Golden Globe Awards 2013 : Winners Full List

And the winners are...

Nominees and winners at the 70th annual Golden Globes on Sunday night (winners names in bold):

(courtesy : AP)

Movies

Drama

WINNER: Argo

Django Unchained

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Zero Dark Thirty

Comedy or musical

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

WINNER: Les Misérables

Moonrise Kingdom

Silver Linings Playbook

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Director

WINNER: Ben Affleck, Argo

Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty

Ang Lee, Life of Pi

Steven Spielberg, Lincoln

Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained

Actor, comedy or musical

Jack Black, Bernie

Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook

WINNER: Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables

Ewan MacGregor, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Bill Murray, Hyde Park on Hudson

Actress, comedy or musical

Emily Blunt, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

WINNER: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

Judi Dench, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Maggie Smith, Quartet

Meryl Streep, Hope Springs

Actor, drama

WINNER: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

Richard Gere, Arbitrage

John Hawkes, The Sessions

Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

Denzel Washington, Flight

Actress, drama

WINNER: Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty

Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone

Helen Mirren, Hitchcock

Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea

Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Supporting actor

WINNER: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

Alan Arkin, Argo

Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained

Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master

Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln

Supporting actress

Amy Adams, The Master

Sally Field, Lincoln

WINNER: Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables

Helen Hunt, The Sessions

Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy

Screenplay

Chris Terrio, Argo

WINNER: Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained

Tony Kushner, Lincoln

David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook

Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty

Original score

Alexandre Desplat, Argo

Dario Marianeli, Anna Karenina

Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil, Cloud Atlas

WINNER: Mychael Danna, Life of Pi

John Williams, Lincoln

Best Original Song

Keith Urban, For You (Act of Valor)

Taylor Swift, Safe & Sound (The Hunger Games)

Hugh Jackman, Suddenly (Les Misérables)

WINNER: Adele, Skyfall (Skyfall)

Jon Bon Jovi, Not Running Anymore (Stand Up Guys)

