI Awards, USA

Empire awards, uk.

• Best Actress
• Best British Film

San Francisco Film Critics Circle

Vancouver film critics circle, amanda awards, norway.

• Best Foreign Feature Film (Årets utenlandske spillefilm)

Polish Film Awards

• Best European Film (Najlepszy Film Europejski)

Sant Jordi Awards

Phoenix film critics society awards.

• Best Actor in a Leading Role
• Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Chlotrudis Awards

Central ohio film critics association, austin film critics association, nikkan sports film awards, washington dc area film critics association awards, golden eagle awards, russia, national movie awards, uk.

• Best Drama Film
• Performance of the Year

Gaudí Awards

• Best European Film (Millor Pel·lícula Europea)
• Tom Hooper (director)
• David Seidler (writer)

International Cinephile Society Awards

North texas film critics association, us.

• Best Cinematography

St. Louis Film Critics Association, US

Alliance of women film journalists, detroit film critics society awards.

• Colin Firth (actor)

New York Film Critics, Online

• Top Films of the Year

Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards

Iowa film critics awards, african-american film critics association (aafca), denver film critics society, jupiter award.

• Best International Actor

International Film Music Critics Award (IFMCA)

• Film Score of the Year
• Best Original Score for a Drama Film

Turkish Film Critics Association (SIYAD) Awards

Galeca: the society of lgbtq entertainment critics.

• Film Performance of the Year

Utah Film Critics Association Awards

Oklahoma film critics circle awards, houston film critics society awards, online film & television association.

• Best Ensemble

Village Voice Film Poll

International online film critics' poll, awards circuit community awards.

• Best Motion Picture

Italian Online Movie Awards (IOMA)

• Best Picture (Miglior film)
• Best Director (Miglior regia)
• Best Actor (Miglior attore protagonista)
• Best Supporting Actor (Miglior attore non protagonista)
• Best Supporting Actress (Miglior attrice non protagonista)

Golden Schmoes Awards

• Best Actor of the Year
• Best Supporting Actor of the Year

Women Film Critics Circle Awards

• Best Male Images in a Movie

International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)

• Best Art Direction

Internet Film Critic Society

Indiewire critics' poll.

• Best Supporting Performance

Gold Derby Awards

• Supporting Actor
• Original Screenplay

• Art Direction
• Costume Design

AARP Movies for Grownups Awards

• Best Movie for Grownups
• Best Screenwriter

Russian National Movie Awards

• Best Foreign Drama of the Year

Il Festival Nazionale del Doppiaggio Voci nell'Ombra

• Best Male Voice
• Luca Biagini
• Best Supporting Voice
• Laura Romano

Gran Premio Internazionale del Doppiaggio

• Best Leading Voice Actor
• Best Supporting Voice Actor
• Francesco Vairano
• Best Supporting Voice Actress
• Best dubbing mixing
• Marco Coppolecchia

Contribute to this page

• Please see our guide to updating awards
• IMDb Answers: Help fill gaps in our data
• Learn more about contributing

More from this title

More to explore, recently viewed.

‘The King’s Speech’ Wins Big at Academy Awards

By Matthew Perpetua

Matthew Perpetua

The King’s Speech won the top awards at last night’s Academy Awards, landing Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor for Colin Firth . It wasn’t a sweep by any means, though, and statues were distributed to other top nominated films, with Aaron Sorkin and Trent Reznor leaving with Oscars for The Social Network , Natalie Portman winning Best Actress for Black Swan , Christian Bale winning Best Supporting Actor for The Fighter and Toy Story 3 taking the prize for Animated Feature.

The 2011 Oscars: Photos, Videos and More

The ceremony itself was a bit of a mess. Although hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco each had moments of being genuinely funny – most especially in the pre-taped opening skit in which the two passed through footage of all the Best Picture nominees in an Inception parody – they more often seemed stilted and poorly matched, with Hathaway coming off manic and overenthused and Franco seeming bored.

The 2011 Oscars’ Best Moments: Peter Travers’ Play-by-Play

Of course, the hosts’ uneven performance was nowhere near as awkward as the seemingly interminable sequence during which 94-year-old stroke survivor Kirk Douglas was brought out to present the award for Best Supporting Actress. Though Douglas has a certain charm, that bit was slow, nearly incomprehensible and utterly cringe-inducing. But then Supporting Actress winner Melissa Leo took an uncomfortable moment and made it even weirder, spinning off into a grating, extremely loopy acceptance speech in which she dropped an f-bomb that would be remarked upon in other speeches throughout the night.

Rock at the Oscars: A Brief History of Music at Hollywood’s Big Night

The high point of the show was undoubtedly this medley of songs created from footage from some of the year’s top movies made by the Gregory Brothers, the masterminds of Auto-Tune the News .

https://www.youtube.com/v/mwhg17WLHlU?version=3

Gerard Depardieu to Stand Trial on Criminal Sexual Assault Charges

• Depardieu Allegations
• By Jon Blistein

How Josh O'Connor Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Playing a Jerk

• Holding Court
• By CT Jones

Blue Ivy Carter Is Lioness Kiara in New 'Mufasa: The Lion King' Trailer

• Circle of Life
• By Kalia Richardson

Watch Selena Gomez Struggle to Follow Wolfgang Puck's Direction in 'Selena + Restaurant' Clip

• Big Miss Steak
• By Tomás Mier

'It's About Time': Ncuti Gatwa on Becoming the New Face of 'Doctor Who'

• Who's Next
• By Alan Sepinwall

Most Popular

Real-life 'baby reindeer' stalker speaks out following netflix show success, louvre considers moving mona lisa to underground chamber to end 'public disappointment', pauly shore 'was up all night crying' after richard simmons said 'i don't approve' of biopic, asks for meeting as 'you haven't even heard the pitch', sources gave an update on hugh jackman's 'love life' after fans raised concerns about his well-being, you might also like, ethan hawke lost the oscar for ‘training day’ and denzel washington whispered in his ear that losing was better: ‘you don’t want an award to improve your status’, american express partners with f1 academy to champion women in motorsports, the best yoga mats for any practice, according to instructors, dreamworks animation sets ‘gabby’s dollhouse’ movie based on top kids series for 2025 release, after ceo’s ouster, paramount isn’t fielding any questions.

Rolling Stone is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2024 Rolling Stone, LLC. All rights reserved.

Verify it's you

Please log in.

Oscar Winners: 'King's Speech,' Colin Firth and Natalie Portman Win Top Awards

Christian Bale, Melissa Leo, Tom Hooper and 'Toy Story 3' also win awards.

Feb. 28, 2011— -- "The King's Speech" continued its winning momentum going into the 83rd annual Academy Awards , taking home the big prize of best picture, while its star Colin Firth received the Oscar for best actor; "Black Swan" star Natalie Portman snagged the award for best actress.

Tom Hooper, the director of "The King's Speech," pulled off a surprising win over "The Social Network" director David Fincher. "Speech," which led the number of nominations with 12, received a total of four Oscars , including best original screenplay. "The Fighter" co-stars Melissa Leo and Christian Bale were among the early winners, receiving Oscars for best supporting actress and best supporting actor.

In a self-deprecating and emotional speech, Firth joked, "I have a feeling my career has just peaked." With his typical British reserve, he said he was "experiencing stirrings" that were "threatening to turn into dance moves."

Firth thanked his wife, Livia, for the award and "everything good in my life," while the pregnant Portman thanked "my love," her fiancee and "Black Swan" choreographer Benjamin Millipied for giving "me my most important role of my life."

Leo got the night off to a raucous beginning, when she dropped the F-bomb during her speech.

This morning, she told 'Good Morning America,' "I learned my lesson loud and clear. I've always had a filthy mouth and there's a time and a place and I do know that and network television is not a good time or place for that language."

When Bale accepted his award, he told the audience, "I'm not going to drop the F-bomb, like she did. I've done that plenty before."

Both were expected to win after taking home the same award at the Golden Globes. But some doubt had been cast on Leo, after the ads she took out in the Hollywood trades promoting herself backfired.

The race was opened up to competitors Hailee Steinfeld ("True Grit"), Helena Bonham Carter ("The King's Speech"), her fighter co-star Amy Adams and Jacki Weaver ("Animal Kingdom").

Still, Leo pulled off the win in the end.

Kirk Douglas, who walked on stage with a cane, dragged out the announcement of the Leo's name. On stage, Leo bowed to Douglas and asked him to pinch her as the two flirted.

"The category gets called and there [Kirk Douglas] is and I had enough time to think, 'Oh my gosh, if I go up there that means I'm going to get an Oscar from Kirk Douglas? …I haven't been to bed since," Leo said on 'GMA.'

When asked if she had her Oscar with her, Leo said, "He's a little drunk but he's here."

