imagine being the director of this film and having anne hathaway acting like this in front of your camera. just chills

Les Miserables is one of the greatest stories ever written

Best acting ever in Les Miserables. She should have been awarded as Best Actress, not just a Supporting Actress.

We can say what we do about actors being vain narcissists. And many are. Self-centered and just basking in public (and self) adulation. But every once in a while one comes along and demonstrates true talent, the true gift, and depth of acting in a character that jumps off the screen. A performance that makes us sit back in our seat and marvel at the true natural and developed talent that someone has. This is such a performance. If this performance did *not* earn the Academy Award then the Oscar means nothing. Well done Miss Hathaway.

This is how this song is meant to be sung. It is a song of despair and sadness and facing harsh reality. Anne nailed it.

One of the best movie performances I’ve ever seen, and easily one of the most deserved Oscar wins of all time. I cried 20 seconds into “I Dreamed a Dream” and sobbed through the rest of it. Beautiful and haunting at the same time. Love you Anne!

I've never ever seen pure anguish portrayed by any actor anytime so pure and so raw as this. And singing perfectly at the same time as crying and gasping for breath... anyone with a heart cannot watch this without crying too.

My God, every time I watch this, I feel so sad with Anne Hathaway's despair almost like hands reaching out to me. And yet I keep watching it because I think I'd like to be at her side and comfort her. Anne deserved sweeping the awards for this incredible portrayal.

This is Anne Hathaway's most vulnerable role.

Anne has an uncanny ability, probably one of the greatest actresses in history, you can feel her characters pain, her empathy is supernaturally beautiful, you know she really really feels it and delivers it directly to your soul, visually and vocally, but with something else too, something beyond words. I hope she as person finds so much joy and happiness and love in her life, someone with such a beautiful soul, a beautiful heart, deserves this.

And that is how you win an Oscar

well deserved Oscar. This is acting. I get chills listening to her & even cry. She nailed it !

When her voice cracks.. my God. The emotion.

I know Henshaw has the prize when it comes to vocal BUT I think this is the best PERFORMANCE of this song. It's a sad song filled with despair and Hathaway performance reflects EXACTLY THAT. Henshaw has a performance e where she actually smiles during. How can that be convincing? She has a superior voice BY FAR but Hathaway performed the song the way it should be depicted. Unpopular opinion.

I listen on Spotify occasionally..I forgot how much more powerful it was to watch. I may need to watch the entire film again soon

Anne Hathaway was brilliant in this masterpiece.

This song always makes me cry

The scene that won Anne Hathaway the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress!

I keep forgetting this was live. This is just an utter masterpiece. Beyond transcendence.

Excellent scene...she deserved that Oscar...one of the best songs ever written for a musical...this film is still my favorite theater experience ever

OMG, she made me cry! Wow the most moving song sung by the most wonderful actor. Ridiculously thought provoking. I am still in shock.

There was a time when men were kind When their voices were soft And their words inviting There was a time when love was blind And the world was a song And the song was exciting There was a time Then it all went wrong I dreamed a dream in times gone by When hope was high and life worth living I dreamed, that love would never die I dreamed that God would be forgiving Then I was young and unafraid And dreams were made and used and wasted There was no ransom to be paid No song unsung, no wine untasted But the tigers come at night With their voices soft as thunder As they tear your hope apart As they turn your dream to shame He slept a summer by my side He filled my days with endless wonder He took my childhood in his stride But he was gone when autumn came And still I dream he'll come to me That we will live the years together But there are dreams that cannot be And there are storms we cannot weather I had a dream my life would be So different from this hell I'm living So different now from what it seemed Now life has killed the dream I dreamed

When I watched this scene during the Malaysian premiere, I flooded the cinema hall because the staffs were cutting too much onions!

4 Minutes! It only took Anne Hathaway 4 minutes to convince all the judges at all the awards that she will win the Supporting Actress Award.

Imagine going from this to Cats...

