Award For Best Supportive Role : Actor & Actress
It was a dream come true night for Anne Hathaway in LA when she claimed the Oscar Award for best supporting actress Oscar for her role in Les Miserables.
In this film Tom Hooper's adaptation of the hit stage musical cast her as the tragic Fantine, who loses her job as a seamstress and comes to a bad end by the city gates. Hathaway's anguished rendition of the song 'I Dreamed a Dream' provided the film with its main emotional wallop. It is the first Oscar win for the 30-year-old performer, who was previously nominated in the best actress category for her turn as a middle-class drug addict in the 2008 drama Rachel Getting Married. Hathaway's other notable films include Brokeback Mountain, The Devil Wears Prada, Alice inWonderland and The Dark Knight Rises. Starring in the very musical that made her want to become an actressat the age of 6, Anne Hathaway won the supporting actress Oscar for playing the doomed seamstress-turned-prostitute Fantine in "Les Misérables." In taking home the supporting actress Academy Award, Hathaway beat out Sally Field from "Lincoln," who was considered her closest rival in the category. To play the role of the emaciated Fantine in "Les Misérables," Hathaway lost some 25 pounds, so much weight that her director told her to stop. "To be honest, I thought she was going further than she should, and I tried to discourage her," Tom Hooper said. But even if Oscar voters praised her work, Hathaway gave herself mixed reviews. Asked if she was pleased with her performance in the finished film before its theatrical release, she shrugged and said, "Eh." While on the other hand, Christoph Waltz picked up his second best supporting actor Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, winning the prize for his silken turn in Django Unchained. In this film Quentin Tarantino's self-styled "slavery western" cast the Austrian-born actor as a soft-spoken bounty hunter in the American south. "Like slavery, it's a cash for flesh business," he explains at one point. Waltz was the marginal favourite heading into the night, having already won at both the Golden Globes and Baftas. He won his previous Oscar for playing a smirking Nazi in Tarantino's 2009 war thriller Inglourious Basterds. The American film-maker is clearly Waltz's lucky charm. 
Christoph Waltz won Best Supporting Actor at the 85th annual Academy Awards, besting four other former Oscar winners. Waltz, who plays a German bounty hunter in Quentin Tarantino's Spaghetti Western homage, had previously won Best Supporting Actor awards from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Golden Globes) and BAFTA. Pairing with Tarantino has been a bingo for Waltz; he also won Best Supporting Actor for "Inglourious Basterds," Tarantino's revisionist World War II drama, at the 2010 Oscars ceremony. The ever-charming Waltz thanked his fellow "Django" stars while accepting the award. As mentioned, all nominees in the Best Supporting Actor category were previous Oscar winners. Waltz's Oscar win made losers of Alan Arkin ("Argo"; won previously for "Little Miss Sunshine"), Robert De Niro ("Silver Linings Playbook"; won previously for "The Godfather Part II" and "Raging Bull"), Tommy Lee Jones ("Lincoln"; previously for "The Fugitive") and Philip Seymour Hoffman ("The Master"; won previously for "Capote"). Last year, Christopher Plummer won Best Supporting Actor for "Beginners."Read more...
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