Well... I am not a professor and I have never seen The King's Speech. To add insult to injury only one of us put it in his top 20 for the year (at 18th) and that's the guy who sees 25 eligible movies a year! To add blasphemy to insult and injury, Immortals and The Beaver were in my top 20 that year! (Also a very sad year for me because I really did not like the movie that won: french art house movie L'Appolonide, my top pick for that year was another french movie L'Exercice de l'Etat aka The Minister)