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Winslet and Mendes currently reside in [[New York City]]. They own a manor house in the tiny village of Church Westcote in [[Gloucestershire]], [[England]]. They spent £3 million on the secluded Westcote Manor, a rambling Grade II-[[Listed building|listed]] house with eight bedrooms, set in 22 acres. They have reportedly spent more than £1 million on interior renovations, as well as restoring the original water garden, mulberry garden and orchard, all of which fell into disrepair when the former owner, equestrian artist [[Raoul Millais]], died in 1999.
Winslet and Mendes currently reside in [[New York City]]. They own a manor house in the tiny village of Church Westcote in [[Gloucestershire]], [[England]]. They spent £3 million on the secluded Westcote Manor, a rambling Grade II-[[Listed building|listed]] house with eight bedrooms, set in 22 acres. They have reportedly spent more than £1 million on interior renovations, as well as restoring the original water garden, mulberry garden and orchard, all of which fell into disrepair when the former owner, equestrian artist [[Raoul Millais]], died in 1999.


Both Winslet and her spouse, Sam Mendes will rarely be on the same plane if they travel to a destination as a result of both being involved in terrorist plane events and fearing leaving their one child parentless. Mendes was originally booked in to fly on the ill-fated American Airlines flight that was hijacked on September 11th 2001 and was flown into the Pentagon killing all passengers.


==Filmography==
==Filmography==

Revision as of 12:20, 9 February 2009

Kate Winslet
Winslet at the Palm Spring Film Festival, 2007
Born
Kate Elizabeth Winslet
Occupation(s)Actress, singer
Years active1991—present
Spouse(s)James Threapleton (1998—2001)
Sam Mendes (2003—present)
Awards'BFCA Award for Best Supporting Actress
2008 The Reader
CFCA Award for Best Supporting Actress
2008 The Reader
Empire Award for Best Actress
1995 Heavenly Creatures
1997 Hamlet
1998 Titanic
2001 Enigma
2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Sierra Award for Best Actress
2004 Finding Neverland ; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2008 Revolutionary Road
LAFCA Award for Best Supporting Actress
2001 Iris
OFCS Award for Best Actress
2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress and singer. She is noted for having played diverse characters over her career, but probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic, Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Hanna Schmitz in The Reader.

She has won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA Awards, and the Golden Globe Awards. Winslet has also won a Grammy Award and has been nominated for six Academy Awards as well as an Emmy. At the age of 22, she broke the record for the youngest person to receive two Oscar nominations.[1] David Edelstein of New York Magazine hails Winslet as "the best English-speaking film actress of her generation".[2]

Early life

Winslet was born in Reading, England, U.K., the daughter of Sally Ann (née Bridges), a barmaid, and Roger John Winslet, a swimming-pool contractor.[3] Both of her parents were actors. Her maternal grandparents, Linda (Plumb) and Archibald Oliver Bridges, founded and operated the Reading Repertory, and her uncle, Robert Bridges, appeared in the original West End production of Oliver!. Her sisters, Beth Winslet and Anna Winslet, are also actresses.

Winslet, raised as an Anglican, began studying drama at the age of eleven at the Redroofs Theatre School,[4] a co-educational independent school in Maidenhead, Berkshire, where she was head girl and appeared in a television commercial for Sugar Puffs cereal, directed by Tim Pope. Throughout her adolescence, she was severely bullied for being overweight and having large feet (which she inherited from her mother).[5][6]

Career

Early work

Winslet's career began on television, with a co-starring role in the BBC children's science fiction serial Dark Season in 1991. This was followed by appearances in the made-for-TV movie Anglo-Saxon Attitudes in 1992 and an episode of medical drama Casualty in 1993, also for the BBC.

