With only one week till the December fifth World Premiere of the hugely-anticipated movie Les Misérables, Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper is embarking on a whistle-stop world tour of press screenings.
In only one week, the filmmaker has travelled from New York, the place Hitfix.com stories the very first displaying of his work triggered a number of rounds of applause and tears within the viewers, to Los Angeles and Japan for additional screenings. He’ll return to his house metropolis of London for subsequent Wednesday’s World Premiere in Leicester Sq..
Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean
The 2012 film manufacturing of the much-loved musical is widely-tipped for achievement at subsequent yr’s Oscars, with many critics claiming it’s already the frontrunner for the ‘Finest Image’ award and that Hooper may obtain the ‘Finest Director’ award for a second time, following his success with The King’s Speech in 2011.
His A-list solid, too, has been linked with nominations; MTV stories that Hugh Jackman is “thought of prone to safe his first-ever Oscar nomination for taking part in the “Les Mis” main man, ex-con Jean Valjean” and that “It is broadly agreed that Anne Hathaway is a lock for a Finest Supporting Actress nomination for her position as tragic manufacturing unit employee Fantine.”
Les Misérable’s plot centres round ex-prisoner Jean Valjean (Jackman), who’s hunted for many years by the ruthless policeman Javert (Russell Crowe) after he breaks parole. When Valjean agrees to take care of manufacturing unit employee Fantine’s (Hathaway) younger daughter, Cosette, their lives change ceaselessly.
The nominations for the 2013 Academy Awards can be unveiled on January tenth, with Hooper wrapping up promotion between at times.
Les Misérables hits US cinemas on December twenty fifth 2012 and British screens on January eleventh 2013.
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NOTES TO EDITORS
About Tom Hooper:
TOM HOOPER gained the Academy Award for steering for “The King’s Speech”. The movie was nominated for twelve Oscars, greater than another movie that yr, and gained Finest Image, Finest Director, Finest Actor, and Finest Unique Screenplay. “The King’s Speech” gained seven BAFTA awards, together with Finest Movie and Excellent British Movie. Hooper gained the Administrators Guild of America Award for Finest Director. “The King’s Speech” gained the Individuals’s Selection Award at Toronto Movie Competition and Finest British Impartial Movie on the British Impartial Movie Awards.
Tom Hooper additionally directed “The Damned United” starring Michael Sheen from a screenplay by Peter Morgan. The movie was nominated for Finest British movie on the South Financial institution Present Awards following a premiere on the Toronto Movie Competition. Earlier to that Tom Hooper had an unprecedented run of success on the Golden Globes along with his work for HBO, profitable the Golden Globe for greatest film or mini-series made for tv three years in a row. His starring actors and actresses gained Golden Globes for his or her performances three years working.
A post-screening interview with the LA Instances may be seen right here: Tom Hooper reveals his track and dance with ‘Les Miserables’
Tom Hooper on Hugh Jackman may be seen right here: Tom Hooper: ‘There Would Have Been No Les Miserables With out Hugh Jackman’
The movie’s trailer may be seen right here: Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables movie trailer
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