Wed 28 Sep 2011

It was a wonderful night time for The King’s Speech and Inception at the 83rd Academy Awards Sunday — and a fairly far more disappointing outcome for their main rival, David Fincher’s The Social Network.
Fincher’s film, a fictionalized account of the rise of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, won a whole of three Oscars. Author Aaron Sorkin, also acknowledged for West Wing and A Handful of Excellent Males, won Very best Adapted Screenplay (it was based mostly on Ben Mezrich’s e-book “The Accidental Billionaires”), while 9 Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor won Best Authentic Score for the movie’s haunting music. It also won an award for Very best Film Editing.
But The Social Network had been nominated for a total of 8 awards — and had been hotly tipped for Finest Image until The King’s Speech started off picking up buzz a number of months back. It failed to win for cinematography, Best Actor, Best Director or Finest Picture. The King’s Speech won five Academy Awards, such as Best Photo, Very best Director, and Greatest Actor for Colin Firth. Chris Nolan’s dream-inside-a-dream Inception also won 5, including Very best Special Results for its gorgeous personal computer-created imagery.
For The Social Network‘s fans, it will be specifically disappointing that the film won awards for sound, vision and script — but apparently was not greater than the sum of those parts. And in what appeared practically like a snub, Sorkin’s acceptance speech was the only one particular to be cut short by the Academy’s “play them out” audio.
Nevertheless, for a motion picture that’s all about a nerd who fights to be well-known but fails to fit in, it would seem an proper outcome.
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