JENNIFER Lawrence became one of the youngest best actress Oscar winners ever on Sunday for “Silver Linings Playbook”-- using her “Hunger Games” drive to secure Hollywood’s highest honour.

“You guys are just standing up because you feel bad that I fell. This is nuts!” Lawrence said about the standing ovation she received after she tripped on her way up onto the stage.

The 22-year-old former cheerleader has now added Academy Award prestige to the fortune undoubtedly made playing Katniss Everdeen in the blockbuster teen movie franchise.

And she is not shy of speaking her mind about Tinseltown, telling a recent interviewer: “It's almost like I subconsciously don't want to work anymore, so I'm trying to ruin my career.” “I'm so aware of all the bullshit that surrounds Hollywood, and how everyone gets on this high horse and thinks that they're curing cancer and it makes me so uncomfortable every time I see it,” she said.

“So I go in the exact opposite direction and end up saying something like 'I'm pregnant!’ when I'm in two franchises.” Lawrence, who plays a messed-up 20-something who falls for Bradley Cooper's recovering mental patient character in “Silver Linings Playbook,” struck Oscars gold on her second attempt after being nominated in 2011 for “Winter's Bone.” The only younger best actress nominees were 12-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes in “Whale Rider” and Quvenzhane Wallis, who was in the running this year for “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” at the age of nine.—AFP