Jennifer Lawrence is taking a much-needed break after Hollywood awards season. Well, sort of. She’s in Hawaii to film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire . After winning the Academy Award for Best Actress on Sunday, the Silver Linings Playbook star jetted off to resume production on her next blockbuster. She did find some time to relax, though, thank goodness. Sometimes, a girl’s gotta wear no makeup and kick back with friends. Spoiler alert: She’s still gorgeous! Lawrence, 22, was seen hanging out, make-up free and in casual clothes, with a friend on her hotel balcony in the tropical location on Wednesday. Lots more photos after the jump! The two pals enjoyed a bottle of wine and a few laughs while taking in the ocean view. In one sweet shot, the girlfriends gave each other big hugs. On the Oscars red carpet, the star said her post-Oscar plans included returning to work to finish filming The Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire . “I go get my hair dyed for Catching Fire and flying to Hawaii for two weeks,” she said. “[It’s] not reshoots, they’re just scenes we haven’t finished.” She said she would have a little down time, thankfully. “I see my couch. I see TV,” the self-professed reality TV junkie said, “I see a bottle of wine!” We see The Bachelor spoilers, Jen, if you’re interested. We know you told Chris Harrison you’re a big fan, so it’s okay to sneak a peek if you must. Same goes for you, THGers. And click to enlarge the Jennifer Lawrence photos below to see what America’s sweetheart looks like without makeup!
According to the Academy Award pundits and even the Nate Silver-style numbers crunchers, Jennifer Lawrence will win the Best Actress Oscar on Sunday, but don’t start engraving her name just yet. Along with the recent surge — at least in publicity — for Emmanuelle Riva , another group of in-the-know moviegoers is predicting that Zero Dark Thirty star Jessica Chastain will bring home the little gold man: New York City taxi riders. If you’ve never ridden in a NYC cab, the taxis here are equipped with passenger-compartment video monitors that attempt to amuse riders with local news casts, a taxi-edition of the TV game show Jeopardy that is geared for idiots, and over the last few weeks, an Oscar survey that covers the Best Film, Director, Actor, Actress and Animated Film categories. In addition to casting their votes for Chastain, New Yorkers also aren’t buying into the Argo surge. They’re predicting a Lincoln sweep with the film, its director, Steven Spielberg and star, Daniel Day-Lewis , bringing home statuettes. Brave is also predicted to bring home the Best Animated Feature Oscar. Sunday will tell whether New Yorkers were ahead of the curve, but, I suspect that their choice of Chastain for Best Actress has a lot to do with wishful thinking. Her “I’m-the-motherfucker-that-found-this-place” attitude and doggedness in Zero Dark Thirty is very New York. That’s how we take care of business in this town. By the way, I’ve asked the TLC to provide me with an idea of how many riders took the survey. I’ll update when I get them. [ NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission ] Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
With the Academy Awards just three days away, the Internets are being overworked by bloggers and moviegoers obsessed with staying up on the latest in Oscar news. I also wouldn’t put it past awards season’s prime navigator Harvey Weinstein to have a boiler room full of trained chimpanzees plugging in Jennifer Lawrence’s name and ” Silver Linings Playbook ” into all the top search engines, such as Yahoo!, for instance. The web portal has collected some interesting data about Oscar-related searches, which I’ve culled below: * Jennifer Lawrence is the most searched Oscar-nominated actor this year. Searches for Jennifer Lawrence in the past year on Yahoo! are seven times higher than for Bradley Cooper . *Searches for Seth McFarlane are up 1644% in the past 7 days on Yahoo!. He is the top searched “seth” followed by Seth Green, Seth Meyers Seth Curry, and Seth Rogen . No pressure, Rogen! *The Top Searched Oscar-Nominated Movies on Yahoo! (Past 30 days): Silver Linings Playbook (57% of searches come from females) Argo (55% of searches come from females) Lincoln (59% of searches come from females) Les Miserables Zero Dark Thirty Life of Pi Django Unchained Beasts of the Southern Wild Amour *The Top Searched Oscar-Nominated Actors on Yahoo! (Past 30 days): Bradley Cooper Christoph Waltz Hugh Jackman Denzel Washington Robert De Niro Daniel Day Lewis Joaquin Phoenix Tommy Lee Jones Alan Arkin Philip Seymour Hoffman Top Searched Oscar-Nominated Actresses on Yahoo! (Past 30 days): Jennifer Lawrence (77% of searches come from males) Anne Hathaway Jessica Chastain Helen Hunt Amy Adams Sally Field Naomi Watts Quvenzhane Wallis Jacki Weaver Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
America’s love affair with Jennifer Lawrence only grew by leaps and bounds during her appearance last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live . First, the Oscar-nominated actress plopped down and announced she was a “little drunk.” She then explained that a recent X-Ray made her believe her breasts were uneven, a fact that clearly troubled the beautiful star. Watch her explain now: Jennifer Lawrence on Jimmy Kimmel Live (Part 1) We then met Lawrence’s mother, who scooped the world last year that her child was cast in The Hunger Games : Jennifer Lawrence on Jimmy Kimmel Live (Part 2) And finally we watched a clip from Silver Linings Playbook , as Lawrence talked about making the movie with Bradley Cooper. Check it out here and ask yourself: does anyone out there not adore J. Law?!? Jennifer Lawrence on Jimmy Kimmel Live (Part )
