161-807: Michael Winterbottom (born 29 March 1961) is an English film director. He began his career working in British television before moving into features. Three of his films— Welcome to Sarajevo , Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People —have competed for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival . He and co-director Mat Whitecross won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival for their work on The Road to Guantanamo . His production company, Revolution Films , has
322-643: A Grammy Award , two Primetime Emmy Awards , five BAFTA Awards and five Golden Globe Awards . Time magazine named Winslet one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009 and 2021. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2012. Winslet studied drama at the Redroofs Theatre School . Her first screen appearance, at age 15, was in the British television series Dark Season (1991). She made her film debut playing
483-551: A certificate for general release in the UK. It charts a year-long relationship between two lovers, almost exclusively through their sexual interaction and various rock concerts the couple attend. The film became notorious in the UK for its candid scenes of unsimulated sex between the leads, Kieran O'Brien and Margo Stilley . A Cock and Bull Story , released in the United States and Australia as Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story ,
644-461: A "concert of peace" on a hill overlooking Sarajevo, playing his cello to hundreds of Sarajevans. Among the attendees are Henderson, Flynn and several children from the orphanage. Henderson gives Harun a sad smile; the concert is beautiful, but it also means that Sarajevo had, indeed, become the worst place on Earth. The closing credits say that Emira still lives in England. Michael Winterbottom portrays
805-455: A "mess", Winslet later said she had lost control of her instincts during this period. They divorced in 2001. Soon after separating from Threapleton, she met director Sam Mendes when he offered her a part in a play; she turned down the offer but began dating him. Dismayed at how the British tabloids portrayed her personal life, Winslet relocated to New York City. She married Mendes in May 2003 on
966-486: A Golden Globe Award for each of these films, and for the latter, she was awarded the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actress . At age 33, she surpassed her own record as the youngest performer to accrue six Oscar nominations. She also became the third actress in history to win two Golden Globe Awards at the same ceremony. Exhausted by the media attention during this period, Winslet took two years off work until she
1127-514: A biopic of the erratic Marquis de Sade , starring Geoffrey Rush and Joaquin Phoenix , Winslet played the supporting role of a sexually repressed laundress working in a mental asylum. Hailing her 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
1288-569: A book on the topic. Divorced from film directors Jim Threapleton and Sam Mendes , Winslet has been married to businessman Edward Abel Smith since 2012. She has a child from each marriage, one of whom is the actress Mia Threapleton . Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born on 5 October 1975, in Reading , Berkshire, to Sally Ann (née Bridges) and Roger John Winslet. She is primarily of British descent, but also has Irish ancestry on her father's side and Swedish ancestry on her mother's side. Her mother worked as
1449-482: A break from acting to focus on her children. A short part that she had filmed four years prior for the anthology film Movie 43 was her sole screen appearance of 2012, and it yielded the worst reviews of her career. Winslet also performed an audiobook recording of Émile Zola 's novel Thérèse Raquin . She was reluctant to accept Jason Reitman 's offer to star in his 2013 film adaptation of Joyce Maynard 's novel Labor Day , but agreed after Reitman postponed
1610-457: A defining performance this late in a career, this is surely Winslet's." Mare of Easttown proved to be a ratings hit for HBO, and Winslet once again won the Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Awards for Best Actress in a miniseries. Following Mare of Easttown , Winslet took a year off work to spend time with her family. She narrated the documentary Eleven Days in May (2022), about
1771-606: A dozen of her films, although she considers its contribution to the narrative before agreeing to it. She believes that such scenes promote a positive body image among women. While filming Dark Season , fifteen-year-old Winslet began a romantic relationship with actor-writer Stephen Tredre , who was twelve years her senior. She considered him a major influence in her life and they lived together in London from 1991. They broke up in 1995, but remained close until Tredre died of bone cancer two years later. Winslet decided not to attend
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#17328517538611932-410: A dystopian future, the adaptation of Veronica Roth 's young adult novel stars Shailene Woodley as a heroine fighting an oppressive regime headed by Winslet's character. She was pregnant with her third child during production, and her tight-fitting costumes had to be altered to accommodate the pregnancy. To maintain her character's intimidating persona, she remained aloof from her co-stars for much of
2093-538: A family structure that might be perceived by some as "unconventional", she does not consider it to be any "less of a family". She turns down offers of work that otherwise would take her away from her children for too long, and likes to schedule her filming commitments around their school holidays. Discussing her parenting style, she said she enjoys packing lunches and doing the school run. Winslet has lent her support to several charities and causes, along with financial donations and items for auctions. In 2006, she became
2254-475: A favourite among her roles, and she received Best Actress nominations at the Oscar and BAFTA award ceremonies. She has said 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
