5:34 pm - 02/26/2013
Best Actress Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence was the talk of the town at Sunday night’s awards after her bumpy walk to the stage and her candid acceptance speech made headlines. But she forgot to thank two people critical to the making of Silver Linings Playbook — director David O. Russell and producer Harvey Weinstein. Below, she shares her thanks to them in a statement released to EW:
"In the whirlwind of last night, I was remiss to thank two incredibly important people to this film and in my life.
David O. Russell: Thank you for the most incredible experience of my life. Thank you for your genius, for your guidance, for teaching me things about myself and nurturing me to be a better actor. You have so much passion and such a bleeding heart, you believe not only in your films but what your films can do for people and that is the most important thing that I have learned from you.
Harvey Weinstein: You championed this movie and its story from early days. Your passion and unyielding support gave this film the opportunity to thrive and touch so many people.
Thank you to both. I will never be able to forgive myself for such a brain fart but I hope that you both can. Obviously it was not on purpose, I couldn’t remember what I had already said and my mind went completely blank–your brain does funny things during the most overwhelming moment of your life!"
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lol @ her use of brain fart in a press release
ew @ weinstein and russell in general
Jennifer Lawrence Forgot To Thank Some People
Best Actress Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence was the talk of the town at Sunday night’s awards after her bumpy walk to the stage and her candid acceptance speech made headlines. But she forgot to thank two people critical to the making of Silver Linings Playbook — director David O. Russell and producer Harvey Weinstein. Below, she shares her thanks to them in a statement released to EW:
"In the whirlwind of last night, I was remiss to thank two incredibly important people to this film and in my life.
David O. Russell: Thank you for the most incredible experience of my life. Thank you for your genius, for your guidance, for teaching me things about myself and nurturing me to be a better actor. You have so much passion and such a bleeding heart, you believe not only in your films but what your films can do for people and that is the most important thing that I have learned from you.
Harvey Weinstein: You championed this movie and its story from early days. Your passion and unyielding support gave this film the opportunity to thrive and touch so many people.
Thank you to both. I will never be able to forgive myself for such a brain fart but I hope that you both can. Obviously it was not on purpose, I couldn’t remember what I had already said and my mind went completely blank–your brain does funny things during the most overwhelming moment of your life!"
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lol @ her use of brain fart in a press release
ew @ weinstein and russell in general
I also feel like this is still less of a faux pas than when say, Julia Roberts forgot to thank the person who's life her movie was based on.
david o. russell deserves nothing in life.
what happened?
I agree, OP. I thought the two people would be her parents, or did she thank them?
You're gonna see all those people later on in the night/the next day
I think it's just PR for the people they work for
"LOOK WHO GOT ME HERE AND COULD GET YOU UP HERE TOO"
it was like she was trying to think of what else she was supposed to say and that was all that came to mind so then she left lolll
MTE.
Don't ask anyone else, mine is the only opinion that matters ;p
I'm happy for her that she did win, but I don't think she deserved it compared to the others. I was rooting for Riva.
so yes, and no. I think she was deserving but I don't think she was MORE deserving than Riva or Chastain.
However I think her performance was on level with Naomi and Jessica so, if not Riva, why not her?
Edited at 2013-02-26 10:51 pm (UTC)
She's a very talented actress, but I think Emmanuelle River (and Quvenzhane Wallis tbh) gave a better performance.
she wasn't even the best thing about the movie
Edited at 2013-02-26 11:02 pm (UTC)
Jessica did better in her film, but Jen was very very nearly as good and she had more to do- so yeah she should have won.
she did great but honestly riva deserved it
Riva was riveting and was far better than Lawrence, who was good, too.
Edited at 2013-02-27 05:03 am (UTC)