Kate Winslet won an Academy Award for Best Actress in which 2008 film?
"drama. Prolific in film since 1994, Winslet's most acclaimed and highest-grossing films, according to the online portal Box Office Mojo and the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, include ""Heavenly Creatures"" (1994), ""Sense and Sensibility"" (1995), ""Hamlet"" (1996), ""Titanic"" (1997), ""Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"" (2004), ""The Holiday"" (2006), ""Divergent"" (2014), """" (2015), and ""Steve Jobs"" (2015). Her television projects include the miniseries ""Mildred Pierce"" (2011). Winslet has been recognised by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the following performances: Winslet has won three BAFTA Awards: Best Actress for ""The Reader"" (2008); and Best Supporting Actress for"
"the best films of 2008. According to Academy rules, an actor or actress may receive only one nomination per category, and due to the difference in rules between the Golden Globes and Academy Awards, Kate Winslet's role in ""The Reader"" was considered a leading one by the Academy, while the Golden Globe regarded it a supporting role. So, as Winslet's performance in ""The Reader"" had been nominated for Best Actress in 2008 by the Academy, her performance in ""Revolutionary Road"" couldn't be nominated. Revolutionary Road (film) Revolutionary Road is a 2008 British-American romantic drama film directed by Sam Mendes. It"
"2008, Tasha Robinson of ""The A.V. Club"" named it the 8th best film of 2008, and Roger Ebert of the ""Chicago Sun-Times"" put it on his unranked top 20 list. Special praise went to Winslet's acting; she then swept the main prizes in the 2008/2009 award season, including the Golden Globe, the Critic's Choice Award, the Screen Actor's Guild Award, the BAFTA, and the Academy Award for Best Actress. Several writers noted that her success seemed to have made real her appearance in the BBC comedy ""Extras"", in which she played a fictionalized version of herself desperate to win an"
"the older generation liked the book,"" but those of his own generation were more likely to criticize Michael (and his) inability to fully condemn Hanna. He added, ""I've heard that criticism several times but never from the older generation, people who have lived through it."" The film version, directed by Stephen Daldry, was released in December 2008. Kate Winslet played Hanna, with David Kross as the young Michael and Ralph Fiennes as the older man. Bruno Ganz and Lena Olin played supporting roles. It was nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture. Winslet won the Oscar for leading actress."
"Winslet had two critically acclaimed roles in 2008. After reading Justin Haythe's screenplay for ""Revolutionary Road"", an adaptation of Richard Yates's debut novel, Winslet recommended the project to her husband at the time, the director Sam Mendes, and her ""Titanic"" co-star Leonardo DiCaprio. The film traces the tribulations of a young married couple in 1950s suburban America. Winslet was attracted to the idea of playing a woman whose aspirations had not been met, and she read ""The Feminine Mystique"" to understand the psychology of unhappy housewives from the era. Mendes encouraged DiCaprio and Winslet to spend time together, and she"
"award nominations, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, and ""Premiere"" magazine placed it 81st in their 2008 list of the 100 Greatest Performances of All Time. Claudia Puig in a review for ""USA Today"" said of her performance ""Winslet is wonderful as a free spirit whose hair color changes along with her moods. She hasn't had such a meaty role in a while, and she plays it just right,"" while Ann Hornaday in a review for ""The Washington Post"" said ""Even when forced to wear costumes and wigs that make her look like Pippi Longstocking after an acid-fueled"
"audiobook ""Listen to the Storyteller"" (1999), Winslet won a Grammy Award. She performed the song ""What If"" for the soundtrack of her film """" (2001). A co-founder of the charity Golden Hat Foundation, which aims to create autism awareness, she has written a book on the topic, ""The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism"" (2010). ""Time"" magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009, and in 2012, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Divorced from the film directors Jim Threapleton and Sam Mendes, Winslet has been married"
"Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2008 The winners of the 9th Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2008, were announced on January 13, 2009. Best Actor: Sean Penn – ""Milk"" Best Actress: Kate Winslet – ""Revolutionary Road"" and ""The Reader"" Best Director: David Fincher – ""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"" Best Film: Milk Best Foreign Language Film: The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite) • Germany Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger – ""The Dark Knight"" (posthumous) Best Supporting Actress: Rosemarie DeWitt – ""Rachel Getting Married"" Best Actor: ""'Natar Ungalaaq – ""The Necessities of"
