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| Books That Made a Difference to Kate Winslet |
The five-time Oscar nominee wants to thank the old boyfriend who gave her a fascinating French novel of over-the-top amour-and a shot of intellectual confidence; the cookbook/storybook that turned her on to Italian cooking; and the haunting modern classic by Richard Yates that inspired her next film.An ex-boyfriend and I used to go to breakfast every Sunday in London at a funny old café near Earl's Court. Afterward we'd go into this enormous bookstore, and we'd have to buy the other person a book. It was a really nice thing to do. I think sometimes when you're young, and even when you're older, purchasing a book for yourself or anyone else can be terrifying. I left school when I was 16, and I always felt - actually still do in some ways - intellectually insecure.He was 11 years older, this boyfriend, and this was his way of letting me know that it was perfectly okay to have an opinion, of helping me overcome my own insecurities - which is pretty spectacular. One day he picked up a copy of Thérèse Raquin, and I thought, You've got to be kidding me. But he said, "This is one of the most extraordinary love stories ever written." And that book, which is one of the five that changed my life, has never left me.
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| A Red Carpet at Last |
The National Board of Review Awards drew an award-hungry crowd.
Based on the crowd at Tuesday night's National Board of Review awards, it seems Hollywood can be divided into two camps: those who love award ceremonies and those who hate them. George Clooney (Best Actor for Michael Clayton) falls into the former category — no surprise — as does Michael Douglas (Career Achievement Award), Josh Brolin (Best Ensemble Cast, No Country for Old Men) and Phil Donahue (Best Documentary, Body of War). Denzel Washington (who accepted The NBR Bulgari Award for NBR Freedom of Expression with the incredibly poised Great Debaters star Jurnee Smollett) looked like he was happy enough to be there, but his ensemble (a sloppy, untucked button-down shirt) seemed to say otherwise. And Kate Winslet, who presented Joel and Ethan Coen with the prize for Best Film, gleefully introduced the brothers, but then again, she is an actress. Before the ceremony, held at Cipriani 42nd Street, she said to a pal approaching her table, "I don't get up because then people start taking pictures of me."
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| Kate Takes Over For Nicole |
Nicole Kidman's loss is Kate Winslet's gain. On Monday, Page Six was first to report that Kidman had to drop out of producer Scott Rudin's movie The Reader due to her pregnancy. Now, insiders tell us Winslet has agreed to star opposite Ralph Fiennes in the picture in which "a young man's decades-long obsession with an older woman in Germany runs headlong into a war crimes trial, where he learns an awful truth," as its publicity describes it. One source said, "The role was originally written for Kate, but because it was supposed to start filming in the fall, when she was working on Revolutionary Road, she had to drop out. Nicole was then hired, but her schedule kept getting pushed back and now she's pregnant, so the role went back to Kate." Reps for Winslet and Rudin, whose No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood are both nominated for Golden Globes, couldn't be reached for comment.
Source: NY Post
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| Winslet Replaces Kidman In Erotic Sex Drama |
It's always weird when a high-profile star drops out of a movie, only to be replaced by another one. We spend so much time convincing ourselves that these stars matter because of their personalities, and that we care about each of them individually, but then we're reminded that, yeah, they're pretty much interchangeable pretty faces. It happened when Brad Pitt and Edward Norton both dropped out of State of Play (replaced by Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck, respectively), and now it's happened again with Kate Winslet and Nicole Kidman.
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| Kate Winslet Taking Over Nicole Kidman's Role |
Kate Winslet is stepping in to take over the role vacated by Nicole Kidman in The Reader, PEOPLE has exclusively learned.
Sources confirm that, in fact, Winslet was originally offered the role but couldn't commit due to schedule conflicts. Kidman pulled out of the film after announcing her pregnancy.
"Kate was offered it first before Nicole but couldn't do it but the dates clashed with commitments to Revolutionary Road," says an insider. "So the dates changed, Nicole then got pregnant and now it has come back to Kate."
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| Winslet to replace pregnant Kidman in movie: author |
British actress Kate Winslet will replace the pregnant Nicole Kidman in the upcoming romantic drama The Reader, the author of the best-selling book on which the film is based told a German newspaper.
Bernhard Schlink told the Berliner Morgenpost in an article to be published Wednesday that Winslet would take on the starring role of the mysterious older woman who seduces a young man in postwar Germany.
"Kate Winslet fits the role wonderfully," he said.
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| Titanic Ten Years Later: An Appreciation |
On December 19, 1997 I was thirteen years old, living in a town that still had a downtown movie theater, with two screens and a mediocre sound system. Movies were a part of the thrum of everyday life for me, entertaining but unremarkable. I would just as happily see Batman and Robin on an outing with my friends as take the time to bother with Braveheart.
On December 19, 1997 that all changed, and all I have to do is cue up the music to tell you why: the pan flute, the searing strings, and yes, Celine Dion. That year just before Christmas, ten years ago today, Titanic was unleashed upon the world, and it hasn’t been the same since.
Looking back at Titanic mania it’s hard to remember what the hell got into us. Grown women, who may or may not have been like my mom, crushed on Leonardo DiCaprio alongside their daughters. Grown men, who may or may not have been like my dad, and who didn’t care about any movies not starring James Bond, saw it at least twice. Watching the big ship go down became a cultural landmark, like American flag lapel pins after 9/11: America created Titanic, and we loved it in proportion to its size.
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| Face to face with Kate Winslet |
Syida Lizta Amirul Ihsan gets a whiff as the actress talks about being herself and being the new face of Lancôme’s Trèsor fragrance.
Actress Kate Winslet is the new face for Lancôme's fragrance, Trèsor. She speaks about the fragrance and working with Peter Lindbergh for the print ad and TV commercial.
