Jennifer Lawrence ('Winter's Bone')

Having scooped the main prize at the last Sundance Film Festival, Oscar hopes are high for the powerful and personal Winter's Bone. Revolving around a teenager's desperate attempts to prevent her family from crumbling apart, the movie is all set to propel its luminous young star Jennifer Lawrence into the stratosphere - and she's already nabbed the role of Mystique in X-Men: First Class. We caught up with the actress and the film's impressive director Debra Granik to discuss why Winter's Bone is making so many waves, its Oscar buzz and how much of an endurance test it was to make...