Jennifer Lawrence wins "best actress in a drama" [video]

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January 11, 2016 1:20 PM

Jennifer Lawrence beat Lily Tomlin, Melissa McCarthy, Maggie Smith and Amy Schumer to win "Best Actress in Drama" for her performance in "Joy"

Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence beat Lily Tomlin(Grandma), Melissa McCarthy(Spy), Maggie Smith (The Lady in the Van) and Amy Schumer to win the "best actress in a drama"at the

The award marked Lawrence' third Golden Globe win. The award was presented to the actress on Sunday by Michael Keaton.

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"Every time I am up here it is because of you," she said to director . "Thank you for choosing me, thank you for your brilliance. Thank you for teaching me so much professionally and personally.

"Your love for cinema is so pure. You are so untainted by all of this, and you make movie like you don't even care if anyone ever sees them. I mean that as a compliment," she added.

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About film.

'Joy' is the wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right.

Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.

Allies become adversaries and adversaries become allies, both inside and outside the family, as Joy’s inner life and fierce imagination carry her through the storm she faces."

Watch her acceptance speech below;

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