Animated feature film

WINNER: Brave

Frankenweenie

Hotel Transylvania

Rise of the Guardians

Wreck-It Ralph

Foreign film

WINNER: Amour

The Intouchables

Kon-Tiki

A Royal Affair

Rust & Bone

Television

Miniseries or TV movie

WINNER: Game Change, HBO

Hatfields & McCoys, History

The Girl, HBO

The Hour, BBC America

Political Animals, USA

Drama

Boardwalk Empire, HBO

Breaking Bad, AMC

Downton Abbey, PBS

WINNER: Homeland, Showtime

The Newsroom, HBO

Comedy or musical

The Big Bang Theory, CBS

Episodes, Showtime

WINNER: Girls, HBO

Modern Family, ABC

Smash, NBC

Actor, drama series

Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire, HBO

Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad, AMC

Jeff Daniels, The Newsroom, HBO

Jon Hamm, Mad Men, AMC

WINNER: Damian Lewis, Homeland, Showtime

Actress, drama series

Connie Britton, Nashville, ABC

WINNER: Claire Danes, Homeland, Showtime

Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey, PBS

Glenn Close, Damages, DirecTV

Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife, CBS

Actor, comedy or musical series

Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock, NBC

WINNER: Don Cheadle, House of Lies, Showtime

Louis C.K., Louie, FX

Matt LeBlanc, Episodes, Showtime

Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory, CBS

Actress, comedy or musical series

Zooey Deschanel, The New Girl, Fox

WINNER: Lena Dunham, Girls, HBO

Tina Fey,30 Rock, NBC

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep, HBO

Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation, NBC

Supporting actor, series, miniseries or movie

Max Greenfield, New Girl, Fox

WINNER: Ed Harris, Game Change, HBO

Danny Huston, Magic City, Starz

Mandy Patinkin, Homeland, Showtime

Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family, ABC

Supporting actress

Hayden Panettiere, Nashville, ABC

Archie Punjabi, The Good Wife, CBS

Sarah Paulson, American Horror Story, FX

WINNER: Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey, PBS

Sofia Vergara, Modern Family, ABC

Actor, miniseries or TV movie

WINNER: Kevin Costner, Hatfields & McCoys, History

Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock, PBS

Woody Harrelson, Game Change, HBO

Toby Jones, The Girl, HBO

Clive Owen, Hemingway & Gellhorn, HBO

Actress, miniseries or TV movie

Nicole Kidman, Hemingway & Gellhorn, HBO

Jessica Lange, American Horror Story, FX

WINNER: Julianne Moore, Game Change, HBO

Sigourney Weaver, Political Animals, USA

Source:usatoday

Us Poll: Jennifer Lawrence's "I Beat Meryl Streep!" Joke at the Golden Globes: Funny or Not?

AllAboutJLaw voted, funny. Of course, it's funny!

Jennifer Lawrence could hardly contain her excitement as she took the stage to accept the award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical at the Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 13. But it wasn't just the trophy that had the Silver Linings Playbook star so euphoric -- it was what the trophy represented. Namely, victory over a certain screen legend. 

"I beat Meryl!" Lawrence exclaimed as she took the stage, referring to fellow nominee Meryl Streep, who was up for the romantic dramedy Hope Springs. The off-the-cuff quip was meant as a joke, but it earned only a handful of chuckles from the audience. (Access Hollywood points out that the one-liner is actually a callback to the film First Wives Club, in which Bette Midler's character admires an Oscar won by her pal, played by Goldie Hawn.) 

Lawrence quickly recovered, however, with a sweet speech in which she gushed about co-star Bradley Cooper and expressed her gratitude toward everyone who had helped get her to that point.

"You're incredible, and you make me better every single day," she told Cooper. Then, addressing Harvey Weinstein, she said, "Harvey, thank you for killing whomever you had to kill to get me up here today."

The actress also thanked her family in the acceptance speech. "Mom, people said you were crazy for believing in me, but you did it anyway," she said. "Dad, you taught me to laugh, and that has been my salvation through all of this."

Then, giving a shout-out to her brothers, she added, "I wouldn't be where I am today without you being mean to me...but then really supportive and loving. So thank you."

VOTE here.

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Golden Globe Awards 2013 : Jennifer Lawrence won Best Actress

Jennifer Lawrence won the Golden Globe for best actress in a musical or comedy for her in the romantic comedy “Silver Linings Playbook.”

Other nominees are Emily Blunt in “Salmon Fishing in The Yemen,” Judi Dench in “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” Maggie Smith in “Quartet,” and Meryl Streep in “Hope Springs.”

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Jennifer Lawrence: 'Silver Linings' Oscar Love Is Much 'Deserved'

'It's absolutely amazing to be able to share this with everybody,' she tells MTV News of nods for Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro and Jackie Weaver.

Jennifer Lawrence might be a fully grown, 22-year-old woman, but on Thursday (January 9), she found out about her just-announced Oscar nomination for "Silver Linings Playbook" in a very childlike way.

"I was having a sleepover with my parents," Lawrence told MTV News on the red carpet at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards. "So I was asleep, and they came into my room and told me what happened. And then they left my bedroom, and I went back to sleep."

And she's not alone: Her "Playbook" co-stars Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro and Jackie Weaver are also nominated for Oscars. "I believed with all my heart that they deserved it, so it's absolutely amazing to be able to share this with everybody," she said.

The Oscar nomination is hardly the biggest news in Lawrence's life, with "Hunger Games" sequel "Catching Fire" and "X-Men: Days of Future Past" looming on her very impressive horizon. Lawrence revealed that her second turn as Katniss, which just recently wrapped filming, was even more challenging than the first go-round.

"This one was harder," she admitted. "There were a lot more six-day weeks, and the schedule was exhausting, [but] it's so fun to get back with everybody, the same crew and obviously Josh [Hutcherson]. And [new director] Francis [Lawrence] is such a visionary. I think he's doing an incredible job."