2415-498: A few European film festivals. In 1991, he directed episodes of various British TV shows, including the four-part children's series Time Riders and an episode of Boon . In 1992, he directed the television film Under the Sun about a young British woman traveling in Greece, starring Kate Hardie . It was shot on Super 16 film and gained him further attention. In 1993, he directed an episode of
2576-544: 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) featured Winslet and Judi Dench as
2737-515: A film and more of an actors' workshop" and found Winslet miscast. Winslet portrayed palaeontologist Mary Anning in Ammonite (2020), a period drama about a romance between Anning and Charlotte Murchison (played by Saoirse Ronan ) set in 1840s England. She dropped out of Wes Anderson 's The French Dispatch to have more preparation time for the project. She collaborated closely with Ronan, and they choreographed their own sex scenes. For much of
2898-474: A first look deal with Fremantle. Winterbottom was born in Blackburn , Lancashire . He went to Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn , and then studied English at Balliol College, Oxford , before going to film school at Bristol University , where his contemporaries included Marc Evans . Winterbottom's television directing career began in 1989, with a documentary about Ingmar Bergman and an episode of
3059-465: A frequent collaborator with Winterbottom. Winterbottom's biggest-budgeted film up to that point, at $ 20 million, The Claim was an adaptation of Thomas Hardy 's The Mayor of Casterbridge set in 1860s California. Shot in the wilds of Canada, it was not a financial success and proved an ordeal to make, with Winterbottom himself getting frostbite . Many of the production difficulties, including unsuccessful attempts to cast Madonna , were explained to
3220-609: A group of esteemed British actresses who are typically showing "restraint, rendering emotions through intellect rather than feelings, and a sense of irony, which demonstrates the heroine's superior understanding". Tom Perrotta , the author of Little Children , has said that Winslet "gravitates toward troubling roles in smaller films", typically those of "thorny, potentially unsympathetic" women. The journalist Mark Harris writes that she specialises in "unsentimentalized, restless, troubled, discontented, disconcerted, difficult women" and John Hiscock of The Daily Telegraph has identified
3381-602: A house fire. They married in December 2012 in New York, and their son, Bear, was born the following year. After moving back to her native England, Winslet purchased a property worth £3.25 million by the sea in West Wittering , Sussex, where she lives with Smith and her children as of 2015 . In a 2015 interview, she commented on how much she enjoyed living in the countryside. Winslet has stated that despite three marriages and
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#17328517538613542-551: A lifeguard (played by Justin Timberlake ). She described her character as permanently dissatisfied and uneasy; playing the part proved difficult for Winslet, who suffered from anxiety. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times disliked Allen's writing but credited Winslet for filling her "shabby character with feverish life". When asked during the film's promotion about her decision to work with Allen despite an allegation of child molestation against him, Winslet chose not to comment on
3703-478: A nanny and waitress, and her father, a struggling actor, took labouring jobs to support the family. Her maternal grandparents were both actors and ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company. Winslet has two sisters, Anna and Beth, both of whom are actresses, and a younger brother, Joss. The family had limited financial means; they lived on free meal benefits and were supported by a charity named
3864-504: A neurotic and impetuous woman who decides to erase memories of her ex-boyfriend (played by Jim Carrey ). Unlike her previous assignments, the role allowed her to display the quirky side to her personality. Gondry encouraged Winslet and Carrey to improvise on set, and to keep herself agile she practised kickboxing. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind proved to be a modest financial success and several critics have regarded it as one of
4025-672: A patron of a Gloucester -based charity, the Family Haven, which provides counselling services to vulnerable families. The same year, hand-made envelopes designed by Winslet were auctioned for the "Pushing the Envelope" campaign created by the National Literacy Trust . Winslet was one of the celebrities to participate in a 2007 auction to raise funds for the Afghanistan Relief Organization . In 2009, she contributed to
4186-446: A pie, for which she drew on her baking experience from Mildred Pierce . Reviews of the film were negative; Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly dismissed it as "mawkish and melodramatic" but credited Winslet for adding layers to her passive role. She received her tenth Golden Globe nomination. The novelty of playing a villain drew Winslet to the part of Jeanine Matthews in the science fiction film Divergent (2014). Set in
4347-568: A platform for larger salaries. She avoided 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 be a star. She later said her decision ensured career longevity. Hideous Kinky , a low-budget drama shot before the release of Titanic , was Winslet's sole film release of 1998. She turned down offers to star in Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Anna and
4508-403: A political thriller set in 1940s Louisiana , featuring Sean Penn and Jude Law . She played the supporting part of the love interest to Law's character. The film received negative reviews for its lack of political insight and narrative cohesiveness, and failed to recoup its $ 55 million investment. Her next release, the drama Little Children , was better received. Based on the novel of
4669-549: A production budget of $ 200 million, and its arduous principal photography was held at Baja Studios where a replica of the ship was created. Filming proved taxing for Winslet; she almost drowned, caught influenza, suffered from hypothermia, and had bruises on her arms and knees. The workload allowed her only four hours of sleep per day and she felt drained by the experience. Writing for Newsweek , David Ansen commended Winslet for capturing her character's zeal with delicacy, and Mike Clark of USA Today considered her to be
