All Hail The King! The critic-favored The King’s Speech beat out Facebook drama The Social Network and animated hit Toy Story 3 to take home the coveted Best Picture Oscar at Sunday night’s Academy Award. In total, royal British drama picked up a total of four Oscars as Hollywood celebrated film’s biggest night, hosted by Anne Hathaway and James Franco.
Colin Firth won the Academy Award on Sunday for his lead role as stammering wartime monarch King George VI in the flick. Filmmaker Tom Hooper won the Academy Award for directing The King’s Speech. Other big Oscar winners include Christian Bale, who clocked his first Best Supporting Actor trophy for playing a drug-addicted former boxer in The Fighter, and a heavily-pregnant Natalie Portman, the potential latest victim of the “Best Actress Curse” after winning for her emotionally-disturbed ballerina in Black Swan.
Which of your year’s favorites in film brought in gongs? Here’s a compete list of winners crowned at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood on Sunday….
- Best picture – “The King’s Speech”
- Best director – “The King’s Speech” (Tom Hooper)
- Best actor – Colin Firth (“The King’s Speech”)
- Best actress – Natalie Portman (“Black Swan”)
- Supporting actor – Christian Bale (“The Fighter”)
- Supporting actress – Melissa Leo (“The Fighter”)
- Original screenplay – “The King’s Speech” (David Seidler)
- Adapted screenplay – “The Social Network” (Aaron Sorkin)
- Foreign language film – “In a Better World” (Denmark)
- Animated feature – “Toy Story 3″
- Original song – “We Belong Together” from “Toy Story 3″ (Randy Newman)
- Original score – “The Social Network” (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross)
- Film editing – “The Social Network” (Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter)
- Cinematography – “Inception” (Wally Pfister)
- Sound Mixing – “Inception (Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo, Ed Novick)
- Sound editing – “Inception” (Richard King)
- Visual effects – “Inception” (Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, Peter Bebb)
- Art direction – “Alice in Wonderland” (Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara)
- Costume design – “Alice in Wonderland” (Colleen Atwood)
- Makeup – “The Wolfman” (Rick Baker, Dave Elsey)
- Documentary feature – “Inside Job”
- Documentary short subject – “Strangers No More”
- Live action short film – “God of Love”
- Animated short film – “The Lost Thing”
