After playing minor roles in several films and television shows, Lawrence starred in her first major role on the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show (2007–2009), which earned her a Young Artist Award for Outstanding Young Performer in a TV Series.
[1] In 2008, she won the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the 65th Venice International Film Festival for the drama The Burning Plain.
For her breakout role as a poverty-stricken teenager Ree Dolly in the 2010 acclaimed independent coming-of-age mystery drama Winter's Bone, 20-year-old Jennifer received her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, becoming the second-youngest Best Actress nominee at the time.
The film also garnered her Best Actress nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press, BAFTA, SAG, and Critics' Choice award ceremonies, and won a Breakthrough Performance Award from the National Board of Review.
The following year, her performance as a troubled wife in American Hustle (2013) won her the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, and also garnered her the nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
[4][5][6] From 2013 to 2015, she received several awards and nominations for her performances in the other three films in The Hunger Games series, including the MTV Best Female Performance Award for Catching Fire, and three Critics Choice nominations for each films.
The role of Katniss Everdeen made Guinness World Records to recognize Lawrence as the highest-grossing action heroine of all time.
In 2015, she starred as the Joy Mangano in the biopic Joy, which won her third Golden Globe Award in the Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical category, and another Academy Award for Best Actress nomination, making her the youngest person to receive four Oscar nominations.
The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.
The Critics' Choice Super Awards is an awards show presented annually by the Critics Choice Association to honor the finest in genre fiction film, television and home media releases, including action, superhero, horror, science fiction, fantasy, and animation releases.
The Dorian Awards are presented by the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association (GALECA).
The National Board of Review was founded in 1909 in New York City to award "film, domestic and foreign, as both art and entertainment".
The Saturn Awards are presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films to honor science fiction, fantasy, and horror films, television, and home video.
The awards honor the year's biggest achievements in music, movies, sports, television, fashion, and other categories, voted by teen viewers.
Lawrence was awarded the "Best Stunt in a Non-Action Film" award as part of Vulture's 2024 Stunt Awards[d] for the sequence in the 2023 sex comedy No Hard Feelings where a nude Lawrence fights off three teenagers on the beach, with the motivation "[Lawrence] approaches this sequence with the totally naked (literally) confidence of a no-longer-20-something hellion and executes it bluntly.