"I'm shaking in my boots here," Leo said, taking a deep breath. As she waved to the audience sitting in the rafters, she dropped the F-bomb, prompting co-host Anne Hathaway to exclaim later, "It's the young and hip Oscars."

Recovering, Leo thanked the Academy.

"This has been an extraordinary journey," she said about the award season. "It's about selling motion pictures and respecting the work."

A humbled Bale took the stage saying, "What the hell am I doing here?" Among those he thanked was Dicky Ecklund, the washed-up fighter he played in "The Fighter."

President Barack Obama made a surprise appearance at the Oscars. During an introduction for best song, he cited "As Time Goes By" from "Casablanca" as his favorite movie theme song.

Later in the telecast, Randy Newman, who has been nominated 20 times and won once previously, received the Oscar for "We Belong Together" from "Toy Story 3."

Tom Hanks gave out the first awards of the night for cinematography and art direction.

Top Stories

3 US Marshals task force members killed, 5 officers shot in Charlotte

• 13 minutes ago

Immigrant battling cancer among trio who won $1.326 billion Powerball ticket

• 2 hours ago

Michael Cohen is cashing in on the Trump trial with TikTok livestreams

• Apr 29, 2:40 PM

Hunter Biden threatens to sue Fox News for airing 'revenge porn'

• 4 hours ago

Mother who went missing on bike ride died by homicide, autopsy shows

• Apr 29, 1:23 PM

ABC News Live

24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events

Share this on:

'king's speech' rules at the 83rd oscars.

• NEW: "King's Speech" wins best actor, picture, director and screenplay Oscars
• NEW: Colin Firth sweeps best actor honors
• Natalie Portman wins the best actress Oscar
• "Inception" wins 4 Oscars

Los Angeles (CNN) -- The story of a king overcoming a speech impediment to lead his people through World War II took top honors at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards.

"The King's Speech" won the best picture, best actor, best director and best original screenplay Oscars at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre Sunday night.

The saga of how a college student created Facebook, which is now credited helping citizens overthrow their leader in the Mideast, lost out on the big awards, but "The Social Network" did win Oscars for best musical score, film editing and best adapted screenplay.

Natalie Portman, who played a ballet dancer in "Black Swan," was given the best actress Academy Award. Portman also won Golden Globe and SAG best actor trophies in recent weeks.

When "King's Speech" director Tom Hooper accepted the best director Oscar, he noted that it was his mother who found the script for him.

"The moral of this story is listen to your mother," Hooper said.

"King's Speech" writer David Seidler pointed out that at 73, he was the oldest person to ever win best original screenplay.

"My father always said to me I would be a late bloomer," Seidler said, noting that at 73 he is the oldest winner ever in the category. "I hope that record is broken quickly and often."

Colin Firth, who portrayed the stuttering King George VI in "The King's Speech," completed his sweep of best actor honors with the Oscar win."I have a feeling my career has just peaked," said Firth, who also won a Golden Globe and the SAG award.

Christian Bale repeated his Golden Globe and SAG award wins by taking the best supporting actor Oscar for his role in "The Fighter."

Melissa Leo, who played the mother and manager of two boxers in "The Fighter," completed her trifecta of major awards when 94-year-old Kirk Douglas handed her the best supporting actress Oscar. Leo also won Golden Globe and SAG best actress trophies.

Douglas, who walked with a cane and spoke slowly with slurred speech, managed to upstage Leo with his humor, jokingly delaying reading what was in the envelope. His stand-up routine was rewarded with big laughs.

Leo, whose acceptance speech included a censored expletive, used Douglas's cane to walk off stage.

"Inception, " a film that explores the human mind and dreams, won four Academy Awards, including for cinematography, sound mixing, sound editing and visual effects. The film was also a best picture contender, although most of its eight nominations are in the technical categories.

Two awards went to "Toy Story 3" for animated feature film and best original song. It is also a best picture contender.

"The Lost Thing" won for short animated film.

"True Grit," based on the same book as the 1969 John Wayne film, failed to win in any of the 10 categories for which it was nominated.

"Alice in Wonderland," which was not among the 10 best picture nominees, was rewarded Sunday night with two Oscars, for costume design and art direction.

"Inside Job, a film about the 2008 financial system meltdown, won the best feature documentary Oscar. Producer Charles Ferguson used his acceptance speech to say that "not a single financial executive has gone to jail and that's wrong."

The short documentary Oscar went to "Strangers No More, a film about an Israeli school that includes students from 48 countries.

The romantic comedy "God of Love" won the live action short film Oscar.

A Danish movie, "In a Better World," won the best foreign language film Academy Award.

The Oscar for best makeup was given to "The Wolfman."

Most Popular

Fine art from an iphone the best instagram photos from 2014, after ivf shock, mom gives birth to two sets of identical twins, inside north korea: water park, sacred birth site and some minders, 10 top destinations to visit in 2015, what really scares terrorists.

‘The King’s Speech’ tops Academy Awards

Royals rule Oscar night with best pic, actor, director, screenplay

By Justin Chang

Justin Chang

• Film Review: ‘A Hologram for the King’ 8 years ago
• Cannes: A Look at the Official Selection, by the Numbers 8 years ago
• Film Review: ‘Captain America: Civil War’ 8 years ago

Click here for the complete list of winners .

The king has spoken.

The Weinstein Co.’s “The King’s Speech ” dethroned the competition at the 83rd annual Academy Awards on Sunday night, winning four Oscars: for best picture, director for Tom Hooper, actor for Colin Firth and original screenplay for David Seidler .

“To be part of a film that’s touched so many people around the world is a huge privilege,” said “King’s Speech” producer Emile Sherman, accepting with fellow producers Iain Canning and Gareth Unwin. The filmmakers all paid sober tribute to one of the film’s key financiers, the U.K. Film Council, whose impending closure was announced by the British government in July.

Hooper singled out his mother for thanks, noting that she had first encouraged him to direct “Speech” after seeing the film in its initial incarnation as an unproduced, unrehearsed play in Australia. “She came home and rang me up and said, ‘I think I found your next film,’?” Hooper said. “The moral of the story is: Listen to your mother.”

Popular on Variety

The 11th British film to win best pic (the most recent being another independent production, 2008’s “Slumdog Millionaire”), “Speech” is also the 17th biographical/fact-based feature to receive the Academy’s top honors, though the same could have been said for “The Social Network,” “The Fighter” or “ 127 Hours ” had they prevailed. Indeed, media pundits and industry watchers had largely framed the best picture race as a battle between two films, “Speech” and “Network,” that portrayed famous real-world figures but differed wildly in tone, style and intent.

Many had anticipated a possible split scenario in which “Speech” could win best pic while David Fincher took helming honors as a consolation prize for Sony’s “The Social Network” — especially after Fincher bested Hooper on the latter’s home turf last weekend at the BAFTAs. The British Academy went with the American director, but Oscar opted for Blighty’s Hooper on an evening that also saw both male acting honors go to Brit thesps: Firth for “Speech” and Christian Bale for “The Fighter.”

Natalie Portman won the actress Oscar for “Black Swan,” while Bale’s “Fighter” co-star, Melissa Leo, took supporting actress honors. All four acting winners had been widely anticipated due to their earlier wins from critics’ groups and the Screen Actors Guild.

While Academy voters preferred Hooper’s rousing British period piece to Fincher’s chilly American chronicle of high-tech ambition, “Speech’s” victory was by no means assured after a dramatic awards season that had been dominated initially by “Network,” which swept the critics’ awards and the Golden Globes. Indeed, the Sony pic’s early good fortune suggested a possible echo of last year’s race, when crix groups, guilds and eventually the Academy all but united in their support of “The Hurt Locker.”

But “Speech” stopped “Network’s” momentum cold in January by drawing 12 Oscar nominations, more than any other film, and scooping top prizes from the producers, directors and actors guilds. One would have to go back to 1995’s “Apollo 13” to find a film that scored the guild trifecta but wound up losing the picture Oscar (and “Apollo,” unlike “Speech,” was handicapped by its lack of a director nomination).

Pic’s victory represents a throwback of sorts to the heyday of “Speech” exec producer Harvey Weinstein, who, despite his legendary reputation as an Oscar ringmaster, hadn’t ushered one of his films into the winner’s circle since 2002’s “Chicago.” Weinstein and “Speech” managed to prevail over two films, “Network” and “True Grit,” produced by his former longtime collaborator, Scott Rudin.

“Speech” is the fourth highest-grossing of the 10 picture nominees (see related story), trailing a pair of blockbusters, Disney-Pixar’s “Toy Story 3” and Warner Bros.’ “Inception,” as well as Paramount’s hit Western “True Grit,” yet comfortably ahead of such strong performers as Fox Searchlight’s “Black Swan,” Sony’s “Social Network” and Par’s “The Fighter,” with indie productions “The Kids Are All Right” (Focus), “127 Hours” (Searchlight”) and “Winter’s Bone” (Roadside Attractions) bringing up the rear.

