SAG Award for actor won by Colin Firth in “The King’s Speech”

The Screen Actors Guild Award for Actor has been won by Colin Firth for his role in The King’s Speech.

“This is really something,” Colin Firth said. “Until today, if ever I felt I had a trophy which has told me that something’s really happening, it was my SAG card. To be part of this extraordinary collective, growing up in England, it’s not something you’d expect to have in your wallet.”

“I’d like to thank … looking out at who’s here … security for letting me into the building,” he joked.

The other nominees were Jeff Bridges in True Grit, Robert Duvall in Get Low, Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network and James Franco in 127 Hours.

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The King’s Speech is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. The film won the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival People’s Choice Award.

The film stars Colin Firth as King George VI and Geoffrey Rush as speech therapist Lionel Logue, who helped George VI overcome a stammer. Filming commenced in the United Kingdom in November 2009. The film was given a limited release in the United States on 26 November 2010 before giving it a wide release on 10 December 2010 and it was given general release across the UK on 7 January 2011. It received 12 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Actor (Firth), Director (Hooper) and Original Screenplay (Seidler), Supporting Actress (Bonham Carter) and Supporting Actor (Rush).

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