"I used to work on the audit of a major motion picture company, " says Seidler, 42.
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Colin Firth won Best Actor and writer David Seidler, 73, won for Best Original Screenplay.
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"Not much is written about it, because the royal stutterer is a source of embarrassment, " Seidler said.
The king's widow sent a letter granting her blessing to the effort if Seidler waited until after her death.
Searching the pain of his own childhood gave Seidler the words he needed for "The King's Speech, " he said.
"This required going back into the pain and the loneliness and the isolation and frustration of being a stutterer, " Seidler said.
It took many years for Seidler to allow his mind to recall what it was like to be a stutterer, he said.
Her long life may give the 73-year-old Seidler the distinction of being the oldest writer to win an Oscar for an original screenplay.
He also praised the movie's screenwriter, David Seidler, who overcame a stammer himself as a boy around the time of World War II.
The UK's Christopher Nolan is also nominated in this category for Inception, as is David Seidler - the British-American writer of The King's Speech.
But the king was a royal inspiration to Seidler, who himself began stuttering as a child while sailing from his native England to the United States to escape the German bombing.
Seidler, now 73, was a college student when he first decided to write about how King George VI overcame his stutter to lead Britain through World War II with inspiring radio addresses.
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