British actor, Colin Firth has been a heavy favorite, having bagged the award in the same category in almost all high-profile accolades - - including British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), the British counterpart for America’s Oscars - - before it was capped at this year’s 83rd Academy Awards. Firth was honored Best Actor Award at 2011 Oscars for his role as the stammering wartime monarch, King George VI in “The King Speech”.

The 50-year-old veteran actor in both screen and stage has placed fellow nominees in huge defeat including A-list actors, Javier Bardem for “Biutiful”; Jeff Bridges for “True Grit”; Jesse Eisenberg for “The Social Network”, and first time Oscars host, James Franco for “127 Hours”.

“I have a feeling my career has just peaked,” Firth was quoted as saying by Reuters in his acceptance speech. The actor noted Reuters has virtually collected all the trophies for the awards in the same category in all critics and industry award giving bodies that have led up to highly-coveted Oscars awards.

The actor wittingly described his feelings and his physical state as he accepted the award.

Firth said, “I am experiencing stirrings somewhere in the upper abdominals which are threatening to form themselves into dance moves, which joyous as they may be for me, would be extremely problematic if they make it to my legs before I get off the stage”.

This year’s award is Firth’s second nomination and his first win for the actor in a leading role category. He was first nominated last year for his role as a gay professor in the drama, “A Single Man”. Firth has become the sixth actor to win the major category at Oscars for playing a real-life character.

Before his role as the stammering wartime monarch in "The King Speech" and as a closeted gay professor in “A Single Man’, Firth had rose to fame for his role as handsome, uptight English man in a number of romantic comedies, including, “Love Actually” and series of “Bridget Jones’s Diary”.

According to the report filed by Jill Serjeant and Dean Goodman of Reuters, the 2011 Oscar winning actor thanked all the people who have been rooting for him back home and his Italian wife, Livia for putting up with his ‘fleeting delusions of royalty” while filming “The King Speech”.

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