Best Picture: "The King's Speech"
By CBSNews.com producer David Morgan
ELIZABETH: Naturally he wishes to be cured. My husband is required to speak publicly.
LIONEL: Perhaps he should change jobs.
ELIZABETH: He can't.
LIONEL: Indentured servitude?
ELIZABETH: Something of that nature.
BERTIE: How can I hear what I'm saying?!
LIONEL: Surely a Prince's brain knows what its mouth is doing?
BERTIE: You're not well acquainted with Royal Princes, are you?
Bertie becomes exasperated and leaves, believing he'd failed the test. But later, upon hearing the recording, he learns that it did have impressive results.
CHURCHILL: Have you thought what you will call yourself? Certainly not Albert, Sir. Too Germanic. What about George? After your father? George the Sixth. It has rather a nice continuity to it, don't you think.
All of Bertie's old symptoms reappear: the tightening of the neck muscles, the protruding Adam's apple, the jaw locking.
BERTIE: I meet you today in circumstances which are -
Bertie has come to a complete muscle-locked halt.
LIONEL: Turn the hesitations into pauses, and say to yourself, 'God save the King.'
BERTIE: I say that continually, but apparently no one's listening.
LIONEL: Long pauses are good: they add solemnity to great occasions.
BERTIE: Then I'm the solemnest king who ever lived.
"People knew this man was facing his demons just by speaking to them. I think there was a sense that it cost him something. They found it valiant."
Colin Firth
Colin Firth has already won virtually every acting accolade for her emotionally nuanced performance in "The Kings' Speech," and received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. Previously nominated for "A Single Man," Firth has been a reliable and accomplished performer of romantic leads, none more so than his breakthrough role as Mr. Darcy in the BBC version of "Pride and Prejudice" - wet shirt and all.Geoffrey Rush
In addition to winning an Oscar for his portrayal of the mentally ill pianist David Helfgott in "Shine," Best Supporting Actor nominee Geoffrey Rush received Oscar noms for "Quills" (playng the Marquis de Sade) and "Shakespeare in Love." He is one of the rare "triple crown" actors - his shelf also include a Tony Award (for "Exit the King") and an Emmy (for "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"). His other credits include "Elizabeth," "Frida," "Intolerable Cruelty," "Munich," and the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series.Helena Bonham Carter
No stranger to blue bloods (her family line includes the Baroness Violet Bonham Carter and Prime Minister Herbert Asquith), Best Supporting Actress nominee Helena Bonham Carter has herself played a Red Queen, the Nine Days' Queen (Lady Jane), and a headless queen (Anne Boleyn). After her memorable feature film debut in the Merchant-Ivory production of "A Room With a View," Carter has starred in "Howards End," Franco Zefferelli's "Hamlet," "Where Angels Fear to Tread," "The Wings of the Dove" (best Actress nominee), "Fight Club," "Big Fish," Terminator Salvation," and as Bellatrix Lestrange in several "Harry Potter" films. She's also worked with her husband, director Tim Burton, starring in "Alice in Wonderland," "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," and "Corpse Bride."Jennifer Ehle
A North Carolina native, Jennifer Ehle (who plays Logue's wife Myrtle) comes from theatrical royalty - her mother is Rosemary Harris. A Tony Award-winner for the 2000 revival of Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing," Ehle was also featured as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 "Pride and Prejudice" that starred Colin Firth. Her film credits include "Sunshine," "Possession," "Before the Rains," "The Greatest," "Pride and Glory," and "The Adjustment Bureau."Tom Hooper
Best Director nominee Tom Hooper is a veteran of British television, including "EastEnders," "Cold Feet" and "Prime Suspect 6"; the HBO mini-series "Elizabeth I" (for which he won the Emmy Award); and "John Adams." His feature film credits include "Red Dust" and "The Damned United."When asked backstage if he was looking forward to now taking a break from Bertie, Firth replied, "Yeah, I am. Yeah, I've started having fantasies about what I'll do. ... I think I'm going to cook a lot. I don't think I'm particularly good at it, but I'm going to inflict my cooking on anybody within range, but I tend to find that's a very good way to decompress. I'll probably be the only one eating it!"
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"The King's Speech" (Official Movie Website)
"The King's Speech" - Original screenplay by David Seidler (Download pdf)