About this time last year, Jennifer Lawrence was suffering from pneumonia and fearful she wouldn't make it through awards season. Now, her "American Hustle" director David O. Russell, worries the 23-year-old star he directed to a "Silver Linings Playbook" Oscar, is close to pushing herself over the edge again. He blames "The Hunger Games" franchise.

"I personally think they should give her a bit of breathing room over there because they're printing money," Russell exclusively told Confidenti@l at Friday's Australian Academy's AACTA Awards held in Los Angeles. "But she's a very alive person ... I'll tell you what it is about that girl -- talk about 12 years of slavery, that's what the franchise is. And I'm going to get in so much trouble for saying that."