Tom Hooper

"Les Miserables," director Tom Hooper's large-scope follow-up to "The King's Speech," is a star-studded affair, but only one marquee player gets cente...

Do you hear the people the tweet? When "the people" is Hugh Jackman, and the tweet is a new photo of his Jean Valjean convict look for "Les Miserables...

Meet Samantha Barks, the actress who Tom Hooper chose to play Eponine in "Les Miserables" over established Hollywood starlets like Scarlett Johansson,...

This fall, Hugh Jackman will star in "Real Steel," a CGI blowout in which he plays a rugged, washed up boxer who teaches robots how to fight. His nex...

Tom Hooper is going back in time. Once again. Will he find more gold? The Oscar-winning director of "The King's Speech" is closing in on directing ...

The King's Speech is a diaphanous fairytale about a very real prince who must break free of his rigid, muzzling fairytale world to help rescue his country from a very real nightmare.

I am confident that the success The King's Speech achieved Sunday night sets the scene for a year of success in the relationship between our two countries and our people.

8:39PM EST Off to a good start with the hosts, James Franco and Anne Hathaway, inserted into scenes from several of the Oscar nominees, on an Incept...

Tom Hooper took home his first Oscar Sunday night for directing 'The King's Speech.' After congratulating his fellow nominees, Hooper thanked his act...

In Bertie's first visit to Lionel's den, Lionel solves the prince's stammering riddle that has bedeviled every orthodox voice specialist. The movie inexplicably ignores this momentous plot point.

The King's Speech powerfully raises the notion that no king is as he pretends to be, no king is inherently different or superior to those he reigns over and that we all, each and every one of us, have our strengths and weaknesses.

On the occasion of the King of England declaring war against Hitler, under what possible pretext can the filmmakers explain the score blaring the second movement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony?

Charges of historical inaccuracy and anti-semitism bring out a fierce rebuttal from the Oscar-nominated screenwriter who conceived the film.

So what's The Queen's Review of 'The King's Speech'? Two royal thumbs up. Queen Elizabeth II of England, depicted as the young daughter of King ...

LOS ANGELES — Tom Hooper pulled off an upset win Saturday for the top film honor at the Directors Guild of America Awards for his British monarchy t...

Sir Harold Evans, host with biographer Amanda Foreman, at a private luncheon on Monday could not resist mentioning the rare honor of being in a room w...

The nominations for the 2011 Golden Globes have been announced and, to the surprise of few, The King's Speech is leading the pack with seven nominations.

If The King's Speech isn't the year's best film, it's floating up there in the top 10, somewhere in the top five. It may even be the best. Traditiona...

At "21" last Tuesday, it was a case of multiple events. Newt Gingrich graciously held the door for me as Joan Didion stood in the foyer of the legenda...

The great pleasures of the fall film season, the venerable NYFF in its 48th year and HIFF, 18 and growing, leave me reeling (no pun), reflecting upon ...

Whether playing former Prime Minister Tony Blair (The Queen) or talk show host David Frost (Frost/Nixon), veteran actor Michael Sheen has become known to American audiences.

I've got nothing against sports films that exult in good sportsmanship and the triumph of the underdog. But I'm more inclined towards films like The Damned United that scrape past the noble veneer of sports.

The long-awaited HBO adaptation of David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize winning John Adams got the green light a year ago, and the seven-part mini serie...