Q: How did you come to be involved with Lancôme?
A: They approached me. It immediately appealed to me because I've never done anything like this before. And it felt like such an honor to step into the shoes of Isabella Rossellini who was Trèsor's previous "face". They wanted something beautiful, romantic and enigmatic for the ad. At the same time, they wanted to convey the message about being comfortable being yourself. I am of the same mind too. So it turned out well.
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| Mandy Moore's crush on Winslet |
Mandy Moore is keen to lock lips with British actress Kate Winslet on the big screen — because the Titanic actress is the only female Moore the pop star would share a love scene with.
Moore, who is fast becoming a big screen star herself after a string of acclaimed movies, is a longtime fan of Winslet's, and would be thrilled to star in a film with her.
And she'd even consider a kissing scene — or more.
She says, "I think she is just beautiful and she's a phenomenal actress."
Source: PR-inside.com
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| Washington and Winslet honored |
Denzel Washington and Kate Winslet have been honored at the 16th Annual Britannia Awards in LA.
The event, put on by the Los Angeles chapter of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), was attended by the likes of Jodie Foster, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan.
Reese Witherspoon, Kathy Bates, and Famke Janssen were also in attendance.
Washington won the 2007 Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Filmmaking, while Winslet received the Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year.
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| It's about time Kate Winslet wins an award! |
"It's so nice to attend an awards show and know that you're actually going to win!"
Kate Winslet, accepting her Artist of the Year award last night at the BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards. Clearly, Kate was joking about last award season, when she was nominated for — but didn't win — Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards for her lead role in Little Children. That's a lot of gowns to put on for nothing. At least wearing this silver satin frock was worth it!
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| Reese and Kate get "bawdy, tawdry and drunken" |
Kate Winslet and Reese Witherspoon are neighbors and drinking buddies?
Who knew?
"I always wanted to be a European movie star, wear giant sunglasses, elaborate neck scarves, smoke hand-rolled cigarettes, and have savoir faire and gravitas," Reese admitted onstage at the BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards last night.
Obviously, the perky all-American actress couldn't become one. So she became friends with one.
"Imagine my good fortune when Kate Winslet moved into my neighborhood, rang my door bell and said, (insert British accent here) "Dahling, Sam is off shooting, and I believe our children are the same age. Could they possibly have a play date and oh, by the way, it's almost 9 o'clock and I've had nothing to do drink, do you have any wine?"
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| BAFTA names Winslet 'Artist of the Year' |
There's a telling moment in Little Children when Kate Winslet's character Sarah Pierce, trapped in a loveless marriage and enmeshed in a messy affair, relates to Madame Bovary during a book club meeting with other stay-at-home moms.
"She can either choose a life of misery or struggle against it," says Sarah. "She chooses to struggle. She fails in the end, but there's something beautiful and even heroic in the struggle."
Winslet's affinity for struggling, questing characters who refuse to play by society's rules began with her first feature, Heavenly Creatures, in which she played a murderous fantasist, and continues with her latest, the recently wrapped Revolutionary Road, in which her frustrated suburban housewife suffers from an ennui so acute that quixotic escape is the only option.
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| Kate's Starry Night |
Oh, what a night.
It must have been one of the most dazzlingly celeb-packed evenings in recent Hollywood history...
And Kate Winslet got to bask in the actorish glory.
Brit stars and others were out in glamouroso force last night at the LA Britannia Awards bash, which celebrates the creme de la creme of film and TV talent.
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| Witherspoon desperate to work with Winslet |
Reese Witherspoon is desperate to work with Hollywood actress Kate Winslet — because they have so much in common. The Oscar-winning actress insists she'd love to appear alongside the Titanic star on the big screen, because they both successfully juggle their careers with motherhood. Winslet has two kids, Mia, 7; and Joe Alfie, 3; while Witherspoon is mum to Ava, 8; and Deacon, 4. And Witherspoon believes the pair are so alike, they're almost "the same person". She says, "I had a chance recently to hang out with Kate Winslet and (Winslet's husband) Sam Mendes. We just really get along. We're from different countries but we're sort of the same person. We're the same age, we have children who are the same age. I just love Kate. I think she is just so great and I'd really love to work with her."
Source: contactmusic.com
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| Kate, Maggie and Kristin in the fashion world |
The gorgeous actresses reflected the sophisticated appeal of the German fashion house’s Boss Black brand
Sitting pretty in the celebrity-packed front row at a New York fashion showing, three famous faces, Kate Winslet, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Kristin Davis, ticked all the boxes when it came to adding A-list cachet.
The occasion was an exclusive look at the 2008 creations for Boss Black, the most polished line produced by German fashion house Hugo Boss, and the actresses effortlessly reflected the brand’s appeal.
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| Capability Kate: How Ms Winslet combines motherhood and movie making |
As well as being a five-time Oscar nominee, Kate Winslet is also a working mother with many of the everyday worries we all recognize.
And she has a refreshingly down-to-earth take on her image – in fact, she's on a crusade to make women everywhere feel better about their bodies, beginning with her six-year-old daughter
Kate Winslet, firmly established as the leading British screen actress of her generation thanks to five Oscar nominations and a string of film successes, has always striven to retain the image of a down-to-earth working mother, with day-to-day concerns no different from the rest of us.
Life with her director husband of four years, Sam Mendes, and her children Mia, six (by her first husband) and Joe, three, may seem impossibly glamorous, and their homes - a New York apartment and a Cotswold manor house - are certainly a world away from the terraced house in Reading where she grew up.
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| DiCaprio and Me |
By Scott Matthew Harris
A few months ago, I get a call from Grant Wilfley Casting. They ask if I'd like to do a few days of extra work on a film called Revolutionary Road.
