Anne Hathaway shares the excitement she felt after the announcement that she was nominated for a Best Leading Actress Oscar. “It is such a thrill to be recognized in this category with these remarkably talented women. I was with my parents and my dog when I got the news and we were all overjoyed – although I’m not sure my dog knew what was going on,” Hathaway tells ET. “This is a great day to be an actress!” The 81st Academy Awards will air on ABC on Sunday, February 22, live from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.

Anne Hathaway has insisted she didn’t play a junkie in a bid to shed her good girl image. The actress said she signed up to play a recovering drug addict in Rachel Getting Married because it was a great part, not to help her escape her most famous role in Disney’s Princess Diaries. “I know everybody wants me to relish it, because I get that question in every single interview,” she admitted. “Not to sound arrogant or cocky, I’ve never defined myself by the way other people did. It’s always been ‘be yourself, be yourself, be yourself’. Well, the person I am is an actress, and I’m really excited that I feel, with this movie, I’ve earned that title. “I’ve certainly been striving to earn it since The Princess Diaries, so I just feel happy now that I don’t have to have this weight on my shoulders in regards to my attitude towards myself about being a performer, that I actually did something I’m proud of, where all the intentions I have for the character made it onto the screen.” Anne, 26, added she “never made any choices or really thought about the way I was perceived because I just don’t see the point”. But she admitted it was “cool” to do something different, adding: “It wasn’t cool because I had done the Princess Diaries, it was cool because Jonathan Demme is a f****** great director and Kym’s an amazing character. It was cool on its own merit.”

She has a new sure-to-be-hit movie called Bride Wars in theaters and Anne Hathaway recently shared some of her favorite memories from weddings in her own life. Describing her favorite wedding moment, the “Princess Diaries” actress described her old brother’s marriage to his boyfriend. “At one point, he and his husband were standing up there, and my mom got up to sing. She was just beaming straight love into them, and everyone felt it, and it was just this really beautiful moment.” She continued, “When Mike and Josh booked the place, it was before daylight savings time, and the sun was pretty high up in the sky. Now it was at eye level, and it was blinding! Burn-your-retina bright! [So] we sent my cousin’s boyfriend down to Canal Street [in New York City] with $250 to buy as many sunglasses as he could, and we put them on every other seat. Everybody just put on their sunglasses, and we have some great pictures of that! It’s all about crisis management, isn’t it?” And when it comes time to plan her own nuptials, Anne says the music will be the most important part. “I haven’t thought about the food; I haven’t thought about the look; I haven’t thought about my dress. I haven’t really thought about the guy … but every once in a while, I’ll listen to a song, and I’m like, ‘I want that at my wedding!’” Thanks to Gossip Girls for this news!

Watchmen may be the toast of fandom, but as far as films not based on comics, Tim Burton’s live action/stop-motion hybrid Alice in Wonderland is easily one of the most anticipated. To date, the enigmatic director has generated considerable buzz for an inspired casting roster that includes Johnny Depp, Helen Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Alan Rickman, Michael Sheen, Christopher Lee and, of course, Anne Hathaway. Hathaway plays the White Queen alongside Bonham Carter’s Red Queen, and according to her it’s a role best described by an anecdote. “A friend of mine just gave me a magnet that was a bunny rabbit holding a knife,” she recalled. “It said ‘Cute but psycho, it evens out.’ And that’s kind of my character as the White Queen.” Read the rest of this entry »

Actress Anne Hathaway is dating three new men – after auctioning a night in her company to a trio of eager fans for $12,000 (GBP8,000) The actress offered herself as a prize at the Cracked X-mas Fundraiser in Los Angeles on December 07, and was quickly snapped up by bidders. She announced to the crowd, “I’m not usually very forward, but I thought if there was ever a crowd for me to do something like this, this is my crowd – so I would like to auction myself off, for drinks somewhere fabulous and basically get you totally s**t faced. Tell me what I’m worth.” All the proceeds for the night went to benefit the Trevor Project, a crisis helpline for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual youths.

Anne Hathaway looks like she’s a shoe-in for Oscar contention after today’s news. Her latest film Rachel Getting Married is already get a lot of attention after leading the upcoming Spirit Awards with six nominations, including one for best picture. And today Anne has officially been named Best Actress by the National Board of Review for her role in the film. For those of you unfamiliar, the National Board of Review is is comprised of film historians, film pros and others, and is best known for presenting the first nationally recognized awards of Oscar season. Look out Keira Knightley and Kate WInslet, our own girl next door may be some tough competition in this year’s Oscar race.

Anne Hathaway only owns three pairs of shoes. The Devil Wears Prada actress finds it amusing that she is classed as a fashion icon – because she wears the same old footwear time-after-time. She says, “I actually only have three pairs of shoes which I wear to all the premieres and award shows. “I have a pair of black Pradas, Manolo Blahniks and a pair of Marc Jacobs which I’ve worn for five years now but nobody’s ever noticed. “I guess the secret is out now, but I won’t stop.”

Rachel Getting Married star Anne Hathaway says she is flattered by the Oscar rumours swirling round her latest role. In the film, the 25-year-old, plays fresh-out-rehab Kym as she returns to her sister Rachel’s (Rosemarie DeWitt) wedding. “I have gotten some Oscar buzz, which is very cool.” “But I think it’s a little premature to get excited about – but it’s very flattering.” Next up for Hathaway is 2009 romcom Bride Wars, while the following year she will star in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland alongside Johnny Depp. On her future co-star the actress said: “I met him at the MTV movie awards when I gave him an award and he kissed me on my cheek – that was very thrilling. “I’m working on getting him to kiss the other cheek, that’s why I did the movie, Tim Burton is great, but I just want Johnny Depp to kiss me.”

The identity of Anne Hathaway’s mystery new boyfriend has been revealed – he is actor Adam Shulman. The 25-year-old actress last month revealed she had found love again, five months after splitting from her jailed boyfriend of four years Raffaello Follieri. She refused to reveal his name, but the new couple have been caught together enjoying a break in New Orleans, Louisiana – where Hathaway is promoting her new movie Rachel Getting Married. Shulman, 27 – the former star of TV series American Dreams – confessed to Life + Style magazine, “We met through mutual friends. I came to support Anne. We’ve never been to New Orleans before – it’s our first time.” Hathaway said in October of her then-unknown beau, “You know when you don’t know someone very well…you just meet them and you’re like, ‘Wow, you really have it going on’?”