Will Colin Firth stammer during his Academy awards acceptance speech?

The world is waiting to know if the King will be crowned with the Best Actor Oscar tomorrow, in what looks like a two-horse race between old-school British period drama’s hero and drunkard rooster Jeff Bridges.

Colin has dreamt about this moment for quite a while; at least since he was nominated for A Single Man last year and subsequently lost to Jeff Bridges (him, again!), who was awarded for his stunning performance in Crazy Heart. Bridges is the 9^th actor to defend the lead actor Oscar statuette so far.

His most serious rival, English gentleman Colin Firth, first came to international attention as Mr. Darcy, the thinking woman’s sex object in Pride & Prejudice; he then reached a planetary success few years later, playing Bridget Jones’ slightly dazed consort. However, he has so far given the impression he was just like his character Bertie, “a man who was not ready, who always struck me as having considerable humility and a reluctance to step into the limelight.”

“I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me,” Firth once said once during an interview.

However, The King’s Speech appears to be everything but built on the neutrality of its character. It is a rather tear-jerker instead, aiming to strike everyone’s emotional chords with a portrayal of a wannabe-ordinary man monarch affected by disability.

And in fact it is no myth that the Oscars tend to have a weakness for performers who play characters with handicaps. The last actor nominated for such a role was Jamie Foxx for his portrayal of blind musician Ray Charles. He then proceeded to win the Oscar.

If tomorrow Colin gets snubbed in favour of his rivals (ceremony host James Franco, Spanish sex-symbol Javier Bardem, nerdish look-like Jesse Eisenberg and whiskey-stained moustache cowboy Jeff Bridges), the least we can expect is that people of Bafta who recently crowned him best actor will be up in arms about it.

“I think England has served me very well,” Firth once declared.

Well, Britain is now eager to see if Colin will manage to serve his country back, fulfilling Mother England’s expectations to bring back the golden statuette missing since 2007, when Daniel Day-Lewis triumphed with There Will Be Blood.

The King’s Speech has been nominated for 12 Academy awards. Let’s wait one more day to find out if Colin will get the legendary victorious triple whammy is longing for – he, and the rest of his fellow Britons.