<span class=normal>First-time nominee Tom Hooper, the director of The Kings Speech, in accepting his Oscar for Best Director, thanked his cast and producers but saved a special thank-you to his mom, who in 2007 attended a reading in London of an unproduced, unknown play called The Kings Speech. Tom quotes, She rang me up and said, Tom, I think I found your next film. And before going backstage, he added, The moral of the story is: Listen to your mother. <br><br><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>But before Tom Hooper won, the films first award for the evening was grabbed by David Seidler for The Best Original Screenplay. Seventy year old Seidler is the oldest person to win under the screenplay category. He jokes, I believe I am the oldest person to win this particular award. I hope that record is broken quickly and often.</span>