To me, it sounds like an uninteresting war film. But I don't care — whatever, I need the cash. Especially once they mention that Leonardo DiCaprio is going to be in it. DiCaprio's a big star, so it'll be a major production, which means — you guessed it, a nice big craft services table.
Yeah, baby. Bring on the free food!
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| John Turturro To Self-Distribute Romance & Cigarettes |
Actor-director John Turturro will distribute his movie Romance & Cigarettes with his own money, after a studio takeover left it on the scrap-head.
The musical was made in 2004 with an ensemble cast including James Gandolfini, Kate Winslet, Susan Sarandon, Steve Buscemi and Christopher Walken.
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| Best Dressed Celebrity Couples |
Madonna & Guy Richie voted the best dressed celebrity couple
Readers of InStyle magazine have voted Madonna husband Guy Ritchie as the world’s best-dressed celebrity couple.
Over 3,500 readers, decided that Guy Ritchie — whether tuxed up or in Barbour jacket — is the perfect compliment to his glamorous wife. Brad and Angelina's smoldering red carpet presence brought them in second and Posh and Becks, and their matchy, matchy designer outfits and his and hers hairstyles, have had to settle for third, nominated as the most co-ordinated couple on the list.
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| Fairfield gets a glimpse of a star |
MEG BARONE, Correspondent
FAIRFIELD — The morning tide has erased the evidence that Leonardo DiCaprio's feet touched the sand at Sasco Beach.
No matter to his scores of local fans; they have proof the superstar was in their town Monday. DiCaprio's Fairfield visit, including a romp on the beach with co-star Kate Winslet, dinner at the Scandinavian Club and racing on foot through Southport center, was captured for the silver screen by director Sam Mendes, Winslet's husband.
Fairfield is the latest location for the filming of Revolutionary Road, about a troubled Connecticut couple in the 1950s based on the book of the same title by Richard Yates. The film crew has also shot scenes in Trumbull, Darien, Beacon Falls, Norwalk, Stamford and Thomaston.
It is the first time that the Oscar-nominated actors have been paired since their performance in the blockbuster hit Titanic.
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| Winslet's Bond Fears |
Actress Kate Winslet fears she has jeopardized her chances of being picked to be a Bond girl - because she refuses to dress so raunchily.
The English beauty has previously stripped off for movies Titanic and Little Children, but she refuses to disrobe so easily for a less.
She was quoted by The Mirror as saying that: "Young women in those films always have to take their clothes off and kind of run around with daggers in their bikini bottoms."
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| Queen of the World |
Her spirits sank after her Titanic success, but now a soaring Kate Winslet is
Queen of the World
For millions of people, Kate Winslet will forever be the woman standing on the bow of the Titanic with Leonardo DiCaprio, her arms spread in exultation. But even as she was starring in one of the big screen's greatest love stories — and Titanic was becoming the most popular movie in history — Winslet was suffering through a personal romantic tragedy that would change her life.
“Looking back, I see what I was dealing with when Titanic came out", Winslet says. "I had a lot of pain, and I was confused about who I was."
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| Route 8 closes for DiCaprio, Winslet movie filming |
The stars from Titanic are making a splash in Beacon Falls with filming for their new movie, but it will mean detours for drivers tonight on Route 8.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are filming scenes for their upcoming movie Revolutionary Road.
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| "Everybody's Fine", New Role |
By Martin A. Grove
[...] Also on Nunnari's current development slate is Everybody's Fine, a remake of the 1990 Italian drama Stanno Tutti Bene that was directed by Giuseppe Tornatore and starred Marcello Mastroianni and won the Ecumenical Jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival as well as being a Palme d'Or nominee. "Everybody's Fine is a fantastic project. Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine) is attached to direct. He wrote the script. It's one of my dearest pieces of material. (Jones) is an unbelievable filmmaker. He doesn't make (as many) movies as the audience would prefer. He's very precise about what he wants to do. He turns down many, many things.
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| Pedro praises Brit talent |
Kate Winslet could be set to star in an adaptation of Ian McEwan's latest novel - if Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has anything to do with it.
Pedro, who directed Penélope Cruz in BAFTA-nominated Volver, praised British writing and acting talent and said he'd love to work with the Atonement author, reports The Daily Telegraph.
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| DreamWorks film shooting in Trumbull |
The Pinewood Lake Association raises the curtain on its artistic roots this summer when the DreamWorks movie, Revolutionary Road, will film scenes here.
The movie, which reunites Titanic stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, will use settings in and near the lake clubhouse next month, according to Harvey Mamrus, president of the recreational community's Board of Governors.
Mamrus said production officials finished arrangements Monday for the filming, expected to take place over three days the second week in July.
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| Is Kate Winslet one of the Watchmen? |
Here’s some salt. Now turn it upside down, shake, and splash it all over this one.
Kate Winslet may be playing Silk Spectre in the Watchmen movie, says Film Ick.
The site was provided with a list of potentials for the upcoming graphic novel cum film – directed by Zack Snyder (300) – with Winslet leading a cast that would also include Jason Patric (as Dr. Manhattan; have heard his name mentioned for the part before); Thomas Jane (as The Comedian) and Knocked Up co-star Jonah Hill (as Seymour).
Salty enough, yet?
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| BBC2 announces star-studded autumn schedule |
Anthony Hopkins and Kate Winslet will be interviewed as part of a special season celebrating the UK’s film industry on BBC2.
British Film Forever will also include interviews with Michael Caine, Ewan McGregor and Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha. Four Weddings And A Funeral writer Richard Curtis will also be featured in the season, which forms part of BBC 2's autumn schedule.
