Jennifer Lawrence who won the Oscar last night for Best Actress (Silver Linings Playbook) is not the first Jennifer to win an Academy Award for acting.
Other Women Named Jennifer Who’ve Won Oscars
Jennifer Jones won in 1943 for The Song of Bernadette. Jennifer Hudson won Best Supporting Actress in 2006 for Dream Girls and Jennifer Connelly won Best Supporting Actress in 2001 for A Beautiful Mind.
Jones was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 1945 for Love Letters; in 1946 for Duel in the Sun; and in 1955 for Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing. In 1944, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Since You Went Away.
In 1994, Jennifer Tilly was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Bullets Over Broadway. Lawrence was previously nominated for the Best Actress Oscar in 2010 for Winter’s Bone. She lost to Natalie Portman (Black Swan).
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