The King’s Speech Still Leads the Gurus of Gold

There didn’t seem to be a ripple over at Movie City News’ Gurus of Gold after the National Board of Review announcement. All but two of the pundits have The King’s Speech to win the Best Picture Oscar – that would be Dave Karger, Kris Tapley, David Poland, Pete Hammond, Anne Thompson, Steve Pond, SusanWloszczyna, Pete Howell, Eugene Hernandez, and Gregory Ellwood – all in the camp of The King’s Speech. The two holdouts are Yours Truly and Emanuel Levy. Anthony Breznican has True Grit to win it. Each little movement in the race shifts things. It is being said that The Social Network is, take your pick: two young thinking for the Academy, with non-likable characters, or it’s the Facebook thing because Academy members are out of touch.

They have David Fincher to win Director and The Social Network to win Screenplay, with The King’s Speech winning Best Actor and Original Screenplay.

Annette Bening is ahead in the Best Actress category.

Check it out for yourself, but please note – I had left Black Swan off of my original email to them. I changed my mind and sent in the predictions but it was too late, too late. I do think Black Swan is definitely IN for Best Picture. I think there are eleven, maybe twelve films, and only ten slots for them. I also have Christopher Nolan in my Best Director 5, but again, I made a mistake when filling out my list. Sometimes happens.