Other highlights in the schedule, unveiled today, include the drama Capturing Mary with Maggie Smith and David Walliams, written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff.
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| The night I spent with Kate Winslet |
The Rodin Museum in Paris has always seemed to me as a place in which sadness and beauty lived together in the most profound of the silences. Perhaps because of this, it's one of the most frequented buildings by Parisians, who go there to reflect and to take lonely strolls.
In its four floors, some of the most emblematic works of the artist intermingle with others signed by his lover, Camille Claudel, who committed suicide for being rejected by the sculptor.
All of it, united with the beauty of the gardens that surround it, encouraged the Lancôme's executives to elect this museum as structure for the presentation of the new campaign of the Trésor fragrance and its new image, the English actress Kate Winslet, who substitutes Inés Sastre. The Spanish model and actress will endure being spokeswoman of some make-up products and of treatment of the French brand, but it will be Winslet who's going to put her voice and face into one of the world's most sold fragrances of the brand.
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| Kate Winslet: The New Face Of Lancôme |
British actress Kate Winslet has been named the new celebrity spokesperson for cosmetics giants Lancôme as part of an Internet launch in Paris, France.
Winslet greeted a crowd of fans in Paris yesterday, after she was announced as the new face of the new "Trésor fragrance".
The Titanic actress was chosen as the successor to actress Isabella Rossellini, who appeared in ads for the company last year.
Source: ShowbizSpy
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| Winslet hails fragrance deal for hiring a 'real woman' |
Kate Winslet insists she was chosen as the spokesperson for cosmetic giant Lancôme because of her reputation as a "real woman".
The Titanic star was named as the face of the Trésor fragrance in Paris on Monday (11Jun07), taking over from fellow actress Isabella Rossellini, who previously held the role.
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| Warner Bros. Greenlights Sequel to 'Deep Sea 3D' |
To be honest, I have yet to be truly wowed by an IMAX experience. Lately the trend seems to be to format high profile films, and I am all for that, but made-for-IMAX content has always seemed a little lacking. The one genre that still seems to work well on the "really big screen", though, is the nature documentary. The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Warner Bros. has joined with longtime partner IMAX to produce a sequel to the 2006 film Deep Sea 3D, titled Deep Sea-quel. This will be the second 3D feature for the filmmaking trio of Howard Hall, Toni Myers and IMAX co-founder Graeme Ferguson, and the film will capture the "life aquatic" of New Guinea and Southern Australia. The film is set for release in 2009, but there has been no mention of whether Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet will be returning to provide narration this time around.
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| Titanic's last missing link opens |
A restored boat which is the last floating link to the ill-fated Titanic has opened to the public in Belfast.
Docked at Queen's Quay, the SS Nomadic has artifacts and replicas of items from the Titanic, as well as clothing worn by Kate Winslet in the 1997 movie.
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| Hathaway 'reduced to tears' by Winslet's greatness |
Anne Hathaway has lavished praise on British actress Kate Winslet for her "greatness". The Devil Wears Prada star Hathaway admits she was reduced to tears by an interview with the Titanic star — because Winslet's success reminded Hathaway she still has a long way to go as an actress. She says, "People say I appear controlled but I'm just all over the place. I cry terribly easily. "I was reading an article about Kate Winslet in Vogue and I love her so much I started crying, realizing how great she is and how far I have to go."
Source: contactmusic.com
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| Stars bite back |
Celebrities are fighting back over allegations of eating disorders, citing their status as role models to young women and joining widespread condemnation of "size zero".
Those who speculate publicly that high-profile women are unhealthily thin are finding themselves apologising at least or even in court facing hefty payouts.
Actors Kate Winslet, Keira Knightley and Kate Hudson, singer Joss Stone and even Victoria Beckham are among a raft of high profile women who have bitten back after claims about their slender frames.
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| Driver: 'The best roles go to "Kates"' |
Actress Minnie Driver has criticized fellow stars Kate Winslet, Kate Beckinsale and Cate Blanchett for stealing all the best film roles in Hollywood.
Driver, who was nominated for her performance in Good Will Hunting, is reportedly concentrating on television roles after facing a lack of film offers.
She says "There are maybe four actresses who get the really wonderful roles, and they are mostly called Kate."
Source: PR-inside.com
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| Winslet's bosom buddy |
When kate Winslet bumped into Helen McCrory at the Oscars, she did a cartoon double-take at the sight of Helen's daring decolletage.
'Great t***!' was Kate's comment.
'Only another breast-feeding mother could say that,' an unfazed Helen told me, as she re-adjusted her low-cut Roberto Cavalli gown.
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| Eva envies Kate? |
Eva Mendes has apparently revealed she would like to be in the same films as Kate Winslet.
The 32-year-old actress — who is about to hit the big screen in Ghost Rider alongside Nicolas Cage — told the Daily Mirror she wishes she would get the sort of roles Kate is offered.
"I want to be considered for the same films as Kate Winslet", she said. "She's a fantastic actress and I respect her so much. People don't even consider me for dramatic roles — just popcorn stuff."
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| Ellen: 'I was scared to death' |
Ellen DeGeneres burst into tears on her TV talk show on Monday when she was shown a taped post-Oscars video full of celebs praising her host work, including Kate Winslet, Marc Anthony, Helen Mirren and Will Smith.
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| Kate Winslet explains her explicit love scene in Little Children |
The best actress nominee for Little Children during the 79th Annual Academy Awards says the anxiety of having to do an explicit love scene completely in the nude, one day before its filming, is a lot worse than enacting it.
At 31 years Kate is the youngest actress to receive five Academy Award nominations.
