The King’s Speech capped off a busy and honour-filled award season Sunday night with the biggest win of all: Oscar gold.
The popular saga of a struggling, stuttering English monarch was nominated for a total of twelve awards and took home the evening's top prize of Best Picture along with wins for Best Actor Colin Firth, Best Director Tom Hooper (who beat out The Social Network's odds-on fave David Fincher) and writer David Seidler for Best Original Screenplay.
The Social Network, considered a front runner in many major categories, came up far shorter than predicted but managed to take home three statuettes for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Original Score.
Though King's Speech was crowned the ultimate film champ of 2010, the film tied with another for most Oscar wins on the night. Christopher Nolan's mind-trippy drama Inception also took home a total of four awards, all of them in the decidedly more technical categories.
Read on for the full list of Oscar winners...
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Best Achievement in Directing
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Winner:
Toy Story 3 (2010) -
Randy Newman ("We Belong Together")
Best Achievement in Editing
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Winner:
Inception (2010) -
Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, Pete Bebb, Paul J. Franklin
Best Documentary, Features
Winner:
Inside Job (2010) -
Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs
Best Short Film, Live Action
Winner: God of Love (2010) - Luke Matheny
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Winner: Strangers No More (2010) - Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
Best Achievement in Costume Design
Best Achievement in Makeup
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Winner:
Inception (2010) -
Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Winner: In A Better World (2010) - Susanne Bier (Denmark)
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Best Short Film, Animated
Winner: The Lost Thing (2010) - Shaun Tan, Andrew Ruhemann
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Best Achievement in Art Direction
For more on the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, head here!
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