Colin Firth shows how it’s done
He shows how to give an award acceptance speech with ‘aplomb’, that is. And I use the word advisedly, as it is the word which Mickey Rourke seemed to have so much trouble with while reading off the autocue last night, at the BAFTA awards. That ladies and gentlemen, would be the British Academy of Film & Television Arts. These are the awards which are more or less accepted as being the British equivalent of the Oscars. Anyway, one actor who seemed perfectly at ease up on the podium was Colin Firth, who won the Best Actor gong for his work in A Single Man.
Mr. Firth gets 10 out of 10 points for the sang froid, the style, the sheer aplomb of this acceptance speech. He even remembered to thank the fridge repair bloke, in fact he built his whole oratory around it, as you can see (below). Certainly it made a nice change from mushy self-congradulation. I draw no comparisons, especially with pompous and bombastic awards nights across the Atlantic. Whoops, too late.
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Agreed. And by the way, it’s “congratulations” with a “t”.
Quite right. I don’t know what came over me.
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