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| Winslet knew she has no chance of taking Oscar home |
Actress Kate Winslet knew she'd be nothing more than an honored, invited guest at the Oscars — because there was no way anyone was going to beat Dame Helen Mirren in the Best Actress category.
Winslet received her fifth Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a desperate young mum in Little Children, but she just knew she'd be going home empty handed again.
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| Interview: Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson |
In Little Children, director Todd Field's second feature (he garnered Oscar nominations with his debut In The Bedroom), the leads Kate Winslet (Sarah) and Patrick Wilson (Brad) grapple with loneliness and loss of identity as they wrestle with being parents and unfulfilled adults.
Into the mix enters a third story realm occupied by Larry (a disgraced cop played by Noah Emmerich) and Ronnie (a convicted sex offender played by Jackie Earle Haley); they both intersect with Sarah and Brad as the film arrives at both a disturbing and open-ended conclusion.
Through Little Children, both Winslet and Wilson have had the opportunity to play around with their conventional images associated with them as hot young actors. Both have tackled roles in other films that defy the stereotypes. As a result, the film has achieved considerable support and has been selected as one of the 28 features accepted to the 44th Annual New York Film Festival held at Lincoln Center.
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| King and queen will rule, but who knows after that? |
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't risk a bet, even with your paycheck, on what this year's best-picture Oscar-winner will be.
One week, the buzz is all about Martin Scorsese's The Departed. The next, it's all about Little Miss Sunshine. A few British ex pats are huffing about The Queen. And Clint Eastwood's career long hex on Scorsese could play out, again, with Letters From Iwo Jima.
Might Babel have the momentum?
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| Kate Winslet's teenage obsession with dieting |
Earlier this month, Kate Winslet's lawyers began looking into the process of suing a British tabloid for claiming Kate had seen a diet doctor. At the time, Kate said, "I'm going to fight for myself. I don't want people thinking that I would ever go to a diet doctor, I would ever buy into that stuff. I never have done, I never will." While Winslet may not buy into the concept of a diet doctor, she did recently admit to going overboard dieting while in her teens.
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| Kate Winslet admits unhealthy crash dieting as a teen |
Kate Winslet has revealed that while she's happy with her weight now, she once developed an addiction to laxatives in an effort to lose weight.
Kate told Hollywood Life recently: "When I was 15, I was nearly 14 stone (196 pounds). I was uncomfortable and self-conscious. I knew I wanted to be an actress and was big."
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| Kate is still playing the housewife in L.A. |
Kate Winslet has turned her Oscar week into a family affair by bringing husband Sam Mendes and their young children Mia and Joe along for the ride.
"It's half-term for my kids, so it made sense to turn the Oscars into a family holiday", she told me. "We've been swimming and done lots of visits to places the kids loved."
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| Oscar Predictions: What will the nominees wear? |
You've seen my trend predictions, we've raided the couture shows for tips, and now I'm ready to make wild claims that'll no doubt prove untrue. It's time for the Catwalk Queen pre-Oscar predictions. Nope, I'm not guessing who'll win the gongs, but what designers and looks the female nominees will go for. My money's on Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet looking the best...
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| Fashionistas eagerly anticipate Oscar gowns |
Vintage choices help nominated actresses stand out.
For many, the Oscars aren't just about awarding the on-screen and behind-the-camera achievements of Hollywood's top talent — the ceremony is also about honoring sartorial achievements on the red carpet. And though many a cinephile may be wringing their hands over which film will take home best picture, just as many fashionistas are waiting, breath bated, to see what masterpieces will be worn on the big night.
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| Kate Winslet denies visiting a healing institute for dieting therapy |
Actress Kate Winslet has slammed reports that suggested that she visited Chinese Healing Institute in Santa Monica, California to get a slender figure.
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| Kate Winslet stunned by sexless mums |
Actress Kate Winslet was left stunned by grumpy mums she overheard complaining about their sex lives during her research for new movie Little Children.
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| Rule Britannia |
British screen stars led a cavalcade of stunning women on to the BAFTAs red carpet yesterday.
Showing their US counterparts how it's done, Kate Winslet, Sienna Miller, Thandie Newton and best actress winner Helen Mirren were sheer elegance in floor-length gowns.
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| Kate Winslet's the real deal |
Kate Winslet held up the BAFTA awards while she spoke to a young disabled fan.
The Little Children star — who was the last to arrive on the red carpet — was scheduled to present the first award of the evening, but after recognizing a young boy in a wheelchair she stopped to talk to him.
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| Winslet blasts Hollywood for 'generation of anorexics' |
Kate Winslet has launched an attack on stick thin Hollywood celebrities for breeding a "whole new generation of anorexics".
The 31-year-old actress has hit out at the movie industry for adding to the pressure on women to be super-skinny as the debate about size zero models on the catwalk continues to cause controversy.
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| Paltrow seeks work-home balance advice from Blanchett and Winslet |
Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltow is planning to seek advice from her colleagues in the industry, for she wants to learn the art of balancing personal and professional life.
The mum of two is getting back to work and wants to consult actresses Kate Winslet and Cate Blanchett to find out how they tackled the switch.
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| Kate Winslet hides her fame from her kids |
Kate Winslet believes parenthood has forced her to become calmer as a person and she tries to let her children have a normal life away from the limelight despite her fame.
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| Kate Winslet reluctant to push her kids into acting |
Actress Kate Winslet has decided not to encourage her kids to choose acting as their career, as she feels that one has to face a lot of pain and cruelty to become a star in Hollywood.
While the Titanic star believes that her daughter Mia can make a great actress, she has decided not to force the six-year old or three-year-old Joe to take up acting.
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| Winslet used to losing on Oscar night |
Academy Award nominee Kate Winslet insists she'll be cool and calm on Oscar night — because she's missed out on awards so many times, she knows exactly what to expect.
