In 2009, Kate Winslett won the 'Oscar' for Best Actress for her role in which film?
"being Best British Actor and Best British Director). Winners were voted by the readers of ""Empire"" magazine. Since its inception, the award has been given to six actress. Kate Winslet had received the most awards in this category with five awards and was nominated on six occasions, more than any other actress. Kate Winslet was the last winner in this category for her role in ""Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"". In the list below, winners are listed first in bold, followed by the other nominees. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"""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"
"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"
"flop. Peter Howell of the ""Toronto Star"" commended her for finding ""strength and grace"" in her part, and Gregory Ellwood of HitFix thought that she had improved on Hoffman's characterisation. She won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards for Best Supporting Actress, and received her seventh Oscar nomination for it. John Hillcoat's ensemble crime-thriller ""Triple 9"" (2016) featured Winslet as Irina Vlaslov, a ruthless Russian-Israeli gangster. The critic Ann Hornaday of ""The Washington Post"" felt that Winslet had failed to effectively portray her. Her next release of the year, ""Collateral Beauty"", about a man (played by Will Smith) struggling with"
"2009 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 44th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 2010, honored the best in film for 2009. 1. The Hurt Locker<br> 2. ""Summer Hours"" (""L'Heure d'été"")<br> 3. ""Inglourious Basterds"" 1. Kathryn Bigelow – ""The Hurt Locker""<br> 2. Olivier Assayas – ""Summer Hours"" (""L'Heure d'été"")<br> 3. Wes Anderson – ""Fantastic Mr. Fox"" 1. Jeremy Renner – ""The Hurt Locker""<br> 2. Jeff Bridges – ""Crazy Heart""<br> 3. Nicolas Cage – """" 1. Yolande Moreau – ""Séraphine""<br> 2. Meryl Streep – ""Julie & Julia"" and ""Fantastic Mr. Fox""<br> 3. Abbie Cornish – ""Bright"
"Oscar in the Best Picture category, but lost to Scott Rudin and the Coen Brothers for ""No Country for Old Men"". In 2009, Fox produced the romantic thriller ""Duplicity"", with Julia Roberts in the title role, and the crime drama ""The Informant!"", by Steven Soderbergh starring Matt Damon. She also produced the drama ""We Need to Talk About Kevin"" in which Tilda Swinton plays a mother who is struggling to build a relationship with their child. In 2012, she again worked with Tony Gilroy (they had previously collaborated on ""Michael Clayton"" and ""Duplicity""), this time on the fourth installment of"
"""The Abyss"", and the executive producer of """". Hamilton played the role of Sarah Connor in both ""Terminator"" films. Amis played the part of Lizzy Calvert, Rose's granddaughter, in ""Titanic"". Both Cameron (""Avatar"") and Bigelow (""The Hurt Locker"") were nominated for the Oscar, the Golden Globe, and the BAFTA Award for Best Director for films released in 2009. Cameron won the Golden Globe, while Bigelow won the Oscar and the BAFTA for Best Director, becoming the first woman to win either. Cameron became an expert on deep-sea exploration in conjunction with his research and underwater filming for ""The Abyss"" (1989)"
"date and had his name removed from the credit list. Rudin differed with Harvey Weinstein ""because he didn't want to campaign for an Oscar along with ""Doubt"" and ""Revolutionary Road"", which also stars Winslet."" Winslet won the Best Actress Academy Award for ""The Reader"". Marc Caro wrote, ""Because Winslet couldn't get Best Actress nominations for both movies, the Weinstein Co. shifted her to supporting actress for ""The Reader"" as a courtesy..."" but that it is ""... up to [the voters] to place the name in the category that they think is appropriate to the performance"", resulting in her receiving more"
"""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""."
"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 -"
"""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,"
"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"
"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"
"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."
"3"", ""Miss Undercover 2"", ""V-for Vendetta"", ""Aviator"", ""Alexander"", ""Ocean's Twelve"", ""Collateral"", ""Finding Nemo"", ""Lord of the Rings – Return of the King"", ""Troy"", ""Kill Bill 2"", ... etc. Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Sandra Bullock, Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Steven Spielberg, Michael Mann, Natalie Portman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Oliver Stone, Marylin Manson, Will Smith, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Peter Jackson, Liv Tyler, Tom Hanks, ... etc. ""CeBIT"", ""AIDA"", ""GC – Games Convention"", ""Stanford Eagle"", ""Leaders Club Germany Award"", ""Minnie Driver CD Presentation"", ""Priscilla Presley CD Presentation"", ""The Sound"
"with illness and the raw, honest depiction of illness in the film. Glatzer died from ALS in March 2015. Moore won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. To date, the movie has grossed just under $42 million in its worldwide box office. Set the dawn of the modern age, Colette is the story of a woman who has been long denied her voice going to extraordinary lengths to reclaim it. After years in development by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, it was announced that Keira Knightley would star in the titular role. She was later joined by"
"and she gained further recognition for her performances in ""Finding Neverland"" (2004), ""Little Children"" (2006), ""Revolutionary Road"" (2008), and ""The Reader"" (2008). For playing a Nazi camp guard in the last of these, she won the BAFTA Award and Academy Award for Best Actress. In the 2010s, Winslet played a single mother in 1930s America in the miniseries ""Mildred Pierce"" (2011), joined the ""Divergent"" film series, and portrayed Joanna Hoffman in ""Steve Jobs"" (2015). She won a Primetime Emmy Award for the former and a third BAFTA Award for the latter. For her narration of a short story in the"
"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"
"2009, the critics’ group have agreed with the Academy on six occasions: Steven Soderbergh for ""Traffic"" (2000), Clint Eastwood for ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004), Ang Lee for ""Brokeback Mountain"" (2005), Martin Scorsese for ""The Departed"" (2006), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for ""No Country for Old Men"" (2007), and Kathryn Bigelow for ""The Hurt Locker"" (2009). Oscar winner denoted by * New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honour the finest achievements in filmmaking."