Two weeks after carrying home the big prizes from the Critics’ Choice and Golden Globe Awards , Argo firmly established its Oscar front-runner status with another one-two punch in the form of the PGA’s Motion Picture Producer of the Year honor and the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast. And in a season of confusion and contradiction, that front-runner status gives Argo traction that none of its Best-Picture rivals have. The PGA win was not a surprise, especially after Argo ’s strong showing with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Content-wise, it’s the type of film that charms producers, being a taut political thriller 65% of the time and a stack of insider Hollywood jokes the other 35%. Apart from that, you have The Affleck, and the time has come to love and praise The Affleck . Rejuvenated and relevant again, Ben Affleck is this year’s Oscar story. When the nominations came out, who was the “snubbed” director? It wasn’t Kathryn Bigelow , Paul Thomas Anderson , or Wes Anderson , the three directors whose films appeared on the most end-of-year lists. It was The Affleck, and within 72 hours, The Affleck was redeemed with populist awards broadcast live on the CW and NBC, making Argo the People’s Film and Affleck the Oscar story of the year. For Best Picture prognostication, the PGA Award is a major get. Since it was started in 1989, the Producers Guild has awarded the eventual Best Picture Oscar winner nearly 70 percent of the time, and has been perfect over the past 5 years. Additionally, the PGA uses a preferential ballot just as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has done since 2009. What this means is that Argo and Affleck do not need to top all ballots, they just need to be agreed upon by most ballots. I don’t have scientific findings to present here, but think about the conversations you’ve had about the Best Picture nominees: Lincoln , Les Misérables, Django Unchained , and Silver Linings Playbook are much more polarizing than the crowd-pleasing Argo . For what it’s worth, Argo also has the highest Rotten Tomatoes score of all the nominees, 96, followed by Zero Dark Thirty , 93, and Amour , 92. The movie’s SAG win was more of a surprise. Argo is not an Actor’s Movie. This is not to say the award was not earned, simply that most of the attention was divided between the flashy Les Mis and the kitchen sink acting of Silver Linings Playbook . But there’s that word: “divided.” The Screen Actors Guild is a massive organization of nearly 160,000 members (though only current on dues are eligible to vote), so while theater types might have leaned toward Les Mis and classically-trained types might have opted for Silver Linings or Lincoln , the one film the Guild ended up agreeing on was Argo and its Affleck-led cast. It was, in a word, the most popular. (Keeping with the populist theme, note how the SAG Awards are the only guild awards that appear on billboards). SAG has a terrible track record with Best Picture. The two top awards aligned less than half of the time since SAG started their awards in 1995. But this is a season when stats mean less than they would normally. The film with the most Oscar nominations is no longer the film to beat. Harvey Weinstein , who put Affleck on the Oscar map with the 1997 movie Goodwill Hunting, is fighting an uphill battle. There’s a legitimate front-runner in town, and it does not have the director’s nomination assumed necessary. (And I’m not talking about Django Unchained .) This season, the Best Picture race is all about tone and attitude, and Argo and its affable director are all about tone and attitude. Affleck is an A-lister once again, charming every room he enters — his jokes won the room at the PGA breakfast Saturday morning — and his film’s recent run of awards-season honors have made its Best Picture prospects impossible to ignore. After months of having several films on the radar, there is finally one at the center of it. John Hendel is a playwright from Los Angeles. Follow John Hendel on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
The ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ actress suffered a wardrobe malfunction on the way to accept her statue. By Amy Wilkinson Jennifer Lawrence at the 2013 SAG Awards Photo: Mark Davis
The box office has spoken! Jessica Chastain scored the top two weekend spots over Arnold Schwarzenegger ( The Last Stand ) and the double-whammy of Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe ( Broken City ) as the Guillermo del Toro -produced fantasy horror Mama scored a #1 debut with $28.1 million and Zero Dark Thirty stepped into second place. (Oscar rival Jennifer Lawrence didn’t come out so bad herself as Silver Linings Playbook expanded to #3 in wide release the same weekend she tenderly slammed her fellow Best Actress contenders on Saturday Night Live .) More power to the ladies! But where, oh where, did Arnold land in his big action comeback? Schwarzenegger’s breezy actioner The Last Stand showed a surprising lack of muscle over the MLK holiday weekend, raking in just $6.7 million over three days and calling into question the potency of the ex-Governator’s screen appeal as it shuffled into tenth place at the