Tom O’Neil has posted two Gold Derby pieces worth noting. One, the results of a recent Gold Derby poll showing that right now the odds seem to be overwhelming that King’s Speech star Colin Firth will win the Best Actor Oscar. And two, an idea that arose from Tom talking with Sasha Stone and myself during the recording of Oscar Poker #7, which is that the year’s juiciest kudos battle is the rematch of Social Network producer Scott Rudin vs. King’s Speech distributor Harvey Weinstein.
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