Source:mtv

Jennifer Lawrence and 'Silver Linings Playbook' dominate Critics' Choice Awards

Jennifer Lawrence and her new movie Silver Linings Playbook were the toast of the Broadcast Film Critics Association's 18th annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards on Thursday.

The star, who was Oscar nominated for her role in the film earlier on Thursday, scooped the Best Actress In A Comedy prize, while co-star Bradley Cooper picked up the male equivalent, and the movie was named Best Comedy at the Santa Monica, California ceremony.

The cast was also honoured with the Best Acting Ensemble and Lawrence added another trophy to her haul when she was named Best Actress In An Action Movie for The Hunger Games.


The full list of winners is as follows:

Best Picture - Argo

Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

Best Actress - Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)

Best Acting Ensemble - Silver Linings Playbook

Best Director - Ben Affleck (Argo)

Best Original Screenplay - Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained

Best Adapted Screenplay - Tony Kushner's Lincoln

Best Supporting Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)

Best Supporting Actress - Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables)

Best Young Actor/Actress - Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Best Cinematography - Claudio Miranda (Life of Pi)

Best Art Direction - Sarah Greenwood & Katie Spencer (Anna Karenina)

Best Editing - Zero Dark Thirty

Best Costume Design - Jacqueline Durran (Anna Karenina)

Best Makeup - Cloud Atlas

Best Visual Effects - Life of Pi

Best Animated Feature - Wreck-It Ralph

Best Action Movie - Skyfall

Best Actor In An Action Movie - Daniel Craig (Skyfall)

Best Actress In An Action Movie - Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games)

Best Comedy - Silver Linings Playbook

Best Actor In A Comedy - Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Actress In A Comedy - Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Sci-fi/Horror Movie - Looper

Best Foreign Language Film - Amour

Best Documentary Feature - Searching for Sugar Man

Best Song - Skyfall by Adele & Paul Epworth

Best Score - John Williams (Lincoln)

Louis XIII Genius Award - Judd Apatow

Source:torontosun

Oscar reactions: Jennifer Lawrence talks texting 'Silver Linings Playbook' cast a picture of Obama on a unicorn

Current EW cover star Jennifer Lawrence was already having a great week before this morning’s Oscar announcement that the 22-year-old had received her second Best Actress nomination for Silver Linings Playbook (her first was in 2011 for Winter’s Bone). She won Best Movie Actress at the People’s Choice Awards last night and was understandably exhausted, so she can be forgiven for dozing off this morning. “This time I wanted to wake up but I couldn’t open my eyes and then my parents came into my room and kissed my forehead and told me congratulations,” she told EW. “I know, it’s really nerdy. And then they told me about the movie and Bob and Jacki and Bradley and David. Try going back to sleep after that!”

Lawrence is talking about the fact that not only did she get nominated, but someone fromSilver Linings Playbook is nominated in each acting category. “When you’re hoping for something and you’re praying and we’re all getting so excited and then it’s even better than you imagined it’s unbelievable…. [The whole cast have] been texting,” she said. “I just sent them a picture of Obama on a unicorn with a rainbow saying ‘Congratulations.’”

Unlike co-star Bradley Cooper, this is Lawrence’s second nomination on Hollywood’s biggest night. Lawrence has previously talked about how overwhelming she found the whole Oscar process. This time, she plans to just enjoy it. “Last time I was just terrified because it was my introduction into Hollywood pretty much,” she said. “I was so new and it was so exciting but also really terrifying. And I regretted that by the time it was over, on the very last night, when I was on the red carpet at the Oscars and realized where I was, that I was having fun and until then I was scared. So I just feel like this time I don’t want to make the same mistake.”

Source: insidemovies

Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence lauds Hollywood's 'season' of roles for strong women

It has been an exciting 24 hours for The Silver Linings Playbook and Hunger Games actress who also won two People's Choice Awards last night as well as receiving a Bafta nomination.

Jennifer Lawrence, one of Hollywood's hottest rising stars, believes it is a good time to be a young actress, adding recent months had proved a “season” of strong women roles.

The 22-year old was today nominated for the leading actress award at the Oscars for her performance in Silver Linings Playbook.