4830-467: A relative that Emira was put into the orphanage as an infant by her mother under familial pressure. When Risto is killed in his home by a sniper, Henderson asks for help from Zeljko, a concierge at the Holiday Inn, who Henderson had helped in the past. Zeljko negotiates the streets and road-blocks that lead to Emira's mother, who is desperate for the girl to live with her. However, she is persuaded that Emira
4991-477: A ruthless Russian-Israeli gangster. The critic Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post felt Winslet had failed to effectively portray her. Her next release of the year, Collateral Beauty , about a man (played by Will Smith ) struggling with the death of his daughter, was panned by critics. Writing for New York magazine, Emily Yoshida dismissed the film as a vacuous remake of A Christmas Carol and added that Winslet had "never looked more painted and tired". It
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5152-448: A satire about a fictional authoritarian country. To play a megalomaniac dictator, she consulted a neuroscientist and a psychotherapist to create a backstory for her character. Critics deemed her performance superior to the series. Winslet will next reprise her role in the sequel Avatar: Fire and Ash . Journalists consider Winslet to be among the finest actresses of her generation. Despite achieving stardom early in her career with
5313-538: A seamstress who returns to her hometown years after she was accused of murder. She learnt to sew for the part and designed some of her own costumes. The project was filmed in the Australian desert and she found it difficult to wear couture dresses in the harsh weather. Despite disliking the film, Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times credited Winslet for underplaying her over-the-top part. The film emerged as one of
5474-432: A second Best Actress nomination at that year's BAFTA Award ceremony. With a box office gross of $ 116 million, Finding Neverland became her most widely seen film since Titanic . In 2005, Winslet took on a guest role in an episode of the British comedy sitcom Extras , starring Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant . She played a satirical version of herself in it—an actress, who in an effort to win an Oscar, takes
5635-468: A shift in style for Winterbottom. Its handheld photography and naturalistic dialogue drew comparisons to Robert Altman . Starring Gina McKee , Shirley Henderson , Molly Parker , John Simm , Ian Hart and Stuart Townsend , it is the story of three sisters and their extended family over Guy Fawkes Day weekend in London . It featured an orchestral score by minimalist composer Michael Nyman , who would become
5796-457: A small part in the television film Anglo-Saxon Attitudes , an adaptation of Angus Wilson's satirical novel . Winslet, who weighed 13 stone 3 pounds (84 kg; 185 lb) at the time, played the daughter of an obese woman. During filming, after hearing an off-hand comment from the director Diarmuid Lawrence about the likeness between her and the actress who played her mother, Winslet became motivated to lose weight. She next took on
5957-494: A socialite aboard the ill-fated RMS Titanic , in James Cameron 's epic romance Titanic (1997). Cameron was initially reluctant to cast her, preferring the likes of Claire Danes and Gwyneth Paltrow , but she pleaded with him, "You don't understand! I am Rose! I don't know why you're even seeing anyone else!" Her persistence led him to give her the part. Leonardo DiCaprio featured as her love interest, Jack. Titanic had
6118-474: A son. Winterbottom is an atheist . Welcome to Sarajevo Welcome to Sarajevo is a 1997 war drama film directed by Michael Winterbottom , written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and is based on the book Natasha's Story by Michael Nicholson . The film stars Stephen Dillane , Woody Harrelson , Marisa Tomei , Emira Nušević, Kerry Fox , Goran Višnjić , James Nesbitt , and Emily Lloyd . Welcome to Sarajevo had its world premieres at Cannes and
6279-568: A supporting role through motion capture in Cameron's top-grossing science fiction film Avatar: The Way of Water . For her narration of a short story in the audiobook Listen to the Storyteller (1999), Winslet won a Grammy Award . She performed the song " What If " for the soundtrack of her film, Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001). A co-founder of the charity Golden Hat Foundation , which aims to create autism awareness , Winslet has also written
6440-607: A teenage murderess in Heavenly Creatures (1994), and went on to win a BAFTA Award for playing Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995). Global stardom followed with her leading role in James Cameron 's epic romance Titanic (1997), which was the highest-grossing film at the time. Winslet then eschewed parts in blockbusters in favour of critically acclaimed period pieces, including Quills (2000) and Iris (2001). The science fiction romance Eternal Sunshine of
6601-601: A theme of characters who are free-spirited with a sexual edge to them. Anthony Lane of The New Yorker associates Winslet with stubbornness, writing that "the set of her jaw and the blaze of her glance suggest a self-freeing spirit who knows the path ahead and is determined to take it". Stephen Whitty of NJ.com associates Winslet with "serious, almost despairing material", although he finds it hard to pigeonhole her as an actress. Josephine Livingstone of The New Republic , however, finds Winslet unconvincing in roles where she has "no real emotional vulnerability", believing she
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6762-439: A vocal debate there about the depiction of both the working classes and spousal abuse in the media. His final early television project was a 1995 episode of the documentary series Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood , focusing on Scandinavian silent cinema. Winterbottom's debut feature followed a mentally unbalanced lesbian serial killer and her submissive lover/accomplice as they fall in love while slaughtering their way across
