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LOS ANGELES — In the span of about two weeks, "The King’s Speech" has gone from Oscar underdog to front-runner. The World War II-era British drama took the Screen Actors Guild’s top honor Sunday evening at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, winning the movie ensemble acting award and essentially completing the trifecta of top Hollywood guild honors; its director, Tom Hooper, captured the top Directors Guild of America award on Saturday night, and last weekend the movie walked away with the Producers Guild title. The movie about King George VI and his stammer is now riding a wave of momentum with just four weeks to go before the Academy Awards, stealing thunder from "The Social Network." That movie, about the founding of Facebook, had been seen as the leading best picture Oscar contender after receiving the National Board of Review’s top prize in December, largely sweeping the nation’s main film critics awards, and taking home a best picture statue at the Golden...