Oscar voters spoke loudly and clearly last night, handing "The King's Speech" four trophies including best picture, best director and best original screenplay. The film beat out "The Social Network," which had been considered the likely choice for best picture. It seemed all night "The King's Speech" enjoyed fame, fortune and trophies.
The British filmmaker Tom Hooper, who directed the movie, discovered the tale only after his mother attended an unrehearsed reading of a play about the king at a tiny theater outside London. Rush got involved only after a producer's assistant dropped off the script at the actor's front door. Screenwriter David Seidler, 73, who had promised the Queen Mother he wouldn't write about her stuttering husband in her lifetime, waited 25 years before moving ahead with his project.
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