This came a day after she was also named on the shortlist for leading actresses at the Baftas, which proved an “amazing feeling” she said.

The 22-year old is at the forefront of a generation of talented young actresses, who are beginning to receive increasing attention.

A year ago not a single woman made the shortlist for the Bafta Rising Star Award; earlier this week four out of five were female.

The shortlist included Elizabeth Olsen, Juno Temple and Andrea Riseborough all of whom are tipped for mainstream stardom.

Lawrence told The Independent: “Through the years I’ve been reading scripts there are clearly seasons; sometimes it favours men and other times it is good for women of a certain age,” before adding: “At the moment it has swung towards strong women roles.”

In Silver Linings Playbook, she has been hailed by the critics for the nuanced performance of a young woman with mental health issues opposite Bradley Cooper, who was also nominated at both the Baftas and Oscars.

She said that playing the character “was energising… Each take was something new” adding it was pretty “exhausting”.

She was drawn to Silver Linings Playbook “by the script and director David O’Russell. I just love his characters and the way he works with the actors.”

With her star on the rise with the forthcoming sequel to The Hunger Games and a potential best actress Oscar, she can deal with the fame.  “At the beginning it was scary, but I’m getting a grasp on it now.”

Last night The Hunger Games won five trophies at the People's Choice Awards with Lawrence taking gongs for being "face of heroism" and for her onscreen chemistry with Josh Hutcherson, and Liam Hemsworth.

Source: independent

Oscar nominations 2013: Jennifer Lawrencefor best actress Academy Award

Emma Stone and Seth MacFarlane announced the Academy Award nominations for 2013 in Los Angeles on Thursday - and it's shaping up to be a fierce battle for the best actress nod. 

The nominations include - Jessica Chastain as a CIA operative in Zero Dark Thirty; Jennifer Lawrence as a troubled young widow struggling to heal in Silver Linings Playbook; Emmanuelle Riva as an ailing woman tended by her husband in Amour; Quvenzhane Wallis as a spirited girl on the Louisiana delta in Beasts of the Southern Wild; and Naomi Watts as a mother caught up in a devastating tsunami in The Impossible.

Also among the 9 nominees for best picture is the old-age love story Amour; the Iran hostage thriller Argo; the independent hit Beasts of the Southern Wild; the slave-revenge narrative Django Unchained; the musical Les Miserables; the shipwreck story Life of Pi; the lost-souls romance Silver Linings Playbook; and the Osama bin Laden manhunt chronicle Zero Dark Thirty.

Chronicling Abraham Lincoln's final months as he engineers passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, Lincoln stars best-actor contender Day-Lewis in a monumental performance as the 16th president, supporting-actress nominee Field as the notoriously headstrong Mary Todd Lincoln and supporting-actor prospect Jones as abolitionist firebrand Thaddeus Stevens.

Joining Day-Lewis in the best actor field are Bradley Cooper as a psychiatric patient trying to get his life back together in Silver Linings Playbook; Hugh Jackman as Victor Hugo's tragic hero Jean Valjean in Les Miserables; Joaquin Phoenix as a Navy vet who falls in with a cult in The Master; and Denzel Washington as a boozy airline pilot in Flight.

Source: dailymail

Best actress Oscar: Jennifer Lawrence takes the lead

By Glenn Whipp

November 13, 2012, 1:44 p.m.

"Who is that?"

It seemed an odd question. Watching "Silver Linings Playbook" at the Toronto International Film Festival in early September, the woman sitting next to me leaned in, whispering her inquiry. I wanted to ask if she ever saw a little movie called "The Hunger Games." Or the last "X-Men" movie. Or the Oscar-nominated "Winter's Bone."

Instead, I just mumbled, "Jennifer Lawrence," hoping that would be the end of it. And it was. But I wondered: How does a literate, festival moviegoer not recognize Lawrence? And as "Silver Linings Playbook" continued to unfold and Lawrence revealed herself as a superb comic actress, blessed with a perfect sense of timing and the ability to hilariously dress down the likes of Robert De Niro, it hit me:

This woman probably has never seen Jennifer Lawrence smile before. That's the thing throwing her.