6923-521: A willingness in Winslet to avoid typecasting and said that she takes an effort "to reposition directors' and producers' perspective on her" to allow herself to be challenged as an artist. Winslet has said she is interested in playing "angst-ridden women" with strong dispositions masking flaws and insecurities, and that she connects with "women who are either finding their way out of a situation, looking for love, having some struggle within love, or questioning
7084-489: A young age. She and her sisters participated in amateur stage shows at school and at a local youth theatre, named Foundations. When she was five, Winslet made her first stage appearance as Mary in her school's production of the Nativity play . She describes herself as an overweight child, and was called "blubber" by her schoolmates and was bullied for her appearance. She said she did not let this stop her. At eleven, Winslet
7245-436: Is a comedy satirizing the lives of the ultra-rich, starring Steve Coogan as a fictional retail fashion magnate, Isla Fisher as his wife, and David Mitchell as a journalist hired to write the billionaire's life story. The film is set at the billionaire's disastrous 60th birthday party on Mykonos , and explores the divide between the character's wealth and the abject poverty of the workers who produce his products. The project
7406-624: Is a docu-drama about the " Tipton Three ", three British Muslims captured by US forces in Afghanistan who spent two years as prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp as alleged enemy combatants . It was shot in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran (which doubled for Cuba) in the autumn of 2005. It premiered at the Berlinale on 14 February 2006. It debuted in the UK on television, on 9 March, as it
7567-476: Is a period film which follows a small town Texas sheriff (Affleck), who is also a psychotic killer, through his descent into complete madness. It premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and caused controversy for the realistic brutality of its violence toward women. In his defence, Winterbottom said, "It's not the real world. It's kind of a parallel version of the real world... I was taken in by that world." This improvised six-episode comedy series, filmed in
7728-482: Is an adaptation of the famously "unfilmable" The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , one of the earliest novels. The film is a faux documentary about the making of a film of Tristram Shandy . Steve Coogan stars as himself and as Shandy. The film marked the end of Winterbottom's lengthy collaboration with Frank Cottrell Boyce , who chose to be credited under the pseudonym Martin Hardy. The Road to Guantanamo
7889-453: Is based on the Parker–Hulme murder case of 1954, in which Winslet played Juliet Hulme , a teenager who assists her friend, Pauline Parker (played by Melanie Lynskey ), in the murder of Pauline's mother. She prepared for the part by reading the transcripts of the girls' murder trial, their letters and diaries, and interacted with their acquaintances. She has said she learnt tremendously from
8050-486: Is happy in England and so signs the adoption papers. A running joke in the movie is the designation by a UN official that Sarajevo was only the 14th worst crisis in the world. In the middle of the movie, Harun, a cellist friend of Risto, says that he would play a concert on the streets of Sarajevo once it is designated the worst place on Earth. Though he acknowledges the danger, he claims that "the people will die happily listening to my music." The movie ends with Harun holding
8211-680: Is most compelling when she has "the opportunity to get hysterical". "I can't just learn my lines and do [my job], but perhaps that's because I don't want to act, I want to be. And I do think there's a difference." —Winslet on acting Leonardo DiCaprio, her co-star in Titanic and Revolutionary Road , considers Winslet 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
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#17328517538618372-546: Is set in 1930s/1940s British Mandatory Palestine and stars Douglas Booth as Tom Wilkin and Harry Melling as Geoffrey J. Morton , two British police officers hunting Zionist militant Avraham Stern . It co-stars Irina Starshenbaum as Shoshana Borochov . The screenplay was written by Winterbottom, Laurence Coriat and Paul Viragh. Winterbottom has been developing the film for many years. In 2010, Jim Sturgess , Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen were announced as its stars. While
8533-434: The 2007 Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2007. Genova is a family drama about an Englishman, played by Colin Firth , who moves his two American daughters to Italy following the death of his wife. Once there, the oldest girl starts exploring her sexuality, while the younger girl begins to see the ghost of her mother. It co-stars Catherine Keener and Hope Davis and was filmed in the titular city of Genoa , Italy, during
8694-661: The 2021 bombing of Gaza by Israel . She starred with her daughter Mia Threapleton in an improvised feature-length episode of the Channel 4 anthology series I Am... , titled "I Am Ruth", about the negative effects of social media. She won two BAFTA TV Awards for Best Actress and Best Single Drama (as producer). In her acceptance speech, she urged lawmakers to criminalise harmful digital content. In 2017 and 2018, Winslet concurrently filmed two sequels to James Cameron's science fiction film Avatar (2009) using motion capture technology. She learnt freediving for her role and
8855-607: The 78th Venice International Film Festival . Winterbottom co-directed the 2022 documentary Eleven Days in May , which focused on the deaths of over 60 Palestinian children killed during the Israeli bombing of Gaza over an eleven day period in May 2021. Gaza-based film-maker Mohammed Sawwaf was the other director and Kate Winslet provided the narration. It was released in the UK on 6 May 2022. This 6-part TV miniseries focuses on Boris Johnson 's leadership of Britain, starting with his appointment as prime minister and continuing through
