Revisiting Jennifer Lawrence’s 4 Oscar races ahead of ‘No Hard Feelings’
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One of this summer’s most anticipated comedies is the R-rated “No Hard Feelings” starring Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence. The Sony Pictures film opens June 23, 2023 and promises a change of pace for the actress best known for her dramas, like “Winter’s Bone,” “Joy” and last year’s “Causeway.” Much of her work brought her Academy Award nominations in the previous decade, so with “No Hard Feelings” on the horizon, let’s look back at Lawrence’s four exciting Oscar races.
Her first Academy Award nomination came in 2010 in the Best Actress category for her dramatic performance in “Winter’s Bone,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and became the little indie that could throughout the rest of the year. She had appeared in a few movie and TV projects before this one, but “Winter’s Bone” was the movie that put the young actress on the map.
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Lawrence showed up at all the precursor ceremonies for Debra Granik’s quietly haunting gem except for BAFTA, and then “Winter’s Bone” received four Oscar nominations: Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor for John Hawkes and Best Picture. Lawrence didn’t have a strong shot at winning on her first time around given that she didn’t claim any major trophies throughout the season, not even the Film Independent Spirit Award. Also, Best Actress in early 2011 was enormously competitive, with Natalie Portman the runaway favorite to take the gold trophy for her turn in “Black Swan.” But the nom itself was absolutely a huge step forward for Lawrence’s career.
SEENew ‘No Hard Feelings’ trailer lets Jennifer Lawrence cut loose [Watch]
2012 brought the first entry of Lawrence’s massively successful “The Hunger Games” franchise as well as her performance in the comedy-drama “Silver Linings Playbook,” co-starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro and directed by David O. Russell. The awards race in early 2013 was the perfect storm for Lawrence — she was hot off a box office smash the world over, and she proved her dramatic chops once again in a beloved end-of-the-year movie. She was only 22 years old at the time, and some academy members might have thought she was too young to win the Best Actress Oscar. But after taking the Golden Globe and SAG Award, Lawrence became the favorite to win the gold trophy, with Jessica Chastain’s momentum for “Zero Dark Thirty” fading those final few weeks and Emmanuelle Riva’s BAFTA win for “Amour” too little too late.
“Silver Linings Playbook” got a whopping eight Oscar nominations, including one in every acting category, and the single triumph it received was for Lawrence. As you’ll recall, she famously tripped going up to the stage and admitted to taking a shot of alcohol in the press room.
David O. Russell came back just one year later with another awards-friendly movie, “American Hustle,” which re-teamed Lawrence and Cooper with the director and brought onboard Christian Bale and Amy Adams. Once again, all four of the main actors were nominated for Oscars, and Lawrence did have a significant shot at a second gold trophy, this time in the Supporting Actress category, after winning the Golden Globe and the BAFTA Award and her movie being so popular throughout awards season. Lawrence was also, like the year before, coming off a massive hit in “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” and her comedic turn in “American Hustle” is an inspired one that probably would’ve won her the Oscar if she had lost the year before for “Silver Linings Playbook.” But ultimately Lupita Nyong’o took the lead in the category by winning at Critics Choice and SAG, and since her film “12 Years a Slave” went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, the gold trophy for Best Supporting Actress went deservedly to Nyong’o for her spectacular dramatic performance.
SEEJennifer Lawrence gets raunchy in R-rated ‘No Hard Feelings’ trailer [Watch]
Lawrence’s final Oscar race to date took place in early 2016 when she received her fourth nomination, in the Best Actress category for “Joy,” her third movie with Russell. This time more than any other, her Oscar nom was the win itself, with Brie Larson sweeping Best Actress that season for her performance in “Room” at the Golden Globes, Critics Choice, SAG, BAFTA, Film Independent Spirit and Oscars. Lawrence making it at the Academy Awards after only being recognized at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards for her performance in “Joy” seemed to show that she was the new Meryl Streep, that we could expect her to pop up at the Oscars every one to two years for an acclaimed film performance.
However, Lawrence has not received an Academy Award nomination in the years since, although she’s given strong performances in “Mother!” and especially “Causeway,” which earned her co-star Brian Tyree Henry an Oscar nom this year in Best Supporting Actor. She likely won’t get an Academy Award nomination for the raunchy “No Hard Feelings,” but the movie looks like loads of fun and something excitedly different for Lawrence after appearing in so many dramas the last 15 years. Here’s hoping she receives a fifth Oscar bid for another tremendous performance in the years to come.
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