B003UESJH4

013132313092

2010

2010-12-25

118

1h 58min

Won 4 Oscars, 108 wins & 206 nominations total

Tom Hooper

David Seidler

Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter

Paul Brett, Iain Canning, Charles Dorfman, Simon Egan, Mark Foligno, Peter Heslop, Phil Hope, Geoffrey Rush, Lisbeth Savill, Emile Sherman, Deepak Sikka, Tim Smith, Gareth Unwin, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein

Alexandre Desplat

Danny Cohen

Tariq Anwar

Nina Gold

Eve Stewart

David Hindle, Leon McCarthy

Judy Farr

Jenny Beavan

Faye Aydin, Helen Barrett, Cathy Burczak, Karen Cohen, Nana Fischer, Clarice Gill, Paul Gooch, Sarah Grispo, Frances Hannon, Maureen Hetherington, Carmel Jackson, Sharon O'Brien, Lisa Pickering, Loulia Sheppard, Christine Whitney, Kim Freeland, Camilla Kirk-Reynolds, Kristyan Mallett, Alex Rouse, Catherine Elizabeth Smith, Zoey Stones, Barbara Taylor

David Bell, Erica Bensly, Fiona Morham, Alan Pritt, Emma Zee, Jeff Maynard

Tom Brewster, Heidi Gower, Martin Harrison, Guy Heeley, Julie Heskin, Liam Lock, Andrew Mannion, Charlie Reed, Chris Stoaling, Charlie Waller, Michael Biggam, Robyn Henderson, Ian Hughes, Sylvain Jouannet, Gemma Morton, Andy Young, Jhonny Zurita

Bruce Bigg, Corina Burrough, Julia Castle, Netty Chapman, Alan Chesters, Leigh Chesters, Michael Fleming, Andrew Forrest, Henry Gallagher, John Hanks, Peter Hasler, Jo Hawthorne, Douglas Ingram, David Ned Kelly, David Mears, Amy Merry, Mitch Niclas, Camise Oldfield, Eva Onsrud, George Roberts, John Roberts, Simon Robilliard, Warren Stickley, Emma Weaver, Michael Webb, Rebecca White, Graham Caulfield, Colin Ellis, Lois Gabrin, Kate Halsall, Jason Ivall, Wyn Jenkins, Eva Onsrud, Emma Weaver, Karl Wilson

Peter Burgis, Joe Carey, Philip Clements, Andie Derrick, Jim Goddard, Charlotte Grey, Paul Hamblin, Catherine Hodgson, Martin Jensen, Dash Mason-Malik, John Midgley, Forbes Noonan, Mike Reardon, Andre Schmidt, Martin Seeley, Matthew Skelding, Catherine Thomas, Virginia Thorn, Lee Walpole, Naomi Dandridge, Mark DeSimone, Nick Foley, Michael Fowler, Chris Goodes, Charlotte Gray, Jordan O'Neill, Ric Schnupp, Lionel Strutt

Mark Holt, Patrick O'Sullivan, Jamie Weguelin, James Davis III

Terence Alvares, Antra, Phil Attfield, Debasish Borah, Ritu Chaurasia, Neil Cunningham, Fawnda Denham, Abhijit Desai, Dreekanth, Pratik Dubey, Joss Flores, Sanket Gune, John Hardwick, Duncan Holland, Thomas M. Horton, Marc Hutchings, Julian Johnson, Pratik Kalbende, Simon Kilroe, Nik Martin, Rick McMahon, Alasdair McNeill, Arun Mendon, Sanjiv Naik, Neha, Abhiman Niimain, Collette Nunes, Zissis Papatzikis, Anil Rawat, Ranadheer Reddy, Sarika Salian, Sohil Shaik, Serdar Simga, Viral Thakkar, Indresh Tiwari, Tony Tromp, Liam Tully, Ashok Uchil, Shanaullah Umerji, Audrius Urbonavicius, Anthony Webb, Derek Bird, Cyntia Büll, Charlotte Collings, Steve Dellerson, Kelly Fischer, Ilamuruguselvan, Anthony 'Max' Ivins, Hanuman Patel, Sheveta Raut, Migs Rustia, Dhanendra Sahu, Nishanth Shrinivasa, Shaikh Sohel, Paul Stemmer, Ben Sumner, Suchita Suryamurty, Melinka Thompson-Godoy, Kumar Umesh

Peter Byrne, Abigail Catto, David Churchyard, Shaun Cobley, Danny Cohen, Guy Cope, David Cozens, Martyn Culpan, Sean Davis, Elliot Dupuy, Simon Fogg, Alan Fraser, Max Glickman, Leigh Gold, Danny Griffiths, Gary Hutchings, Tom Hyde, Lizzie Kelly, Will Kendal, Martin Kenzie, Jody Knight, Oliver Loncraine, Nathan Mann, Guy McCormack, Paul McGeachan, Dean Morris, Will Morris, Alex Mott, Zac Nicholson, Laurie Sparham, Chloë Thomson, Ben Wilson, Marc Woodcock, Iain Young, Steed Barrett, Joe McGee, Gary Parnham, Terry Richards, Garry Thomson, Neil Tomlin

Kharmel Cochrane, Darren Baba, Abigail Barbier, Robert Sterne

Lucille Acevedo-Jones, Tim Aslam, Alison Beard, Ann Cartwright, Janine Cunliffe, Jason Gill, Katie Hill, Jenna McGranaghan, Linda O'Reilly, David Otzen, Marco Scotti, Fola Solanke, Sally Turner, Vanessa Woolgar, Kat Willis

Mike Andrews, Siobhan Boyes, Len Brown, Tim Drewett, Matt James, Francois Kamffer, Soren Kloch, Steve Knight, Connan McStay, Gareth Spensley, Gemma Townsend, Jamie Welsh, Michelle Cort, Andy Richards, Jeff Smithwick, Ashton York