Though it was shut out of the top categories, “Inception” in some ways made the most unexpectedly impressive showing of any film all evening, tying “Speech’s” overall haul, with four technical wins. And “Social Network” wasn’t far behind, winning three Oscars for film editing, original score and adapted screenplay for Aaron Sorkin. Indeed, while some had predicted a “Speech” sweep, the film was slow to build momentum over the evening — losing all technical/craft races in which it was nominated, including editing and score to “Social Network” — before surging mightily in the home stretch.

Of the other picture nominees, “The Fighter” and “Toy Story 3” came away with two Oscars apiece, while “Black Swan” won one. Despite entering the evening in second-place position with 10 nominations, “True Grit” was shut out, as were “The Kids Are All Right,” “127 Hours” and “Winter’s Bone.”

“I truly, sincerely wish that the prize was to get to work with my fellow nominees. I’m so in awe of you,” Portman said, also singling out Luc Besson, Mike Nichols and “Swan’s” Darren Aronofsky among the helmers she’s worked with. The prominently pregnant actress also thanked her fiance, “Swan” choreographer Benjamin Millepied , “who has now given me the most important role of my life.”

“I have a feeling my career’s just peaked,” Firth said as he took the stage. “I’m afraid I have to warn you that I’m experiencing stirrings, somewhere in the upper abdominals, which are threatening to form themselves into dance moves.” Like Portman, Firth paid tribute to one of his previous collaborators: Tom Ford, who directed him to his first Oscar nomination for 2009’s “A Single Man.”

A visibly shaken Leo asked presenter Kirk Douglas to pinch her as she accepted her supporting actress trophy. “I’m shaking in my boots here,” she said, launching into a quavering, teary-eyed speech in which she was bleeped halfway through for dropping the first-ever F-bomb in an Oscar acceptance — a faux pas that was later referenced in a number of acceptances throughout the evening (see sidebar).

Briefly alluding to the recent media brouhaha over her personal awards campaign (ads from which appeared in trade outlets, including Daily Variety), Leo thanked the Academy for choosing her “because it’s about selling motion pictures, and respecting the work.” Ironically, she struck a note similar to that of last year’s supporting actress winner, Mo’Nique, who saluted voters for “showing that it can be about the performance and not the politics.”

Noting that he was not going to use Leo’s choice of expletive (“I’ve done that plenty”), Bale saluted “The Fighter’s” sibling subjects, Dicky Edlund and Micky Ward, who were among those assembled at the Kodak Theater. “He’s had a wonderful story,” Bale said of Edlund, whom he portrayed in the boxing drama. “I can’t wait to see the next chapter.”

“It’s impossible to describe what it feels like to be handed the same award that was given to Paddy Chayefsky 35 years ago for another movie with ‘Network’ in the title,” Sorkin said as he accepted his writing Oscar, thanking Ben Mezrich for writing the source tome. “This movie is going to be a source of pride to me for the rest of my life.”

Sorkin was followed at the mic by “Speech” scribe Seidler. “My father always said to me I would be a late bloomer,” the septuagenarian scribe deadpanned, noting that he believed he was the oldest person to win the original screenplay prize. Tripping over nary a word in his remarks onstage, Seidler concluded, “I accept this on behalf of all the stutterers throughout the world. We have a voice, and we have been heard, thanks to you, the Academy.”

“Inception” dominated the below-the-line categories, scooping cinematography for d.p. Wally Pfister (extending “True Grit” nominee Roger Deakins’ losing streak to zero wins for nine noms); visual effects for Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb; sound mixing for Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick; and sound editing for Richard King . Christopher Nolan may have been conspicuously absent from the director race, but the British-born helmer was one of the most-thanked individuals all night.

“I owe this 1,000% to Chris Nolan,” King said. “Thank you for making great movies and inviting me along for the ride.”

Perhaps disappointing those who had hoped that graffiti artist Banksy might show himself in the event of a win for “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” the documentary feature Oscar went to Sony Classics’ “Inside Job,” helmer Charles Ferguson’s sobering analysis of the roots of the global economic meltdown. Previously nominated for 2007’s “No End in Sight,” Ferguson (accepting with fellow producer Audrey Marrs) drew applause by striking the sole political note of the evening: “Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis, caused by massive fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail. And that’s wrong.”

Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland” proved strong in the technical races, picking up a pair of Oscars: costume design for Colleen Atwood (her third win, after “Chicago” and “Memoirs of a Geisha”) and art direction for production designer Robert Stromberg and set decorator Karen O’Hara. Stromberg picked up his second consecutive Oscar in this category, having also won for “Avatar.”

“The Wolfman” won the Oscar for makeup, marking the seventh win for makeup artist Rick Baker, who shared the prize with Dave Elsey.

“We were happy just to be involved with this film,” said “Social Network” composer Trent Reznor, accepting the score award with fellow composer and Nine Inch Nails frontman Atticus Ross. “Standing up here in this company is humbling and flattering beyond words.”

Accepting with fellow cutter Kirk Baxter, “Social Network” editor Angus Wall thanked the duo’s wives, “who allow us to have incredibly passionate love affairs with our families at work.”

As expected, best-pic nominee “Toy Story 3” drew the Oscar for animated feature — the first such win for the blockbuster franchise, as the toon prize was not initiated until after the first two “Toy Story” movies had been released. Pixar now has a four-year streak in the category, having previously won for “Ratatouille,” “Wall-E” and “Up.”

“I can’t believe I’m actually saying this, but thank you to the Academy,” said “Toy Story 3” director Lee Unkrich, who went on to pronounce Pixar “the most awesome place on the planet to make movies.”

The threequel also took original-song laurels for Randy Newman’s “We Belong Together.” Pointing out that this was only his second win (after his tune for 2001’s “Monsters, Inc.”) in 20 nominations, Newman apologized for filling his speech with effusive thanks to Pixar and Unkrich, then gently ribbed the Academy for only nominating four songs: “They couldn’t find a fifth song somewhere? To hell with it. It might have beat me.”

In a bit of an upset, however, Pixar’s “Day & Night” lost the animated-short prize to British-Australian toon “The Lost Thing,” accepted by helmers Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann. Other shorts prizes went to Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon’s “Strangers No More” for documentary and Luke Matheny’s “God of Love” for live-action.

“I actually got a haircut,” Matheny quipped, accepting his prize with an unruly fro that proved as endearing as his speech, in which he found room to thank “the great state of Delaware” as well as his mother for doing craft services on the pic.

Susanne Bier’s “In a Better World” won the foreign-language film Oscar, echoing the Danish drama’s award at the Golden Globes last month. Pic reps Denmark’s third winner in this category and the country’s first since its back-to-back wins for 1987’s “Babette’s Feast” and 1988’s “Pelle the Conqueror.”

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award winner Francis Ford Coppola and honorary Oscar winners Eli Wallach and Kevin Brownlow were briefly feted onstage, having received their prizes at the separate Governors Awards ceremony on Nov. 13. Fellow honoree Jean-Luc Godard was an expected no-show.

The 83rd annual Academy Awards were broadcast live on ABC from the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. Event was hosted by James Franco (an actor nominee for “127 Hours”) and Anne Hathaway, and produced by Bruce Cohen and Dan Mischer.

More From Our Brands

Columbia begins to suspend student protestors, car of the week: this 2014 lamborghini is one of only 3 built. now it’s up for grabs., after ceo’s ouster, paramount isn’t fielding any questions, be tough on dirt but gentle on your body with the best soaps for sensitive skin, will queen charlotte return for season 2 shonda rhimes weighs in, verify it's you, please log in.

Members Login

The 83rd Academy Awards Memorable Moments

Best Picture: The King’s Speech

The King’s Speech also won Academy Awards for Directing (Tom Hooper), Best Actor (Colin Firth), and Writing – Original Screenplay (David Seidler). 

Inception tied with The King’s Speech with four Oscars.

The Fighter was the first film since Hannah and Her Sisters in 1986 to win both Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress.

All four winners in the acting categories were first-time winners.

Toy Story 3 won Best Animated Feature. Toy Story and Toy Story 2 were released prior to the creation of the Animated Feature category.

God of Love, the winner of the Live Action Short Film category, had won the Gold Medal in the Narrative category at the 2010 Student Academy Awards.

Rick Baker, who won the first Academy Award for Makeup with 1981’s An American Werewolf in London, was the co-winner, with Dave Elsey, for Makeup for The Wolfman. 

Anne Hathaway and James Franco were the hosts, marking the first time a female-male duo had shared the same Oscar stage for hosting duties.