1994—1997

Winslet at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival

In 1993, Winslet attended a casting call for Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures in London. Auditioning for the part of Juliet Hulme, a vivacious and imaginative teen who assists in the murder of her best friend's mother, she won the role over 175 other girls.[7] The film was released to favorable reviews in 1994 and won Jackson and partner Fran Walsh an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.[8] Winslet was awarded an Empire Award and a London Critics Circle Film Award for her performance;[9] Washington Post writer Desson Thomson commented: "As Juliet, Winslet is a bright-eyed ball of fire, lighting up every scene she’s in."[10] Speaking about her experience on a film set as an absolute beginner, Winslet noted: "With Heavenly Creatures, all I knew I had to do was completely become that person. In a way it was quite nice doing [the film] and not knowing a bloody thing."[11][12]

The following year, Winslet auditioned for the adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (1995) featuring Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman, intending to get the small but pivotal role of Lucy Steele.[13] She was instead cast in the second leading role of Marianne Dashwood.[13] Director Ang Lee admitted he was initially worried about the way Winslet had attacked her role in Heavenly Creatures and thus required her to exercise tai chi, read Austen-era Gothic novels and poetry, and work with a piano teacher to fit the grace of the role.[13] Budgeted at $16,500,000, the film became a financial and critical success, resulting in a worldwide box office total of $135 million and various awards for Winslet including a BAFTA, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe nomination.[9][14]

In 1996, Winslet starred in Jude and Hamlet. In Michael Winterbottom's Jude, based on the Victorian novel Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, she played Sue Bridehead, a young woman with suffragette leanings who falls in love with her cousin, played by Christopher Eccleston. Acclaimed among critics, it was not a success at the box office, barely grossing $2 million worldwide.[15][16] Richard Corliss of Time magazine said "Winslet is worthy of [...] the camera's scrupulous adoration. She's perfect, a modernist ahead of her time [...] and Jude is a handsome showcase for her gifts."[17] Winslet depicted Ophelia, Hamlet's drowned lover, in Kenneth Branagh's all star-casted film version of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. The film garnered largely positive reviews and earned Winslet her second Empire Award.[18][9]

In mid-1996, Winslet began filming James Cameron's Titanic (1997), alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. Cast as the sensitive seventeen-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater, a fictional first-class socialite who survives the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic, Winslet experienced physical and emotional exhaustion on set: "Titanic was totally different and nothing could have prepared me for it. We were really scared about the whole adventure. Jim [Cameron] is a perfectionist, a real genius at making movies. But there was all this bad press before it came out, and that was really upsetting."[19] Against expectations, the film went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time, grossing more than US$1.8 billion in box-office receipts worldwide,[20] and transformed Winslet into a commercial movie star.[21] Subsequently, she was nominated for most of all high-profile awards, winning her an European Film Award.[1][9]

1998—2003

Hideous Kinky, a low-budget hippie romance shot prior to the release of Titanic, was her first and only film of 1998.[22] Based on a novel, Winslet rejected offers to play the leading roles in Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Anna and the King (1999) in favor of the role of a young English mother named Julia who moves with her daughters from London to Morocco in hopes to start a new life.[23][22] The film garnered generally mixed reviews and received limited release only,[24] resulting in a worldwide gross of $5 million.[25] Despite the success of Titanic, the next film Winslet opted to star in was Holy Smoke! (1999) featuring Harvey Keitel, another low-budget project — much to the misery of her agents, who felt "miserable" about her preference of arthouse movies.[19][26] Feeling pressured, Winslet has said she "never saw Titanic as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques," knowing that "it could have been that, but would have destroyed [her]."[27] The same year, she voiced Brigid in the computer animated film Faeries.[28]

Winslet's first effort of the 2000s was the period piece Quills with Geoffrey Rush and Joaquin Phoenix. Inspired by the life and work of the Marquis de Sade, the actress served as somewhat of a “patron saint” of the movie for being the first big name to back it, accepting the role of a chamber maid in the asylum and the carrier of the The Marquis' manuscripts to the underground publishers.[29] Well-received by critics, the film garnered numerous accolades for Winslet, including nominations for SAG and Satellite Awards.[9] The film was a modest art house success, averaging $27,709 per screen its debut weekend, and eventually grossing $18 million internationally.[30]

