Backstage At The 83rd Academy Awards, THE KING’S SPEECH director, Tom Hooper…
…Revealed information about the contributions of other people who worked on the Oscar winning film, and how significantly they altered and elevated THE KING’S SPEECH.
Director Tom Hooper:
I’m standing here on the shoulders of an extraordinary team and some of whom are long term collaborators, Danny Cohen, my director of photography, did JOHN ADAMS, did LONGFORD, and the way he photographed this movie I thought is integral to telling something that could have been a series of talking heads into something that was acknowledged as cinematic. Eve Stewart, I mean the wall in the consulting room which has now become famous. The very first day of preproduction, she said, I am going to take you to Logue’s consulting room. I’m in London, and I recognize London inside out.
I had no idea this place existed, and she led me to this real house and showed me this room, and I knew we had the movie when I saw that room. So her contributions have been immense. Tariq Anwar, my brilliant editor, who cut AMERICAN BEAUTY, THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE, among many other great films. It was his idea to choose Beethoven’s Seventh, all the classical musical choices are his, and I think this film is so much about the way it’s edited, it’s understated, but it’s very clean and Jenny Beavan, costumes, and Frances Hannon on makeup, and you know, I think I was very blessed with an extraordinary team and I am very, very aware that this award is really an honor to them.
People often don’t understand the significance of the other jobs that go into the collaboration of a film. I liked this because Tom Hooper described it clearly, using the Best Picture from the 83rd Academy Awards, as profound example. It’s a movie that everyone is familiar with, and can use as a reference.
I wish to note that the Director, who also won an Oscar at the 2011 Academy Awards, talked about this while interviewed, just after he won Best Director. This says to me, that he couldn’t accept the award all by himself, without crediting the other people whose work had such an impact; he knew that without the other gifted people who worked on THE KING’S SPEECH with him, that it wouldn’t have been the completed film that it is. He credited their specific, individual contributions, and what the movie might’ve been like without the mentioned collaborators from the other departments on his film crew.
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Dana
You can find more interviews with Oscar® Winners, from backstage at the 83rd Academy Awards® at Hollywood Actor Prep by Dana Kaminski.
