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Anne Hathaway filmed scenes of Les Miserables at Chatham's Historic Dockyard
Anne Hathaway filmed scenes of Les Miserables at Chatham's Historic Dockyard

The big screen adaptation of musical Les Miserables - which featured scenes shot in Chatham's Historic Dockyard - was a winner at last night's Academy Awards.

Anne Hathaway, who starred as the tragic Fantine, was named Best Supporting Actress.
Nominated in eight categories, the film also took home Oscars for best makeup and hairstyling, and sound mixing.

winners in the main categories for the 85th academy awards

actor in a leading role: daniel day-lewis in lincoln

actor in a supporting role: christoph waltz in django unchained

actress in a leading role: jennifer lawrence in silver linings playbook

actress in a supporting role: anne hathaway in les miserables

directing: ang lee for life of pi

music (original score):mychael danna for life of pi

music (original song): adele adkins and paul epworth for skyfall from skyfall

best picture: argo

Scenes for the movie, which stars Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter, were shot at Chatham last March and April.

Hundreds of budding actors from across the county can also be seen on screen, after they were chosen as extras.

Gabrielle Lindemann, of the Kent Film Office at Kent County Council, said: "It’s lovely to have big stars coming to the county.

"Initially when the location managers of Les Mis came to us it was because they were looking for marshland where Great Expectations had filmed a few months before.

“Sadly they couldn’t go there as filming clashed with the breeding season of some birds. The Docklands has some really special visuals that fitted into the story really well.

“It has a large urban environment but it’s also quiet for them to get the right sound recordings.

Naomi Watts in The Impossible
Naomi Watts in The Impossible

“Kent has a huge variety of landscapes so when a film company comes down they can film in many different environments which is always extremely attractive."

Kent-born actress Naomi Watts - star of Thai tsunami movie The Impossible - missed out on the Best Actress gong.

Ms Watts, who was born in Shoreham near Sevenoaks, lost out to Jennifer Lawrence for her role in Silver Linings Playbook.

See this week's What's On for a full list of winners and to find out if our movie man Mike Shaw was right in his predictions for this year's winners and losers

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