The King’s Speech v The Social Network: game on! Having won at the National Board of Review and at the Golden Globes, the Facebook movie has been generating Oscar momentum, but this weekend the Producers Guild of America stuck their oar in and saluted The King’s Speech instead.
This is the first time the stammering king has beaten the network during awards season. 14 of the previous 21 PGA winners have gone on to grab the Best Film Oscar.
Given The King’s Speech ever-escalating box office ($58m already banked in the US, $100m must be a lock) while The Social Network is already being advertised on DVD, the stammering king appears to be building momentum at just the right time ahead of the Oscar noms being announced.
It almost goes without saying that Toy Story 3 was awarded the Best Animated Film Award by the PGA
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