The King’s Speech at Buckingham Palace, yesterday, Monday 10th Oct 2011…
Very excitingly, the Director of The King’s Speech, Tom Hooper, Producers Gareth Unwin and Iain Canning, Co-Producer Simon Egan and Lionel Logue’s grandson Mark Logue agreed to give a very special talk at Buckingham Palace on the making of this Oscar-winning film for members of the Royal Household Football, Sports and Social Club, yesterday evening.
The talk was followed by a Q&A session, and some guests even had a chance to have their photo taken with the Oscar!
The schedule was thus:
5pm speakers and guest arrived at the side door (Buckingham Gate)
5.15 there was a guided tour of the State rooms
6pm everyone returned to the South drawing room as members arrive
6.15 speeches for 30- 45 minutes, no film, no microphones
Congratulations to all those involved – winnning four Oscars is amazing – and particular warm wishes to Mark Logue and Peter Conradi, the authors of our The King’s Speech book…
It was a stunning triumph for the British film charting how King George VI overcame his stammer.
The movie claimed a total of four Oscars with Tom Hooper taking best director and David Seidler, a boyhood stutterer himself, winning for best original screenplay.
The King’s Speech had led the nominations with 12 and eclipsed its biggest rival for the major awards The Social Network, the Hollywood blockbuster about the founding of Facebook.
Accepting his award a humble Firth thanked “all the people who have been rooting for me back home” and said: “I have a feeling my career’s just peaked.”
How exciting! The King’s Speech film has been nominated for seven Golden Globes.
The film is up for gongs in each of the following categories:
Best Motion Picture (Drama); Best Director, Tom Hooper; Best Actor (Drama) Colin Firth; Best Supporting Actress, Helena Bonham Carter; Best Supporting Actor, Geoffrey Rush; Best Screenplay, David Seidler; Best Original Score, Alexandre Desplat.
Lets hope it wins right across the board!
Here at Quercus, we publish The King’s Speech, based on Lionel Logue’s recently discovered diaries, by Mark Logue, Lionel’s grandson and Peter Conradi, of the Sunday Times.
Mark is a film maker and the custodian of the Logue Archive and his book tells the story of his grandfather, the man who saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century:
The King’s Speech is the previously untold story of the extraordinary relationship between Logue and the haunted young man who became King George VI, drawn from Logue’s unpublished personal diaries. They throw extraordinary light on the intimacy of the two men – and the vital role the King’s wife, the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, played in bringing them together to save her husband’s reputation and his career as King. The King’s Speech is an intimate portrait of the British monarchy at a time of its greatest crisis, seen through the eyes of an Australian commoner who was proud to serve, and save, his King.
The King’s Speech at Buckingham Palace, yesterday, Monday 10th Oct 2011…