In 2001's Enigma, she played a young woman who finds herself falling for a brilliant young Second World War code breaker, played by Dougray Scott.[31] Her first war film, Winslet regarded "making Enigma a brilliant experience" as she was was five months pregnant at the time of the shoot, forcing some tricky camera work from the director Michael Apted.[31] Generally well-received,[32] Winslet was awarded a British Independent Film Award for her performance.[9] A. O. Scott of The New York Times described Winslet as "more crush-worthy than ever."[33] In the same year she appeared in Richard Eyre's critically acclaimed film Iris, portraying Irish novelist Iris Murdoch. Winslet shared her role with Dame Judi Dench, with both actresses portraying Murdoch at different phases of her life.[34] Subsequently, each of them was nominated for an Academy Award the following year, scoring Winslet her third nomination.[9] Also in 2001, she voiced the character Belle in the animated motion picture Christmas Carol: The Movie, based on the Charles Dickens classic novel. For the film, Winslet recorded the song "What If," which was released in November 2001 as a single and whose proceeds went to children's cancer charities.[35] A Europe-wide top ten hit, it reached number-one in Austria, Belgium and Ireland.[36]

Her next film role was in the 2003 drama The Life of David Gale, in which she played an ambitious journalist who interviews a death-sentenced professor (Kevin Spacey) in his final weeks before execution. The film underperformed at international box offices, garnering the half of its $50,000,000 budget only.[37] and generated mostly critical reviews,[38] with Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times calling it as "silly movie."[39]

2004—2006

Following David Gale, Winslet appeared alongside Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), a neosurrealistic indie-drama by French director Michel Gondry. In the film, she played the role of Clementine Kruczynski, a chatty, spontaneous and somewhat borderline-neurotic woman, who decides to have all memories of her ex-boyfriend erased from her mind.[40] A departure from her previous roles, Winslet revealed in an interview with Variety that the she was initially upended about her casting in the film: "This was not the type of thing I was being offered [...] I was just thrilled that there was something had seen in me in spite of the corsets that he thought was going work for Clementine.”[41] A critical and financial success,[42] Winslet received rave reviews for her Oscar-nominated performance, which Peter Travers of Rolling Stone described as "electrifying and bruisingly vulnerable."[43]

Winslet at the 61st British Academy Film Awards.

Another film of 2004 was Finding Neverland. The story of the production focused on Scottish writer J. M. Barrie (Johnny Depp) and his platonic relationship with Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Winslet), whose sons inspired him to pen the classic play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. During promotion of the film, Winslet noted of her portrayal: "It was very important for me in playing Sylvia that I was already a mother myself, because I don’t think I could have played that part if I didn’t know what it felt like to be a parent and have those responsibilities and that amount of love that you give to a child [...] and I've always got a baby somewhere, or both of them, all over my face."[44] The film received favorable reviews and proved to be an international success, becoming Winslet's highest-grossing film since Titanic with a total of $118 million worldwide.[45][46]

In 2005, Winslet appeared in an episode of BBC's comedy series Extras, as a satirical version of herself. While dressed as a nun, she was portrayed giving phone sex tips to the romantically challenged character of Maggie.[47] Her performance in the episode led to her first nomination for an Emmy Award.[9] In Romance & Cigarettes (2005), a musical romatic comedy written and directed by John Turturro, she played the character Tula, who Winslet described as "a slut, someone who’s essentially foulmouthed and has bad manners and really doesn’t know how to dress."[48] Hand-picked by Tutturro, who was impressed with her dancing abilities in Holy Smoke!, Winslet was praised for her performance.[48] Derek Elley of Variety wrote: "Onscreen less, but blessed with the showiest role, filthiest one-liners, [and] a perfect Lancashire accent that's comical enough in the Gotham setting Winslet throws herself into the role with an infectious gusto."[49]