Winslet's Best Supporting Actress nomination is her fifth nod in 11 years and she has yet to walk away with a statuette.
The 31-year-old says, "I have always been able to really enjoy it. You are going to an event that people around the world would give their right arm to attend.
"When the day arrives you just gasp and it's nerve-wracking, but I am not a kind of stress-out/freak-out person, really I'm not."
Source: PR-inside.com
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| Teens' film up for award |
Titanic actress Kate Winslet and movie director, Sir Alan Parker, are to judge a film made by teenagers from South Wales.
Two men And Their Ponies, made by a group of eight 16-to-18-year-olds with Flycatcher Films in Abergavenny, has been nominated in the Best Documentary category of the First Light Movies Awards 2007 — the UK's very own Mini Oscars.
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| Awardees give full-figured women reasons to rejoice |
In 2000, Glamour magazine entered the "real woman" debate with a report on the relative sizes of three Kates: actress Kate Winslet and models Kate Moss and Kate Dillon, the latter a plus-sized model.
Winslet, at the time, was 130 pounds at 5 feet, 8 inches.
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| Kate Winslet insists she's 'normal' |
She's just clocked up her fifth Oscar nomination but Kate Winslet insists she's just another young mum, Sal Morgan writes.
Kate Winslet insists she's "normal" and today she almost looks it. Her hair is pulled back in a ponytail. She's barely got an ounce of make-up on and she's "thrown on the first thing in front of me", which today is jeans, a black top and cardigan, after "making breakfast for the kids", Mia, 6, and Joe, 3.
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| Winslet's 'disorganised' career break |
Kate Winslet is in the middle of a year's break from acting, but she admits she hasn't used any of her free time for self-improvement.
The five-time Oscar nominee is thrilled to be spending her days with her children Mia and Alfie, but she wishes she had been more organized during her year off.
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| Sally sure can pick-le a winner |
The mother of Hollywood star Kate Winslet has proved once again that she really knows her onions after winning the town’s prestigious pickling competition.
Sally Winslet was crowned champion pickler for the third successive time at the 2007 Doves Exiles Onion Pickling Contest on Sunday.
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| Kate Winslet & Leonardo DiCaprio Remain Friends Because They're Not Attracted to Each Other |
Kate Winslet is convinced the reason she and Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio remain such great friends is because there was never any sexual attraction between them. Although they starred in one of the greatest love stories of all time, the two never developed any romantic feelings toward each other.
She explains, "One of the most wonderful things about the relationship I had with Leonardo DiCaprio is that we were always just friends, not a flicker of flirtation. People wanted us to end up together in some way, but the kissing scenes in Titanic were very weird, like I was kissing my brother."
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| Winslet is "proud of" more mature DiCaprio |
Kate Winslet is full of praise for co-star Leonardo DiCaprio for the way he has handled fame, after Titanic was declared a blockbuster all across the world.
Both Winslet and DiCaprio became internationally famous in their early twenties as the 1999 movie went on to become a worldwide sensation. And Winslet is delighted DiCaprio hasn't developed an inflated ego, but has instead grown into a "solid man". She also feels the actor is now more compassionate than before.
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| Winslet praises 'more mature' DiCaprio |
Kate Winslet is thrilled with the way co-star Leonardo DiCaprio has handled fame after Titanic became a worldwide sensation. Both stars were in their early twenties when they were thrust into the international spotlight after the blockbuster's release. And Winslet is in delighted DiCaprio has become a "solid man" after initially struggling with being labeled a sex symbol. She says, "He hasn't done as many films as I have over the last ten years and it has really worked for him. "He's a very different person now. I'm so proud of him. He's really a solid man, very compassionate. He does a lot for charities and the word charity probably didn't mean much to him back then. "The world, the issues, and the people who are suffering within the world, are very important to him. And he's still giving great performances."
Source: contactmusic.com
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| Mom's Oscar nomination confuses Kate Winslet's son Joe |
Kate Winslet was so thrilled by her Oscar nomination for her lead role in Little Children yesterday that she confused her son, Joe, 3, with her shrieks of delight. Kate learned of her nomination from her husband, Sam Mendes, 41, an Oscar winner himself, when she was in between dropping off her daughter, Mia, 6, and Joe at their schools in New York.
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| A home girl at heart |
Kate Winslet makes a point of forgoing the usual pampering in the make-up chair for our interview in the Beverly Hills Four Seasons. She is dressed in a simple black cardigan, with wisps of her champagne-blonde hair escaping her ponytail. She is Ordinary Kate, down-to-earth, and accessible.
Yet she is one of our most celebrated actresses, last week nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Little Children. Even though this is her fifth nomination, she still isn't used to the thrill of hearing her name read out.
"It is incredible to get an Academy nomination", she says. "It's one of the best things that has happened to me. You never as an actor think that's going to happen. It genuinely means a lot to me."
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| Kate's reactions to the Oscar nomination |
"I've been laughing, crying, hollering, whooping and leaping around", Little Children star Kate Winslet said.
"My husband, Sam [Mendes], called me. He's in London, I'm in New York. I had just dropped my daughter at school and I was taking my son. There was some serious fist pumping, pounding the ceiling of the car."
"This isn't supposed to happen to a girl who grew up in a tiny town. I was told the only way I'd have a career as an actress would be if I could settle for playing fat girls."
And what did Winslet have to say about co-star Jackie Earle Haley's nod?
"It's not just a whole new career, it's a whole new life. It's gonna change him and his self esteem."