9016-502: The Academy Award for Best Actress . Winslet's portrayal of Joanna Hoffman in the biopic Steve Jobs (2015) won her another BAFTA Award, and she received two Primetime Emmy Awards for her performances in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011) and Mare of Easttown (2021). In 2022, she produced and starred in the single drama " I Am Ruth ", winning two BAFTA TV Awards , and played
9177-487: The Actors' Charitable Trust . When Winslet was ten, her father severely injured his foot in a boating accident and found it harder to work, leading to more financial hardships for the family. Winslet has said her parents always made them feel cared for and that they were a supportive family. Winslet attended St Mary and All Saints' Church of England primary school. Living in a family of actors inspired her to pursue acting from
9338-712: 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 credited 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, the black comedy follows two sets of parents feuding over their respective children. Jodie Foster , John C. Reilly , and Christoph Waltz co-starred. The cast rehearsed
9499-452: The COVID-19 pandemic , when Johnson caught the virus and became critically ill, while his partner gave birth to their son, and Britain suffered among the worst death tolls in the world. Kenneth Branagh stars as Johnson, with Ophelia Lovibond as Carrie Symonds and Simon Paisley Day as Dominic Cummings . Originally titled This Sceptred Isle , Winterbottom was set to direct every episode of
9660-456: The Elvis Costello song of the same name and shot by Polish cinematographer Sławomir Idziak , who won an Honourable Mention award at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival for his work. With or Without You , starring Christopher Eccleston , is a Belfast -set comedy about a couple trying desperately to conceive, who each have past loves re-enter their lives. Wonderland marked
9821-645: The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries ; Love Lies Bleeding , a television film written by Ronan Bennett about a convicted IRA member on a 24-hour home leave from prison in Belfast; and The Mad Woman in the Attic , the pilot of Jimmy McGovern 's mystery series Cracker . He next directed the 1994 mini-series Family , written by Roddy Doyle , the author of The Commitments . It was a huge success in Ireland and led to
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#17328517538619982-510: The Llewelyn Davies boys , which inspired Barrie to write Peter Pan ; she played the boys' mother, Sylvia . Despite her reluctance to star in another period piece, Winslet agreed to the project after empathising with her character's love for the children. Ella Taylor of LA Weekly found her to be "radiant and earthy as ever", and CNN 's Paul Clinton thought she was "exceptional in a delicate and finely tuned performance". She received
10143-565: The Oedipus myth, in a world where cloning has created people so interrelated that strict laws (the Code 46 of the title) govern human reproduction. The romantic mystery film starred Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton . It was shot in Shanghai , Dubai and Rajasthan , which were mixed to create a futuristic multi-ethnic culture. 9 Songs gained attention as the most sexually explicit film ever to receive
10304-695: The Stockholm International Film Festival in November, the film won the FIPRESCI Prize. The Look of Love , originally announced as The King of Soho , until that title had to be dropped due to a legal dispute, is a biography of famed British pornographer/strip club owner/real estate entrepreneur Paul Raymond which reteamed Winterbottom with Steve Coogan , who played Raymond. The film costarred Imogen Poots , Anna Friel and Tamsin Egerton and
10465-668: The Sundance Film Festival in January 2014. The full series aired on BBC Two in April 2014. Hosted by comedian Russell Brand , this documentary looks at the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and global economic inequality. It premiered in London on 21 April 2015, followed by its international premiere on 24 April 2015 at the Tribeca Film Festival . The film follows the British band Wolf Alice , focusing on two fictional members of
10626-596: The Toronto International Film Festival in May and September 1997, and was released in the United Kingdom on 21 November 1997, by FilmFour , and in the United States on 26 November 1997, by Miramax . In 1992, ITN reporter Michael Henderson travels to Sarajevo , the besieged capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina , during the ongoing war . There, he meets American star journalist Jimmy Flynn on
10787-637: The Tribeca Film Festival . The film was released in the US on 11 August 2017. This thriller starred Dev Patel as a mysterious young British Muslim man who travels to Pakistan to kidnap a young woman ( Radhika Apte ) on the eve of her arranged marriage. It was filmed in Jaipur , India and other locations in Rajasthan beginning in February 2018 and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2018. Greed
10948-460: The highest-grossing Australian films of all time, but earned little elsewhere. Winslet won the AACTA Award for Best Actress . While filming The Dressmaker , Winslet became aware of a forthcoming Steve Jobs biopic written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle . Keen on playing Jobs's marketing chief and confidante Joanna Hoffman , she sent a picture of herself dressed as Hoffman to
11109-452: The motorways of Northern England. It found only a limited release. That same year, he reunited with Jimmy McGovern for the BBC television film Go Now , the story of a young man who falls ill with multiple sclerosis just as he meets the love of his life. Focusing on the turmoil this causes the couple, the film was given a theatrical release in many countries, including the United States. It
11270-494: The 1960s were used as part of the soundtracks in such Vietnam War-era movies as Apocalypse Now and Platoon. The anthems used in Welcome to Sarajevo were popular closer to the era of the film. The film made its world premiere on May 9 at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival . On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film has a 78% approval rating based on 36 reviews, with an average ranking of 6.8/10. On Metacritic ,