Following a refusal to appear in Woody Allen's film Match Point (2005) to be able to spend more time with her children,[50] she starred in the 2006 films All the King's Men, Little Children, and The Holiday. In All the King's Men, featuring Sean Penn and Jude Law, Winslet played the small role of Anne Stanton, the childhood sweetheart of irrepressible Willie Stark (Penn). The film was critically and financially unsuccessful.[51][52] Todd McCarthy of Variety summed it up as "overstuffed and fatally miscast [...] Absent any point of engagement to become involved in the characters, the film feels stillborn and is unlikely to stir public excitement, even in an election year."[53] The same year, Winslet joined the ensemble cast of Todd Field's Little Children, playing a bored homemaker who has a torrid affair with a married neighbour (Patrick Wilson). Her performance in the film received favorable reviews; Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: "Winslet has nothing but good moments in Little Children — a real body and a real face, not botoxed or starved out of existence — is an ideal vessel for the story — with sharp intelligence and no sentiment.[54] Again she was awarded a BAFTA and nominated for an Academy Award, and at 31, became the youngest actress to ever garner five Oscar nominations.[55] Winslet depicted Iris, a Britishwoman who temporarily exchanges homes, in Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy The Holiday, starring alongside with Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Jack Black. Released to a mixed reception by critics,[56] the film became Winslet's biggest commercial success in nine years, grossing more $205 million worldwide.[57]

Also in 2006, Winslet provided her voice for several smaller projects. In the CG-animated Flushed Away she voiced Rita, a scavenging sewer rat who helps Roddy (Hugh Jackman) escaping from the city of Ratropolis and return to his luxurious Kensington origins. A critical and commercial success, the film collected $177,665,672 at international box offices.[58]

2007—present

In 2008, Leonardo DiCaprio signed on to co-star with Winslet in husband Sam Mendes's, Revolutionary Road. The film was the first to reunite the duo since their first pairing in James Cameron's Titanic. In 2009, Winslet earned her sixth Academy Award nomination for Stephen Daldry's The Reader. Winslet went on to win the BAFTA Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for The Reader in the same year and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for Revolutionary Road.

Music

Winslet has enjoyed a brief taste of success as a singer, with her single What If from the soundtrack of Christmas Carol: The Movie, which reached #1 in Ireland and #6 in the UK (she also filmed a music video for the song). She participated in a duet with "Weird Al" Yankovic on the Sandra Boynton CD Dog Train, and sang in the 2006 film Romance and Cigarettes. She also sang an aria from La Boheme, called "Sono andati", in her film Heavenly Creatures, which is featured on the film's soundtrack. She was considered for the lead in Moulin Rouge! (which eventually went to Nicole Kidman); had she taken the part, she would have sung the full soundtrack.

Personal life

While on the set of Dark Season, Winslet met actor-writer Stephen Tredre with whom she was in a five-year relationship. He died of bone cancer soon after Winslet completed filming Titanic, so she missed the premiere because she was attending his funeral in London. She and Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio have remained good friends since the filming.[59]

Winslet was later in a relationship with Rufus Sewell, [60] but on 22 November 1998 she married director Jim Threapleton. They have a daughter, Mia Honey, who was born on 12 October 2000 in London. After a divorce in 2001, Winslet was in a relationship with Sam Mendes, whom she married on 24 May 2003 on the island of Anguilla in the Caribbean. Their son, Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes, was born on 22 December 2003 in New York City.

Mendes and his production company, Neal Street Productions, purchased the film rights to the long-delayed biography of circus tiger tamer Mabel Stark.[61] The couple's spokesperson said, "It's a great story, they have had their eyes on it for a while. If they can get the script right, it would make a great film."[61]

The media have documented her weight fluctuations over the years. Winslet has been outspoken about her refusal to allow Hollywood to dictate her weight. In February 2003, the British edition of Gentlemen's Quarterly magazine published photographs of Winslet which had been digitally enhanced to make her look dramatically thinner than she really was; Winslet issued a statement saying that the alterations were made without her consent. GQ issued an apology in the subsequent issue.