GRAPHIC: Oscar contenders | PHOTOS: Jennifer Lawrence's fashion style

Audiences will have the opportunity to watch Lawrence's revelatory work in "Silver Linings Playbook" beginning Friday, when the film opens in limited release before a Thanksgiving weekend blowout expansion. The 22-year-old actress heads this year's lead actress Oscar race by a country mile. Here's an early snapshot of the category's contenders.

1. Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Linings Playbook”

2. Quvenzhané Wallis, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

3. Marion Cotillard, “Rust and Bone”

4. Helen Mirren, “Hitchcock”

5. Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour"

Bubbling under: Keira Knightley, “Anna Karenina”; Naomi Watts, “The Impossible”; Judi Dench, “The Bext Exotic Marigold Hotel”; Meryl Streep, “Hope Springs”; Maggie Smith, “Quartet”; Laura Linney, “Hyde Park on Hudson”

Not yet seen: Jessica Chastain, “Zero Dark Thirty”

For your consideration: Leslie Mann, “This Is 40.” Remember how great she was in “Knocked Up”? Mann takes that same character in Judd Apatow's latest confessional comedy and just pulls the rip cord, playing a woman kicking and screaming and, yes, crying a few tears as she faces the Big 4-0 amid a life full of blessings and disappointments.

Analysis: Get ready for plenty of stories on the age range of the likely nominees, going from 9-year-old Wallis to the 85-year-old Riva. Two nods from foreign-language films might feel like a reach until you realize what a subpar year it was for American actress-driven movies. Including both Riva and Cotillard would greatly enhance the quality of the category.

Chastain, playing a CIA agent in Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," is the wild card here and, quite possibly, the only candidate capable of dislodging Lawrence from the top spot. The bare-knuckles brutality in "Rust and Bone" will put off squeamish academy members, hurting Cotillard's chances for a second Oscar. Wallis makes for a wonderful story, but you have to be at least legal drinking age for the academy to award you a lead Oscar. Riva, showcased in the tough-minded, subtitled "Amour," will need a push just for the nomination.

Mirren, as Alfred Hitchcock's wife and unsung partner, Alma Reville, might pose the biggest threat to Lawrence. Older academy members will love the historical Hollywood seen in "Hitchcock," and Mirren's role as the unsung wind beneath Hitch's wings should find appreciation within creative circles. It's not "The Queen," but this year, it might be enough.

Source: latimes

How Jennifer Lawrence stole her ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ role

She made a last minute play for David O. Russell's "Playbook" and could wind up scoring big time.

In a film that has arguably won the most praise at the Toronto International Film Festival thus far and is getting early Oscar buzz -- Jennifer Lawrence has been pegged as a high point in "Silver Linings Playbook."

Lawrence, whose audition for the part of crazy girl Tiffany came pretty darn late in the process, blew away the competition. "We had our choice of a lot of terrific actresses, and Jennifer came in at the eleventh hour and just stole it," Russell told THR on Sunday.

And boy was there competition. According to IMDb, this is how casting went down: Anne Hathaway was first cast in the part of Tiffany but eventually declined due to scheduling conflicts. Angelina Jolie was said to have been considered along with Rachel McAdams, Olivia Wilde, Elizabeth Banks, Blake Lively, Rooney Mara, Kirsten Dunst and Andrea Riseborough.

Russell recalled Jennifer's last-minute audition as a moment of epiphany. "She Skyped from her parents' house in Louisville. We went, 'Oh my God, who's this person?' We didn't know she had all that in her," he said.

Critics are raving over the 22-year-old former Oscar nominee and "Hunger Games" franchise star for her portrayal as the only person in her Philadelphia suburb who can relate to recent mental hospital patient Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper). "And then there's Jennifer Lawrence, showing the fierceness and finesse on display in her breakout 'Winter's Bone,' but more so. Her character, like Cooper's, is a head case, and the no filters back-and-forth between them is exhilarating," wrote Steven Rea of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Also praised for her comedic timing, representing something that is brand new in Lawrence's professional repertoire, she gets to spin quick-witted lines like when Tiffany describes herself as a "crazy slut with a dead husband." Moira Macdonald of the Seattle Times wrote, "Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence are quirky perfection together as two people struggling to put their lives back together."