11431-539: The 2009 Berlin Film Festival and aired in the UK on Channel 4's More4 documentary channel on 1 September 2009. It made its American premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival , alongside Winterbottom's following film. At the festival, Klein, who had reconciled herself with the filmmakers' approach, participated in a Q&A with Winterbottom and Whitecross. Winterbottom's film of Jim Thompson 's 1952 noir novel , starring Casey Affleck , Kate Hudson and Jessica Alba
11592-456: The Butterfly Book, a compilation of doodles made by several celebrities, to raise money for leukaemia research. Also in 2009, Winslet participated in a joint effort with Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, James Cameron, and Celine Dion , financially to help Millvina Dean , the then last-living survivor of the sinking of the Titanic . The donation amounted to $ 30,000 which was used to pay
11753-520: The English Lake District and written and directed by Winterbottom, starred Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as the same semi-fictionalized versions of themselves they played in A Cock and Bull Story . Coogan, an actor unhappy with his career, agrees to write a series of restaurant reviews for The Observer in order to impress his girlfriend Misha ( Margo Stilley ). As the series opens, she has dumped him and he invites Brydon to take her place on
11914-605: The King (1999) to do the film. Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Esther Freud , Hideous Kinky tells the story of a single British mother yearning for a new life in 1970s Morocco. Janet Maslin of The New York Times praised Winslet's decision to follow-up Titanic with such an offbeat project, and took note of how well she had captured her character's "obliviousness and optimism". Jane Campion 's psychological drama Holy Smoke! (1999) featured Winslet as an Australian woman who joins an Indian religious cult. She found
12075-933: The Literacy Partners, an organisation that teaches adults to read and write. She was unable to sympathise with Schmitz and struggled to play the part honestly without humanising the character's actions. Despite this, some historians criticised the film for making Schmitz an object of the audience's sympathy and accused the filmmakers of Holocaust revisionism . Todd McCarthy commended Winslet for supplying "a haunting shell to this internally decimated woman", and writing for The Daily Telegraph , Sukhdev Sandhu considered her to be "absolutely fearless here, not just in her willingness to expose herself physically, but her refusal to expose her character psychologically". Winslet received significant awards attention for her performances in Revolutionary Road and The Reader . She won
12236-462: The Mafia while investigating a local New York mobster, leading to a global investigation. It was to be written by Paul Viragh, based on an earlier script by Alessandro Camon. In October 2011, it was announced that Winterbottom would direct an adaption of Richard DiLello's 1973 book, The Longest Cocktail Party . It was to tell the story of Apple Corps , the record company formed by The Beatles in 1968. It
12397-529: The Spotless Mind (2004), in which Winslet was cast against type in a contemporary setting, proved to be a turning point in her career, and she gained further recognition for her performances in Finding Neverland (2004), Little Children (2006), The Holiday (2006), Revolutionary Road (2008), and The Reader (2008). For playing a former Nazi camp guard in the last, she won the BAFTA Award and
12558-479: The Spotless Mind ) to make her feature directorial debut with the project. Winslet slipped and fell while filming, leading to three haematomas on her spine; she continued working despite the pain. Reviewers for The Hollywood Reporter and The Daily Beast noted how much Winslet's performance helped elevate a conventional biopic. Winslet next executive produced and starred in the HBO miniseries The Regime (2024),
12719-605: The UK box office. It halved the number of screens in its second weekend finishing with a total gross of $ 395,710 after 10 days. In the United States it opened on 5 screens and grossed $ 89,274 over the Thanksgiving holiday and went on to gross $ 334,319. It grossed $ 344,000 in Japan, $ 230,000 in Australia and $ 300,000 in Germany, Italy and France for a worldwide total of over $ 1.6 million. It
12880-693: The US, whose planned theatrical release by IFC Films in summer 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . It premiered with a digital and on demand release on 22 May 2020. This documentary feature, originally announced under the title Europe C-19 , contains five 15-minute segments from directors across Europe, with Winterbottom handling the UK portion. Winterbottom began filming his portion of this film on 5 September 2020. The other portions were directed by Julia von Heinz (Germany), Fernando León de Aranoa (Spain), Jaco Van Dormael (Belgium), and Michele Placido (Italy). The film premiered in September 2021 at
13041-574: The West. Henderson makes it home to London with Emira, adopting her into his family. After several months, Henderson receives word from a former producer in Sarajevo that Emira's estranged mother wants her back. Henderson, who didn't know that her mother was living, returns to Sarajevo, now driven not only by the siege but also by organised crime, and seeks out Risto, who has become a Bosnian soldier. Henderson asks him to help find Emira's mother. They discover from
13202-452: The animated film Christmas Carol: The Movie , based on Charles Dickens ' novel . For the film's soundtrack she recorded " What If ", which proved to be a commercial hit. After a year-long absence from the screen, Winslet starred as a headstrong journalist interviewing a professor on death row in the thriller The Life of David Gale (2003). She agreed to the project to work with the director Alan Parker , whom she admired, and believed
