Classic Movies Live, Episode 19: The King’s Speech
January 27, 2021
Why do some movies win Oscars while others don’t? Is the year’s Best Picture always also the year’s best picture?
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be exploring these and other questions on Classic Movies Live! as we look back at Best Picture winners of years past!
On this episode, Pierre and Jeff travel back to 2010, the year that a movie about Mark Zuckerberg faced off against an LGBTQ psychological horror movie to be Best Picture at the Academy Awards! But which film won that year? None other than The King’s Speech!
Tom Hooper’s only film so far to win the Oscar for Best Picture (as well as the only one to bag Hooper a personal win for Director), The King’s Speech tells the story of King George VI and his friendship with speech therapist Lionel Logue.
So was The King’s Speech worthy of a Best Picture award? Or was it ultimately no more than a safe choice?
