Saw it tonight and it was wonderful. Quiet, cold, and ultimately very moving.
Did anyone else notice that the Theater Director who rejects Geoffrey Rush was Mr Colins?
Yep;)
Yep for me too. He also played Hitler in Valkyrie (in which, ironically enough, Tom Hollander, who played Mr. Collins in the 2005 Pride & Prejudice played one of his aides - so there were two former Mr. Collinses, both playing Nazis!).
Best Actor and Best Picture. Seems pretty reasonable.
He played a character with a stammer in the movie Dead Again as well.
And Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, too - huzzah!
I’d totally forgotten he was Mr Collins - I recognized him as Cicero from the series Rome.
I enjoyed King’s Speech, but I dunno if it was definitively better than any of the other nominees. But it was very “British,” I suppose, and Hollywood seems to like that sort of thing.