The world won’t get to watch Jennifer Lawrence trip up the steps at the 93rd Academy Awards on April 25. Although everyone’s favorite girl next door didn’t receive any Oscar nominations this year, we can look forward to multiple upcoming projects, including the long-awaited “Bad Blood,” in which she will portray disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes. (Holmes is included in 24/7 Wall St.’s recent list of 14 billionaires who went broke.)
Starting her professional acting career as a teen in 2007, Lawrence quickly rose to fame and became the world’s highest paid actress in both 2015 and 2016. She was also the first actor born in the 1990s to win an Oscar, for her performance in “Silver Linings Playbook.” Here are Oscar winners for Best Picture the year you were born.
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24/7 Tempo has compiled a list of the best movies starring Jennifer Lawrence. Of the 16 films on the list, four are from the “Hunger Games” series and three are part of the “X-Men” franchise. Three others, each of which earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress or Best Supporting Actress, were directed by David O. Russell.
The ranking is based on an index of IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes movie ratings. IMdb is an online movie database owned by Amazon. Rotten Tomatoes is an online movie and TV review aggregator. Only the roughly 5,000 feature films with 25,000 reviews or more on IMDb were considered for this analysis. Each movie’s movie theater ticket (domestic box office) was obtained from The Numbers, an online movie database owned by consulting firm Nash Information Services.
16. Serena (2014)
> Fellow leads: Bradley Cooper, Rhys Ifans, Toby Jones
> Director: Susanne Bier
> Domestic box office: $180,000
In this historical drama, Lawrence plays Serena Pemberton, an ambitious newlywed whose domineering tactics begin to disrupt her husband’s business and eventually his whole life.
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15. House at the End of the Street (2012)
> Fellow leads: Elisabeth Shue, Max Thieriot, Gil Bellows
> Director: Mark Tonderai
> Domestic box office: $31.61 million
In this psychological thriller, Lawrence plays Elissa Cassidy, a teen who discovers that her new boyfriend, a troubled neighbor, has been harboring a dangerous secret.
14. X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)
> Fellow leads: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult
> Director: Simon Kinberg
> Domestic box office: $65.85 million
Returning with the original cast of her first X-Men film, Lawrence plays Raven Darkhölme/Mystique, a shapeshifting mutant and field leader of the X-Men.
13. Passengers (2016)
> Fellow leads: Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne
> Director: Morten Tyldum
> Domestic box office: $100.01 million
In this sci-fi drama, Lawrence plays Aurora Lane, a writer seeking adventure in space, who becomes furious to discover that her new crush has purposely woken her from hibernation, effectively condemning her to death aboard the spaceship.
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12. X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
> Fellow leads: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult
> Director: Bryan Singer
> Domestic box office: $155.44 million
In her third X-Men film, Lawrence’s Raven seeks to improve the plight of mutants in the world, clashing with her brother Charles, whose ideology differs greatly from her own.
11. Joy (2015)
> Fellow leads: Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar RamÃrez
> Director: David O. Russell
> Domestic box office: $56.45 million
In a performance that earned her a Golden Globe award, Lawrence portrays Joy Mangano, a struggling inventor turned millionaire who faces hurdles and deceit at every turn.
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10. Mother! (2017)
> Fellow leads: Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer
> Director: Darren Aronofsky
> Domestic box office: $17.80 million
In this psychological horror film, Lawrence plays an unnamed young wife who is so devoted to her poet husband that she fails to prevent his reckless decisions from bringing chaos and destruction into their peaceful country home.
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9. Like Crazy (2011)
> Fellow leads: Felicity Jones, Anton Yelchin, Charlie Bewley
> Director: Drake Doremus
> Domestic box office: $3.40 million
In this romantic drama, Lawrence plays “other woman,” Samantha, who becomes romantically involved with her colleague although he’s in love with someone else.
8. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015)
> Fellow leads: Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson
> Director: Francis Lawrence
> Domestic box office: $281.72 million
In the fourth and final “Hunger Games” film, Lawrence returns as Katniss Everdeen, joining up with her comrades in an attempt to defeat a tyrannical president and liberate millions.
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7. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014)
> Fellow leads: Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson
> Director: Francis Lawrence
> Domestic box office: $337.14 million
After surviving the 75th Hunger Games, Lawrence’s character Katniss discovers that there is a secret rebellion brewing and that she is the poster child and symbol of hope for a free nation.
6. The Hunger Games (2012)
> Fellow leads: Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci
> Director: Gary Ross
> Domestic box office: $408.01 million
In the first of the dystopian “Hunger Games” films, based on the novels by Suzanne Collins, Lawrence plays teen Katniss Everdeen, who is selected to train and compete in an annual fight to the death.
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5. American Hustle (2013)
> Fellow leads: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper
> Director: David O. Russell
> Domestic box office: $150.10 million
In “American Hustle,” Lawrence plays Rosalyn Rosenfeld, a fiery mess and manipulative alcoholic who is even cleverer than her con artist husband.
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4. Winter’s Bone (2010)
> Fellow leads: John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt, Isaiah Stone
> Director: Debra Granik
> Domestic box office: $6.53 million
In “Winter’s Bone,” Lawrence plays Ree Dolly, an Ozark teenager struggling to care for her family while searching for her drug-dealing father. Lawrence earned multiple nominations and awards for her performance.
3. X: First Class (2011)
> Fellow leads: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon
> Director: Matthew Vaughn
> Domestic box office: $146.41 million
In her first X-Men film, Lawrence’s character, Raven, and her adoptive brother, Charles, team up with other young mutants to stop a former Nazi officer who is attempting to start a world war.
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2. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
> Fellow leads: Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Philip Seymour Hoffman
> Director: Francis Lawrence
> Domestic box office: $424.67 million
In the first sequel to “The Hunger Games,” Katniss returns home victorious to find out that her actions have sown seeds of rebellion amongst the people and that her home district and family are now being threatened by the Capitol.
1. Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
> Fellow leads: Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver
> Director: David O. Russell
> Domestic box office: $132.09 million
In “Silver Linings Playbook,” Lawrence plays Tiffany Maxwell, a widow who struggles with mental illness. Eager to connect with a recent divorcé, she agrees to help him win back his ex-wife.
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