With four Oscar "Heavy" The king's speech confirms the predictions and out of eighty winner from this year's Academy Awards. It was not a triumph (the nominations were well 12), but a great success: best film, best director, best actor (the amazing Colin Firth) and Best Original Screenplay. The other competitors have had to somehow accommodate, splitting the other awards: best actress at the Black Swan (Natalie Portman), the two non-actors in The Fighter (Melissa Leo and Christian Bale), Adapted Screenplay, editing and the soundtrack to The Social Network, Inception to the technical awards. GRINTA THE MALE - A go wrong is the determination of the Coen brothers: ten nominations, not even a statue. But not to leave their property was also an evening at the Kodak Theatre: the rhythm and editing of the awards are always very professional, but it took the appearance of Billy Crystal to get some 'of the verve that neither solo 'anti' Hugh Jackson presenter Anne Hathaway or the appearance of the other travesti presenter James Franco have been able to offer. Not to mention the greetings of thanks, all very "academic" and discounted, if we exclude the mention of political director of Inside Job, Charles Ferguson, won an award for best documentary and scandalized by the fact that three years after the collapse of Wall Street responsible for any of the financial disaster that has been convicted (and in his documentary Ferguson shows that there was much material for the intervention of the law).
TRIBUTE TO MONICELLI - So in the end the most exciting moment of the evening was when, while Celine Dion sang Smiley, the screen is reminiscent of the personalities who died last year, by Tony Curtis in Blake Edwards, Arthur Penn Chabrol and Monicelli, but-curiously - Maria Schneider.
