So Jennifer Lawrence wasn't nominated for Best Actress after being up for Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture Musical/Comedy at the 2024 Golden Globes? No hard feelings.
The Academy Award winner signed on to present at the 2024 Oscars instead, turning up on the red carpet at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles March 10 in a custom Christian Dior Haute Couture and Swarovski Created Diamonds jewelry. (See all the fashionable looks here.)
Besides, she'd already emerged from shooting Gene Stupnitsky's racy comedy feeling like a winner. "I had so much fun making No Hard Feelings, it almost feels wrong to accept such an honor," she shared in a statement with E! News after her Golden Globe nom. "But I will!!!"
And for the Kentucky native—who nabbed her first Oscar nod for 2011's Winter's Bone when she was just 20 years old and won for Silver Linings Playbook two years later—playing the part of a bartender hired by a wealthy couple to seduce and date their awkward 19-year-old son was a chance to enjoy a high school experience she largely missed out on.
"I didn't go to prom," she revealed in an interview with E! News' Francesca Amiker. "Nobody invited me."
Though while her fellow 2008 grads were preparing to collect their diplomas, she acknowledged, "I was in New York auditioning."
Of course the 33-year-old has since made up for lost time, donning couture for a seemingly endless parade of black tie events.
But there is one surprising A-list affair that still gives her agita to think about.
Though she was thrilled to have wed art dealer Cooke Maroney in 2019, the act of being a bride was "awful" she shared with E! News' Keltie Knight at the Golden Globes.
"It's so stressful. You're not having fun. You're just like, 'Is that person having fun?'" explained the mom to 2-year-old son Cy. "I'll never forget—I was freaking out about the guests being cold, and all of my friends were lying they're like, 'Nobody's cold, nobody's cold, everything's fine, everything's fine.'"
But it was her mom who tossed some cold water on the situation, she shared: "My mom was like, 'It's freezing out there, your grandmother almost died."
Though the guest who stressed her out the most was actually Robert De Niro, her costar in Joy, American Hustle and Silver Linings Playbook.
While he dutifully turned up to her rehearsal dinner, "I looked over and I saw Bob, who doesn't know anybody and he's kind of wandering around, and I immediately was like, 'No, this isn't what he wants to be doing. I don't want him here,'" she recalled. "So I went over and whispered, I was like, 'Go home' and he was nice—he like talked to my parents and was polite—but I was like, 'Go.'"
Once he took her advice and left, she continued, "That just genuinely made me feel better."
Should De Niro take home the trophy for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in Killers of the Flower Moon (he's up against American Fiction's Sterling K. Brown, Oppenheimer's Robert Downey Jr., Barbie's Ryan Gosling and Poor Things' Mark Ruffalo), she'll likely have an entirely different message for him.
See which other stars could be celebrating at the 2024 Oscars by checking out all the first-time nominees.
America Ferrera
This Barbie is a first-time Oscar nominee for Best Supporting Actress.
Cillian Murphy
The Oppenheimer star earned a Best Actor in a Motion Picture nod for his work as J. Robert Oppenheimer in frequent collaborator Christopher Nolan’s biographical drama.
Lily Gladstone
Following her breakout role as Molly Burkhart in The Killers of the Flower Moon, the 37-year-old picked up an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture.
Jeffrey Wright
The Emmy winner is a first-time Oscar nominee for his role as frustrated novelist Thelonious "Monk" Ellison in American Fiction.
Robbie Robertson
The founding member of The Band and longtime Martin Scorsese collaborator, who passed away in August, posthumously earned his first Oscar nomination for Best Original Score.
Emily Blunt
While she’s has attended the Oscars several times as a presenter, 2024 marks her first year as a nominee for Best Supporting Actress
Colman Domingo
The Rustin star earned a Best Actor nomination for his role as Bayard Rustin in the biopic
Da’Vine Joy Randolph
The Holdovers star will continue her impressive 2024 award season run as a Best Supporting Actress nominee. So far this year, she’s nabbed a Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award.
Scott George
Killers of a Flower Moon earned Best Original Song nomination for "Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)."
Sandra Hüller
The German performer is up for Best Actress for her work in the French legal thriller Anatomy of a Fall.
Danielle Brooks
The Orange Is the New Black alum is a Best Supporting Actress nominee for her work in The Color Purple.
Sterling K. Brown
The This is Us alum will compete for Best Supporting Actor for his work in American Fiction.
Justine Triet
The Anatomy of a Fall director picked up her first Best Director nod.