The present awards season marks a decade since Anne Hathaway, a contender this 12 months for her function in James Grey’s Armageddon Time, took dwelling a wealth of supporting actress awards — together with the BAFTA, Golden Globe, SAG Award and Oscar — for her flip as Fantine in Les Misérables. The actress had already established herself as a film star in such movies as The Princess Diaries, The Satan Wears Prada and Brokeback Mountain, and he or she scored her first Oscar nomination, for finest actress, with 2008’s Rachel Getting Married.
Oscar gold would arrive 5 years later, with Tom Hooper’s huge display adaptation of the stage musical, wherein Hathaway, as a ravenous intercourse employee, erodes onscreen, shedding her hair and enamel, croaking out the heartbreaking “I Dreamed a Dream” earlier than dying. Her efficiency was hailed as a standout amongst an all-star solid led by Hugh Jackman and that includes Russell Crowe, Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried and Helena Bonham Carter.
“Hathaway dominates, belting out anguish because the doomed Fantine,” wrote Todd McCarthy in his THR evaluate of the Common movie, including how she “gamely will get down and soiled and has her hair clipped off onscreen.”
Hathaway fought onerous for the function, which her personal mom had performed years earlier within the Broadway manufacturing’s first nationwide tour. “My mother and I have been speaking about the concept that Fantine has lit a match, and he or she’s simply watching it burn down. And she or he must blow it out and let within the darkness,” Hathaway defined at THR‘s Actress Roundtable in December 2012. For the 13 days she was on set, Hathaway primarily starved herself (“current on scant servings of oatmeal to lose 25 kilos,” as THR described it), along with working with a researcher on sexual slavery to immerse herself within the function.
Les Misérables was nominated in eight classes on the 2013 Academy Awards and gained three. When Hathaway took the stage to simply accept her award, she acknowledged the belief of a dream, starting her speech with, “It got here true.”