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| Mirren is best Oscar bet ever |
Helen Mirren's portrayal of The Queen has turned the British actress into the hottest Oscar favorite ever. Hours after her name was mentioned among this year's (07) Best Actress nominees, Mirren is the clear favorite to claim gold, according to international odds makers.
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| Helen aims to reign at the Oscars |
Helen Mirren will go head to head with fellow Brits Kate Winslet and Judi Dench at next month's Oscars.
The trio headed a British charge as the nominations for the Academy Awards were announced today.
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| Brits lead way at Oscars |
The nominations for this year's Academy Awards were announced at dawn in a special ceremony in Los Angeles. And British talent features heavily.
The best showing was for Best Actress, where three of the five nominations went to our ladies. Judi Dench is in with a shot for Notes On A Scandal (her best performance for years), Kate Winslet gets a nod for Little Children, but favorite to triumph has to be Helen Mirren, who's already got the Golden Globe for her portrayal of Elizabeth II in The Queen.
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| Borat leads Britain's Oscar bid |
Comedy film character Borat is set to scoop an Academy Award after Sacha Baron Cohen and his writing partners were nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.
The nomination comes for the worldwide hit Cultural Benefits Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan.
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| Britain's leading ladies fight for Oscars crown |
Some of Britain's leading actresses are up against each other for the best actress award at this year's Oscars.
Helen Mirren has, as widely expected, been nominated for her role in The Queen, while Judi Dench was given the nod for Notes On a Scandal and Kate Winslet for Little Children.
Up against them are Penelope Cruz for Volver and Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada.
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| Helen and Kate in Running as Oscar Nods Announced |
The final countdown to the Oscars has begun with British talent leading the field in the best actress category. As widely predicted, The Queen star Helen Mirren is one of the nominees, as are Judi Dench for Notes On A Scandal and Kate Winslet for Little Children.
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| British Golden Globe winners face Oscars flop |
Helen Mirren will lead a UK invasion of the nominations, but she may be the only winner.
Here's a bet nobody is likely to lose money on: Helen Mirren will be nominated for an Oscar this week for her performance as the Queen. Nothing, in fact, looks likely to derail her progress towards the Academy Award itself.
In fact, it's looking an unusually promising year for Brits. Expect nominations for Stephen Frears for directing The Queen and Peter Morgan for writing it; for Kate Winslet and Judi Dench, both picked by the Screen Actors Guild, whose members usually guide the Academy; and for Peter O'Toole, who has won raves for Venus, and Sacha Baron Cohen, who stole the show at the Golden Globes last week by winning an award and delivering a hilarious speech heavy on male anatomy.
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| Forest Whitaker, Kate Winslet & De Niro |
Forest Whitaker recently finished a commercial for People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals' (PETA) website, contact music.com reported. Whitaker, whose role as the murderous dictator Idi Amin in The Last King Of Scotland may earn him an Oscar nomination, and his 7-year-old daughter, True, spout the benefits of a meat-free diet in the ad. Whitaker says, "Life is full of choices, and many years ago, I chose to become a vegetarian. (It) was one of the best choices I've ever made".
Kate Winslet may be a big-time actress but she gets her biggest thrill from her two children, Alfie, 3, and Mia, 6. Winslet told In Style magazine: "Mia said to me the other day in the car, 'Mum, I love your cooking'. To me, it was an incredibly triumphant moment, the fact that she observed I do cook their meals. It's great when the mum can be a person who represents those nurturing things for kids. My mum certainly was that".
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| Tea time with Winslet, Blunt and 'Babel' |
The event: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)/Los Angeles' traditional tea party held late-afternoon Sunday at the Four Seasons Hotel.
The players: Kate Winslet (Little Children), Penélope Cruz (Volver), Toni Collette (Little Miss Sunshine), Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada).
Call it the awards season's splash of British pomp. But there was nothing stuffy about the Hollywood pageantry.
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| Stars come out for tea |
Kate Winslet, Penélope Cruz and Dame Helen Mirren were just some of the celebs who turned out in the rather cold Los Angeles weather to trumpet all things British at the BAFTA/LA Tea Party.
The annual bash saw the stars enjoying fish and chips as well as champagne and, of course, a brew — which helped to heat up those who ventured out on a Sunday afternoon to the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.
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| Winslet's "Little" challenge |
Career appears to be shaped by her ugly-duckling childhood
Web sites can sing Kate Winslet's praises, gushing at ForeverKate.com, members. tripod.com/sexywinslet/ and their kin about her talent, her looks, her principles.
People can slap her on its "50 Most Beautiful People" list without a second thought.
But Kate, that Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, the woman who made Leonardo DiCaprio sexy in Titanic, is still "the ugly duckling at the school prom who didn't get asked to dance by the cutest boy in the school and probably had the wrong shoes on", she says.
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| Winslet's pretty problem |
Kate Winslet was terrified about starring in The Holiday — because she didn't feel pretty enough.
The British actress — who shared the screen with Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Jack Black in the romantic comedy — felt intimidated at the thought that film fans would see the real her.
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| "It's just wonderful" |
Kate Winslet is no stranger to best actress nominations, with more than a dozen under her rather attractive belt.
But despite being a veteran when it comes to awards ceremonies, she is still thrilled at a fourth Golden Globe nomination.
"I can't tell you how happy I feel about this, it's just so, so great", she gushes over the nod for her new film Little Children.
"It's just wonderful. It still feels like the first time it has happened. I was genuinely surprised; you can never count your chickens."
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| When Kate Winslet wanted to "tongue-kiss" Meryl Streep! |
Actress Kate Winslet admits her blabbering tongue once put her into an embarrassing situation, when she asked Meryl Streep if she could French-kiss her.
The British beauty is given to uttering things on a whim, which often lead her to blurt out words she actually never meant. She reveals she was so exited to meet her idol at a recent awards ceremony she accidentally made the embarrassing offer.
