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FILM STOCK FOR AWARD WINNERS
AWARDS
KINGOFTHEWORLD
THE RED CARPET ROLLS OUT FOR THREE FUJIFILM PRODUCTIONS
hat began last
September Wrather 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,amongothers,theGoldenGlobes,eve-ofOscars
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 trophies 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 £9.25m film currently stands at £45.3m, making it the highest earning UK independent film of all time at the domestic box office. The worldwide theatrical gross weighs in at an astonishing $405.5m (£250m), and now, post DVD and Blu-ray release, the profits stillcontinuetoamass. QUENTINFALK
Photo main: Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter in The King’s Speech
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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