The Contenders: Jennifer Lawrence Goes For Supporting In AMERICAN HUSTLE

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Oprah Winfrey, your competition for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar just got a little steeper.

On the heels of the announcement that Meryl Streep will be campaigned for Supporting Actress in August: Osage County, now we officially know that last year’s Best Actress winner is going supporting as well.

In American Hustle, Jennifer Lawrence plays the wife of Christian Bale’s character, one of two con men who work with the Feds to bring down mobsters and criminal politicians. Instead of competing with co-star Amy Adams in the Best Actress category, a representative from the film told Gold Derby that Lawrence  would be placed in the supporting actress category alongside frontrunner Oprah Winfrey (Lee Daniels’ The Butler) and perennial contender Streep.

This could work out for Lawrence in the end because both Oprah and Streep in the mix for The Weinstein Company films. If TWC doesn’t focus on one of the two contenders, then Lawrence might just split the vote… assuming any of them are nominated at all.

But then there’s this: My problem with American Hustle has been, from the start, that it’s a Sony movie. And Sony is about as good at the Oscar game as the Cleveland Browns are at football. (Yay! I made a sports reference.) Sony has dropped the ball year after year when it comes to actually winning Oscar. And the last time the studio actually won something significant at the Academy Awards?  Well, I gave up on looking it up on Wiki because they’ve had so little success. (Someone else, feel free to let me know in the comments.)

Whether or not Sony can actually compete in this (or any other category) is beside the point right now. What we know is we have three powerhouse players who will be competing in the same category. And that alone could make it interesting.