The King’s Speech ruled the 83rd Academy Awards with four wins from its 12 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Director (Tom Hooper), and Original Screnplay (David Seidler).
Inception, Toy Story 3, Black Swan, The Social Network and The Fighter also won top honors.
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The complete winners list after the jump!
Edited: February 28th, 2011
The King’s Speech Colin Firth picked up the Best Actor award for his portray of King George VI.
“I have a feeling my career has just peaked,” Firth said during his acceptance speech.
“I”m afraid I have to warn you that i’m expecting stirrings in the abdominal, which are threatening to form into dance moves,” he joked.
“I want to thank all the people who have been rooting for me back home,” he continued. “Thank you to my [wife] Livia for putting up with my fleeting delusions of royalty.”
Edited: February 27th, 2011
Natalie Portman won the Best Actress award for her portrayal of a ballerina in Black Swan.
“This is insane and I truly wish the prize was just to work with my fellow nominees,” said Portman in her acceptance speech. “I’m so in awe of you. I’m so grateful to do the job that I do.
“I want to thank my team who works with me everyday,” she continued. “Thank you to the love of my life, Ben Millepied who gave me the greatest role yet.”
Portman beat out Annette Bening, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicole Kidman and Michelle Williams.
Edited: February 27th, 2011
Christian Bale won Best Supporting Actor during the 83rd Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
“What a room full of talented and inspirational people,” Bale said during his acceptance speech. ”What am I doing here? What an honor.”
Bale also thanked his costar Melissa Leo who garnered an award for her role in the film.
“Thank you to Melissa,” he said. “I’m not going to drop the ‘F’ bomb like she did, I’ve done that plenty before.”
Bale won for his portrayal of Dickie Eklund in The Figher. He also thanked Eklund, who was in the audience.
“He’s had a wonderful story and I Can’t wait to see the next chapter of that story,” Bale said.
Edited: February 27th, 2011
Melissa Leo took home the statuette for Best Supporting Actress during the 2011 Oscars held at the Kodak Theater on Sunday (Feb. 27) in Los Angeles.
The 50-year-old actress won for her role in The Fighter.
Leo beat fellow Fighter actress Amy Adams, Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech), Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) and Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom).
Edited: February 27th, 2011
While Matt Damon is contemplating the possibility of doing another Bourne film, Tony Gilroy will write and direct a Bourne spin-off for Universal.
Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire, Paul Dano, Michael Pitt, Oscar Isaac, Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Luke Evans, Alex Pettyfer, Taylor Kitsch, Benjamin Walker, Joel Edgerton and Josh Hartnett are all reportedly up for the lead role.
Production is set to begin in the Fall.
Who do you think should play the lead?
Edited: February 25th, 2011
Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz and Rebecca Hall are up for two female leads in The Trade, a film based on the true story of former Yankee pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson, who traded wives in 1972.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are reportedly set to reunite on screen for the film.
According to reports, the double marriage took place in Oct. 1972, but the news didn’t leak to the public until spring of the next year. Kekich is reportedly very affected by the news of the film and does not want his real-life story to hit the big screen.
Edited: February 25th, 2011
Check out the first official photos from Robert Redford’s The Conspirator, starring James McAvoy.
Here’s a synopsis of the film: In the wake of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, the Vice-President, and the Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks.
Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken (McAvoy), a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. As the trial unfolds, Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son.
Edited: February 24th, 2011
Leona Lewis really wants a role on Fox’s hit show Glee.
The singer said, ”I’d love to play a rebel. Be a real biker chick in leather and covered in tattoos. A real badass. I could also play like a geek who becomes a swan.”
Lewis might get her wish. She’s friends with Matthew Morrison and the pair have been hanging out during Grammy week.
They also had a duet during one of her concerts.
Edited: February 24th, 2011
It’s finally here!
Warner Bros. has released the teaser trailer for The Hangover Part II.
The sequel follows (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and Doug (Justin Bartha) find trouble when Helms gets married in the exotic setting of Thailand.
Here’s the synopsis: “After the unforgettable bachelor party in Las Vegas, Stu is taking no chances and has opted for a safe, subdued pre-wedding brunch. However, things don’t always go as planned. What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in Bangkok can’t even be imagined.”
Check out the trailer below!
Edited: February 24th, 2011
Uma Thurman and Jessica Biel have joined the cast of Playing the Field, a soccer comedy that also stars Gerard Butler.
The film follows a troubled father (Butler) who’s trying to make up for lost time by coaching his son’s team — but who finds himself in hot water after some of the local mothers take a little too much of a shine to him.
Biel will reportedly play Butler’s ex-wife, while Thurman will play one of the soccermoms trying to seduce Butler.
Edited: February 23rd, 2011
Jessica Alba and her husband Cash Warren are expecting another baby.
“It’s been a while since I’ve been on FB & I thought I’d drop by to let you all in on some exciting news,” Alba said via her Facebook account.
“Honor is going to be a Big Sister! Cash and I are thrilled and wanted to share the news directly with you so you didn’t hear about it somewhere else. I appreciated all of the love and support you all gave me during my first pregnancy and will definitely appreciate it again this time around. Have a great day!”
Congratulations to the happy family!
Edited: February 16th, 2011
