time.com - 2/19/2009
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It's 11 days before the Academy Awards, and Kate Winslet is giving her third best performance of the year. The occasion is a lunch at New York City's Oak Room at which 100 or so invited guests have gathered to honor her performance in Stephen Daldry's The Reader . This particular publicity ...
youtube.com - 2/23/2009
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(Full Presentation - skip to 5:08 for Kate's
speech)Finally and at long last Kate Winslet wins the...
Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her m...
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Kate Winslet wins the Oscar (video)
filmofilia.com - 2/20/2009
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filmofilia.com —
Kate Winslet will either win her first Oscar
for her performance as a woman with a secret...
Nazi past in “ The Reader ,” or get the title of biggest loser for having been nominated for the coveted honor, and lost, six times! One more loss and she will be tied at six as ...
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Kate Winslet Will Enter Academy Award History
opalfilms.blogspot.com - 2/22/2009
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"Poppy’s emotional trajectory in Happy-Go-Lucky seems fairly predictable.
Her overly chipper, optimistic manner must inevitably be hiding...
some deep-seated insecurity or emotional pain; it’s just a matter of time before an accident or terminal ...
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Muriels Addendum #3, Also-Rans (Performances- Part 1)
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Kate’s Moment
Awards Daily —
... Well, all I can say is, girlfriend better win tomorrow night or this TIME mag cover story will have been ill-planned. Mark Harris got the cover story: ...
Whatever Happens...
Hollywood Elsewhere —
Whatever Happens... "In an industry that insists that most actresses remain giggly, pliable and princessy well into middle age, Kate Winslet has somehow avoided that pigeonhole entirely. She doesn't play girls; she never really has. She plays women. Unsentimentalized, restless, troubled, discontented, disconcerted, difficult women. And clearly, it's working for her." -- from Mark Harris 's Time cover story on the (very) likely Best Actress Oscar winner. Warning : Winslet may not convey shock or surprise at the podium. And no hyperventilating. No offense, but we've had ...
Oscars and the Future of Nudity. Today in Film Bloggery 02/19/09
SpoutBlog —
... shared gloomy outlook on 2009 Oscar bait (or lack thereof) has anything to do with the fact that neither Kate Winslet nor Marisa Tomei has a film coming out this year? And that even if they had something coming soon, there’s a good chance they wouldn’t get naked for it? Probably this fact and subfact have nothing to do with their premature worries, and it’s just a coincidence that the internerds were hit by the misfortunate news that Winslet is giving up onscreen nudity plus the clarification from Tomei that she’s ...
Final Hammond Odds
Hollywood Elsewhere —
Final Hammond Odds Boil the snow out of Pete Hammond 's 2.20 Envelope piece about possible Oscar stunners, and it comes down to there being a closer race going on between Best Actress contenders Kate Winslet and Meryl Streep than some people realize. "A lot of bloggers have been throwing out Melissa Leo as a threat to presumed winner Kate Winslet," he writes . "Really? How can Kate lose? She's on the cover of Time magazine this week so it's over, right?" Not necessarily, he warns, because "just as in the actor race a strong ...
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