Anne Hathaway Awards and Honors

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Throughout high school, Hathaway participated in numerous plays. She was chosen to appear in the adolescent drama Get Real (1999–2000), and her breakout part was in the Disney comedy The Princess Diaries (2001).

After appearing in many family-friendly movies, such as Ella Enchanted (2004), Hathaway transitioned to adult roles in the thriller Brokeback Mountain in 2005.

Her biggest commercial success up to that moment was the comedy-drama The Devil Wears Prada (2006), in which she portrayed an editor’s assistant for a fashion magazine.

She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her work as a recovering addict in the 2008 movie Rachel Getting Married.

After that, Hathaway appeared in a number of financially lucrative movies, such as the comedies Get Smart (2008) and Bride Wars (2009), as well as the romantic comedies Valentine’s Day (2010) and Love & Other Drugs (2010) and the fantasy picture Alice in Wonderland (2010).

She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2012 for her performances as Fantine, a prostitute who is dying of TB in the musical Les Misérables, and as Catwoman in her highest-grossing movie of the year, The Dark Knight Rises.

She has since played a scientist in the science fiction film Interstellar (2014), the owner of an online fashion site in the comedy The Intern (2015), a haughty actress in the heist film Ocean’s 8 (2018), a con artist in the comedy The Hustle (2019), and Rebekah Neumann in the miniseries WeCrashed (2022).

Hathaway has performed on stage, recorded music for soundtracks, hosted events, and received a Primetime Emmy Award for her voice work in the animated television series The Simpsons.