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| Change good as a holiday |
At a time when most of her contemporary Hollywood stars would be eager to capitalize on the exposure of film successes, Kate Winslet has gone to ground.
After doing four films back to back, the British actor is a stay-at-home mum. Her most pressing concern is cooking a hearty soup for her brood, which includes award-winning director husband Sam Mendes, daughter Mia, 6, and son Joe, 3.
But this year-long break from shooting films is anything but a holiday for the New York-based multiple Oscar nominee.
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| Race for the Oscars |
In Hollywood ahead of the Oscar awards, here is a list of all the actresses who are likely to make it to the nominations shortlist.
With Oscar nominations rapidly approaching the talk of tinsel-town is who will get the all important nod from the Academy this year. Out and out favourite for the coveted Best Actress prize is Helen Mirren for her portrayal of the British monarch, Elizabeth II in The Queen.
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| Blanchett: "Dunaway confused me with Winslet" |
Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett was overjoyed to meet Faye Dunaway recently, but was left crestfallen when the veteran actress thought she was Kate Winslet.
Australian Blanchett quickly pointed out Chinatown star Dunaway's mistake.
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| Kate Winslet vanishes into her roles |
Sarah Pierce, the central figure in Little Children is a mess. It goes beyond her uncombed hair, baggy overalls and rat's-nest purse. She's a smart woman who has somehow ended up in a dumb life that doesn't feel like it belongs to her. In this she seems very different from the famously grounded Kate Winslet, who plays her in the Todd Field film of Tom Perrotta's story of suburbia and its discontents.
Ms. Winslet, whose finely wrought performance has already won her a Golden Globe nomination and could well land her on this year’s Oscar ballot, deliberately rejected a dumb life after Titanic made her a worldwide celebrity at 22. She refused to become a Hollywood cliché, embarking instead on a decade of playing chewy, interesting parts in a series of films ranging from offbeat indies like Hideous Kinky and Holy Smoke to prestige projects like Iris and Quills She was the flaky, bewitching Clementine in Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and the teary, overwrought Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet. She has mastered the role of glamorous yet gracious luminary, dolling up for the red carpet and dishing on the talk shows with what appears to be genuine relish.
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| Kate Winslet wants more children |
The Holiday actress - who has a three-year-old son, Alfie, with her director husband Sam Mendes and a daughter, Mia, six, with former partner, Jim Threapleton - admits she dreams of having a bigger family.
She revealed: "I'm hoping to have more kids. I don’t know whether another one or another two, but I would love to have more."
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| Winslet: 'My husband won't let me have surgery' |
KATE WINSLET has never turned to plastic surgery because her director husband SAM MENDES won't let her. The British actress admits to being tempted by the surgeon's knife but she's holding back for the sake of her marriage. She reveals, "I am intrigued by surgery but Sam would leave me if I did anything like that".
Source: contactmusic.com
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| Dreaming of Oscar |
Four-time nominee Winslet admits disappointment at not being a winner
The little children in "Little Children" are the adults, starting with Kate Winslet's Sarah, an overeducated suburban mom deadened by marriage to a slug who wears women's underwear on his head. Among the film's first words of dialogue are "Bad mommy! Bad mommy!" an invective from her daughter in the playground where Sarah eyes an equally un-adult house husband dubbed the "Prom King" by neighborhood women.
The "bad mommy" descriptor bears no resemblance to real life, of course, for Winslet prides herself on being, above all else, a good mom. But she was a bad girl -- Bad Girl! -- when she violated the dictate of the director, Todd Field, that the actors not read the novel on which the film was based. She even called him, excitedly, to say her character had to have that blue toenail polish when she began breaking her emotional chains in pursuit of the Prom King.
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| Kate Winslet's 'friendly' encounter with her ex-boyfriend |
Washington, Nov 24 (ANI): Hollywood beauty Kate Winslet was reunited with ex-boyfriend Rufus Sewell on the set of new movie 'The Holiday', but insists the experience was "friendly".
The Titanic beauty enjoyed a three-month fling with British actor Sewell in the early 1990's when she was relatively unknown and, although they have hardly seen each other since, Winslet still considers him a friend.
"It was completely fine. I hadn't seen him for a very long time but we'd remained friends," she was quoted by Contactmusic, as saying.
"It was really not a big deal - I was thrilled he got the part."
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| A chat with actress Kate Winslet about her role in 'Little Children' |
SARAH IS definitely the hardest part I've ever had to play!" says the beautiful Kate Winslet.
I met this glamorous creature on 14th Street in the Balducci grocery that now inhabits a former bank. She arrived with a stroller attached, as if part of her outfit; struggled upstairs with it. While we looked down on people buying cheese and fresh veggies, we talked about her latest movie.
In Little Children, directed by Todd Fields, Kate plays a disaffected adulterous suburban wife who doesn't much relate to her little girl or her porn-addicted husband and falls for a neighbor who is a good-looking stay-at-home dad.
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| Winslet finds it hard playing ... a Brit |
By Bob Tourtellotte
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Born and raised in England, and a resident of London, Kate Winslet ought to have an easy time playing a modern British woman. Right?
Wrong! In comedy film "The Holiday," which debuts in the United States on December 8, Winslet, 31, plays a Londoner who finds romance while on vacation in Los Angeles.
"I was surprised how nervous I was just playing an English woman," Winslet told reporters recently.
In roughly 15 years in movies, the "Titanic" star has played English women in historical films like "Sense and Sensibility" and American women in contemporary works such as "Little Children," a movie now showing in which Winslet's performance is being called worthy of an Oscar nomination.
But never has she played the type of woman she really is.
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