The Kings Speech (2010) won the Best Picture Oscar on 2.27.11, mainly because of a voting bloc of old boomer fuddy-duds who (a) always succumbed to anything upper-class British and especially if it concerned the crown, and (b) felt vaguely threatened by Millennial market forces and social media upheavals and weren’t emotionally moved by the saga of a chilly, Harvard-educated entrepeneur who fucked over a partner.
Obviously David Fincher‘s masterpiece was the crowning achievement of 2010 and should have won the big prize. And it not that then David O. Russell‘s The Fighter. The same people who voted for Chicago, The Artist and Argo voted for The King’s Speech.
