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THE OSCAR ISSUE / HUFFINGTON / 02.10-17.13 e n t e r q&a DANA EDELSON/NBC Anne Hathaway on Saturday Night Live in 2012, with Keenan Thompson (center) and Bill Hader (right). Our Oscar Predictions Dashboard gives you a 99.2% chance of winning Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars. Are you nervous anyway, or are you feeling cool and collected? Is there a third option? Because I am just very grateful. I’ve had plenty of years in my career where I haven’t made it to this part of the conversation. Making it here is the gift and the goal, and I feel really proud of that. sight of is how vulnerable everyone feels. It’s very easy to look at people in these gorgeous dresses that cost more than a college education and diamonds and hairdos and forget that everyone is probably shaking in their stilettos. What’s one thing people who haven’t experienced Oscar season first-hand don’t realize about it? I don’t actually know what people don’t know, but what I think people lose And how many times will Hugh Jackman have forced you to sing at various events? I am starting to lose count. He is so good at that. He is so charming and persuasive How many award shows will you have attended by the time you get to the Oscars? I’m not sure, but at least half a dozen.