James Franco was also nominated for his performance in 127 Hours. It was the first time since 1973 that a host was also a nominee (Michael Caine for Sleuth). The last co-host to win an award at the ceremony he was co-hosting was David Niven (in 1959 for Separate Tables).

In September 2010, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (the subject of the film “The Social Network”) made headlines by donating $100 million of his personal Facebook stock to the Newark, New Jersey school system; he was subsequently named Time’s Person of the Year for 2010 in December.

Honorary Award

To Kevin Brownlow for the wise and devoted chronicling of the cinematic parade.

To Jean-Luc Godard for passion. For confrontation. For a new kind of cinema.

To Eli Wallach for a lifetime's worth of indelible screen characters.

Irving G. Thalberg Award

To Francis Ford Coppola for a consistently high quality of motion picture production.

View More Memorable Moments Photos

Advertisement

Supported by

Oscar Coronation for ‘The King’s Speech’

• Share full article

By Brooks Barnes and Michael Cieply

• Feb. 27, 2011

LOS ANGELES — “The King’s Speech,” the period drama about King George VI of Britain and his vocal coach, won best picture and three other trophies at the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday night. But in many ways the Oscars played out like the more populist and less prestigious Golden Globes: veering in multiple directions as voters sprinkled their attention among a half-dozen pictures, with no film walking away with a commanding sweep.

“The King’s Speech” did not make its presence felt until late in the night, with an unexpected victory for Tom Hooper as best director. David Seidler won for his original screenplay for this film, while Colin Firth took the best-actor prize.

“I have a feeling my career’s just peaked,” said Mr. Firth, who went on to joke that he was “experiencing stirrings” somewhere in the upper abdominal region, “which are threatening to transform themselves into dance moves.”

“Inception,” the blockbuster about dream invaders, also won four trophies, mostly in technical categories like sound mixing, while “The Social Network,” a contemporary story about the founding of Facebook, took three awards, including adapted screenplay for Aaron Sorkin.

A pregnant Natalie Portman won best actress for her role as a demented ballerina in “Black Swan,” that film’s lone prize. “The Fighter” and “Alice in Wonderland” each won two awards; even Universal Pictures, virtually AWOL through the Oscar season, won one: its “Wolfman” took the make-up prize, for the work of Rick Baker and Dave Elsey.

A victory for “The King’s Speech” put the Oscar in the hands of a team of producers — Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin — from Britain and Australia. But the triumph belonged to Harvey Weinstein, a master campaigner whose Weinstein Company distributed the film in the United States. Mr. Weinstein, who left Miramax Films in 2005 with his brother Bob to form the Weinstein Company, last had a best picture with the musical “Chicago,” released by Miramax in 2002.

Mr. Firth made a deep verbal bow in the direction of Mr. Weinstein. “Of course, Harvey, who first took me on 20 years ago when I was a mere child sensation,” he said in extending his thanks.

Melissa Leo won best supporting actress for her portrayal of the chain-saw-tough matriarch in “The Fighter.” “Truly wow,” said Ms. Leo, before beginning a rambling and emotional speech that contained profanity. “I’m just shaking in my boots here,” she said. Asked by reporters backstage about the “stretching and stretching and stretching” done by the actor Kirk Douglas in his introduction and presentation, she replied: “He was doing us all a huge favor. The longer he strung it out, the calmer I got to be.”

“The Fighter” also scored in the supporting actor category, with an emotional Christian Bale, a first-time nominee, winning for his portrayal of a lovable crack addict and former boxer.

Mr. Sorkin, who won his first Oscar for his adapted screenplay for “The Social Network,” awkwardly spoke through music for a good share of his acceptance speech, which included a shout-out to his agents “who never blow my cover and reveal that I would do it for free.” Two titans of industrial rock, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, won best score for their work on that film.

In an expected victory, “In a Better World,” about families and their intertwined lives in Denmark and Africa, took best foreign-language film. Pixar won the best animated feature Oscar, for “Toy Story 3,” with its director, Lee Unkrich, accepting the trophy. Randy Newman, a winner for his song “We Belong Together,” from “Toy Story 3,” said he really didn’t want to bore the audience with gratitude. “I want to be good television so badly, as you can see,” said Mr. Newman, who reckoned he had been nominated 20 times and won just twice.

Unlike their tight-lipped approach of previous years, executives of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had allowed telecast details to pour onto blogs in the days leading up to the telecast, setting up the prospect of a show lacking suspense. For instance, the world was told last week, courtesy primarily of Deadline.com, that the show would open with a humorous video montage of the two youthful hosts, Anne Hathaway and James Franco, putting themselves into scenes from the 10 best picture nominees.

Red Carpet at the Oscars

View Slide Show ›

And it did, with Ms. Hathaway and Mr. Franco learning how to go into people’s dreams (like in “Inception”), practicing to throw a punch with Mark Wahlberg (of “The Fighter”) and, trading cowboy jokes with Jeff Bridges (a nominee for “True Grit.”). The seven-minute montage ended, somewhat inexplicably, with a segment from the 1985 movie “Back to the Future.”

The ceremony was shorter than in years past, clocking in at about 3 hours 12 minutes.

The Academy also demystified its own ritual by opening its show to live streams, Twitter feeds and other behind-the-scenes moments that sometimes diminished the magic. Commentators like the journalist and critic Ben Mankiewicz were booked to discuss the odds on the official red carpet program, describing Mr. Firth as a lock for best actor and Ms. Portman a sure bet for best actress. The net effect was to make the show itself feel a little superfluous.

In keeping with the “settled business” nature of the proceedings, the show producers actually played Mr. Firth’s climactic speech from “The King’s Speech” over a montage of scenes from the film’s competitors — as if they knew what was in that last envelope.

Hollywood has continued to talk about a need to shorten the awards season, which currently gets started with the Toronto International Film Festival in early September and grinds through Oscar night, a half-year later. Though no change is planned next year, the Academy , which grants the Oscars, has said it might consider moving the show to as early as January in the future.

Academy Award Winners

This year’s Oscar cycle pitted young against old — the college students of “The Social Network” versus the World War II-era royals of “The King’s Speech.” The same was true in the acting categories, with Ms. Portman vying against Annette Bening (“The Kids Are All Right”) and Mr. Franco (“127 Hours”) competing against veterans like Mr. Firth.

Oscar organizers played up this divide at the ceremony, which started as a heavily produced mash-up that touched on “Ben-Hur” and “Gone With the Wind” along with “Inception” and “Black Swan.” In a move that prompted some head scratching in Hollywood, producers picked two relatively untested stars — Mr. Franco, 32, and Ms. Hathaway, 28 — as hosts. To provide generational counterbalance, the mothers of nominees, called “mominees” in an Academy news release, were asked to participate (they commented on Twitter and appeared in videos), and old-school stars like Nicole Kidman, Helen Mirren and Tom Hanks were lined up to present.

Ms. Hathaway used her hosting duties to show off her range, singing a Broadway-style number and even cracking an ad-lib joke after Kirk Douglas’s appearance. (“It’s the young and hip Oscars!”) Mr. Franco, on the other hand, at times appeared ill at ease and offered up one of the more awkward moments of the night, appearing in full drag. (Marilyn Monroe circa “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.") “The weird part is, I just got a text message from Charlie Sheen,” Mr. Franco said to nervous laughter from the crowd.

In a high-risk move, the academy brought in Billy Crystal for a monologue halfway through the show. The audience jumped to its feet, as Mr. Crystal, a beloved past host, brought a whiff of the seemingly impromptu Vaudeville spirit that marked successful past shows. “So, where was I?” cracked Mr. Crystal, before going into some schtick that wound up with some video of Bob Hope, an even more revered host from the past.

About 41.3 million people in the United States watched the Oscars ceremony last year, a 14 percent increase from the year before. The increase was mostly attributed to the Academy’s somewhat controversial decision to double the number of best-picture nominees to 10, opening the door to popular pictures like “The Blind Side,” “Up” and “District 9.”

Preshow here at the Kodak Theater on Sunday, the red carpet came alive with a strong turnout of stars and executives, some of whom in past years avoided the ceremony in silent protest over of the Academy’s turn away from splashy, big-budget pictures in favor of the arty and small. The weather played along, but just barely. Frost advisories and hail, both highly unusual for Southern California, were a subject of cocktail party chatter over the weekend.

An article on Feb. 28 about the Academy Awards ceremony, at which the co-host James Franco appeared in drag as Marilyn Monroe, misidentified, in some editions, the movie in which she wore a similar dress. It was “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” not “Some Like It Hot.”

How we handle corrections

Explore More in TV and Movies

Not sure what to watch next we can help..

Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell speak about how “Anyone but You” beat the rom-com odds. Here are their takeaways after the film , debuting on Netflix, went from box office miss to runaway hit.

The vampire ballerina in the new movie “Abigail” has a long pop culture lineage . She and her sisters are obsessed, tormented and likely to cause harm.

In a joint interview, the actors Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough discuss “Under the Bridge,” their new true-crime series  based on a teenager’s brutal killing in British Columbia.

The movie “Civil War” has tapped into a dark set of national angst . In polls and in interviews, a segment of voters say they fear the country’s divides may lead to actual, not just rhetorical, battles.

If you are overwhelmed by the endless options, don’t despair — we put together the best offerings   on Netflix , Max , Disney+ , Amazon Prime  and Hulu  to make choosing your next binge a little easier.

Sign up for our Watching newsletter  to get recommendations on the best films and TV shows to stream and watch, delivered to your inbox.

‘The King’s Speech,’ ‘True Grit’ top Academy Award nominations

• Show more sharing options
• Copy Link URL Copied!

“The King’s Speech” dominated the Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning, earning 12 nods including best picture and best lead actor for Colin Firth as King George VI, who battles to eradicate his stammer before he unexpectedly takes the throne.

Joel and Ethan Coen’s spirited remake of the western “True Grit” followed with 10 nominations for the 83rd annual Academy Awards, including best picture. “The Social Network” and “Inception” scored eight apiece.

Those four films are in the running for best picture with six other movies: “Black Swan,” “The Fighter,” “The Kids Are All Right,” “127 Hours,” “Toy Story 3” and “Winter’s Bone.” “Toy Story 3” is also nominated in four more categories, including best animated feature.

The academy shared the wealth this year, doling out nominations in the major categories to movies big and small. Nominated alongside blockbusters such as “Inception,” “Toy Story 3” and “True Grit” are such tiny indies as “Winter’s Bone” and “Animal Kingdom” -- two films that received acclaim but had limited release.

Firth, who won the Golden Globe for his lead role in “The King’s Speech,” is joined in the lead actor race by Franco for “127 Hours,” surprise nominee Javier Bardem for “Biutiful,” Jesse Eisenberg for “The Social Network” and Jeff Bridges, who won last year in this category for “Crazy Heart,” for “True Grit.”

Natalie Portman, Golden Globe winner and mom-to-be, is nominated for lead actress in “Black Swan” along with fellow Globe winner Annette Bening for “The Kids Are All Right,” Nicole Kidman for “Rabbit Hole,” Jennifer Lawrence for “Winter’s Bone” and Michelle Williams in “Blue Valentine.”

Supporting actor nominees are Christian Bale in “The Fighter,” surprise nominee John Hawkes for “Winter’s Bone,” Jeremy Renner in “The Town,” Mark Ruffalo in “The Kids Are All Right” and Geoffrey Rush for “The King’s Speech.”

On the supporting actress side, Amy Adams and Melissa Leo will duke it out for their roles in “The Fighter.” Helena Bonham Carter is nominated for “The King’s Speech,” 14-year-old Hailee Steinfeld for “True Grit,” and Jacki Weaver in “Animal Kingdom.”

Although many of the nominees are no stranger to Oscar, Tuesday’s nominations show a notable infusion of first-time nominees including Eisenberg, Lawrence and Steinfeld.

Notably missing from the performance list of nominees: Ryan Gosling for lead actor in “Blue Valentine,” Andrew Garfield for supporting actor in “The Social Network,” Mark Wahlberg for lead actor in “The Fighter” and Mila Kunis for supporting actress in “Black Swan.”

There was also a surprise in the directing category. Christopher Nolan, who is nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award for “Inception,” failed to earn an Oscar nomination in that category. He did receive a nod for his screenplay for the surreal thriller.

Competing in the directing category are: Darren Aronofsky for “Black Swan,” David O. Russell for “The Fighter,” Tom Hooper for “The King’s Speech,” David Fincher for “The Social Network” and brothers Joel and Ethan Coen for “True Grit.” The siblings also were nominated for their adapted screenplay of Charles Portis’ novel.

Two of the best picture nominees -- “The Kids Are All Right” and “Winter’s Bone” -- were directed by women, neither of whom made the roster.

The dearth of women in the directing category is sure to disappoint those who saw Kathryn Bigelow’s win last year for “The Hurt Locker” -- she became the first woman ever to win in the directing category -- as a sign that women would be more welcome in that marquee category.

Other nominations of note:

In contention for the foreign language film Oscar are “Biutiful” from Mexico, “Dogtooth” from Greece, Golden Globe winner “In a Better World” from Denmark, “Incendies” from Canada and “Outside the Law” from Algeria.

Joining “Toy Story 3” in the animated feature film category are “How to Train Your Dragon” and “The Illusionist.”

In the adapted screenplay category, the nominees are “127 Hours,” “The Social Network,” “Toy Story 3,” “True Grit” and “Winter’s Bone.” Original screenplay contenders are “Another Year,” “The Fighter,” “Inception,” “The Kids Are All Right” and “The King’s Speech.”

With Tuesday’s nominations, the talk in Hollywood shifts to who will win the big prizes.

Though “The Social Network” has been a front-runner this awards season, it’s now looking over its shoulder.

The period drama “The King’s Speech” is picking up momentum: It won the Producers Guild of America award on Saturday night over “The Social Network” and also leads the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards with 14 nominations. Now, it leads the Oscar nominations with 12. And “True Grit” is also coming on strong with its 10 nominations. That said, the academy and westerns are like oil and water. Only three sagebrush sagas have ever won the best picture Oscar, the last being 1992’s “Unforgiven.”

There’s another bit of awards-season speculation that is already pinging about the Internet, centered on the documentary feature nominee “Exit Through the Gift Shop.” That film was directed by the infamous British graffiti artist Banksy, whose identify is a closely guarded secret. Is he ready to step out of the shadows to attend the Oscars? Or will he show up in disguise? Or skip it altogether?

All will be answered -- or not -- when the 83rd Academy Awards airs live at 5 p.m. Feb. 27 on ABC from the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland. Lead actor nominee Franco and Anne Hathaway are the hosts.

[email protected]

More to Read

Review: In ‘Unsung Hero,’ a family’s musical success story comes to life via the clan itself

April 25, 2024

Meet Shah Rukh Khan: If you haven’t heard of the Bollywood superstar, it’s about time you did

Sept. 21, 2023

Russell Brand: Baptism is ‘opportunity to leave the past behind’ amid sexual assault allegations

April 29, 2024

Only good movies

Get the Indie Focus newsletter, Mark Olsen's weekly guide to the world of cinema.

You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.

Susan King is a former entertainment writer at the Los Angeles Times who specialized in Classic Hollywood stories. She also wrote about independent, foreign and studio movies and occasionally TV and theater stories. Born in East Orange, N.J., she received her master’s degree in film history and criticism at USC. She worked for 10 years at the L.A. Herald Examiner and came to work at The Times in January 1990. She left in 2016.

Rene Lynch is a former writer and editor with the Saturday section, where she worked across a variety of coverage areas, including wellness, design and food. She also edited the weekly L.A. Affairs column.

More From the Los Angeles Times

Bob Bakish is ousted as CEO of Paramount Global as internal struggles explode into public view

Blue Ivy joins mom Beyoncé in ‘Lion King’ prequel ‘Mufasa.’ Can you feel the love?

Entertainment & Arts

Gérard Depardieu will be tried for alleged sexual assaults, prosecutors say

Company Town

Zendaya’s tennis drama ‘Challengers’ tops box office

April 28, 2024

• Search Please fill out this field.
• Newsletters
• Sweepstakes

Oscars 2011 winners: 'King's Speech' rules the night

Image Credit: Mark Ralston/Getty Images The 83rd Academy Awards belonged to The King’s Speech , which won four Oscars from its 12 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Director (Tom Hooper), and Original Screenplay (David Seidler). The complete winners list below:

BEST PICTURE

The Fighter

The Kids Are All Right

WINNER: The King’s Speech

The Social Network

Toy Story 3

Winter’s Bone

Javier Bardem, Biutiful

Jeff Bridges, True Grit

Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network

WINNER: Colin Firth, The King’s Speech

James Franco, 127 Hours

BEST ACTRESS

Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right

Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole

Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone

WINNER: Natalie Portman, Black Swan

Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

BEST DIRECTOR

Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan

Joel & Ethan Coen, True Grit

David Fincher, The Social Network

WINNER: Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech

David O. Russell, The Fighter

“Coming Home,” Country Strong , Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey

