17th Screen Actors Guild Awards
The 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2010, was presented on January 30, 2011 at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California for the fifteenth consecutive year. It was broadcast live simultaneously by TNT and TBS.
Colin Firth, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role winner
Natalie Portman, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role winner
Christian Bale, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role winner
Melissa Leo, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role winner
The King's Speech is a 2010 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.
British theatrical release poster
Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter as the Duke and Duchess of York
The film's producers broke etiquette by hand-delivering Geoffrey Rush the script. Rush eventually produced the film as well as performed in it.
Colin Firth's performance earned him a BAFTA and an Academy Award, among other accolades
