Anne Hathaway practised her Oscars speech to be more likeable Anne Hathaway backstage after winning her Best Supporting Actress Oscar at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. ANNE Hathaway reportedly practised her Oscar acceptance speech to be more likeable. The Les Miserables star learned her lesson after she was ridiculed for her rambling BAFTA acceptance speech, and has admitted she was stung by the backlash. "It does get to me," the Best Supporting Actress winner said. But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive. Anne Hathaway, left, and her husband Adam Shulman in the audience at the Oscars. A source told US Weekly that a nervous Hathaway did rehearse her Oscar speech quite a bit to come across as more likeable. "She was very aware that she had been the butt of everyone's jokes," the source said.