The King's Speech other Golden Globes, despite earning seven nominations, more than any other film. At the 17th Screen Actors Guild Awards, Firth won the Best Actor award and the entire cast won Best Ensemble, meaning Firth went home with two acting awards in one evening. Hooper won the Directors Guild of America Awards 2010 for Best Director. The film won the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture at the Producers Guild of America Awards 2010. "The King's Speech" won the People's Choice Award at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, Best British Independent Film at the 2010 British Independent
Australian Directors Guild film directing awards judged solely by directors. This was the year in which the ADG was first included in the Directors Finder initiative by the Directors Guild of America. The DGA Finders Award spotlights the director of an undistributed independent film chosen from member countries within the International Association of English Speaking Directors Organizations (IAESDO). The Finder’s Award was relaunched by the ADG in 2012, and in 2014 an Innovation Award was also established. It was in this period also that the ADG finalised rate cards for directors' fees. And while directors’ contracts had also been drafted, the ability to