13363-498: The band's crew, played by Leah Harvey and James McArdle , while the band is on tour. It premiered on 9 October 2016 at the BFI London Film Festival . Winterbottom reunited with Coogan and Brydon for a third six-episode series in which the duo travel through Spain. As with the previous instalments, it premiered on 6 April 2017 as a 6-part weekly TV series on Sky Atlantic , and as a shorter feature film on 22 April 2017 at
13524-441: The best films of the 21st century. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone described it as a "uniquely funny, unpredictably tender and unapologetically twisted romance" and found Winslet to be "electrifying and bruisingly vulnerable" in it. A journalist for Premiere magazine commended her for abandoning her "corseted English rose persona", and ranked it as the 81st greatest film performance of all-time. Winslet considers it to be
13685-453: The big things in life". Drawn to parts that are in tandem with her personal struggles at certain points in her life, she finds it difficult to detach herself from her roles, saying that "you have to confront your true feelings every single day. And that's pretty exhausting. Then you have to go home and make dinner". Even so, she finds it therapeutic to perform. Winslet is known for her willingness to perform nude scenes, having done so in over
13846-497: The blockbuster Titanic , she has rarely acted in commerce-driven films. A journalist for Elle believes that her choices reflect the "soul and attitude of a jobbing actress, trapped in the body of a movie star". In a 2022 readers' poll by Empire magazine, Winslet was voted one of the 50 greatest actors of all time. The magazine termed her "a dramatic force, turning her hand to all kinds of periods and genres with an inimitable sense of dignity and strength". Winslet belongs to
14007-546: The cast, and Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle took note of how well she had portrayed her character's growth and maturity. The film grossed over $ 134 million worldwide. 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
14168-423: The chase for the most exciting stories and pictures. Henderson and Flynn have friendly discussions and differences in the intervals between reporting. They stay at the Holiday Inn, which was the primary hotel for the press in Sarajevo during the siege. After a previous translator proves corrupt and inept, ITN hires Risto Bavić to be Henderson's translator. Their work permits them harrowing and unobstructed views of
14329-438: The children's series Dramarama . He followed this with the 1990 television film Forget About Me , starring Ewen Bremner , which followed two British soldiers who become involved in a love triangle with a young Hungarian hitch-hiker on their way to Budapest for a Simple Minds concert. It was his first collaboration with writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce . They would go on to make six more films together. Shot on 16mm film, it played
14490-657: The collegial dynamic between Jobs and Hoffman. The film earned her some of the best reviews of her career, though it was a box-office flop. Peter Howell of the Toronto Star commended Winslet for finding "strength and grace" in her part, and Gregory Ellwood of HitFix thought 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. John Hillcoat 's ensemble crime-thriller Triple 9 (2016) featured Winslet as Irina Vlaslov,
14651-491: The desperate circumstances. Henderson and his cameraman accompany the evacuation under the pretense of covering it as a news story. However, Bosnian Serbs hinder the evacuation at several points along its route. In the final harassment, armed Chetniks halt the bus, select and forcibly disembark the Bosnian Serb orphans, identifying them through their first names, and take them away on their lorry, as they refuse to let them go to
14812-421: The evacuation of the children to safety. When American aid worker Nina organizes a UN-sanctioned bus-borne evacuation of Sarajevan children to Italy, Henderson convinces her to include Emira, a Bosniak girl from the orphanage, to whom Henderson had made a promise to evacuate. Nina knows this is an illegal act, only transfers to relatives abroad have been authorised, but the orphanage director allows it because of
14973-534: The events with brutality. In the opening sequence, there is a sniper attack on a wedding procession. Other shocking sequences include Henderson stumbling upon a massacre at a farm-house, a Bosnian-Serb officer nonchalantly executing groups of Bosniaks and Henderson's arrival in the immediate aftermath of the first of the Markale Massacres . Shot just a few months after the war on locations in Sarajevo and Croatia ,
15134-405: The experience of performing Shakespeare with such established actors as Branagh and Julie Christie , saying the job required a level of intellect that she thought she did not possess. Mike Jeffries of Empire believed that she had played the part "well beyond her years". Despite the acclaim, Jude and Hamlet earned little at the box office. Winslet was keen on playing Rose DeWitt Bukater,
15295-620: The fees of the nursing home in the United Kingdom where Dean was living. In 2009, Winslet narrated the English version of an Icelandic documentary named A Mother's Courage: Talking Back to Autism , about Margret Ericsdottir, whose child Keli Thorsteinsson has non-verbal autism . Inspired by the story, she teamed with Ericsdottir in 2010 to form an NGO named the Golden Hat Foundation . The organisation aims to create autism awareness and
15456-660: The film formulaic yet pleasing, and took note of Winslet's radiance and charm. In her final release of the year, she voiced Rita, a scavenging sewer rat, in the animated film Flushed Away . Her sole project of 2007 was as the narrator for the English version of the French children's film The Fox and the Child . Winslet had two critically acclaimed roles in 2008. After reading Justin Haythe 's script for Revolutionary Road , an adaptation of Richard Yates 's debut novel , Winslet recommended
15617-456: The film has a weighted average score of 72 out of a 100 based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave Welcome to Sarajevo an "A−". Time Out commended the film's choice of a "crisp [and] rigorously unsentimental director". Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle praised the film for "[b]ring[ing] up some hard questions about
