And Lawrence managed to win Best Actress prizes from a few critics groups such as Detroit, Houston, and Los Angeles.

So it’s safe to say that she was “the girl on fire” heading into the awards season. From that moment on, experts not only penciled it into their predictions as a movie to watch out for going into the Oscars, but also Lawrence as a frontrunner for Best Actress.īy the time “Silver Linings Playbook” came around, Lawrence was already an Oscar nominee for her breakout role in Debra Granik‘s 2010 indie drama “Winter’s Bone.” And earlier in 2012 she became a massive superstar with her role as Katniss Everdeen in the first “Hunger Games” movie. “Silver Linings Playbook” had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2012, and it ended up winning the People’s Choice Award. Russell, who was coming off of receiving his first Oscar nom for helming 2010’s “The Fighter,” which won both supporting Oscars for Christian Bale and Melissa Leo‘s respective performances. The movie was written and directed by David O. ( Bradley Cooper), a man with bipolar disorder, leading to an unlikely romance.

In this film adaptation of Matthew Quick‘s 2008 novel of the same name, Lawrence plays Tiffany, a young widow who meets Pat Solitano Jr.

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