
Colin Firth was last night crowned best actor at the Academy Awards in Hollywood in what will go down as the most unsurprising ceremony in the Academy’s history.
In all the King’s Speech took four Oscars, as did Inception in a night when social networking was shunned in the shape of The Social Network only receiving some minor gongs.
Firth’s acceptance speech could easily have been the actor staying in character and such was his reluctance to give any interviews he may well have decided that the character he played is a better person than himself and has taken on the King’s persona.
The ceremony didn’t pass off without any controversy though.

The stars of The Fighter, almost the only sport film made over the entire year, were on top form. Winner of Best Supporting Actor, Christian Bale, made sure to tell everyone present that he didn’t deserve to be there as those present were a different class to him. This was all as he stood on stage with an unkempt beard that made him look like a tribute to Tom Hanks in Castaway.
It was nothing compared to Melissa Leo’s use of the F-word after being given the award for Best Supporting Actress. Perhaps this was fitting for a nitty gritty fight film and it could have been even better if someone has thrown in a bloodied towel at the time she, as Bale put it, “dropped the F bomb.”
Overall, though, the Oscars didn’t have any surprises.
Banksy didn’t turn up, The King’s Speech won all the awards and there was only one “F“ word. Whatever happened to giving us some surprises people? Should have at least been some streaking midgets or something!
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