"Nelson Lowry – ""Fantastic Mr. Fox""<br> 2. Rick Carter – ""Avatar""<br> 3. Henry Selick – ""Coraline"" 1. ""Summer Hours"" (""L'Heure d'été"")<br> 2. ""Everlasting Moments"" (""Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick"")<br> 3. ""35 Shots of Rum"" (""35 rhums"")<br> 3. ""Police, Adjective"" (""Polițist, Adjectiv"") 1. ""The Beaches of Agnès"" (""Les plages d'Agnès"")<br> 2. ""Tyson""<br> 3. ""Anvil! The Story of Anvil"" 2009 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 44th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 2010, honored the best in film for 2009. 1. The Hurt Locker<br> 2. ""Summer Hours"" (""L'Heure d'été"")<br> 3. ""Inglourious Basterds"" 1. Kathryn Bigelow – ""The"
"read it, and I saw the movie in my head. It challenged me in a way that I liked. It was different from everything else I’ve read."" He also admitted that it was completely different from his previous work and said that ""[it] deals with a very complex drama. And I may not nail it on this film, it may just be my first step."" Reitman wanted to make the film right after his 2009 film ""Up in the Air"", but due to Winslet's scheduling conflicts, he chose to direct ""Young Adult"" first. Reitman had Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin"
"""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"
"to win this award and the third overall to receive an Academy Award after Simone Signoret in 1960 and Juliette Binoche in 1997. She is the first Best Actress winner in a non-English language performance since Sophia Loren's win in 1961. She is also the first and (as of 2018) only winner of an Academy Award for a performance in the French language. On 24 June 2008, Cotillard was one of 105 individuals invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2009, Cotillard starred alongside Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in the role of Billie Frechette"
"a feature film, which was directed by Nick Cassavetes and released on June 26, 2009. It starred Cameron Diaz as Sara and Alec Baldwin as Campbell. Kate and Anna were played respectively by Sofia Vassilieva and Abigail Breslin. The film features an alternate ending and more emphasis on certain subplots while entirely eliminating others. This was against the wishes of Picoult. My Sister's Keeper (novel) My Sister's Keeper is a 2004 novel written by Jodi Picoult. It tells the story of thirteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald, who sues her parents for medical emancipation when she discovers she was supposed to donate a"
"the participation of women in anti-imperialist movements. Director Kathryn Bigelow works in male-dominated genres like science fiction, action, and horror. She became the first woman to win both the Academy Award for Best Director and the Directors Guild of America Award in 2010 for ""The Hurt Locker"". Catherine Hardwicke's films have grossed a cumulative total of $551.8 million. Her most successful films are ""Twilight"" (2008) and ""Red Riding Hood"" (2011). Nancy Meyers has had success with her five features: ""The Parent Trap"" (1998), ""What Women Want"" (2000), ""Something's Gotta Give"" (2003), ""The Holiday"" (2006) and ""It's Complicated"" (2009) which have"
"""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"
"worldwide, mostly from its international run. Meyer's next film was ""The Holiday"" (2006), a romantic comedy starring Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as two lovelorn women from opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, who arranges a home exchange to escape heartbreak during the Christmas and holiday season. Jude Law and Jack Black co-starred as their love interests. Released to mixed or average reviews by critics, the film became a global box office success, grossing $205 million worldwide, mostly from its international run. The film won the 2007 Teen Choice Award in the Chick Flick category. In 2009, Meyers' ""It's Complicated"""
"My Sister's Keeper (film) My Sister's Keeper is a 2009 American drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vassilieva, Jason Patric, and Alec Baldwin. Based on Jodi Picoult's 2004 novel of the same name, on June 26, 2009 the film was released to cinemas in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. Kate Fitzgerald (Sofia Vassilieva) has acute promyelocytic leukemia. Conceived by in vitro fertilization, her younger sister Anna (Abigail Breslin) was brought into the world as a savior sister. She is a genetic match to her older sister and can"