‘The King’s Speech’
Celebrate Oscars week with 2010 Best Picture winner The King’s Speech. Directed by Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech stars Colin Firth as Prince Albert, who must learn to overcome his stammer after his brother abdicates the throne. The newly-minted King George VI begins working with speech therapist Lionel Logue (played by Geoffrey Rush), and together, they prepare the royal for his first wartime radio broadcast in 1939. While The King’s Speech may not be Firth’s best film — that honor belongs to What a Girl Wants — he did win a Best Actor Oscar for his performance, so it’s definitely a close second.