Absolutely brilliant. I can not watch this without openly sobbing. She nailed every emotion meant to invoke here. Her love for her daughter. Her pain of betrayal by her lover. Abandonment. Undo shame. Fear. Disgust at what she must do because as a woman, she had no choice. My heart breaks every time…like it’s the first time I’ve heard/watched this. I first learned of Les Mis when my Mom wanted to see a production by a local youth group and I took her. All performers were 18 and under. They were beyond AMAZING. I’ll never forget it. I didn’t want it to end. My sister took my Mom to see Les Mis on Broadway. ❤️❤️❤️. My Mom is gone now 7 years. I love you Mom. You and I, and then your granddaughters too, shared some incredible memories. I’ll never forget this one…just you and me.

This much genuine emotion is almost scary

never heard this son with such raw emotion, perfect

Most Oscarworthy performance of all time

If you compare this with the broadway/westend production, her performane in this scene is so emotive. the best version ive heard, the words are the same, but the delivery is so much more emotive - A*

This is one of the most tragically beautiful moments I’ve seen on film.

The show has always been my favorite musical of all time. I remember the soundtrack for the film came out when I lived in Paris. The first time I played Anne's version of the song, I was on the train. Her performance, even without the images, made me weep to such an extent I had to get off the train and listen to the song on repeat till I couldn't cry anymore. And when I saw it in theatres? Whooo boy. We all had to swim out afterwards.

This is such a magnificent performance- can’t you totally feel her pain and sense of betrayal and futility…I cried and cried watching this- her tears!! That made it seem SO real

how interesting. I literally just re-watched this work of art yesterday! I still love it. Thank you

Simply sublime. One of the best performances ever captured on film. Brilliant. ❤

And this was live ! I cannot cope! She’s perfection

Yes, why Oscars were invented, for talent like this

something to behold, Im not into acting, but shes fantastic in this

A friend of mine went to London for the Premiere of this Movie and she said when this scene came on everybody stood up and clapped at the end of it and at the end of the movie

i really like this song and so yesterday and today I have listened to a few different versions. This is by far the best, it isn't the most 'technical' it isn't the 'best vocal' but wow oh wow this has the most heart, the most feeling and the one that makes me feel the song and the context more than any other. Well done, well done!! This is my go-to spotify version! lol

Lads, that's how you get an oscar in 4 minutes

10 years past, but Anne's performance is still awesome...!

This scene utterly rips my heart out in the best possible way.

What a cult scene! I love this song! A brilliant masterpiece!

Power, passion and pathos. Just an incredible performance. The anguish and raw pain of those words comes through with unvarnished authenticity. I was stunned.

There are so many great versions of this song, but none more real, more touching...

A raw and authentic performance. It brought tears to my eyes. Wow!!!!

Everytime she kills me again and again and again ......gorgeous

I listened to so many different versions of this song. But I never understood what it meant until I watched this

No one can take this away from her.

The makeup artist did a amazing job

I'm a living version of this song. When I was young, I had all these hopes, dreams, full of energy, full of life, health, eagerness to face anything etc but now, 20 years later, everything gone except my dreams which still here just to mock me 🙁

Technically flawed perhaps, but this is the one version of this song I can’t keep the tears back when I see and hear it. Brava.

This always hits me so hard in the feels.. Such a natural scene with real emotions. Tears me up every time I see and hear this masterpiece

Incredible just incredible very emotional!!! It always breaks my heart when i see Anna and hear like that!!! Always have tears in my eyes!!! Oscar well diserved !!!!

may not be the best vocally but the best acting of fantine I've ever seen

A phenomenal performance and one thoroughly deserving of the award it led to. A real highlight of my day once again as I could never tire of seeing quality performances like this.

Lol. Whenever she says she dreamed of a life so much better than the hell she’s living I lose it. Reminds me of my life. I’d say be constantly vigilant about making good decisions but it’s all a crapshoot. You can make the best decisions with the information you have at the time and still end up in the gutter. Preach on, Fantine.

Erschütternd. Eine unglaubliche Leistung dies so zu spielen und zu singen.

What a great actress❤ i didn’t notice tears are dropping 😢

Her acting is out of this universe ♥️

One f’kin take! Just one… incredible.