Winslet and Mendes currently reside in New York City. They own a manor house in the tiny village of Church Westcote in Gloucestershire, England. They spent £3 million on the secluded Westcote Manor, a rambling Grade II-listed house with eight bedrooms, set in 22 acres. They have reportedly spent more than £1 million on interior renovations, as well as restoring the original water garden, mulberry garden and orchard, all of which fell into disrepair when the former owner, equestrian artist Raoul Millais, died in 1999.


Both Winslet and her spouse, Sam Mendes will rarely be on the same plane if they travel to a destination as a result of both being involved in terrorist plane events and fearing leaving their one child parentless. Mendes was originally booked in to fly on the ill-fated American Airlines flight that was hijacked on September 11th 2001 and was flown into the Pentagon killing all passengers.

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes and Awards
1991 Dark Season (TV series) Reet
1994 Heavenly Creatures Juliet Hulme Empire Award for Best British Actress
London Film Critics Circle Awards — Best British Actress of the Year
New Zealand Film and TV Awards — Best Foreign Performer
1995 A Kid in King Arthur's Court Princess Sarah
Sense and Sensibility Marianne Dashwood BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Evening Standard British Film Awards (also for Jude)
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
1996 Jude Sue Bridehead Evening Standard British Film Awards (also for Sense and Sensibility)
Hamlet Ophelia Empire Award for Best British Actress
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1997 Titanic Rose DeWitt Bukater Blockbuster Entertainment Awards — Favorite Actress — Drama
Empire Award for Best British Actress
European Film Awards — Jameson Audience/People's Choice Award for Best British Actress
Golden Camera — Germany — Film — International (Exceptional work in a non-German production)
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
Nominated — London Film Critics Circle Awards — British Actress of the Year
Nominated — MTV Movie Awards — Best Female Performance
Nominated — MTV Movie Awards — Best Kiss (shared with Leonardo DiCaprio)
Nominated — MTV Movie Awards — Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Leonardo DiCaprio)
Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Awards — Best Actress
Nominated — European Film Awards — Outstanding Achievement in World Cinema
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
1998 Hideous Kinky Julia
1999 Faeries Brigid (voice)
Holy Smoke! Ruth Barron
2000 Quills Madeleine 'Maddy' LeClerc Evening Standard British Film Awards — Best Actress (also for Enigma and Iris)
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Blockbuster Entertainment Awards — Favorite Actress — Drama
Nominated — London Film Critics Circle Awards — British Actress of the Year
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Drama
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
2001 Enigma Hester Wallace British Independent Film Award for Best Actress
Evening Standard British Film Awards — Best Actress (also for Iris and Quills)
Christmas Carol: The Movie Belle (voice)
Iris Young Iris Murdoch Empire Award for Best British Actress
Evening Standard British Film Awards — Best Actress (also for Enigma and Quills)
European Film Awards — Jameson Audience/People's Choice Award for Best British Actress
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Drama
2003 The Life of David Gale Bitsey Bloom
2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Clementine Kruczynski Empire Award for Best British Actress
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress (also for Finding Neverland)
London Film Critics Circle Awards — British Actress of the Year (tied with Eva Birthistle for Ae Fond Kiss...)
Online Film Critics Society Awards — Best Actress
Santa Barbara International Film Festival — Outstanding Performance of the Year Award (also for Finding Neverland)
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated — People's Choice Awards — Favorite Leading Lady
Nominated — People's Choice Awards — Favorite On-Screen Chemistry (shared with Jim Carrey)
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress (film)
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Finding Neverland Sylvia Llewelyn Davies Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress (also for Eternal Sunshine)
Santa Barbara International Film Festival — Outstanding Performance of the Year Award (also for Eternal Sunshine)
Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated — Teen Choice Awards — Choice Movie Actress — Motion Picture Drama
2005 Romance & Cigarettes Tula
2006 All the King's Men Anne Stanton
Little Children Sarah Pierce BAFTA Awards — The Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year
Gotham Awards — Tribute Award
Palm Springs International Film Festival — Desert Palm Achievement Award
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
Nominated — London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actress of the Year
Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Flushed Away Rita (voice)
The Holiday Iris Simpkins
Deep Sea 3D Narrator (voice)
2008 The Fox and the Child Narrator (voice)
The Reader Hanna Schmitz BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress also for Revolutionary Road
London Film Critics Circle — Actress of the Year also for Revolutionary Road
RopeofSilicon Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress
San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated — London Film Critics Circle Awards — British Actress of the Year
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
Nominated — Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Revolutionary Road April Wheeler Alliance of Women Film Journalists — Best Actress
Detroit Film Critics Society Awards — Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress also for The Reader
London Film Critics Circle also for The Reader
Palm Springs International Film Festival — Best Cast Performance
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards — Best Actress
Santa Barbara International Film Festival — Montevito Award
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of Kate Winslet awards and nominations

