But the best movie, among those indicated – and likely to win –, is “The King’s Speech”.

A film that may win over a lot of folks who prefer full-length action and violence (like “The Fighter”, “True Grit” or even “Black Swan”, which got a lot of tough guys into the theater to watch a ballet flick)…

… Is “The King’s Speech”, a film about two men giving their all. And that is always touching, no matter is we’re watching two athletes in the UFC, two players on the pitch or the King of England.

On the eve of the Oscar, GRACIEMAG.com picked some lessons from the main candidates and serves them up for you to savor below:

Of course, without spoiling it for those who haven’t watched them yet.

“The only one getting in your way is you” (“Black Swan”)

“Brother, get it through your head, you can’t be me. You have a tough enough life just trying to be you” (“The Fighter”)

““That guy did not just get off the #@$% couch. If he did, I’m gonna get a couch like that.” (“The Fighter”)

“Your biggest test… is yet to come” (“The King’s Speech”)

“Don’t you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!” (“Inception”)

“I really have lived this last year. I wish I had learned some lessons more astutely, more rapidly, than I did (“127”)”

You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another. There is nothing free except the grace of God.”(“True Grit”)

“Ground’s too hard. Them men wanted a decent burial, they should have got themselves killed in summer.” (“True Grit”)

“– You have everything!

– Everything. Except someone to share it with me…” (“Toy Story 3”)

The curious part is that in both movies the main characters use Jiu-Jitsu positions in confrontation situations. In “Avatar”, the blue creature sinks a perfect triangle to subdue one of the giant birds that serve as a means of transport.

Now in “The Hurt Locker”, sergeant and former Ranger William James (Jeremy Renner) mounts his colleague to immobilize him. The mount, though, is performed in a less than usual manner, resting his knees on Sergeant Sanborn’s (Anthony Mackie) biceps, opening the way for James to slap his friend in the face.

GRACIEMAG.com tracked down Jiu-Jitsu master and movie aficionado Carlos Gracie Jr. to evaluate the effectiveness of the bomb disarmer’s mount:

“That mount only works with laymen, in horseplay or, like in the film, when the guy doesn’t know what he’s doing. If you try that in real life or put both knees on the arms of an experienced fighter, it’s easy for the guy on bottom to push the opponent on top in the direction his head is pointing, slide out from under and escape the mount on the other side,” teaches the founder of Gracie Barra.

Carlos Gracie Jr. preferred “Avatar”.