A Sung-Through Plea to the Academy (Just Kidding) LOS ANGELES - You know you are an Oscar front-runner when you merit a parody. So Anne Hathaway must be sitting pretty, now that a spoof of her Academy Award-nominated turn as Fantine in "Les Misérables," with its show-stopping "I Dreamed a Dream," is racking up hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. "Consider me on Oscar night," begins the song, set to the tune of "I Dreamed a Dream." In a tight close-up, just as the director Tom Hooper shot it in the movie, Emma Fitzpatrick as Ms. Hathaway sings of her hopes, dreams and desires for an Academy Award. "I was bold and unafraid," she sings. I let them give me this new haircut. And I lost half my body weight but then they never did a wide shot. See it here.