British filmmaker Tom Hooper won the best director Oscar for historical drama \"The King\'s Speech,\" at the 83rd Academy Awards.
Hooper, for whom it had been his first Oscar nomination, was an award-winning TV program maker before a big-screen career including 2009\'s with the soccer movie "The Damned United", starring Michael Sheen.
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