'Catching Fire,' Jennifer Lawrence, Jena Malone and Francis Lawrence Nominated for Saturn Awards

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films announced the nominations for the 40th Annual Saturn Awards and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Jennifer Lawrence, Jena Malone and Francis Lawrence are among them. Catching Fire has been nominated for Best Science Fiction Film and Francis Lawrence also picked up a nomination for Best Director. Jennifer Lawrence is nominated for Best Actress while Jena Malone grabbed a nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Catching Fire also received noms for Best Editing (Alan Edward Bell), Best Production Design (Phil Messina) and Best Costumes (Trish Summerville).
The Saturn Awards will be presented in June.

Best Science Fiction Film:
Ender’s Game
Gravity
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Pacific Rim
Riddick
Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Actress:
Halle Barry – The Call
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Martina Gedeck – The Wall
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks
Mia Wasikowska – Stoker

Best Supporting Actress:
Scarlett Johansson – Her
Nicole Kidman – Stoker
Melissa Leo – Prisoners
Evangeline Lily – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Jena Malone – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Emily Watson – The Book Thief

Best Director:
J.J. Abrams – Star Trek Into Darkness
Peter Berg – Lone Survivor
Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Peter Jackson – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Francis Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Guillermo del Toro – Pacific Rim

Best Editing:
Peter Amundson, John Gilroy – Pacific Rim
Alan Edward Bell – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Alfonso Cuaron,Mark Sanger – Gravity
Mark Day – About Time
Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill Rush, Christian Wagner, Kelly Matsumoto, Dylan Highsmith – Fast & Furious 6

Best Production Design:
Dan Hennah – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Philip Messina – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Andrew Neskoromny, Carol Spier – Pacific Rim
Andy Nicholson – Gravity
Jan Roelfs – 47 Ronin
Robert Stromberg – Oz The Great and Powerful

Best Costume:
Gary Jones – Oz The Great and Powerful
Michael Kaplan – Star Trek Into Darkness
Wendy Partridge – Thor: The Dark World
Beatrix Aruna Pasztor – Great Expectations
Penny Rose – 47 Ronin
Trish Summerville – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The Hunger Games, 'Catching Fire,' Jennifer Lawrence and Jena Malone Nominated in the 2014 Kids' Choice Awards

 

The 2014 Kids' Choice Awards nominations have been announced and The Hunger Games book series, Catching Fire, Jennifer Lawrence and Jena Malone are among this year's nominees. The show will be broadcast live on Nickelodeon on March 29th, 8/7c. Vote HERE.

Favorite Movie:
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Iron Man 3
Oz the Great and Powerful
The Smurfs 2

Favorite Movie Actress:
Sandra Bullock
Mila Kunis
Jennifer Lawrence
Jayma Mays

Favorite Female Buttkicker:
Sandra Bullock
Jennifer Lawrence
Evangeline Lilly
Jena Malone

Favorite Book:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
Harry Potter series
The Hobbit
The Hunger Games series

Sing it With Me: "Everyone's In Love With Jennifer Lawrence"

One of our fabulous followers shared this video with us today (@ClillaryHinton1, you know we love you) and we had to pass it on. You may not get this song out of your head. We've been singing it all day. "Everyone's In Love With Jennifer Lawrence" by Joe Stilgoe via The Guardian.

Jennifer Lawrence Talks Award Season and 'American Hustle' with Deadline

Jennifer Lawrence's Best Supporting Actress Oscar odds are definitely looking more favorable after her Golden Globe win and her surprising (for some) BAFTA win. She recently spoke with Deadline about being nominated for multiple awards this season for her turn in American Hustle, her collaboration with David O. Russell, and her BAFTA win:

“Oh, it was a big surprise,” she told me when she took a few minutes away from shooting. “I didn’t remember that the BAFTAs were happening that day. I certainly did not think I was going to win one so I put it out of my mind,” she said. “So there I was, in the middle of being painted blue, and someone said, ‘You just won the BAFTA!’ And I said, ‘Oh, go fuck yourself!’ And then it turned out they were serious.”

“It has been a bit of a blessing to be away, and not really aware of what has been going on,” she told me. “It actually has been really nice.” She has just begun thinking about all that pageantry, the dress fittings, coming up with interesting things to say on the red carpet. It has begun making her nervous. She wonders if she will ever get good at it though it’s hard to imagine she’ll get off to as rocky a start as last year, when she fell on the stairs to accept her award, and then spent her backstage interview explaining her fall and whether she worried about peaking at age 22.

“Exciting? I’m trying to go back to that place where dress fittings seemed exciting,” she jokes. “I’ve had one fitting here in Atlanta and I think I have the final fitting on the day of the awards. So I just hope it fits.” I suggest that running for her life as Katniss, coupled with the pressure of filming scenes as the nearly naked blue-skinned Mystique in X-Men, is probably better for dress fittings than months of banquet foods. “I hope you’re right,” she said.

