The king returned to be crowned. From "Shakespeare in Love " in 1999, the Academy Awards had not come to surrender to the charms of British phlegm. Curiously, this edition marked the discovery of strategies plump infallible producer Harvey Weinstein whose arts were able to prevent directors such as Spielberg they won the Oscar for light comedies filmed in the islands of the Queen Mother.
Weinstein Oscar reinvented as known today, invented the aggressive promotion campaigns towards the award and showed that mighty lord Is money when what it is to snatch the coveted statuette for your opponent. This year Weinstein has done it again.
When everybody was more than enough champions for the very lucid network of Fincher and Sorkin, a king stuttering appeared stuck in a small film, correct and sober entitled " The king's speech" the typical British production accustomed to be among the nominees but whose academicism exacerbated extreme moderation and always prevented a greater achievement than any single interpretive prize.
" The king's speech, against all expectations, collected all the prizes in the Guild Cinema to mark the passing of the Oscar and since then no one discussed a prize that had hitherto Fincher in his pocket.
is true it would be unfair to draw Weinstein as solely responsible for the Oscar won by the story of King George VI and a mistake to forget the virtues (which are many) of the film by Tom Hooper , but time will tell who had more work in 2010 "made" a classic, if an exciting but contained air british film, or an agile and modern tale of a modern Foster Kane named Mark Zuckerberg.
Moreover, little can be criticized for the distribution of awards this year. Technically " Source " was the best movie of the year and they recognized their statuettes in visual effects, sound or picture. "Toy Story 3 " collected not one but two awards to build on the huge shelf of Pixar, Natalie Portman and delivered with physical performance in "Black Swan " deserved an Oscar has also served as recognition channeled excellent career since childhood, Christian Bale held the award for a new demonstration of "chameleon" and Colin Firth personified the integrity and elegance that has always been the English interpretation. Melissa Leo, in turn, showed that the self can also provide an Oscar.
Only the little role of directors Fincher, Aronofsky and Nolan in the awards can tarnish the highly dispersed and calibrated distribution of awards this year. He certainly will have more opportunities in the future, provided powerful producers not to interfere in the recognition of an industry they themselves are responsible for renewing and enriching.