The Oscars are hours away

TONIGHT (Sunday, February 27) is the 83rd annual Academy Awards.

The King’s Speech is still the hot favourite to take Best Film at this year’s ceremony.

Also in with an outside chance is The Social Network, which is a film about the social networking site Facebook.

The Best Director category is proving to be a very close award to predict. Experts are saying David Fincher, for The Social Network has the best chance. Fincher is the man behind Se7en and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, both excellent films.

Many are saying Colin Firth is the most likely to receive the Best Actor award for The King’s Speech. While for Best Actress, Natalie Portman is favourite for Black Swan.

Black Swan was the last film I saw. In my opinion it is a very good psychological thriller, although over the top in its violence at times.

There is a sense of impending doom throughout the film, you constantly think something bad is going to happen.

It was also difficult to work out, at times, if Natalie Portman’s character is actually hallucinating, or not.

Meanwhile, I was glad An Audience with Ken Dodd was repeated on Saturday.

The audience were laughing throughout the show and Dodd must have relentless energy to keep going.

He just tells joke after joke, and never stops.

His theatre shows normally go on for hours, even though he is now well into his 80s.