box office. Tenth place. Ouch. Broken City , Fox’s Wahlberg-Crowe mano-a-mano crime pic, also debuted to rather limp returns, with a $9.5 million estimated weekend take (numbers via Deadline ). But if Arnie’s box office cache was proven less brawny than expected, the Best Actress-nominated duo of Chastain and Lawrence reflected strong appeal for both Oscar contenders, both of whom notched Golden Globes wins last weekend. For Chastain’s part, the genre gamble that is the feral child-ghost mother pic Mama could have thrown a wrench into her awards campaign but paid off; it currently sits at a better-than-most-horror-pics 62 percent rating at Rotten Tomatoes, but had some pundits wondering if Universal’s timing of the film’s release was part of a crafty plot to ruin the awards season momentum of her campaign for Sony’s Zero Dark Thirty . But audiences came for a double dose of Chastain in two very different roles — one in a prestige pic that underscored Chastain’s steely strength in a man’s world ( ZDT ), the other a genre pic built around an emotionally distant character gradually embracing her latent maternal instincts ( Mama ). Meanwhile, Silver Linings Playbook and its swelling Oscar momentum continues to be owned by Lawrence, whose audience appeal was solidified by SNL ‘s solid ratings Saturday night. With almost exactly a month left before Oscar ballots are due, this race is just starting to get good. Read more on the Oscars : After Golden Globes Win, Is ‘Argo’ The People’s Film? ‘Argo’ & ‘Les Misérables’ Take Top Movie Prizes At Golden Globes High Five! The Best GIFs Of The 2013 Golden Globes Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Jennifer Lawrence appeared on The Late Show With David Letterman this week to talk about her Oscar nomination for Silver Linings Playbook , and discuss the perks of her own posterior. When presented with a photo of her bikini-clad butt, Jennifer jokingly declared: “It is not my butt, and I will not take responsibility for it” More after the jump!
Silver Linings Playbook is the only nudity in a movie nominated for an Academy Award…excpet maybe for Ben Afleck’s soul in ARgo…or that girl in Beasts of the Southern Wild running around in her underwear..or that Indian kid in his sheer wet pants in Life of Pi….or…what the fuck are the other nominated movies…oh right Russel Crow’s singing in Les Mis…raw rugged and a whole lot of offensive as fuck…more offensive than a smut film….which I guess don’t count cuz there ain’t no shower scene like Silver Linings Playbook…..so this Brea Bee brings it as the only set of tits in all movies nominated…and that’s a fucking OMG Fact of the day. OMG.
So you might have heard that the 85 th Academy Awards nominations have been announced . Good for you, person who wakes up early in the morning. This year’s nominees contains some shocking snubs — no best director for Tarantino or Bigelow ? — as well as some pleasant surprises, but if the majority of the nominees will have us bitching or raving until March, the Best Original Song category plays it as frustratingly safe as ever. To be fair, the nomination of “Everybody Needs A Friend” from Ted comes as a surprise, and Adele’s Skyfall theme is a classic that would deserve to win regardless of the year it was nominated. Despite this, looking at the list of nominated songs one can’t help but be baffled, particularly given how interesting this year’s list of potential selections actually was. The list of eligible songs , released in December, reads like one of the craziest drug-fueled mix tapes ever made. There were three — three! — songs from Casa De Mi Padre. There were three songs from Django Unchained including “100 Black Coffins” by Rick Ross that would have finally put Three 6 Mafia’s 2006 win in context. “Razors.Out” from The Raid: Redemption , the sole good song ever associated with Linkin Park, was a potential. And dammit, Matthew McConaughey’s scene stealer “’Ladies of Tampa” from Magic Mike could have been a contender. Even Katy Perry’s “Wide Awake” would have been an interesting (and, I suspect, controversial) choice. The songs are selected based on how they work within their featured scenes, but even that doesn’t get the list off the hook. By that criteria alone, “Ladies of Tampa” should have been the hands-down winner. (Maybe the Academy hates male strippers?) Instead, the nominated songs confirm once again that the Oscars might as well cut a royalty check to Stuff White People Like creator Christian Lander and call it a day. Yeah, a nomination from Les Miserables was a given, because the Academy loves ambitious musicals like the day is long. But “Before My Time” from Chasing Ice and ” Pi’s Lullaby “? Snore. NPR has more interesting music during All Things Considered interstitials. What’s the solution? Probably nothing, aside from demographic shifts that inevitably will result from an influx of new voters with fresher taste in music. But that doesn’t make the risk-averse and tone-deaf nature of these choices any less disappointing. Let’s take a moment then to reflect on the fact that we won’t be seeing a topless Mcconaughey, or western-suit wearing Will Ferrell , performing at this year’s Academy Awards, and why not let us know in comments how you feel about this year’s songs. Ross Lincoln is a LA-based freelance writer from Oklahoma with an unhealthy obsession with comics, movies, video games, ancient history, Gore Vidal, and wine. Follow Ross Lincoln on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
