The King’s Speech Rules the Academy Awards

The Social Network, while being nominated for eight oscars, took away only three. These included film editing, original score, and best adapted screenplay. The King’s Speech beat out The Social Network by only one Oscar, but it captured four major awards, whereas, The Social Network took scarps home.

That being so, the Facebook-based film has earned [...]

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The King’s Speech wins yet another award

Tom Hooper has good reason to believe that “mother knows best”, as he took home the top award from Director’s Guild of America for “The King’s Speech”.  The DGA presented its Outstanding Directorial Achievement for a Feature Film to Hooper for his direction of the docudrama about King George VI, who took the throne of [...]

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The King's Speech is masterful

The King’s Speech stands as a precise mixture of humour, drama, and history. The film’s director, Tom Hooper, has made leaps and bounds in his skill at displaying important pieces of history in a way that steps up what happened and draws out the finest in the cast.

Hooper somehow is able to bottle the essence [...]

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