From The King's Speech to the Great British Bake Off, this year's arts winners ignored the safety-first rules of surviving a downturnThe year began and now ends with an odd little movie, showing an unusual approach to dialogue, becoming an improbable smash. Released in January, The King's Speech, which struggled to be funded and then to be filmed, conjured a global box office triumph and four-Oscar haul from the stor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PM on December 23, 2011