Hitfix reviewer Gregory Ellwood is already talking Oscar: "Lawrence absolutely steals the movie... Her performance in 'Playbook' deservedly ranks alongside her Oscar nominated turn in... 'Winter's Bone.' It's not a reach to suggest her Academy peers may recognize her once more this January."

In the film adaptation of a Matthew Quick's 2008 novel, Cooper and Lawrence play society's rejects who find a safe-yet-scattered haven in their relationship. Pat (Cooper) is a jilted husband who suffers from bi-polar disorder, unable to become intimate with anyone besides his cheating wife, and Tiffany (Lawrence), who may be equally as looney, is determined to help him open up.

"Silver Linings Playbook," also starring Robert De Niro, lands in theaters November 21

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Jennifer Lawrence talks 'Silver Linings' and her career so far

To state the obvious: Jennifer Lawrence is very beautiful.

After that, the two things you notice about her right away are her great laugh and her zero b------- level.

Lawrence and Bradley Cooper co-star in Silver Linings Playbook, a story about two people struggling with life who meet and fall in love. The movie will be another success story for Lawrence, who, at 22, has already starred in The Hunger Games, Winter's Bone and X-Men: First Class.

Silver Linings Playbook has a big cast that includes Robert De Niro, Julia Stiles, Australian actress Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker and famed Indian actor Anupam Kher. We met up with Lawrence when she attended TIFF to promote Silver Linings Playbook, and asked her five questions:

What was it like to work with someone of Robert De Niro's status?

It's nerve-wracking, and you're well aware that no 21-year-old should be working with Robert De Niro -- that's just an insane concept. Then I met him, and he's so nice and friendly, such a giving actor and he gives it all. He's just a great guy. But there was never one moment when I forgot that he was Robert De Niro.

You were only 14 when you tackled acting in earnest. How did you know so young what you wanted?

It was weird. I just knew it was what I was made for, what I needed, what I wanted and what I was meant to do with my life. And I didn't want to let it go ... I'm so lucky. People are always asking me if I'm pinching myself because of the success of the Hunger Games, but honestly, my friends my age are just now coming out of college and they're not sure what they want to do, and I've been blessed to simply know what I want to do for so long.

Has it been difficult to handle success -- so much, so fast?

It hasn't been for me. I don't know what I'm waiting for. Everyone made it seem like, when it happens, everything his going to change, and you meet famous people and obviously, they act differently, but that's because people treat them differently. And I would meet them and I used to wonder, 'Is that what I'm going to end up like?' But nothing has actually changed for me.

Nothing?

Well, now I get followed by paparazzi, but I just change cars with my friends so they don't follow me, or now I'm looking at houses, because I love my condo, but it doesn't have a gate so I have to look into moving. It's just technical things like that. I have all the same people around me. I don't like having B.S. people around me.

Did the Hunger Games mean a change in the roles you've been offered?

I didn't really have any career expectations. I know that seems weird, but I've always been incredibly lucky, in that, the one script I read, that I fall in love with and I'm like, 'I have to make this movie!' or 'I have to work with this director!' -- I've done it.

So that was such a rare, incredibly lucky thing that's happened to me, that I wasn't pining after these imaginary roles that I thought Hunger Games would satisfy. It was actually the opposite -- I was afraid this one character would overpower the rest of my characters. But I genuinely liked the books and the movie and that character, and I wouldn't be embarrassed to be known as that character for the rest of my life. Well, obviously, not only that character.

