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FILM STOCK FOR AWARD WINNERS
KINGOFTHEWORLD
THE RED CARPET ROLLS OUT FOR THREE FUJIFILM PRODUCTIONS
hat began last WSeptember rather
modestly with the Cadillac People’s Choice Award at the
Toronto Film Festival
culminated on February
27 at the Kodak Theatre,
Hollywood, with four
Oscars, including Best
Picture, Director, Leading
Actor and Original
Screenplay, for The King’s
Speech. It also marked a sensational hat-trick of success for Fujifilm following wins in 2009 and 2010 for, respectively, Slumdog Millionaire and The Hurt Locker, with all three winning the most coveted prize at the British Academy Film Awards, too.
In fact, The King’s Speech was vying among the ten nominees for Best Picture with two titles, The Fighter and Black Swan, also both originated on Fujifilm, which both enjoyed success on the night. But in terms of sheer weight of acclaim, The King’s Speech is the year’s clear winner with recognition at, among others, the Golden Globes, eve-of Oscars Independent Spirit Awards, British Independent Film Awards and of course, the BAFTAs.
In fact it was at the UK ceremony, held a fortnight before the Oscars, that the film picked up seven awards including an quite unprecedented
double of Best Film and Outstanding British Film. The tally below just doesn’t begin to reflect the sheer weight of tro- phies heaped personally on Colin Firth, especially
from many of the various USA’s regional film critic associations. Worth noting that The King’s Speech isn’t merely a success d‘estime. The UK box office gross for the £24m film currently stands at £39.8 million, making it now the highest grossing UK independent film of all time at the domestic box office. The total worldwide gross currently stands at $245 million (£156 million) – and will, post awards, continue to rise and rise. QUENTIN FALK
Photo main: Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter in The King’s Speech; top; all three Fujifilm production Oscar Winners; inset above: The King’s Speech Best Film line-up at the BAFTAs and below left (l-r): Melissa Leo in The Fighter; Helena Bonham Carter with her BAFTA; Natalie Portman in Black Swan; Christian Bale in The Fighter BAFTA photos courtesy BAFTA
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