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Colin Firth gets his star - what about an Oscar?
Golden Globe this Sunday would get the Oscar buzz going for Mr Darcy
Colin Firth can do no wrong, it seems. He is the front-runner to win the best actor award at the Golden Globes this Sunday for his performance as the stuttering George VI in The King's Speech and he's hotly tipped to receive an Oscar nomination for the same role when they're announced on January 25.
In the meantime the film itself easily topped the UK box office on its first weekend at cinemas - a good result for what is, in essence, a period drama.
And now he's been given the Hollywood accolade of his own star on the Walk of Fame - which he gallantly dedicated yesterday to his Italian wife, Livia.
"When I look down there at that star, it's her name I see," he said.
It's all a long way from his breakthrough role in the BBC's 1995 production of Pride and Prejudice, when he set pulses racing with his performance as Mr Darcy.
A Golden Globe this Sunday will certainly get the Oscar buzz going. If a nomination comes, it will be his second. He was up for best actor last year for his performance in designer Tom Ford's first feature film, A Single Man. Then he was pipped by Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart.
This time, his chances look good - if the Academy is in the mood to reward an Englishman, which it hasn't done since Jeremy Irons won the statuette in 1990 for his portrayal of Claus von Bulow in Reversal of Fortune. ·
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Some may even recall his excellent 'A Month in Country' when young with Kenneth Branagh as a very early debut in which he played a stammering church artist in Yorkshire opposite Branagh's shell-shocked WWI officer/archeologist. Both actors were clearly destined for great things.