History of the Shakespeare authorship question others joined together to create the Shakespeare Fellowship, an organisation devoted to promote discussion and debate on the authorship question but endorsing no particular candidate. Since then a great many candidates have been put forward, including Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway, his supposed girlfriend Anne Whateley, and numerous scholars, aristocrats and poets. New candidates are regularly put forward, such as Mary Sidney (proposed in 1931), Edward Dyer (proposed in 1943), William Nugent (proposed in 1978) and Henry Neville (proposed in 2005). Some candidates have been promoted by single authors, others have gathered several published supporters. Sidney in particular has been promoted
Anne Hathaway billion worldwide, becoming the third-highest-grossing film of 2012. A review published in IGN wrote of her "magnetic presence", adding, "Hathaway imbues her [character] with a wounded spirit and a survivor’s edge that makes her feel genuine and sympathetic". Hathaway won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. Hathaway played Fantine, a prostitute dying of tuberculosis, in Tom Hooper's film "Les Misérables", which was based on the musical of the same name. Footage of Hathaway singing "I Dreamed a Dream", a song from the film, was shown at CinemaCon in April 2012. Hooper described Hathaway's singing as "raw"