As for whether she has gotten the Oscar thing down, Lawrence said: “Ha! Have you not seen my last Oscar moment? I handled myself so well. I think it’s really unfair to make a person speak in front of the entire world at a moment like that because it is just so overwhelming. It was terrifying and what I regret now is not doing what you’re supposed to, which is even having a few words, something, that you can say, or even some idea if they do call your name. Every time my mind when there, I would feel so much anxiety that I couldn’t think about it. Then when they called me, I got up on stage and said happy birthday to Emmanuelle Riva from Amour, and then I walked off without even thanking David, or Harvey Weinstein.”

She dismisses my suggestion that her speech, complete with the staircase stumble, was somehow charming. “It looked like I was drunk,” she said. “I did learn, though, not to let the dress gather in the front when you walk up the stairs.”

Lawrence said the thing she was most excited about this year was the chance to celebrate this unusual character she played in Rosalyn Rosenfeld, the needy wife of two-timing conman Irving Rosenfeld that she and Russell brought to life together. This was not even supposed to be Lawrence’s role. After completing Silver Linings Playbook and all that press, Lawrence mostly just wanted a short vacation before turning up for another Hunger Games installment.

“I had been working a lot and a vacation seemed important until I met Rosalyn,” Lawrence told me, “and then there was nothing in the world I wanted to do more and I realized this would be more refreshing than an actual vacation. David sent me the script, and then we just started creating her piece by piece. He has this amazing contagious energy that makes me feel like, whatever he asks, you go for it. Even the kissing scene with Amy. I said, David, no. He says, trust me, it will work. No, David. Even after we did it I thought, no way. And then I see it, and it absolutely does work. I can’t explain [the dynamic between us], but his incredible fire just pushes you to do things you didn’t know you were capable of.”

Read how David O. Russell describes their special relationship and collaboration after the jump!

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New Photos & Video: Jennifer Lawrence for Dior

Jennifer Lawrence's third campaign for Dior is out, just in time for the Oscar madness to begin. The images, shot by Patrick Demarchelier, feature clothing from the spring 2014 women's collection and chain-handled Miss Dior bags.

According to WWD, Dior will release a behind-the-scenes video next week in which Jen talks about visiting Dior's atelier to choose her Oscar gown. We've got a sneak peek of it here thanks to @JenniferUpdates:

“Now I get the haute couture thing,” she tells the camera, concluding: “It’s a big deal.”

Jennifer Lawrence Wins Best Supporting Actress At The BAFTAS

Jennifer Lawrence won Best Supporting Actress at the BAFTAs today for her turn as Rosalyn Rosenfeld in American Hustle. Jen wasn't able to attend the awards due to her Mockingjay shooting schedule. American Hustle also took home several other awards including Best Original Screenplay and Best Make-up and Hair.

Elizabeth Banks Talks Jennifer Lawrence & Playing Effie "She's One of My All Time Favorites"

Elizabeth Banks is currently supporting The Listerine 21 Day Challenge, which supports Oral Health America’s Smiles Across America program in their goal of connecting at-risk children with needed access to oral care. She snapped her own “Swish Selfie” on the red carpet at the launch of the challenge on Thursday to trigger an immediate donation of $21,000 to Oral Health America.

Talk at the Los Angeles event inevitably turned to Jennifer Lawrence, Mockingjay and Philip Seymour Hoffman:

So, speaking of things that ladies love, give us some inside scoop about hanging with JLaw?
Well, recently everyone surprised me on the set of Mockingjay with a birthday cake! That was really fun. And, of course, the first person to delve into my cake was Jennifer. I will say she’s a girl who likes to eat and I love that about her.

As far as the Hunger Games go, are there any surprises hardcore fans of the book won’t see coming?
Honestly, I can’t say anything about Mockingjay! Ahhh!! We’ll both end up hurt somewhere! I think the hardcore fans can expect exactly what both The Hunger Games and Catching Fire delivered, Mockingjay is going to be as faithful a rendition of Suzanne’s Collins’s world and books and characters as we can put out!

“I am almost done,” she said. “I’m going to miss playing Effie, she’s one of my all-time favorite characters. I have such a ball with her & this cast & I will miss it. It’s absorbing because we still put the movies out so we’ll still have our little reunions, which I’m looking forward to. I have two more years of getting reunited with all these wonderful people!”

And what was it like to work with Philip Seymour Hoffman?
I’d really rather not discuss it. He was an incredible actor that I respected greatly and I will miss tremendously.

Via HuffPost and Cosmo

Jennifer Lawrence Confirmed Presenter at The Oscars March 2nd

Jennifer Lawrence will return to present at this year’s Oscars, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today. The Oscars, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, will air on Sunday, March 2, live on ABC.

Lawrence took home the Oscar last year for her lead performance in Silver Linings Playbook. She is nominated this year for her supporting role in American Hustle.