“I See the Light,” Tangled , Alan Menken, Glenn Slater

“If I Rise,” 127 Hours , A.R. Rahman, Dido, Rollo Armstrong

WINNER: “We Belong Together,” Toy Story 3 , Randy Newman

BEST EDITING

127 Hours , Jon Harris

Black Swan , Andrew Weisblum

The Fighter , Pamela Martin

The King’s Speech , Tariq Anwar

WINNER: The Social Network , Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Alice in Wonderland , Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1 , Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi

Hereafter , Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell

WINNER: Inception , Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb

Iron Man 2 , Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Exit Through the Gift Shop , Banksy and Jaimie D’Cruz

Gasland , Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic

WINNER: Inside Job , Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs

Restrepo , Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger

Waste Land , Lucy Walker and Angus Aynley

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT

The Confession , Tanel Toom

The Crush , Michael Creagh

WINNER: God of Love , Luke Matheny

Na Wewe , Ivan Goldschmidt

Wish 143 , Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Killing in the Name (Nominees TBD)

Poster Girl (Nominees (TBD)

WINNER: Strangers No More , Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon

Sun Come Up , Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger

The Warriors of Qiugang , Ruby Yang and Thomas Lenno

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

WINNER: Alice in Wonderland, Colleen Atwood

I Am Love, Antonella Cannarozzi

The King’s Speech, Jenny Beaven

The Tempest, Sandy Powell

True Grit, Mary Zophres

BEST MAKEUP

Barney’s Version , Adrien Morot

The Way Back , Eduoard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk, Yolanda Toussieng

WINNER: The Wolfman , Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

BEST SOUND EDITING

WINNER: Inception , Richard King

Toy Story 3 , Tom Myers and Michael Silvers

TRON: Legacy , Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague

True Grit , Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey

Unstoppable , Mark P. Stoeckinger

BEST SOUND MIXING

WINNER: Inception , Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo, and Ed Novick

The King’s Speech , Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen, and John Midgley

Salt , Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan, and William Sarokin

The Social Network , Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick, and Mark Weingarten

True Grit , Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, and Peter F. Kurland

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

127 Hours , A.R. Rahman

How to Train Your Dragon , John Powell

Inception , Hans Zimmer

The King’s Speech , Alexandre Desplat

WINNER: The Social Network , Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

WINNER: Christian Bale, The Fighter

John Hawkes, Winter’s Bone

Jeremy Renner, The Town

Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right

Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Hors la Loi (Outside the Law) (Algeria)

Incendies (Canada)

WINNER: In a Better World (Denmark)

Dogtooth (Greece)

Biutiful (Mexico)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Another Year , written by Mike Leigh

The Fighter , Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson; Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson

Inception , written by Christopher Nolan

The Kids Are All Right , written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg

WINNER: The King’s Speech , Screenplay by David Seidler

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

127 Hours , Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy

WINNER: The Social Network , Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin

Toy Story 3 , Screenplay by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich

True Grit , written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

Winter’s Bone , adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

BEST ANIMATED FILM

How to Train Your Dragon

The Illusionist

WINNER: Toy Story 3

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

Day & Night , Teddy Newton

The Gruffalo , Jakob Schuh and Max Lang

Let’s Pollute , Geefwee Boedoe

WINNER: The Lost Thing , Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann

Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary) , Bastien Dubois

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Amy Adams , The Fighter

Helena Bonham Carter , The King’s Speech

WINNER: Melissa Leo, The Fighter

Hailee Steinfeld , True Grit

Jacki Weaver , Animal Kingdom

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Black Swan, Matthew Libatique

WINNER: Inception, Wally Pfister

The King’s Speech, Danny Cohen

The Social Network, Jeff Cronenweth

True Grit, Roger Deakins

BEST ART DIRECTION

WINNER: Alice in Wonderland , Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara

Happy Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1 , Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan

Inception, Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat

The King’s Speech, Eve Stewart, Judy Farr

True Grit, Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh

Oscars 2011: The EW live blog

Anne Hathaway’s Oscar dresses: We have the EXCLUSIVE details!

Related Articles

• International edition
• Australia edition
• Europe edition

Oscars 2011: The Academy and the elderly genuflect to The King's Speech

Kirk Douglas's victory in the Most Noteworthy Moment category — easily trumping Melissa Leo's F-word sally — was a measure of how undramatic this year's Academy Awards were. The main event was predicted, though not precisely predictable; the success for The King's Speech covered most of the board while not going all the way across it: best film, best director, best original screenplay, best actor.

In a neurotic, not-wanting-to-jinx-it-for-them manner I had been predicting a sudden collapse for this film in all sections except Colin Firth's with a huge swing to The Social Network. That didn't happen. Instead, The King's Speech carried (almost) all before it. Even dark rumours about its historical inaccuracies , including an essay from Christopher Hitchens about its tactful rewriting of Winston Churchill's actual loyalties in the late 1930s, could not affect this film's popularity with Academy voters. They persisted in seeing it as the solidest, most plausible candidate. It had a Reaganesque, Teflon-non-stick quality.

The upset is evidently Tom Hooper winning the best director academy award – he certainly defeated some heavyweight candidate nominees. And yet if everyone is agreed that the acting was so great, then a prize for the directing is not so very surprising: it is the director's job to get those performances: this is possibly the most unshowy part of a director's job, distinct from cinematography or art direction.

The most satisfying part of the The King's Speech victory is David Seidler's Oscar for best screenplay: Oscar night is generally a display of younger or middle-youth faces looking stunned, euphoric, unable quite to believe their luck (because of course luck plays its part). Seidler's was different. He is a man in his 70s whose writing has emerged from a lived experience. The movie world now knows how he originally approached the Queen Mother decades ago and asked for Clarence House's help in writing the screenplay; she asked him to wait until she was dead and Mr Seidler decently obliged. I very much suspect that the Queen Mother had no great interest in helping out film-makers with their lèse majesté schemes and was effectively asking him to wait until both she and Mr Seidler were dead: that is, drop dead and stop making impertinent requests. Well, the author behaved impeccably and has been karmically rewarded, and I think Helena Bonham-Carter's portrayal of the then Queen Elizabeth's haughty tendencies was shrewdly judged.

There's something else here: when my mother told me my 80-something aunt had gone to the cinema, on her own, to see The King's Speech, I realised how successful it has been (in this country, anyway) in harnessing the awesome strength of the grey pound . People who haven't gone to the cinema in 10 or 20 years are going to see The King's Speech. Older people are generally ignored or patronised in the movies: so this film's mighty triumph is a modest assertion of their existence.

To balance all those toffee-nosed Brits, the Academy rewarded the all-American and quasi-American performances of Melissa Leo and Christian Bale in The Fighter (the latter technically counts as a British success, but Bale is now more part of the Hollywood global village and these thoughts are arguably parochial anyway.) I had been wanly hoping that John Hawkes might win for Winter's Bone, but like everyone else in that excellent film, he turned out to be the dignified outsider.

In a Hollywood scene in which screenplays are endlessly rewritten, tweaked and polished by dozens of sweating writers, Aaron Sorkin's victory in the best adapted screenplay is a victory for the single authorial voice. I have to keep reminding myself that Sorkin was not a contender in the "original" screenplay category – an irony, because this script was the most spectacularly original piece of work, a motormouth masterpiece. It just seemed to pour out of him. Sorkin effortlessly persuaded us to share his love for the sound of his own voice, and the love was more than justified. Sorkin dialogue provided its own ambient feel, like a musical score.

Christopher Nolan's Inception had four Oscars on the scoreboard which will have gone some way towards mollifying its passionate fans who feel that it has been slighted, rather. I myself have been agnostic about it , though I certainly think it is more interesting and daring than Avatar which hogged so many column inches last year.

Inevitably, Toy Story 3 was patted on the head with the best animation prize and also, admittedly, one for Randy Newman's song We Belong Together, and so this remarkable movie series has concluded without, in my view, a proper acknowledgement of its achievement. Well, it doesn't matter in the long run, though I suspect that a similar semi-snub to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 next year is going to occasion a few ruffled feathers among those who feel that the Potter franchise has been the commercial success of the decade: still powering along when Lord of the Rings and the Star Wars prequels are distant memories.

Natalie Portman's best actress prize for Black Swan is perhaps a reward for miraculously perfect casting: her own, faintly annoying "white swan" characteristics as a performer have been visible in other films for some time, but this picture got exactly the right notes of self-doubt and sexual anxiety out of her. Perhaps comparable to Sissy Spacek in Carrie, she carried the film with a satisfyingly diva-ish craziness.

