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Oscar Winners: 'The King's Speech' Reigns, Portman Soars

Marcie Pink — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:45:04 +0000

There weren't a whole lot of surprises at the 83rd Academy Awards -- as expected, "The King's Speech" took the big prize as Best Picture. The film about King George VI overcoming his stutter also garnered a Best Actor statue for Colin Firth and a Best Director win for Tom Hooper.

"King"'s four statuettes tied "Inception," which also nabbed four awards in technical categories, for the most Oscars.

Oscar favorite Natalie Portman also took home the Best Actress statuette for her role in "Black Swan," and Melissa Leo and Christian Bale of "The Fighter" cleaned up in the supporting role categories.

See the full list of winners after the jump:

Mix 93-1′s Box Office Report

roddwayne — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:08:25 +0000

The Anthony Hopkins thriller The Rite topped the weekend box office with $15 million. No Strings Attached, starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher, dropped from first to second with $13.7 million. The remake of The Mechanic and The Green Hornet tied for third, both earning $11.5 million. After receiving 12 Oscar nominations last week, The [...]

Odds On The Oscars

Lucky Larry — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:19:36 +0000

With The King's Speech receiving 12 nominations this year, including best picture, you'd think it has a good shot at winning best picture at this year's Academy Awards. Not according to John Avello, the Wynn and Encore's sports book operations director, he's predicting that The Social Network will win in the best picture category and giving it odds on winning at two to three.

Just Released 'No Strings Attached' Topped Box Office

Lucky Larry — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:49:52 +0000

Natalie Portman has another hit on her hands. No Strings Attached, a romantic-comedy starring

Natalie and Ashton Kutcher, topped the weekend box office with $20.3 million.

After she took home a Golden Globe for Black Swan last week, the thriller landed in sixth with $6.2 million.