Dame Helen Mirren has predicted Colin Firth will be crowned best actor at this month's Oscars - but admitted the British film industry is "always in a dangerous position".
The veteran actress, who picked up an Academy Award in 2007 for her regal role in The Queen, said the star would make a worthy winner for his portrayal of a stammering King George VI in The King's Speech.
Speaking at the premiere of home-grown film Brighton Rock, Dame Helen said of Colin: "I think he deserves it, and I think he will get it."
The actress - who plays a tea shop manager who becomes tangled up in the seaside town's murky underworld in Brighton Rock - added she hoped her film was part of a positive spell for UK cinema.
"It is always in a dangerous position. I think it's very sad that we lost the British [UK] Film Council... it's strange, the British film industry comes in waves and I hope that this film will be a part of the good wave and a nice big wave."
Dressed in a cobalt blue Bruce Oldfield coat and full-skirted Jacques Azagury dress, Dame Helen was joined at Leicester Square's Odeon West End by co-stars Sam Riley, John Hurt and Andrea Riseborough, who wore a heavily beaded Armani gown.
Adapted from Graham Greene's 1930s novel and updated to 1964, Brighton Rock follows vicious young mobster Pinkie - played by Sam - as he claws his way through the ranks of the town's gang scene.
The tale was first made into a film in 1947.
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