The Academy Award nominations brought good news and bad news to one of my favorite movies of the year. �Les Mis�rables�eight nominations including Best Picture, Actor, for Hugh Jackman, and Supporting� Actress, for Anne Hathaway. That ain't chopped liver, but the highly� publicized snubbing of its director Tom Hooper�along with its absence in all-important bellwether categories like screenplay and editing means what was once considered a front runner is now a real long shot to actually win Oscar?s top prize. You have to go all the way back to 1931?s Grand Hotel �to find a Best Picture winner that didn?t have at least one of those three nominations. In the face of those daunting stats, �Les Mis�rables�would be a shocking Best Picture winner, but if any movie deserves the upset , it?s this one. A certified box office hit domestically, it just opened to huge numbers over the weekend in England and looks to be a continuing international smash.
?Do You Hear The People Sing?��is not only the stirring anthem from Hooper?s adaptation, it's�an apt metaphor for the impact of �a revolutionary film about revolutionary spirit. Hooper took great risks in the telling of�Les Mis�rables�? and he succeeds.�Twenty-seven years in development, the film looked like it might never be made when The King's Speech director came up with the novel idea of shooting the cast's musical performances live instead of taking the usual movie-musical tack of pre-recording the songs and dubbing them in later. Without that artificial technique hampering the actors, Hooper and the creative team from the original musical ? Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schoenberg and Herbert Kretzmer ? along with the adaptation's screenwriter, William Nicholson, found a way to meld the dramatic impact of…
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