I had no idea there was a thread for this. Really looking forward to this movie tho its not in cinemas in my region till January welp. I havnt read the book or seen any of the adaptations but im into musicals and Anne ... Gawd, i could watch her all day. She has to get that oscar nod for this.
Hey gurls, I'm thinking of reading the whole novel in preparation for this movie but I really can't seem to pick on which version and translation of the book to buy. Any help?
I had no idea there was a thread for this. Really looking forward to this movie tho its not in cinemas in my region till January welp. I havnt read the book or seen any of the adaptations but im into musicals and Anne ... Gawd, i could watch her all day. She has to get that oscar nod for this.
I'm very hopeful that Anne will get a nomination. All the critics have been including her in their predictions.
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Originally posted by katyperryismylife
Hey gurls, I'm thinking of reading the whole novel in preparation for this movie but I really can't seem to pick on which version and translation of the book to buy. Any help?
I'd recommend the Signet Classics translation by Fahnestock and MacAfee if you're going unabridged.
All the Oscar submissions for Les Miserables have been revealed on UniversalPicturesAwards.com.
There are:
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BEST PICTURE
Produced by
Tim Bevan
Eric Fellner
Debra Hayward
Cameron Mackintosh
BEST DIRECTOR
Tom Hooper
BEST ACTOR
Hugh Jackman
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Sacha Baron Cohen
Russell Crowe
Eddie Redmayne
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Samantha Barks
Helena Bonham Carter
Anne Hathaway
Amanda Seyfried
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
William Nicholson
Alain Boubil and Claude-Michel Schönberg
Herbert Kretzmer
Based on the Original Stage Musical Boubil and Schönberg's Les Misérables from the novel by Victor Hugo
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Danny Cohen, BSC
BEST FILM EDITING
Melanie Ann Oliver
Chris Dickens, ACE
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Eve Stewart, Production Designer
Anna Lynch-Robinson, Set Decorator
BEST COSTUME
Paco Delgado
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Lisa Westcott, Hair & Makeup Designer
BEST SOUND MIXING
Simon Hayes, AMPS, Production Sound Mixer
Andy Nelson, Mark Patterson, Pre-Recording Mixers
BEST SOUND EDITING
John Warhurst, Lee Walpole, Supervising Sound Editors
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Richard Bain, VFX Supervisor
Alison Wortman, Dan Neal, 3D Supervisors
Ian Simpson, 2D Supervisor
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Suddenly"
Music by Claud-Michel Schönberg
Lyrics by Alain Boubil and Herbert Kretzmer
Performed by Hugh Jackman
Also, the Vogue quote about the movie in the Acclaim section (the first screening reaction!):
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And yet, when I find myself on a plane to London for a private screening of a still-rough cut of the movie that not even its stars have seen, I’m excited because with this cast and this director, how bad could it be? In fact, it turns out to be a spectacular achievement that, anchored by powerful performances from Jackman as Valjean, Crowe as Javert, and Hathaway as Fantine, reconnects the musical to the novel’s narrative richness and moral vision. Like The King’s Speech, the film is rooted in vivid historical detail, though, thanks to the almost expressionistic production design and Hooper’s eye for symbolism, it inhabits a heightened reality somewhere between period drama and movie musical, where it feels right for escaped convicts, imperious officers of the law, young lovers, and student revolutionaries to sing their feelings.
On Saturday, Universal’s Les Miz plan swings into action with an unprecedented six screenings — all featuring either in-person introductions or post-Q&A sessions with director Tom Hooper and “cast members”. The screening program will not let up until the film’s Christmas Day opening, which comes in the middle of the voting period. Universal is determined to get this film seen on the big screen by as many voters as possible despite the time crunch. The director only just locked Sunday night at 10 PM, according to an internal memo that carried instructions for delivery of the DCP materials for the digital projection. It’s a very precise, carefully orchestrated operation, and as the memo says “failure is not an option”. That’s certainly true in an awards race as tight as this one and particularly for a film as anticipated as this one.
“The reality is we’re going to screen this movie like nobody’s business the minute it’s ready and would have regardless….We’ll start screening the movie the day after Thanksgiving and are going to screen it, pretty much non-stop from there, until time of release. So between the screening program, its commercial availability beginning Christmas Day and for those who get the screeners, we think there’s abundant opportunity”, Universal chairman Adam Fogelson told an audience of Academy and Guild members attending the Moguls panel at Deadline’s recent all-day The Contenders event. He added that for smaller films the timing could be more of a challenge, but “not for any of the films here which are on everybody’s list”.
