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The cast and directors of hit musical drama ‘Les Miserables’ have received top honours at this year’s National Board of Review Awards, where they picked up the prize for Best Ensemble.
Cast members appeared delighted to be reunited once again following the film’s release on December 5.
US actress ‘Cosette’ in ‘Les Miserables’, Amanda Seyfried:
"I have fun hanging out with my friends. I'm really excited for Sundance because it's super casual and I get to wear snow boots. But no this is nice. I see Anne's husband and I know that she's around here and I'm excited because I haven't seen her since before the movie came out."
Lead star, Anne Hathaway, who portrays impoverished and ill-used single mother Fantine, said it was honour to have played one of the film’s key roles.
US actress ‘Fantine’ in ‘Les Miserables’, Anne Hathaway:
"When I got the role I sort of felt like I sprouted a pair of wings and I lifted off the ground and then we all worked so hard on it. It's so gratifying to know that audiences are responding to a story and they're being moved by it and that the message of the film, which is the most important thing in life is to find a way to love, that it's reaching people, I feel, I don't know, a little speechless by the whole thing."
Critics have lauded Hathaway for her haunting performance in the film, with many predicting that she will win big at the Academy Awards to be held on February 4. But despite recent praise and being a Hollywood name in her own right, the 30-year old actress still appeared star-struck on the red carpet.
US actress ‘Fantine’ in ‘Les Miserables’, Anne Hathaway:
"No, I never get used to it. It's always, it's just very surreal, you feel like you're in some version of a Dali painting. Like I can't stop looking at Ben Affleck, it's so inappropriate, but he's there and it's not normal to me. But I don't know I think you just have to look up and go 'wow I'm in this room full of talent. Hopefully they won't kick me out."
Another movie which got the critics clapping was the Osama Bin Laden docudrama ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ which received the award for Best Film. Ben Affleck’s ‘Argo’, Quentin Tarantio’s ‘Django Unchained’ and Stephen Chbosky’s ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ all also made the NBR’s top ten list.