"Revolutionary Road (film) Revolutionary Road is a 2008 British-American romantic drama film directed by Sam Mendes. It was written by Justin Haythe and based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Richard Yates. This is the second on-screen collaboration among Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, and Kathy Bates, all of whom previously co-starred in ""Titanic"". The performances of DiCaprio and Winslet earned them a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama nomination and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, respectively, and the film was nominated for a further three Golden Globes, four BAFTAs and three"
"Actress - Motion Picture - Kate Winslet (nominee)<br> Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture - Christoph Waltz (nominee) European Film Awards<br> Best Actress - Kate Winslet (nominee)<br> Best Screenwriter - Roman Polanski and Yasmina Reza (nominee) Goya Awards<br> Best European Film - Roman Polanski (nominee) César Award<br> Best Writing – Adaptation - Roman Polanski and Yasmina Reza (nominee) Cinema Writers of Spain<br> Best Adapted Screenplay - Roman Polanski, Yasmina Reza (nominee) Boston Society of Film Critics<br> Best Ensemble Cast - Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly San Diego Film Critics Society Awards<br> Best Ensemble Performance -"
"a majority of that stemming from her endorsement deals. Also that year, the UK Film Council calculated that she had earned £20 million from her acting roles since 1995. ""Time"" magazine named Winslet one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009. Madame Tussauds in London unveiled a wax statue of Winslet in 2011. The following year, she received an Honorary César award, and in 2014, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Winslet was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for her services to"
"Kate Winslet Kate Elizabeth Winslet, (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. She is particularly known for her work in period dramas and tragedies, and is often drawn to portraying troubled women. Winslet is the recipient of several accolades, including three British Academy Film Awards, and is among the few performers to have won Academy, Emmy, and Grammy Awards. Born in Reading, Berkshire, Winslet studied drama at the Redroofs Theatre School. Her first screen appearance, at the age of 15, was in the British television series ""Dark Season"" (1991). She made her film debut playing a teenage murderess in"
"line is ""Go for ""Oscar Gold""!"" In the British comedy series ""Extras"", actress Kate Winslet plays a caricature of herself desperate for an Oscar. During the episode, Winslet tells the character Andy Millman (portrayed by Ricky Gervais) that she took the role in the unnamed Holocaust film, claiming that films such as ""Schindler's List"" and ""The Pianist"" have ""Oscars coming out of the arse"". Later in the episode, Winslet also muses that ""playing a mental"" also guarantees an Oscar win. Winslet would later win her first Academy Award, Best Actress, for her role as an illiterate former Nazi in ""The"
"""Atonement"" – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer ""'2008: ""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"" – Donald Graham Burt and Victor J. Zolfo ""'2009: ""Avatar"" – Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, and Kim Sinclair 2010: ""Inception"" – Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, and Doug Mowat 2011: ""Hugo"" – Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo 2012: ""Les Misérables"" – Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson 2013: ""The Great Gatsby"" – Catherine Martin and Beverly Dunn 2014: ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" – Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock 2015: """" – Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson 2016: ""Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"" – Stuart"
"""USA Today"" considered her to be the film's prime asset. Against expectations, ""Titanic"" went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time to that point, earning over US$2 billion in box-office receipts worldwide, and established Winslet as a global star. The film won 11 Academy Awardsthe most for any filmincluding Best Picture and gained Winslet a Best Actress nomination. Winslet did not view ""Titanic"" as a platform for bigger salaries. She eschewed parts in blockbuster films in favour of independent productions that were not widely seen, believing that she ""still had a lot to learn"" and was unprepared to"
"""The Holiday"". She played Iris, a Briton who temporarily exchanges homes with an American (played by Cameron Diaz) during the Christmas holiday season. The film became Winslet's biggest commercial success in nine years, grossing over US$205 million worldwide. The critic Justin Chang thought the film was formulaic yet pleasing, and took note of Winslet's radiance and charm. In her final release of the year, Winslet voiced Rita, a scavenging sewer rat, in the animated film ""Flushed Away"". Winslet's sole project of 2007 was as the narrator for the English version of the French children's film ""The Fox and the Child""."
