[1]Colin Firth holds awards for best actor and ens-emble for The King’s Sp-eech at the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. PHO
Oscars frontrunner The King’s Speech won the top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, giving the British royals drama yet another boost four weeks ahead of Hollywood’s biggest night.
The film took the prize for best ensemble cast, the guild’s equivalent of the best picture Oscar. While SAG’s top honour has a spotty record as an Oscar barometer — with a success rate of about 50 per cent — The King’s Speech has been on a roll in the past week, winning the top prizes from both Hollywood’s directors and producers.
British actor Colin Firth, who stars in The King’s Speech as stammering wartime monarch King George VI, was named best actor. Natalie Portman was named best actress for her role as an unhinged ballerina in Black Swan.
The supporting prizes went to a pair of actors from The Fighter, a fact-based boxing drama: Christian Bale as a crackhead former boxing hero and Melissa Leo as a feisty, blue-collar matriarch.
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