The King's Speech - Importance to the UK film Industry

Reviews like this one below (On the Guardian Newspaper) are very important to the British Film Industry, as it gives the audience a brief insight on what the Film is about. As it ways both views on the good and the bad and how it can be improved.

http://gu.com/p/2m78z

Official Sites like this The King's Speech - Official Site explain to the potential target audience about the film's various information, for example actors, awards/nominees, trailers and many more.

By this it gives the audience that much needed boost and gives them the incentive to go and watch the film as a result.

Also the official site lets the users interact and post their own views on social media site, provided by the links on the site.

Other social media sites like 'Youtube' provides the British Film Industry additional help in promotion, for example the users of Youtube are able to share their thoughts and reactions e.g. the like bar. And others ways users are able to share their views are through posts, video posts and comments. This allows the users/ or potential target audience to express their opinions, more ways than others (more choices on formats)

http://youtu.be/OAm7gRXFiRo

The following data is taken from Wiki:

At the 83rd Academy Awards, The King's Speech won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director(Hooper), Best Actor (Firth), and Best Original Screenplay (Seidler). The film had received 12 Oscar nominations, more than any other film. Besides the four categories it won, the film received nominations for Best Cinematography (Danny Cohen) and two for the supporting actors (Bonham Carter and Rush), as well as two for its mise-en-scène: Art Direction and Costumes.

At the 64th British Academy Film Awards, it won seven awards, including Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Best Actor for Firth, Best Supporting Actor for Rush, Best Supporting Actress for Bonham Carter, Best Original Screenplay for Seidler, and Best Music for Alexandre Desplat. The film had been nominated for 14 BAFTAs, more than any other film. At the 68th Golden Globe Awards, Firth won for Best Actor. The film won no other Golden Globes, despite earning seven nominations, more than any other film.


At the 17th Screen Actors Guild Awards, Firth won the Best Actor award and the entire cast won Best Ensemble, meaning Firth went home with two acting awards in one evening. Hooper won the Directors Guild of America Awards 2010 for Best Director. The film won the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture at the Producers Guild of America Awards 2010.


The King's Speech also won the People's Choice Award at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, Best British Independent Film at the 2010 British Independent Film Awards, and the 2011 Goya Award for Best European Film from Spanish Academy of Cinematic Art and Science.

This explains to me, as well as you that 'The King's Speech' is such a highly rated film.


The King's Speech got it's 12A rating due to some adult lanuage used.

http://www.i-flicks.net/blog/49-features/2157-the-kings-naughty-speech