10 Actors Who Gave Their Best & Worst Performance In The Same Year
2. Jennifer Lawrence - 2012
Far from being one of those film snobs who turns their nose up at any and all horror movies, your writer here is actually a major horror nerd. As such, there's a strong tolerance when it comes to some of the slightly more ropey entries in the horror genre.
That said, it's tough to argue that 2012's House at the End of the Street isn't a total stinker of a movie. A generic, scare-free 'scary movie' that tries far too hard to make itself appear smarter than it really is, the film hitches itself to Jennifer Lawrence in the hope that her burgeoning megastar status could elevate the picture. Instead, the movie drags Lawrence down to its level, rather than vice versa.
In an admittedly smart move, Relativity Media pushed House at the End of the Street's release back seven months from February 2012 to that September. Why was that done, and why was that smart? Well, that's because the film was then on screens two weeks after the Lawrence-starring Silver Linings Playbook received its world premiere to huge buzz.
As a troubled young widow who has her focus on Bradley Cooper's bipolar disorder-suffering Pat Solitano Jr., Lawrence's performance as Tiffany won the then-22-year-old an Academy Award for Best Actress - with Silver Linings Playbook also receiving a further seven Oscar nominations.