A Majestic Win

Today, being the last day of my UCS3001 Leadership class, the BBS/BBM group of students organized a class photo. Well, photos. As you will notice, the theme color was ‘blue’ – a sign of Monday morning blues perhaps? Although it did weigh heavily on their shoulders when they trooped into class at 8:30AM this morning, it quickly melted away once class was over! You can see the smiling faces – sigh, am I such an uninteresting lecturer?

The King’s Speech, a historical drama tale about the stammering King George VI’s relationship with his speech therapist, justified heavy favoritism to carry off four Oscars, including the top prize of Best Picture at the 2011 Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, USA.

The British film, made for a paltry nine million pounds, capped an unlikely run that has seen it generate more than £150 million at the box office and will make multi-millionaires of its little-known producers by scooping almost every major award it was shortlisted for. Tom Hooper won for Best Director, David Seidler won for Best Original Screenplay, and Colin Firth, was named Best Actor for his performance in the title role.

Indeed it is an extraordinary film because I too have made five postings that are related to this movie alone. I was very much inspired. So no surprise here for The King’s Speech to have secured four Oscars.

I did also feature the movie "Inception" and it is nice to know that it won four prizes in technical categories, i.e. Cinematography, Sound mixing, Sound editing and Visual effects.