Scott Feinberg, a Hollywood reporter, says he got an email from an anonymous “academy member” Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that may foretell a “smear” campaign against Oscar candidate “The King’s Speech” because King George VI was allegedly a Nazi-symp…. Actually, the Guardian account on which this is based seems to involve British Mandatory limits on Jewish immigration to Palestine. I don’t give this much weight. Feinberg passed along the email. Excerpt:
Scott,
I’m an Academy member, and there are a LOT of us who won’t vote for “King’s Speech” for this reason, which was in New York Magazine:
“Seeing as Speech is Oscar bait in extremis, this blogger feels morally compelled to note that while the film largely glosses over the Nazi-sympathizing past of the tongue-tied monarch (Colin Firth) and deals with his relationship to an Aussie-born speech therapist (Geoffrey Rush), when it came to actively working to stymie Jews fleeing Hitler’s Germany, George actually communicated quite eloquently.”