Source:torontosun

Review: Jennifer Lawrence burns bright in crowd-pleasing 'Silver Linings Playbook'

TORONTO – To say the Toronto International Film Festival's 2012 slate has been dominated by literary adaptations is something of an understatement.  On Saturday alone, “Cloud Atlas,” “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” and “Much Ado About Nothing” (granted, a stage adaptation) all had their world or North American premieres at the fest.  Oh, and add one more prominent title to that list, David O. Russell’s “Silver Linings Playbook.”

A very loose adaptation of Matthew Quick’s 2008 novel, "Playbook" finds Russell once again displaying his talent in pulling unexpectedly authentic performances from his actors.   In this case, Bradley Cooper is the biggest beneficiary of Russell’s guiding hand.  Best known for the “Hangover” films, Cooper delivers his most arresting work so far and should impress even his harshest critics.

"Playlist" begins as Pat (Cooper) gets released from a psychiatric hospital and put into the care of his mother (“Animal Kingdom’s” Jacki Weaver).  The movie takes its time revealing why Pat was sent to the facility in the first place, but it doesn’t take long to show why he might not be ready for the outside world yet.  Diagnosed as bi-polar, Pat’s social skills have become almost non-existent after eight months on the inside (which O’Russell harness to great comic effect) and he has a dangerous temper that can be set off by anything that reminds him of the incident that lead to his fall.  Not surprisingly, his father (Robert De Niro) is skeptical his son is ready to return to the family home in Philadelphia.  Pat seems intent on proving his father is correct.  He becomes obsessed with finding his estranged wife and makes life difficult at all hours of the night for his parents. Of course, Pat’s dear old dad is no angel as he appears to have his own issues with OCD and anger management proving the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in this household.

Pat spends his first few days home discovering he’s under the official watch of a local police officer (Dash Mihok) and attending court-mandated therapy sessions with a psychiatrist who isn’t afraid to push his buttons (Indian cinema legend Anupam Kher). Eventually, an old friend invites Pat over to dinner where he meets his buddy’s clinically depressed sister-in-law, Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence). A young widower who has put her family on edge because of her increasing promiscuous nature, Tiffany offers to hook up with Pat upon their first meeting.  Pat is taken aback and turns her down, but it’s foreshadows the film's expected courtship.  Russell breathes life into this conceit, however, through sharp dialogue and comedic situations that play out much more realistically than traditional studio pictures would allow.  Somehow, Russell is even able to convince the audience that “Playbook’s” climax – Pat and Tiffany competing against professionals in a formal dance contest – fits alongside the picture’s darker storylines.  And yes, it all somehow works.

While Cooper deserves kudos for his performance in “Playbook,” it’s Lawrence who absolutely steals the movie.  Her portrayal of Tiffany is both fierce and tragic. She constructs Tiffany as a blunt and intelligent woman that is unashamed of her sexual dalliances even if her friends and family feel she’s just acting out. Tiffany is not a happy or pleasant person most of the time (she rarely cracks a smile), but Lawrence finds a way to have you rooting for her at the end.  Lawrence has arguably impressed in every movie she’s starred in during her short big screen career, but her performance in “Playbook” deservedly ranks alongside her Oscar nominated turn in 2007’s “Winter’s Bone.”  It’s not a reach to suggest her Academy peers may recognize her once more this January.

Russell is assisted by a number of strong supporting performances including De Niro (who delivers some fine dramatic moments), Kher (who challenges Cooper in every scene they have together), John Ortiz as Pat’s lifelong buddy and an unusually subdued Chris Tucker who pops in as Pat’s new friend from the hospital.  The only relative disappointment is Weaver who simply isn’t given much to do.
Critics throw the term crowd-pleaser around to often these days (present company included), but based on the reaction from the audience at the Roy Thompson Hall Saturday night “Playbook” is easily a textbook example.  Russell takes a dramatic situation that seems too heavy to play as pure entertainment and flips it on its head by making the everyday humor in a dysfunctional family fuel the film’s storyline.  It may not be as deep Russell’s classic “Three Kings” or as dramatic as his Oscar nominated “The Fighter,” but it’s hard to imagine anyone else handling this material any better.

“Silver Linings Playbook” opens nationwide on Nov. 21.

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