The awards momentum is really with The King's Speech now: this weekend it got both the directors' and actors' nods.
The Directors Guild of America named Tom Hooper its director of the year, while the Screen Actors Guild gave Colin Firth its Best Actor gong, while the film's entire cast was given the best cast award.
Natalie Portman for Black Swan (so far unbeaten in any awards), and Christian Bale and Melissa Leo in their supporting roles in The Fighter picked up the other SAG awards.
Crucially, neither The Social Network nor True Grit got anything out of this weekend, while The King's Speech strengthened its position in the run-up the Oscars. And it posted its highest weekend box office take in the US so far: $11m, leading to a total of $72m. It will pass the $100m barrier, and given its performance in the UK so far (somewhere north of £22m) and Australia ($15m after five weeks), a further $100m from the rest of the world should be possible.
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