Los Angeles - "The King's Speech" has garnered the Oscar for Best Picture at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards ceremony held at Kodak Theatre in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday night.
Colin Firth, who played the English King George VI, also won the Oscar for Best Actor.
Firth, 50, was the odds-on favourite to pick up his first Oscar. He was competing against Jesse Eisenberg for "The Social Network," Oscar co-host James Franco for "127 Hours," Jeff Bridges for "True Grit" and Javier Bardem for "Biutiful."
"The King's Speech" had 12 nominations, including Oscar nods for lead actor, supporting actress Helena Bonham Carter, supporting actor Geoffrey Rush, director Tom Hooper, and editing, musical score, art direction, cinematography, costume design, sound mixing and original screenplay.
Meanwhile, Natalie Portman won the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in "Black Swan".
The red carpet was abuzz with high fashion for the awards ceremony last night. After days of heavy rain, the sky had turned clear to greet the movie industry's biggest event of the year.
Other winners included:
- Supporting Actor: Christian Bale for the "The Fighter"
- Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo for the "The Fighter"
- Director: Tom Hooper for the "The King's Speech"
- Animated Feature: "Toy Story 3" Lee Unkrich
- Adapted Screenplay: "The Social Network" Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
- Original Screenplay: "The King's Speech" Screenplay by David Seidler
- Art Direction: "Alice in Wonderland" Production Design: Robert Stromberg, Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara
- Cinematography: "Inception" Wally Pfister
- Costume Design: "Alice in Wonderland" Colleen Atwood
- Documentary Feature: "Inside Job" A Representational Pictures Production, Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
- Documentary Short Subject: "Strangers No More" A Simon & Goodman Picture Company Production, Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
- Film Editing: "The Social Network" Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
- Foreign Language Film: "In a Better World," A Zentropa Production, Denmark
- Makeup: "The Wolfman" Rick Baker and Dave Elsey
- Original Score: "The Social Network" Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
- Original Song: "We Belong Together" from "Toy Story 3" Music and Lyrics by Randy Newman
- Animated Short Film: "The Lost Thing" A Passion Pictures Australia Production, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
- Live Action Short Film: "God of Love" A Luke Matheny Production, Luke Matheny
- Sound Editing: "Inception" Richard King
- Sound Mixing: "Inception" Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
- Visual Effects: "Inception" Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb.
