Social Network beats King's Speech at London awards

"The King's Speech," which leads the Academy Award nominations field with Cheap Rosetta Stone 12 ahead of 10 for "True Grit" and eight each for "The Social Network" and "Inception," was named best British film of the year.It also picked up awards for best British director (Tom Hooper) and best actor (Colin Firth).In the actress category, Annette Bening's turn in lesbian family drama "The Kids Are All Right" beat Natalie Portman as a troubled ballerina in "Black Swan."Christian Bale was named British actor of the year for "The Fighter" and the British actress prize went to Lesley Manville for "Another Year."Breakthrough British filmmaker was won by Gareth Edwards for his feature debut "Monsters" and the foreign language film category was won by "Of Gods and Men," based on the true story of a group of French monks murdered in Algeria.The awards were held to aid charity the BFI Archive, which is seeking to restore and preserve old British films, in particular Alfred Hitchcock's nine silent features. The watchdog did not name the culprits. It noted, however, there was no "overt pressures" from theUnited States, which is the fund's largest member. "In Rosetta Stone Greek some other large advanced economies, however, staffnoted that the authorities took a heavy handed approach,exerting explicit pressure to tone down critical messages," thereport said. One staff member who worked on a large advanced economytold the IEO, "it was hard to give difficult messages to theauthorities even if the team had the analysis ... theconcluding meetings were really just negotiation sessions onlanguage." The report said in many cases staff censored themselvesbecause they believed there were limits to how much they couldspeak out about large member countries, even in the absence ofdirect pressure. In some instances when staff was critical of a country'spolicies, IMF management would side with the country'sauthorities instead of with the views of its staff, the reportsaid. The IEO said pressure from member countries to adoptcertain initiatives distracted management during the lead up tothe crisis. One of the initiatives in 2007 led to the IMF revising itsrules on currency surveillance, which China said was a ploy bythe United States to push for a rise in the Rosetta Stone Spanish (Spain) value of the yuan.

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