"""Heavenly Creatures"" (1994), and received her first BAFTA Award for playing Marianne Dashwood in ""Sense and Sensibility"" (1995). Global stardom followed soon after with her leading role in the epic romance ""Titanic"" (1997). It was the highest-grossing film of all time to that point, after which she eschewed parts in blockbusters in favour of critically acclaimed period pieces, including ""Quills"" (2000) and ""Iris"" (2001), which were not widely seen. The science fiction romance ""Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"" (2004), in which Winslet was cast against type in a contemporary setting, proved to be a turning point in her career,"
"""Sense and Sensibility"" (1995) and ""Steve Jobs"" (2016). She has also won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries for ""Mildred Pierce"" (2011), and the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for narrating the children's audiobook ""Listen to the Storyteller"" (1999). She is among the few actresses to win three of the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT). Kate Winslet Kate Elizabeth Winslet, (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. She is particularly known for her work in period dramas and tragedies, and is often drawn to portraying troubled women. Winslet is"
"den rätte komma in)"", Sweden ""WALL-E"" – Thomas Newman ""Slumdog Millionaire"" – Simon Beaufoy ""WALL-E"" – Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon Heath Ledger – ""The Dark Knight"" (posthumously) Kate Winslet – ""The Reader"" Tomas Alfredson – ""Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)"" Dev Patel – ""Slumdog Millionaire"" Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2008 The 21st Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, given by the CFCA on December 18, 2008, honored the best in film for 2008. Disney/Pixar's ""WALL-E"" became the most successful film in this year's ceremony, won four awards, including Best Film, out of five nominations."
"featured it as the 81st greatest film performance of all time. Winslet considers it to be a favourite among her roles, and she received Best Actress nominations at the Oscar and BAFTA award ceremonies. She has said that the film marked a turning point in her career and prompted directors to offer her a wide variety of parts. Winslet was paid £6 million to star in her next release of the year, the drama ""Finding Neverland"". It is about the relationship between J. M. Barrie (played by Johnny Depp) and the Llewelyn Davies boys, which inspired Barrie to write Peter"
"14th Critics' Choice Awards The 14th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 8, 2009 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, honoring the finest achievements of 2008 filmmaking. The nominees were announced on December 9, 2008. Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle – ""Slumdog Millionaire"" Sean Penn – ""Milk"" Anne Hathaway – ""Rachel Getting Married"" (TIE) Meryl Streep – ""Doubt"" (TIE) Heath Ledger – ""The Dark Knight"" Kate Winslet – ""The Reader"" Dev Patel – ""Slumdog Millionaire"" Milk The Dark Knight Tropic Thunder WALL-E Man on Wire ""Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)"" • Israel John Adams A. R. Rahman – ""Slumdog"
"grossing animated film ever at the box office. Also in that same year, """" became the fourth highest-grossing film of all time. Award winners On 7 March 2010, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to receive the Academy Award for Best Director for the 2008 film ""The Hurt Locker"". The American soap opera format lost popularity in favor of reality television and daytime talk shows. Long-lived but canceled shows ""All My Children"" and ""One Life to Live"" return in 2013 as online content. Prime-time television serials and Spanish-language telenovelas remain popular globally. A new development in global television is the"
"2008 New York Film Critics Circle Awards The 74th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2008, were announced on 10 December 2008 and presented on 5 January 2009. 1. Sean Penn – ""Milk""<br> 2. Mickey Rourke – ""The Wrestler""<br> 3. Clint Eastwood – ""Gran Torino"" 1. Sally Hawkins – ""Happy-Go-Lucky""<br> 2. Melissa Leo – ""Frozen River""<br> 3. Anne Hathaway – ""Rachel Getting Married""<br> 3. Kate Winslet – ""Revolutionary Road"" 1. ""WALL-E""<br> 2. ""Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir)"" 1. Anthony Dod Mantle – ""Slumdog Millionaire""<br> 2. Claudio Miranda – ""The Curious Case of Benjamin"
"She won the Screen Actors Guild and British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress, and received nominations for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award in the same category. Also in 1995, Winslet featured in the poorly received Disney film ""A Kid in King Arthur's Court"". Winslet had roles in two period dramas of 1996""Jude"" and ""Hamlet"". As with her ""Heavenly Creatures"" part, Winslet's roles in these films were those of women with a ""mad edge"". In Michael Winterbottom's ""Jude"", based on the novel ""Jude the Obscure"" by Thomas Hardy, she played Sue Bridehead, a young woman with suffragette"
"as the ""most daring actress working today"", James Greenberg of ""Los Angeles"" magazine praised Winslet for ""continuing to explore the bounds of sexual liberation"". She received a SAG Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. The following year, she played a fictitious mathematician involved in the cracking of the Enigma ciphers in Michael Apted's espionage thriller ""Enigma"". Winslet's character was vastly expanded from a subsidiary love-interest in the novel it was based on to a prominent code-breaker in the film. She was pregnant while filming, and to prevent this from showing, she wore corsets under her costume. The biopic ""Iris"" (2001)"
