LOS ANGELESS TIMES: Tom Hooper’s feverishly anticipated adaptation of “Les Misérables” screened for the media, academy and guild members this afternoon at the Lincoln Center‘s Alice Tully Hall in a finished version that Hooper says he turned in at 2 a.m. Thanksgiving Day.
If Hooper was bone-tired, the ovations and cheering greeting his film must have provided both a reward and a confirmation that his movie could well be the awards season’s late-arriving 800-pound gorilla.
“[Anne] Hathaway wins. GOD. I wept. Film’s a triumph. They’re on their feet here. NYC crowd ate…it…up,” tweeted Kris Tapley on HitFix, a sentiment echoed by Fandango’s Dave Karger… (more)
