Colin Firth won Best Actor for The King’s Speech, playing George VI working with a speech therapist, and the performance is built on the physical reality of a stammer instead of a representation of one.
A Single Man brought the previous nomination, playing a man planning his suicide over one day, and it is the better performance.
Pride and Prejudice on television made him famous in a way he found difficult, and Bridget Jones’s Diary then made a joke of it with his cooperation.
Kingsman gave him a late action register nobody expected, and he trained for months for the church sequence.
Colin FirthThe King's Speech (2010) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A well-made two-hander about a man with a stammer and the unqualified Australian who treated him, which beat The Social Network for Best Picture and Best Director…
Ben AffleckShakespeare in Love (1998) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A genuinely witty romantic comedy with a superb Tom Stoppard screenplay, which beat Saving Private Ryan for Best Picture through the most studied campaign in Academy history…
Alan RickmanMultiple intertwined London relationships unfold across the five weeks leading up to Christmas, from the Prime Minister to schoolchildren. Love Actually is Richard Curtis's 2003 British romantic comedy depicting multiple interconnected London relationships unfolding across the five weeks leading up…
Colin FirthAnthony Minghella's 1996 wartime romance epic. Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas.
Colin Firth2014 Matthew Vaughn spy action with Colin Firth recruiting Taron Egerton into a British independent intelligence agency. Kingsman: The Secret Service is Matthew Vaughn's 2014 British spy action film adapting Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons's 2012 comic series The Secret…
Colin Firth2017 Matthew Vaughn sequel adding Statesman, the American counterpart agency. Julianne Moore as drug cartel villain.
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