Winslet has won two Golden Globe Awards, both for films of 2008—one in in the category of Best Actress (Drama) for her performance in Revolutionary Road, the other in the Best Supporting Actress category for her performance in The Reader(2009). She has won two BAFTA Awards, the first for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in Sense and Sensibility and the second for Best Actress for The Reader. She has earned a total of six Academy Award nominations, seven Golden Globe nominations, and eight BAFTA nominations.[62][63]

She has received numerous awards from other organizations, including the Los Angeles Film Critics' Association (LAFCA) award for Best Supporting Actress for Iris (2001) and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for The Reader. For Holy Smoke! (1999), she was declared Best Actress runner-up by both the New York Film Critics' Circle (NYFCC) and the National Society of Film Critics (NSFC). Winslet was also NYFCC's Best Actress runner-up for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). Premiere magazine named her performance as Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind the 81st greatest film performance of all time.[64]

Academy Award nomination milestones

With her Best Actress nomination for The Reader, Winslet became the youngest actor to receive six Oscar nominations. At age 33, she passed the mark formerly held by Bette Davis, who was 34 when she received her sixth nomination for her performance in Now, Voyager (1942).[65] Winslet previously set the marks as the youngest actor to receive two, three, four, and five nominations for her performances in Titanic (1997), Iris, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Little Children (2006), respectively.[66]

She has received two nominations for playing younger versions of another nominee in the same film—the only two instances of different actors playing the same role in the same film both being nominated.[67] She played the younger versions of the characters played by nominees Gloria Stuart in Titanic[67] and Judi Dench in Iris.[68]

When she was not nominated for her work in Revolutionary Road, she became only the second actress to win a Golden Globe for Best Actress (Drama) without getting an Oscar nomination for the same performance (Shirley MacLaine was the first for Madame Sousatzka [1988], and she won the Golden Globe in a three-way tie with Jodie Foster and Sigourney Weaver). Academy rules allow an actor to receive no more than one nomination in a given category; as the Academy nominating process determined that Winslet's work in The Reader would be considered a lead performance—unlike the Golden Globes, which considered it a supporting performance—she could not be nominated for Best Actress for both films.[69]

Awards for noncinematic work

In 2000, Winslet won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for Listen To the Storyteller.[70] Winslet was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for playing herself in a 2005 episode of Extras. In the episode, she comically brought up the fact that she had been nominated for an Oscar four times (at that point) without ever winning.

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Awards and achievements
BAFTA Awards
Preceded by Best Supporting Actress
1995
for Sense and Sensibility 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Best Actress
2008
for The Reader 		Succeeded by
TBD
Golden Globe Awards
Preceded by Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
2008
for The Reader 		Succeeded by
TBD
Preceded by Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
2008
for Revolutionary Road 		Succeeded by
TBD
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Preceded by Outstanding Supporting Actress
1995
for Sense and Sensibility 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Outstanding Supporting Actress
2008
for The Reader 		Succeeded by
TBD


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