But it is Colin Firth's year, and his performance was hugely watchable. I have to raise a tiny caveat, though. Again and again, I have heard people say how "moving" it was, and how they were choking back the tears. This baffles me — and I am an inveterate sniffler and blubberer at sad films. I didn't find it in the least sad; I just enjoyed the artifice and luxurious Englishness of it all. There is some cheek at presenting an English monarch as the underdog, yet even this audacity was part of its charm. King Colin may find, as Edward Fox and Michael Kitchen have done before him, that a big "royal" performance tends to colour how you are perceived for the rest of your career. To shake it off, he may, in the next few years, need to play Sid Vicious, General Pinochet and the Nurse in an all-male production of Romeo and Juliet. But for now, he can relax and enjoy being King Colin.

• Oscars 2011
• Colin Firth
• Natalie Portman
• Kirk Douglas
• Melissa Leo
• Aaron Sorkin

More on this story

Oscars 2011: We have the success, but what now for British film?

Oscars 2011: 10 ways to improve the ceremony

Oscars 2011: Tom Bidwell's diary

Oscars 2011: My week with the stars

Oscars 2011: film critics' reactions - video.

Curses! Colin Firth against PG-13 cut of King's Speech

No prizes to Oscars hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway

Oscars 2011: All the fun of the Vanity Fair party – in pictures

Comments (…), most viewed.

• 2011 winning films
• Films with 4 wins
• Best Picture winning films
• Best Original Screenplay winning films
• Best Director winning films
• Best Actor winning films
• Films with 12 nominations
• Best Supporting Actress nominated films
• Best Supporting Actor nominated films
• Best Sound Mixing nominated films
• Best Picture nominated films
• Best Original Screenplay nominated films
• Best Original Score nominated films
• Best Film Editing nominated films
• Best Director nominated films
• Best Costume Design nominated films
• Best Cinematography nominated films
• Best Art Direction nominated films
• Best Actor nominated films

The King's Speech

• View history

The King's Speech is a 2010 historical drama directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler which won four Academy Awards and was nominated for an additional eight. Colin Firth plays King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech therapist played by Geoffrey Rush . The men become friends as they work together, and after his brother abdicates the throne, the new King relies on Logue to help him make a radio broadcast on Britain's declaration of war on Germany in 1939.

• 2 Nominations
• Best Actor — Colin Firth
• Best Director — Tom Hooper
• Best Original Screenplay — David Seidler
• Best Picture — Iain Canning , Emile Sherman , Gareth Unwin

Nominations

• Best Art Direction — Eve Stewart , Judy Farr
• Best Cinematography — Danny Cohen
• Best Costume Design — Jenny Beavan
• Best Film Editing — Tariq Anwar
• Best Original Score — Alexandre Desplat
• Best Sound Mixing — Paul Hamblin , Martin Jensen , John Midgley
• Best Supporting Actor — Geoffrey Rush
• Best Supporting Actress — Helena Bonham Carter

After the death of his father King George V and the scandalous abdication of Prince Edward VII's, Bertie who has suffered from a debilitating speech impediment all his life, is suddenly crowned King George VI of England. With his country on the brink of war and in desperate need of a leader, his wife, Elizabeth, the future Queen Mother, arranges for her husband to see an eccentric speech therapist, Lionel Logue. After a rough start, the two delve into an unorthodox course of treatment and eventually form an unbreakable bond. With the support of Logue, his family, his government and Winston Churchill, the King will overcome his stammer and deliver a radio-address that inspires his people and unites them in battle.

Trailer [ ]

Gallery [ ].

Posters [ ]

• 2 Quentin Tarantino

The Definitive Voice of Entertainment News

Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter

site categories

‘the king’s speech’ reigns at oscars.

The British drama wins best picture, lead actor, director and original screenplay honors at the 83rd Academy Awards; Natalie Portman, Melissa Leo and Christian Bale join Colin Firth as winners in acting categories.

By Gregg Kilday

Gregg Kilday

Freelance Contributor

• Share this article on Facebook
• Share this article on Twitter
• Share this article on Flipboard
• Share this article on Email
• Show additional share options
• Share this article on Linkedin
• Share this article on Pinit
• Share this article on Reddit
• Share this article on Tumblr
• Share this article on Whatsapp
• Share this article on Print
• Share this article on Comment

Director Tom Hooper 's The King's Speech ended its awards run with a bang, topping early favorite The Social Network to take home the best picture Oscar. Social Network had originally been pegged to sweep this year's awards season, but a surprising turn of events at the DGA, PGA and SAG awards gave King's Speech the momentum it needed to surge ahead in the home stretch. The period drama took home three other prizes at the Oscars, including best director, best actor and best original screenplay.

The King’s Speech reigned at the 83rd annual Academy Awards Sunday night, securing the prize for best picture against such rivals as The Social Network . The British drama, released domestically by the Weinstein Co., also collected three other awards for best actor Colin Firth , director Tom Hooper and screenwriter David Seidler .

Natalie Portman danced to victory as best actress for playing a neurotic ballerina in Black Swan , while The Fighter costars Christian Bale and Melissa Leo captured the supporting actor and actress trophies. All four of the triumphant actors were first time Oscar winners.

Like Speech , Warner’s thriller Inception also picked up four Oscars — for cinematography, sound editing, sound mixing and visual effects. And Sony’s Social picked up three key awards — adapted screenplay, score and editing. But ultimately Speech , which began the night with a commanding 12 nominations, dominated in the final awards of the night, which guaranteed its coronation.

Although there were ten movies in play in the best picture race — for the second time in modern Oscar history — the pundits created a season-long narrative in which Social was pitted against Speech . Social , the critics’ favorite, was characterized as the hipper, cutting edge choice for its behind-the-scenes account of the creation of Facebook, while Speech was painted as the safe and traditional option.

While Social appeared to be the early favorite, dominating the year-end critics awards, and claiming the Golden Globe as the year’s best drama, Speech then rallied and took home a steady string of guild awards, including top honors from the Directors Guild of America, the Producers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild.

In the end, Speech , which dramatized King George VI’s efforts to overcome a debilitating stammer, could be viewed as one in a line of best picture Oscar winners in which a singular man triumphs over adversity — like 1998’s Rain Man and 2001’s A Beautiful Mind . Social is more akin to zeitgeist-defining movies like 1967’s The Graduate , 1975’s Shampoo and 1996’s Jerry Maguire , whose anti-social heroes find themselves at odds with the world around them. None of those movies were rewarded with the ultimate prize, either.

PHOTOS: Oscars 2011 red carpet

As the winning producers accepted their crown, Iain Canning thanked Hooper and the movie’s trio of lead actors, calling them “our acting royalty”; fellow producer Emile Sherman acknowledged that the relatively low-budget $14 million movie was a “huge risk” as he tipped his hat to the Weinstein Co.’s Harvey and Bob Weinstein — the risk paid off handsomely for the various companies that backed the film, which has grossed more than $245 million worldwide; and refusing to give up the stage even as the music began to swell, Gareth Unwin called the win “a boyhood ambition come true tonight.”

Firth, who was nominated last year for A Single Man and whose ultimate victory was something of a foregone conclusion, was self-deprecating in a tony British manner, as he accepted his Oscar. “I have a feeling my career’s just peaked,” he said before eloquently paying tribute to the movie’s writer Seidler, “whose own struggles have given so many people the benefit of his very beautiful voice”; director Hooper “for immense courage and clear-sightedness”; and his own wife Livia “for putting up with my fleeting delusions of royalty.”

Taking the stage to the music from Swan Lake , the pregnant Portman composed herself as she accepted her best actress Oscar and began by expressing her appreciation to her parents. Citing directors who had championed her such as Luc Besson and Mike Nichols , she moved on to hail Swan director Darren Aronofksy as “a fearless leader, a visionary.” And she thanked the movie’s choreographer, Benjamin Millepied , with whom she is expecting a child, for giving “me the most important role of my life.”

Hooper, a first-time nominee, breathed a huge sigh of relief when the best director envelope contained his name. Just two weeks ago at Britain’s BAFTAs, he lost the directing honors to Social ‘s David Fincher .

“This is an extraordinary honor,” he said before going on to thank his stars, Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter , writer Seidler and the film’s producers. He reserved special acknowledgment for his mother, who first spotted Seidler’s material at a play-reading and called to alert her son, telling him, “I think I found your next film.” Added Hooper, “the moral of the story is listen to your mother.”

Leo won the first acting award of the evening for her performance as fiercely controlling mom in The Fighter .

The veteran actress immediately established another first as she blurted out a bleeped-out F-word amid her flustered acceptance speech. First, though, she had to wait for presenter Kirk Douglas , who milked opening the envelope for all it was worth. “Pinch me,” she said to Douglas as she accepted her Oscar. “Wow…mine..for me?,” she vamped, as Douglas told her, “You’re much more beautiful than you were in The Fighter ” before he was escorted to the side of the stage.

