The King's Acceptance Speech

The Director's Guild Awards have been announced.  Winner for feature film was Tom Hooper of The King's Speech.  Following the Producer's Guild Award and the most nominations for the Oscar, I think this makes the movie the clear frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar.  Surprising, actually, considering that The Social Network won almost every critics' award and for weeks was considered the lead.

Other than that, (or along with that), the other awards were distressingly conventional: Charles Ferguson for Inside Job, Martin Scorsese for Boardwalk Empire, Michael Spiller for Modern Family, Glenn Weiss for the Tony Awards and so on.  If the Oscars follow suit, it's going to be a pretty dull night.