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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/kings-speech-writer-claims-oscar.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Actor Colin Firth is in the running for the best actor Oscar (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-kings-speech-writer-claims-oscar.jpg" alt="Actor Colin Firth is in the running for the best actor Oscar (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>The writer of The King&#8217;s Speech picked up an Oscar and dedicated it to &#8220;all the stutterers throughout the world&#8221;.</p>
<p>London-born David Seidler won the Best Original Screenplay award &#8211; the film&#8217;s first award of the night.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;My father always said to me I would be a late bloomer. I believe I&#8217;m the oldest person to win this award.&#8221;</p>
<p>He went on to thank the Queen for &#8220;not putting me in the Tower of London&#8221; for the film&#8217;s use of swearing. He added: &#8220;All the stutterers throughout the world, we have a voice, we have been been heard, thanks to you the academy.&#8221;</p>
<p>Earlier the film had missed out on two early Oscar opportunities as the 83rd Academy Awards began. Tom Hanks presented the first award, for Art Direction, to the team behind Alice in Wonderland.</p>
<p>The film, which starred Helena Bonham Carter, was made by her partner Tim Burton. Sci-fi thriller Inception picked up the Cinematography award.</p>
<p>The awards opened with a montage showing hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway in scenes from this year&#8217;s Best Picture nominations.</p>
<p>Veteran actor Kirk Douglas came on stage to a standing ovation to present the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. There was more disappointment for The King&#8217;s Speech as Bonham Carter, who played Queen Elizabeth, lost out to Melissa Leo for The Fighter. The shocked winner said: &#8220;I&#8217;m just shaking in my boots now.&#8221;</p>
<p>Russell Brand and Helen Mirren, who are co-starring in the remake of the Dudley Moore film Arthur, presented the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar to the Danish film In A Better World.</p>
<p>Legally Blonde star Reese Witherspoon presented the Best Supporting Actor award to Christian Bale for The Fighter. Welsh-born Bale said: &#8220;Bloody hell. What a room full of talented, inspirational people and what am I doing in the midst of you?&#8221; He also paid tribute to his wife who he said was &#8220;my mast through the storms of life&#8221;.</p>
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