Tom Asquith, David Broder, Rebecca Davis, Roberto Kouyoumdjian, Jamie Lengyel, Lindsey Powell, Camilla Stephenson, Paul Tomlinson, Lara Berners, James 'Fingers' Buxton, Charlie Hayes, Philip Lobban, Lucas Saunal, Tom Stourton

David Arch, John Barrett, Jean-Pascal Beintus, Thomas Bowes, Peter Clarke, Peter Cobbin, Terry Davies, Alexandre Desplat, Andrew Dudman, Xavier Forcioli, Isobel Griffiths, Iryna Kiszko, Carmine Lauri, London Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Marriner, Gerard McCann, Sam Okell, Steve Osborne, Tom Pigott Smith, Maggie Rodford, Jill Streater, Lucy Whalley, Helen Yates, Mark Berrow, Nicolas Charron, Sienna Jackson, Skaila Kanga, Steve Mair, Sylvain Morizet, Paul Pritchard, Jonathan Snowden, Allen Walley, Bruce White, Warren Zielinski

Cathy Doubleday

John Ayres, Mark Bellett, Debbie Bryant, Lee Isgar, Danny Jarman, Simon Jones, David O'Donoghue, Mark Oliver, William Pidgley, Steve Pirolli, Harry Taylor, Tony Wadsworth, Martin Alderdice, Paul Allen, Carl Isherwood, Kevin Jones

Glen Basner, Elizabeth Blackledge, Bob Borrett, Anna Brazinova, Katherine Bridle, Alastair Bruce, Francesca Budd, Paul Cable, Sally Caplan, Kevin Chamberlain, Isabel Chick, Peter Clark, Alison Cohen, John Dalton, Dennis Davidson, Emma Davie, Kate Rees Davies, Anthony Day, Sean Desmond, Wayne Docksey, Charles Dorfman, Peter Eardley, William Emsworth, Will Evans, Ben Famiglietti, Edwin Field, Fiona Garland, Kahli Gaskin, Marilyn Goldsworthy, Danny Gulliver, Alice Gledhill Hall, Ruth Halliday, Dave Hayball, Ruth Hodgson, Vince Holden, Jonathan Houston, Lee Isgar, Nick Jeffries, Carrie Johnson, Lisa Jones, Alexandra Keen, Clare Kirby, Joan Lane, Matthew Lawson, Charles Layton, Mark Logue, Scarlett Mackmin, Yelena Makarczyk, Xavier Marchand, Stefano Margaritelli, Spyro Markesinis, Barry May-Leybourne, Will McCord, M.J. McMahon, Steve Milne, Steve Morphew, Tamara Nagahiro, Simone Nicholson, Moses Nyachae, Sarah Parfitt, Christine Perrett, Michal Podell, Darren Price, Richard Price, Samantha Robinson, Mike Ryan, Barry Sechos, Jeremy Sellick, Anne Sheehan, Helen Slaymaker, Neil Swain, James Swarbrick, Antony Swiatek, Peter Titterell, Hugo Vickers, Robert Walak, Helen Wong, Richard Wulf, Dana Archer, Nick Atkinson, Danielle Bennett, Carles Berot, Jonathan Bird, Andrew Boswell, Jessica Cameron, Shoky Carter, Isabel Chick, Jenny Farrent, Joel Hills, Andrew Mackie, Teresa Mahoney, Nick Miller, Tariq Mirza, Ian Pearce, Maria Ryan

Rebecca Coppin, Clare Hardwick, Edwin Morris Hooper, Andrew Mackie, Albert Martinez Martin, Christos Michaels, Richard Payten, Raaj Rahhi

Biography, Drama, History

The Weinstein Company, UK Film Council, Momentum Pictures

UK, USA

English

R

8

677194

88

The King s Speech is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. Colin Firth plays the future King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech and language therapist played by Geoffrey Rush. The men become friends as they work together, and after his brother abdicates the throne, the new king relies on Logue to help him make his first wartime radio broadcast upon Britain s declaration of war on Germany in 1939.

Seidler read about George VI s life after learning to manage a stuttering condition he developed during his own youth. He started writing about the relationship between the therapist and his royal patient as early as the 1980s, but at the request of the King s widow, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, postponed work until her death in 2002. He later rewrote his screenplay for the stage to focus on the essential relationship between the two protagonists. Nine weeks before filming began, the filmmakers learned of the existence of notes written by Logue that were being used by his grandson Mark and Peter Conradi as the basis of a book, and were granted permission to incorporate material from the notes and book into the script.

Principal photography took place in London and around Britain from November 2009 to January 2010. Hard light was used to give the story a greater resonance and wider-than-normal lenses were employed to recreate the Duke of York s feelings of constriction. A third technique Hooper employed was the off-centre framing of characters.

The King s Speech was a major box office and critical success. It was widely praised by film critics for its visual style, art direction, screenplay, directing, score, and acting. Other commentators discussed the film s representation of historical detail, especially the reversal of Winston Churchill s opposition to abdication. The film received many awards and nominations, particularly for Colin Firth s performance, which resulted in his first Academy Award for Best Actor. At the 83rd Academy Awards, The King s Speech received 12 Oscar nominations, more than any other film in that year, and subsequently won four, including Best Picture. Censors initially gave it adult ratings due to profanity, though these were later revised downwards after criticism by the makers and distributors in the UK and some instances of swearing were muted in the US. On a budget of £8 million, it earned over £250 million internationally.

$15,000,000 (estimated)

$355,450

$138,797,449

$427,374,317

King george vi,period drama,speech impediment,british royal family,royal family