Catching Fire seems predestined to be successful, what with the fabulous Jennifer Lawrence reprising her role as Katniss Everdeen and the fact that the Oscar-winning writer of Slumdog Millionaire, Simon Beaufoy, is writing the script.
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It also costars the hottest young actress of the year: Jennifer Lawrence.
But the only front runner of the group is Jennifer Lawrence who has a very good chance of taking Best Actress for Silver Linings.
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Daniel Day-Lewis will take home the award for Best Actor, Jennifer Lawrence will take home the award for Best Actress, and Anne Hathaway will take home the award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Things improve a bit when the tough, direct Jennifer Lawrence shows up as a young neighborhood widow who unaccountably pursues Pat.
Aside from Riva and Wallis, the best actress category is completed by Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook, Naomi Watts in The Impossible and Jessica Chastain, who plays a CIA agent hunting Osama Bin Laden in Zero Dark Thirty.
Not only has The Twilight Saga begat Snow White and the Huntsman and The Hunger Games, genuine mega-action franchises fronted by Stewart and Jennifer Lawrence respectively, but the box office failures of Beautiful Creatures and The Host were not held up as proof that Twilight was a fluke.
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However, he thinks a lot of it can be traced back to Jennifer Lawrence and the character of Katniss.
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Actress Jennifer Lawrence is considered the front runner for the Best Actress award.
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His female counterpart, Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence, was the most-talked about nominated actress across the U.S. leading up to the awards, and was the front-runner among men on Facebook.
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David O Russell was rewarded with the best adapted screenplay prize for Silver Linings Playbook, but hotly tipped Oscar contender Jennifer Lawrence and her co-star Bradley Cooper missed out in the acting categories.
Silver Linings Playbook garnered nods for Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in the best actress and best actor categories.
Jennifer Lawrence will probably be among the nominees for Best Actress, and Robert De Niro will be nominated and likely win for Best Supporting Actor.
The Weekly Standard's Daniel Halper, watching the Twitter feed of the Puffington Host's Jennifer Bendery, notes that the host guests included Al Sharpton, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell.
Folks who got to see early screenings or take part in test audiences would have been tweeting about whether Jennifer Lawrence is a good Katniss and just how crazy the Capitol looks.
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The film won best comedy actor and actress for leads Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, best comedy film, and best ensemble for a cast which includes Oscar nominees Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver.
Other highly Tweeted moments included Jennifer Lawrence's win for Best Actress (and endearing stumble on the way to accept the award), and Anne Hathaway's win for Best Actress in a Supporting role.
"The Hunger Games" claimed four acting awards, including best male and female performances for Josh Hutcherson and Jennifer Lawrence, respectively.
The best actress prize was shared between Amour's Emmanuelle Riva , 85, and Silver Linings Playbook actress Jennifer Lawrence, 22.
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