Jennifer Lawrence - J-Law Appreciation #19: "but I think at the end of the Day, it Was Jen!" - Julianne Moore - Page 18

Tati_SwanJones · 11-27-2014, 08:58 PM

and she is Katniss and Mystique

**Violent Delights** · 11-28-2014, 06:41 AM

It's easy to look like Mystique -

TPF1138 · 11-28-2014, 06:53 AM

Ah... everyone's favourite 'analrapist'.

**J-LawForever** · 11-28-2014, 03:20 PM

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and she is Katniss and Mystique

Damn straight!

Tati_SwanJones · 11-28-2014, 05:45 PM

thats creepy

**J-LawForever** · 11-29-2014, 01:21 PM

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thats creepy

But to you. You find everything creepy.

**Violent Delights** · 11-29-2014, 01:52 PM

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Ah... everyone's favourite 'analrapist'.

Oh Tobias.

**J-LawForever** · 11-29-2014, 02:08 PM

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Oh Tobias.

Dr. Funk.

TPF1138 · 11-29-2014, 02:47 PM

**J-LawForever** · 11-29-2014, 03:22 PM

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If you would say I blue myself. No one would know what that means and think you're just weird.

Tati_SwanJones · 11-29-2014, 04:53 PM

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But to you. You find everything creepy.

**J-LawForever** · 11-29-2014, 05:08 PM

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TPF1138 · 11-30-2014, 05:35 AM

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As seems to be the case during every Oscar season, the Best Actor race is currently bursting with potential contenders, and the Best Supporting Actor category is pretty packed, too. Wander on over to the distaff races, though, and you'll hear the same pronouncements from pundits over and over again: "The female categories are awfully thin." "Actress and Supporting Actress are a snooze!" "Where are all the good roles for women?" No. No! I refuse to play along any longer. This movie year has been packed with women doing wonderful work, and though those performances might not all have come in conventionally Oscar-worthy movies and will therefore likely be overlooked by the Academy, that doesn't mean they aren't worthy. If the Oscars would simply deign to include these eight terrific women (all of whom are considered major long shots, if they're being considered contenders at all), maybe we could liven up the meager female categories after all.

Jennifer Lawrence

The Academy loves Jennifer Lawrence. The Academy wants to nominate Jennifer Lawrence! And I firmly believe that an Oscar nod would be in the bag if she had starred in any other movie where she played a PTSD-stricken war hero, haunted by dreams of her fallen comrades, who bristles at the cynical use of her image as propaganda. Unfortunately, though the movie I'm describing sounds like indie-film Oscar bait, it's actually The Hunger Games: Mockingay — Part 1, and will likely be dismissed out of hand as franchise fodder.

Their loss. Jennifer Lawrence is doing some of the most ferocious acting of her career in this series, which has outgrown its YA action-movie roots and hews, in its new installment, much closer to a quiet psychological drama. Though she's always been great as Katniss (and this Catching Fire–ending close-up ought to prove it), Lawrence hasn't rested on her laurels: In each new movie, the series asks more of her, and she continues to push herself further. From her shattered first scene in Mockingjay — Part 1 to the movie's ambiguous final sequence, this is surely one of the most demanding female roles of the year, and Lawrence nailed it to the wall.

If Sigourney Weaver could get a nod for Alien, if Johnny Depp was nominated for the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, if Heath Ledger outright won an Oscar for a Batman sequel, Lawrence deserves a nod of her own for Katniss. You can tell me that what she's doing in The Hunger Games isn't as iconic as those three genre-classic performances, but you'd be wrong ... and the Academy will be, too.

Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton hasn't been nominated for an Oscar since her sole win for 2007's Michael Clayton, and that's kind of outrageous given her consistently terrific career. It pains me, then, to know that her delicious work in Snowpiercer is on course to be similarly snubbed. As the supercilious Mason, Swinton slathered herself in makeup and prosthetics to play a martinet who thwarts Chris Evans at every turn, then hilariously cowers from him once he manages the upper hand. (Sure, she's more than a touch campy, but if the Academy were afraid of actors who go over the top, Christoph Waltz wouldn't have two Oscars.) Pundits don't consider Snowpiercer to be an "Oscar movie," and increasingly, the voters only select their acting nominees from the Best Picture pool, so Swinton's shot is as slim as it gets. But wouldn't this Oscar race (and red carpet) benefit from her unique verve?

Rene Russo

Oscar voters love a comeback, so why aren't they touting Rene Russo's terrific work in the dark dramedy Nightcrawler? Excepting a minor role in both Thor movies, this is Russo's first real credit in nearly a decade, and it's a career highlight no matter how you slice it. She plays the coolly amoral news producer Nina Romina, who sizes up crime-scene videographer Lou (Jake Gyllenhaal) with the same shrewd "how can this help me" stare that she uses while parsing his graphic footage. Halfway through the movie, in Nightcrawler's gangbusters Mexican restaurant scene, Lou audaciously flips the script on Nina, and the resulting scramble gives the 60-year-old actress the chance to show every color in her paint box. Give Rene Russo some awards for this! To judge from her incredibly endearing media tour, her acceptance speeches would be the absolute best.

Kristen Wiig

There were some startling snubs when the Indie Spirit nominations were announced yesterday, but none as needless as the total shutout of The Skeleton Twins, one of this year's biggest independent-film hits. The low-budget dramedy is exactly the sort of movie that the Indie Spirits ought to be honoring; instead, it seems like IFP spent more time figuring out circuitous ways to award Inherent Vice and Foxcatcher, two films too expensive to qualify in the Indie Spirits' normal categories. If only the Oscars would pick up the dropped baton, since Skeleton Twins boasts two great performances from Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig as caustic but codependent siblings; the latter, in her best film since Bridesmaids, manages to tap into a deep reservoir of sadness and pathos without neglecting her abundant comic gifts. We would have settled for a Hader/Wiig Oscar co-hosting gig (could you imagine?), but since that's off the table, let's at least get Wiig back into the awards conversation.

Those are just my favourites from the list. I'm particularly in favour of Jen obviously, but Kristen Wiig is tremendous in The Skeleton Twins, and desrves greater recognition for what she does there. You can check out the rest after the jump.

mlkj13 · 11-30-2014, 07:41 AM

Thanks for the article. Love the comments about Jen and I agree with them particularly if Jen was playing a solider with PTSD in an indie she'd get that nom for her work in MJ. They're right about the Academy, I wish they would give roles outside of the typical a chance at a nomination.

**Violent Delights** · 11-30-2014, 09:07 AM

they know as well as anyone how predictable the Academy can be

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