Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter must be thrilled!

British import The King’s Speech has officially taken home the little golden man for best picture at the 83^rd Annual Academy Awards.

Steven Spielberg presented the film’s cast and crew with the statue, placing emphasis on the true honour of even being nominated in such a prestigious category.

Director Tom Hooper was also honoured in the Best Directing Category, leading man Colin Firth snagged an Oscar in his category, and screenwriter David Seidler managed to nab a win too.

It was a spectacular film, but being die-had Christopher Nolan fans we couldn’t help but root for Inception! Still, the award was absolutely well-deserved and the film was excellent.

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A British newspaper issued an apology to Alice in Wonderland Helena Bonham Carter for printing unfounded claims about her home life with Tim Burton, reports Perez Hilton. The piece said the family was living in separate houses with Bonham Carter in one, Burton in another and their two children and a nanny in a third. The truth is that the family lives in one large house with three interconnected living spaces.

“The comment that this arrangement is ‘not so much eccentric as chilling,’ is unfounded and we accept that Helena Bonham Carter is a caring mother and apologize to her for suggesting otherwise,” the editors of the paper said in a statement.

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Johnny Depp and his partner Vanessa Paradis prefer not to shower, choosing to stay ”unruly” whenever they can, reports Perez Hilton. Depp, who has been promoting his upcoming film Alice in Wonderland, says he and Paradis are happy to just live peacefully.

“We have a great place in the South of France,” he said. “It’s a little hamlet – only 45 acres – and I don’t do anything. I’ve not left the property for three months at a time. I literally just wake up, go out, check the garden and see the vegetables growing. It’s a pristine existence in terms of simplicity. There’s no talk of movies or work and, infinitely more important, the telephone never rings. It really is a beautiful, simple life.”

In case the South of France ever proves too stressful for the Pirates of the Caribbean star, he’s purchased his own island in the Caribbean.

“Like everything else in my life it wasn’t planned, it just kind of happened. I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl and someone said that there was an island down the road for sale. I said, ‘Let’s go see it.’ I looked at it, I walked on it and I was done. It had to be. It came at the perfect moment. The island provides me with simplicity and somewhere I can go where no one is looking at me or pointing a camera or a finger at me. I can just be. When we’re there we do absolutely nothing.

“I feel I’m not getting photographed by the paparazzi enough,” the quirky actor added, presumably sarcastically. “So I figure I’ll go and hang out in Venice with Brad and Angelina.”

Depp began filming his next film, The Tourist, with Angelina Jolie this week. The film is expected to be released early next year.

Alice in Wonderland, starring Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway, and directed by Tim Burton, will hit theatres March 5.

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The role of Bellatrix Lestrange in the upcoming film “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” has finally been filled. Actress Helena Bonham Carter signed on with the project, which hits theatres next July.

In the book, Lestrange is the cousin of Sirius Black and a “Death Eater,” or follower of the evil Lord Voldemort.

Bonham Carter most recently starred in the remake of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”

Other recent cast additions include George Harris as Kingsley Shacklebolt, Natalia Tena as Nymphadora Tonks, Kathryn Hunter as Mrs. Arabella Figg, and 14-year-old Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood. The role of Dolores Umbridge will be taken on by Imelda Staunton.

The franchise’s three main stars — Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson — will be back as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, respectively.

Director David Yates will be at the helm on the project.

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