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Anne Hathaway Wins Oscar for ‘Les Miserables’ – The Hollywood Reporter

The current awards season marks a decade since Anne Hathaway, this year’s nominee for role in James Gray’s Armageddon timetook home numerous supporting actress awards — including a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, a SAG Award, and an Oscar — for her role as Fantine in Miserables. The actress has established herself as a movie star in movies like Princess Diary, Demons wear branded clothes and Mount Brokebackand she was nominated for the first Oscar for best actress in 2008 Rachel gets married.

Oscar gold is coming five years later, with the adaptation of Tom Hooper’s stage musical, in which Hathaway, as a starving prostitute, is eroded on screen, losing all her hair and teeth, exclaims. released the heartbreaking song “I Dreamed a Dream” before he died. Her performance was hailed as standing out among an all-star cast led by Hugh Jackman and featuring Russell Crowe, Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried and Helena Bonham Carter.

Todd McCarthy wrote in his book: “Hathaway dominates, showing the anguish of Fantine’s destruction. CHEAP review of the Universal movie, adding how she “games down and gets dirty and cuts hair on screen.”

Hathaway fought hard for the role her mother had played years earlier on the Broadway producer’s first national tour. “My mom and I were talking about the idea that Fantine lit a match, and she just watched it burn. And she needs to blow it out and let the darkness in,” Hathaway explains at CHEAPin December 2012. During 13 days on set, Hathaway essentially starved herself (“just eat some oatmeal to lose 25 pounds,” as CHEAP described it), in addition to working with a sex slave researcher for role-playing.

Miserables was nominated in eight categories at the 2013 Academy Awards and won three. When Hathaway took to the stage to accept her award, she acknowledged the realization of a dream, beginning her speech by saying, “It has come true.”

Excerpt from THR's 2013 review 'The Miserables'

THR’s Todd McCarthy praised Anne Hathaway in his review but called the film, with its bombastic and tense performances, “heavy, if soaring, monotonous.”

This story first appeared in the December independent issue of The Hollywood Reporter. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.




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