Still get goosebumps watching 448m of this scene

"i had a dream my life would be, so different from this hell i'm living"

I may disagree with her politics but her acting is excellent and this performance is moving.

*crying* esp for all the women ever abandoned by a man

Best werewolf and Vampire design I've probably ever seen.😁😁😁

I remember going to see this on Christmas Day in Gettysburg PA when it first hit our town and when she sang this song I was just blown away. What a moving performance she gave. She is one amazing actress. It is my all time favorite movie/musical. I also saw it on Broadway several years before this version came out.

I can't believe that out of any other video, my finger decided to misclick on unlike instead of like button on THIS one!! *headbang* One of the most glorious performances of a highly emotional song ever...

Großes Lob! Eine ganz tolle Leistung dieser "Sängerin" und Darstellerin! GANZ GROSSE KLASSE!!! Ich musste wirklich mehr als einmal "heulen"! Beste Version, die ich je gehört habe! (Und SIE und dieses Lied hat "Spuren" in mir hinterlassen!)

I sobbed in the theater like a Baby!!!!!!!

it's cos Anne is AWESOME I love her.

Brought tears to my eyes…

Love or hate her, but she is gifted as fucking hell!

Sally Field deserved the Oscar…..

Jesus what have I just watched. Came for the song, left virtually vomiting through sheer emotion. This hit me like a baseball bat to the face

she kinda nailed it

going to see Les Miserables tonight at Playhouse Square in Cleveland. 💙❤️

She is living my life. Only difference is ima kms if things don't change soon ☺️

My favourite movie. Happy 2021

Im love your movies

I'm not crying. I'm nooot! 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😭