Her Fighter costar Bale was named best supporting actor for taking on the real-life character of ex-fighter-turned-addict Dicky Eklund . Referring to Leo, the sometimes volatile actor said, “I’m not going to drop the f-bomb like she did. I’ve already done that plenty before.” Instead, he thanked director David O. Russell and gave a shout-out to Eklund, who stood up and waved from his seat in the audience.

Aaron Sorkin , who was clearly the odds-on favorite in his category, claimed the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for the fast-talking Social , adapted from Ben Mezrich ‘s book The Accidental Billionaires . As he began his acceptance, Sorkin noted that the great Paddy Chayefsky won a writing screenplay 35 years ago for another movie with the word network in the title. He also offered extravagant praise to the film’s director Fincher, saying, “David Fincher made this movie and he did it with an ungodly artfulness.”

Seidler’s victory in the original screenplay category for Speech was equally expected. “My father always said to me, I would be a late bloomer,” the writer said as he began his remarks before concluding, “I accept this on behalf of all the stutterers around the world. We have a voice, we have been heard, thanks to you, the Academy.”

When it came to best score, the Social vs. Speech rivalry tipped in favor of Social and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross , who collaborated on its uniquely moody score. Reznor, a rock musician, said the Oscar was “humbling and flattering beyond words.”

The movie, which cut relentlessly between a series of legal depositions, also rose to the top in the editing category, where Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter shared the prize.

Disney’s Alice in Wonderland led off the trophy parade as it took home the first award of the evening, the prize for art direction.

Production designer Robert Stromberg was visibly nervous as he took the stage with set decorator Karen O’Hara . In his rush into a litany of thank yous, he referred to his Disney bosses as “Iger and Ross and Bailey,” referring to Robert Iger , Rich Ross and Sean Bailey , reserving most of his thanks for the movie’s director Tim Burton .

Alice ‘s fantasy world also resulted in an award for its costume design, the third such Oscar that Colleen Atwood has won, and she also hailed “the singular Tim Burton.”

Wally Pfister took home the night’s second trophy for his cinematography in Inception . It was the fifth nomination and first win for Pfister, a longtime collaborator of director Christopher Nolan , and he acknowledged that fact, saying, “Nothing I did would have been possible without the incredible vision of my master Christopher Nolan.”

When it came to sound, Inception executed a double-play: It earned the prize for sound editing, which went to Richard King , and for sound mixing, which went to Lora Hirschberg , Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick .

The film, full of elaborate imagery, picked up its fourth Oscar when it proved victorious in the visual effects race. Paul Franklin , Chris Corbould , Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb all came to the stage to accept their prize.

PHOTOS: Oscars 2011 show moments

Even though presenter Cate Blanchett shuddered, “That’s gross,” after watching a clip from The Wolfman , in which Benicio Del Toro turns into the title character, the movie still took the prize for best make-up. The award was shared by Rick Baker (collecting his seventh Oscar win) and Dave Elsey (accepting his first).

Pixar’s Toy Story 3 , directed by Lee Unkrich , claimed the Oscar for best animated feature, while the corresponding prize for best short animated movie went to the Australian-made The Lost Thing and its creators Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann .

Expressing his debt to Pixar founders John Lasseter , Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs , Unkrich called Pixar “the most awesome place on the planet to make movies” and thanked audiences who “embraced a movie about talking toys that hopefully had something very human to say.”

Toy got further airtime when Randy Newman got his second Oscar (on his 20th nomination) for the movie’s tune “We Belong Together.” Newman resisted a winner’s natural inclination to recite a long line of thank-yous since it wouldn’t be “good television” and also since, he admitted, “I’ve been on this show any number of times, and I’ve slowed it down every time.”

Strangers No More , which looks at a school in Tel Aviv that is attended by children from 48 countries, earned the prize for documentary short subject, which was accepted by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon .

The prize for best live-action short subject went to God of Love , which focuses on three musicians in a love triangle, directed by Luke Matheny , whose thank-yous included one to “my mother, who did craft services for the film.”

Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs , who were previously nominated for the Iraq War documentary No End in Sight , both won their first Oscar for their new feature doc Inside Job , from Sony Pictures Classics, a look at the worldwide financial crisis of 2008.

Ferguson interjected some politics into the ceremony as he began his acceptance by saying, “Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after a horrific financial crisis caused by massive fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that’s wrong.”

Job ‘s win did mean, however, that one of the night’s great mysteries went unanswered. Was Banksy , the mysterious graffiti artist who was nominated in the same category for directing Exit Through the Gift Shop , in the audience? Who knows?

Susanne Bier ‘s Danish feature In a Better World was named best foreign-language feature. The film ranges from a refugee camp in Sudan to a Danish provincial town, where two boys strike up a friendship as they confront local bullies. Thanking the Academy, Bier also tipped her hat to SPC and its two co-heads Michael Barker and Tom Bernard for distributing the film in America.

For the ABC broadcast, originating at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, the show’s producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer aimed to give the show a fresher, more youthful look, recruiting James Franco and Anne Hathaway , who appeared amid a high-tech set that used a series of “projections” to shift from one historic setting to another.

To open the show, the two hosts took an Inception -like trip into Alec Baldwin ‘s dreams, which looked like most of the other best picture nominees, in search of the secret for hosting the Oscars.

COMPLETE WINNERS LIST FOLLOWS ON NEXT PAGE

83rd Academy Awards Winners List (in order of appearance):

Best Art Direction Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara ( Alice in Wonderland )

Best Cinematography Wally Pfister ( Inception )

Best Supporting Actress Melissa Leo ( The Fighter )

Best Animated Short Film The Lost Thing , Shaun Tan, Andrew Ruhemann directors

Best Animated Feature Toy Story 3 , Lee Unkrich director

Best Adapted Screenplay Aaron Sorkin ( The Social Network )

Best Original Screenplay David Seidler ( The King’s Speech )

Best Foreign Language Film In A Better World (Denmark)

Best Supporting Actor Christian Bale ( The Fighter )

Best Original Score Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross ( The Social Network )

Best Sound Mixing Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo, Ed Novick ( Inception )

Best Sound Editing Richard King ( Inception )

Best Makeup Rick Baker, Dave Elsey ( The Wolfman )

Best Costume Design Colleen Atwood ( Alice in Wonderland )

Best Documentary Short Subject Strangers No More , Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon directors

Best Live Action Short Film God of Love , Luke Matheny director

Best Documentary Inside Job , Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs directors

Best Visual Effects Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, Peter Bebb ( Inception )

Best Film Editing Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter ( The Social Network )

Best Original Song Randy Newman ( Toy Story 3 )

Best Director Tom Hooper ( The King’s Speech )

Best Actress Natalie Portman ( Black Swan )

Best Actor Colin Firth ( The King’s Speech )

Best Picture The King’s Speech Producers Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin

Related Stories

2011 oscars red carpet, thr newsletters.

Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day

More from The Hollywood Reporter

Anita hill on harvey weinstein reversal: “our movement will persist”, taylor swift reacts to ‘tortured poets’ debuting at 2.6 million units: “feeling completely overwhelmed”, nicole kidman’s daughters make their red carpet debut at afi life achievement award gala, anne hathaway on how she overcame being a “chronically stressed young woman” in hollywood, zendaya says she’s potentially open to releasing new music “one day”, colin jost roasts biden, the press and gets sentimental at white house correspondents dinner.

THE KING'S SPEECH Wins Best Picture; Full List of Oscar Winners

The King's Speech won Best Picture at the 83rd Academy Awards. The night's other winners included Inception, The Social Network, and The Fighter.

In what easily had to be one of the most painful, unfunny Oscar ceremonies in recent memory, The King's Speech finally reached the end of its inevitable march to Best Picture.  It was the first Best Picture winner to win less than five Oscars (it won four, including Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay). [ Correction: Crash, which won Best Picture in 2006, only won 3 Oscars ]  Does that make it more or less unworthy of the Best Picture crown?  I don't know.  I don't care.  I'm drained after live-blogging the awful show and 50 minutes of terrible pre-show.

Hit the jump for the full list of winners.

BEST PICTURE: The King's Speech

BEST DIRECTOR: Tom Hooper, The King's Speech

BEST ACTOR: Colin Firth, The King's Speech

BEST ACTRESS: Natalie Portman, Black Swan

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Christian Bale, The Fighter

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Melissa Leo, The Fighter

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Toy Story 3

BEST ART DIRECTION: Alice in Wonderland

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Inception

BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Alice in Wonderland

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Inside Job

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: Strangers No More

BEST EDITING: The Social Network

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: In a Better World

BEST MAKE-UP: The Wolfman

BEST SCORE: The Social Network

BEST SONG: Toy Story 3

BEST ANIMATED SHORT: The Lost Thing

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT: God of Love

BEST SOUND EDITING: Inception

BEST SOUND MIXING: Inception

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Inception

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: The Social Network

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: The King's Speech