1. Jennifer Lawrence
'The Hunger Games' heroine Katniss Everdeen is the kind of character every young actor dreams of: she's tough but vulnerable, her morals skewed by the society she's born into and her emotions torn between two rival suitors. With a lesser performer, the role would have defined her. For Jennifer Lawrence, it's the other way around. For all the great writing that went into creating this character – both in the books and the screenplays – it's this performance that makes Katniss real, with her fears, doubts, moments of triumph and self-recrimination written across Lawrence's face in every scene. This final movie gives her the chance really to let rip, and she doesn't disappoint.