People actually lived/ live like this

Game, set and match❤

I freely admit that sometimes, when I'm having one of my spells, and I have quite a lot of those spells because I'm really quite mad - well, no, not mad, but I do suffer from dinkum long-term chronic depression, as did my mother and I suspect that my father wasn't entirely alien to it, either, though I feel that my father was a CPTSD poster child. Anyway, before I lose my way and unintentionally bang out another KZfaq comment section essay, when I find myself wrapped up in one of my spells, I sometimes turn to this video and version of this song in order to achieve cathartic release, and I'll be damned if it hasn't proven to be affective on most occasions. In fact, I'm sure there have been relays where I've watched the video again and again, viewing after viewing for up to an hour, and only to have a good, messy crime replete with oodles of unrestrained snot and tears squirting out of every aperture in my face. After those words, I suppose that I love this version of the song is an unnecessary statement to make, but there you go, I made it anyway. I LOVE this version of this song and Ms. Hathaway's performance that accompanies it. What really gets my goat is how many videos I've discovered over the years created by musical theatre performers - men and women who sing on stage for a living and who are familiar enough with "Les Misérables" to give notes on its performance. Now, when it comes to musical theatre, I bow down to such individuals when it comes to those notes. This particular performance of Anne Hathaway's in which she sings this song - nay, she PERFORMS this song - and in a manner that film actors might perform such a heart-wrenching scene seems to be one that these musical theatre nerds... (and please, let's not get things twisted. I'm not trying to be rude by calling these people musical theatre nerds. I am a musical theatre nerd. I'm not a musical theatre singer, but I am certainly no stranger to the pits where I have many times found myself in the good company of a number of other musicians, but more specifically, the strings charged with the performance of the instrumental parts of the score. The singing I have done has been in cheesy revival shows and such things. The bottom line is that I am not an expert when it comes to musical theatre vocal performance, and so my advice to musical theatre singers should always be taken with a good measure of salt.) Those brackets were not intended at first to contain a rant of any kind. I apologise. I need to start over from where I was before the brackets opened and the rant began. I have watched musical theatre teaching and critiquing KZfaqrs attack nearly all of the more performance-driven scenes from the film adaptation of "Les Misérables" directed by Tom Hooper. I have sat there and listened as nearly all of them poop on the performances with an air of arrogance that I am sure only the most resentful of stage performers could muster and it has absolutely infuriated me. And this performance by Anne Hathaway always seems to get it the worst. It makes me nuts. To compare Anne Hathaway embodying little Fantine - a figure so tragic, it should almost be regarded as illegal to even suggest that life could manifest in a fashion so cruel as to create a pretty, young girl living in such troubled times as pre-revolutionary France have to have been, to have her believe she has found love with a man who leaves her, young, fragile and with child after less than a single year, to have her work her little fingers (and if I'm not mistaken, those fingers in Victor Hugo's book are the fingers of a girl no older than 17, but I stand to be corrected on that) to the bone in a factor in order to send money to the family taking care of her young daughter, and then to have it all torn away from her in what feels to the reader or viewer in what feels like a single, intensely stifled heartbeat as she's thrown out of the factory in which she has been working by her letch of a floor manager with nothing to show for her labour but the clothes she's wearing and a reputation that the resentful and abusive letch of a manager is ensuring grows more and more debased by the minute. Fast-forward through the road to hell she's forced to walk in the hopes of redemption, only to be abused more, and more heinously until in utterly in ruin, sleeping in a box that resembles a casket and dying of one of the band of diseases lumped together then under the category of consumption, she passes from this life, hallucinating a visitation by her long-lost daughter. TRAGIC!! There is no better word for the character and fate of little Fantine in any telling of the tale. And Anne Hathaway makes us feel it in this clip. Oh, does she ever. One of these flippant musical theatre fools I listened to pooping all over Ms. Hathaway's performance attacked the regiment she went on in order to lose weight to look the part she had to play (a tribute to her craft as a film actress), her choice to cry as she sang this song, a soliloquy taking place in the tale at a point when really, she is giving up, allowing the darkness to take her after admitting she can never beat that darkness (yet another tribute to her brilliance as an actress), and his criticism is that the mucous that crying is causing to run down her throat is interfering with her vocal chords and therefore, with her ability to deliver the song effectively (I think she's pretty damn affective, don't you?) And he even criticised her, "gasping for breath..." I believe were his words, that gasping to him being evidence of poor singing technique. I actually had to point out to this KZfaqr that those "gasps" after she delivers the lines "But there are dreams that cannot be, And there are storms we cannot weather" are nothing of the sort, but instead are sobs. Now, what kind of uninitiated fool fails to recognise as sobs such breaths taken by a character so broken down as poor little Fantine is at that moment in the story? Altogether, I'd have found it hilariously immature, childish and yes, childishly resentful if I hadn't been so busy having my nose put out of joint by it all. I don't think I'll ever watch a video created by a musical theatre singer again, which is a bit of a shame, given that I am quite a fan of musical theatre. The same KZfaqr in the same video had a go at Hugh Jackman for speaking so many of his lines and for his own relatively insane, yet hardly unheard of efforts to reduce his body weight enough to convincingly pull off the pre-Revolutionary France prisoner look. "Oh, how heavy the toll it took on his voice was and how obvious it is!" The only actors this fella gave a pass to were the three youngsters who were indeed phenomenal, make no mistake, but his most celebrated performance was the trio of Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried and Samantha Barks singing "A Heart Full of Love" together, all standing and singing without any conditions of duress required from their characters. (It is a bloody fantastic performance to be fair, but still...) Anyway, I went and did what I swore I was trying not to do and ranted out a mini-essay. To those of you who read it, I hope you can forgive me. Hell, at best, I hope you feel at least a measure of the annoyance I've felt recalling the ridiculous words of those musical theatre nobs who chose to review these brilliant performances comparing them all only to stage performance of the play where each singer would merely be standing, mic'd up on their mark upon the stage and without working as hard as they possibly can to show the audience how broken they are. And oh, how broken the characters of "Les Misérables" are.

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Brilliant!

Beautiful!

I ain't never seen two pretty best friends

Am I the only one who alway thinks of Slipping trough my fingers when listening to this song, especially at second 50 around ????

@3:58 ... that trauma shake is entirely too relatable. ifyky

That was stunning, really...

Breathtaking!

Just stunning!😢❤️❤️❤️

Wow!!! How fabulous!

I think actors should study this scene, we cannot call this " acting".

Watching this in bed at 3:30 am. Then I had to get up and blow my nose and wipe my eyes.

amazing

I literally cried.