If The King's Speech is the UK Film Council's last hurrah, it could hardly go out on a more self-affirming note.
"The King's Speech is going to make them so much money back I hope it encourages the continued government support of British film, " said Hooper at Saturday's Independent Spirit awards.
The Royal Address, commonly known as the Queen's speech (or King's speech), is written by the government.
King's speech is not the only civil rights anniversary on Aug. 28.
If you watch the filmed record of the event, all you see is the shift itself, with King mostly reading the script in the first half of the speech, to him directly addressing the crowd in the second half.
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She is also up for supporting actress for The King's Speech at the awards.
Yoshi Oida is terrific as Rosencrantz and the player king, delivering his first speech in Japanese to a mystified audience.
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.
Actress Helena Bonham Carter is also shortlisted for her supporting role in period drama The King's Speech, while Tom Hooper gets a best director nod.
His compatriot Danny Cohen is also up for best cinematography for his atmospheric work on The King's Speech.
"How can you reconcile what King Abdullah says about democracy and the rule of law, and what is happening to freedom of speech, " he asked.
And I think it's important to remember that, in the march on Washington, where Dr. King always talks about -- or it's always repeated, the dream speech that is so famous -- that march was for jobs, as well as justice.
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