"received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress, in addition to Golden Globe and SAG Award wins. The ensemble thriller ""Contagion"" from Steven Soderbergh was Winslet's first film release of 2011. She was cast as a disease detective for the CDC, and she modelled her role on Anne Schuchat, the director of the NCIRD. ""Contagion"" was a commercial success, and David Denby of ""The New Yorker"" praised Winslet for capturing the essence of an exasperated woman. Her next project was the Roman Polanski-directed ""Carnage"", adapted from the play ""God of Carnage"" by Yasmina Reza. Set entirely inside an apartment,"
"agreed to the project to work with the director Alan Parker, whom she admired, and believed that the film raised pertinent questions about capital punishment. Mick LaSalle thought that the film had muddled the subject and disliked both the film and Winslet's performance. To avoid typecasting in historical dramas, Winslet sought out films set in contemporary times. She found it in the science fiction romance ""Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"" (2004), in which she played the neurotic and impetuous Clementine, a woman who decides to erase memories of her ex-boyfriend (played by Jim Carrey). Unlike her previous assignments, the"
"Academy Awards, including a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Michael Shannon. The film premiered in Los Angeles on 15 December 2008, followed by a limited U.S. release on 26 December 2008 and a wide U.S. release on 23 January 2009. In most other countries, it was released between 15 and 30 January 2009. In 1948, Frank Wheeler (DiCaprio) meets April (Winslet) at a party. He is a longshoreman, hoping to be a cashier; she wants to be an actress. Frank later secures a sales position with Knox Machines, for which his father worked for 20 years, and he and April"
"the field in nominations, ""Carol"" failed to win any awards and ""Bridge of Spies"" won just one; Mark Rylance for Best Supporting Actor. ""The Revenant"" won the most awards at the ceremony, winning five, including Best Film, Best Director for Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, and Best Cinematography for Emmanuel Lubezki. Brie Larson won Best Actress for ""Room"" and Kate Winslet won Best Supporting Actress for ""Steve Jobs"". """" won four awards, winning Best Costume Design, Best Editing, Best Makeup and Hair, and Best Production Design. ""Brooklyn"", directed by John Crowley, was voted Outstanding British Film of"
"was a box office success worldwide. Kidman was originally set to star in the post-World War II German drama, ""The Reader"", working with previous collaborators Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella, but due to her pregnancy prior to filming she had to back out. The role went to Kate Winslet, who ultimately won the Oscar for Best Actress, which Kidman presented to her during the 81st Academy Awards. Kidman appeared in the 2009 Rob Marshall musical ""Nine"", portraying the Federico Fellini-like character's muse, Claudia Jenssen. She was featured alongside fellow Oscar winners Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz and"
"Kate Winslet, English actress and singer The show was followed by 3.9 millions of viewers. This corresponds to 18.2% of the audience. 37th César Awards The 37th César Awards ceremony, presented by the French Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques (Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma), was held on 24 February 2012, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. The awards honoured the best films of 2011. ""The Artist"" won six out of its ten nominations, including Best Film, Best Director (Michel Hazanavicius), Best Actress (Bérénice Bejo), and Best Cinematography (Guillaume Schiffman). The ceremony was chaired by Guillaume Canet,"
"Millionaire"" ""The Wrestler"" (performed by Bruce Springsteen) – ""The Wrestler"" Simon Beaufoy – ""Slumdog Millionaire"" Richard Gere Number of nominations (minimum 2) Number of awards (minimum 2) 14th Critics' Choice Awards The 14th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 8, 2009 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, honoring the finest achievements of 2008 filmmaking. The nominees were announced on December 9, 2008. Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle – ""Slumdog Millionaire"" Sean Penn – ""Milk"" Anne Hathaway – ""Rachel Getting Married"" (TIE) Meryl Streep – ""Doubt"" (TIE) Heath Ledger – ""The Dark Knight"" Kate Winslet – ""The Reader"" Dev Patel –"
"a theme of characters who are free-spirited with a sexual edge to them. Stephen Whitty of NJ.com associates Winslet with ""serious, almost despairing material"", although he finds it hard to pigeonhole her as an actress. Leonardo DiCaprio, who starred with Winslet in ""Titanic"" and ""Revolutionary Road"", considers her to be ""the most prepared and well-researched actor on set"", and Jude Law, her co-star in ""The Holiday"", believes that despite her seriousness she remains ""very calm and good-natured"". Her ""Steve Jobs"" director Danny Boyle has identified a willingness in Winslet to avoid typecasting and has said that she takes an effort"