15778-596: The film never entered production in 2010, Winterbottom did shoot documentary footage in Israel at the time with surviving participants in the events. Filming began in October 2021 in the town of Ostuni in Italy, which doubled for Tel Aviv. In December 2023, it was announced that Winterbottom will direct a new adaptation of Ernest Hemingway 's classic novel A Farewell to Arms , starring Tom Blyth and Olivia Cooke . In March 2023, it
15939-401: The film raised pertinent questions about capital punishment. Mick LaSalle thought the film had muddled the subject and disliked both the film and Winslet's performance. To avoid typecasting in historical dramas, Winslet actively sought roles in contemporary-set films. She found it in the science fiction romance Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) in which she played Clementine,
16100-435: The film uses real ruins and war debris to give the film a feeling of authenticity. Many scenes of the characters witnessing and reporting on street carnage were intercut with video footage of the historic events. Two widely known pieces of music were among those used in the film. " Don't Worry Be Happy " by Bobby McFerrin is played against scenes of the siege of Sarajevo, with people being wounded by bombs, blood everywhere on
16261-542: The film was shot a few weeks at a time over a five-year period from 2007 to 2012 to reflect the protagonist's time in prison and achieve an authentic aging process. Everyday premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on 3 September 2012, and then screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2012. The film was produced by Britain's Channel 4 and premiered in the UK on television on 15 November 2012, before being theatrically on 18 January 2013. At
16422-500: The film's prime asset. Against expectations, Titanic went on to become the highest-grossing film to that point, earning over $ 2 billion in box office receipts worldwide, and established Winslet as a global star. The film won eleven Academy Awards —tied for most for a single film—including Best Picture , and earned the 22-year-old Winslet a nomination for Best Actress . She also received Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Best Actress. Winslet did not view Titanic as
16583-618: The film's producer. Steve Jobs , starring Michael Fassbender in the title role, is told in three acts, each depicting a key milestone in Jobs's career. In preparation, Winslet spent time with Hoffman, and worked with a dialect coach to speak in Hoffman's accent, a mixture of Armenian and Polish, which she considered to be the most difficult of her career. The cast rehearsed each act like a play and filmed it in sequence. Winslet collaborated closely with Fassbender, and their off-screen relationship mirrored
16744-640: The film's soundtrack. Also that year, she appeared as Geraldine Barclay, a prospective secretary, in the Royal Exchange Theatre production of Joe Orton 's farce What the Butler Saw . While promoting Heavenly Creatures in Los Angeles, Winslet auditioned for the minor part of Lucy Steele for a 1995 film adaptation of Jane Austen 's novel Sense and Sensibility , written by and starring Emma Thompson . Impressed by her reading, Thompson cast her in
16905-526: The filming, she lived in isolation in a rented cottage in Dorset , where the film was shot, to get into her character's headspace. Caryn James of the BBC credited Winslet for portraying Anning as "stern and brittle but immensely sympathetic" and considered her "contained, potent performance" to be one of the best of her career, and Manuel Betancourt of New York magazine welcomed it as a "return to form". She next voiced
17066-516: The filming. Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair compared the film unfavourably to the Hunger Games series , and found Winslet to be underutilised in it. The film grossed $ 288 million worldwide. A Little Chaos marked her return to the period film genre. Directed by Alan Rickman , it is about a rivalry among gardeners commissioned to create a fountain at the Palace of Versailles . Winslet's role
17227-676: The filmmaker's personal life but stated she was pleased with the collaboration. She would later go on to express regret over working with both Allen and Roman Polanski. In 2019, Winslet provided her voice to Moominvalley , an animated television series about the Moomins , and took on a leading role alongside Susan Sarandon and Mia Wasikowska in Blackbird , a remake of the Danish film Silent Heart (2014). Benjamin Lee of The Guardian dismissed it as "less of
17388-429: The hardest accents she has had to learn. To play Mare, a woman who has lost a child to suicide, she created a backstory for her character and collaborated closely with a grief counsellor. The series and Winslet's performance received critical acclaim; Richard Roeper wrote that she "adds to a long list of magnificent, disappear-into-the-character performances" and Lucy Mangan of The Guardian opined, "If you can have
17549-452: The holiday. Each episode of the series takes place largely over a different gourmet meal. The episodes were edited down into a feature film for the US market, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010, while the full series aired on BBC Two starting in November 2010. Winterbottom's modern retelling of Tess of the d'Urbervilles is his third Thomas Hardy film. It stars Riz Ahmed and Freida Pinto and
17710-720: The island of Anguilla , and their son, Joe, was born later that year. The family divided their time in New York with frequent visits to their estate in the Cotswolds , England. Amid intense media speculation of an affair between Mendes and actress Rebecca Hall , he and Winslet announced their separation in 2010 and were divorced a year later. She reported being heartbroken by the split, but affirmed her determination to look after her children in spite of her marital break-ups. While holidaying at Richard Branson 's estate on Necker Island in 2011, Winslet met his nephew Edward Abel Smith (legally known as Ned Rocknroll from 2008 to 2019) during
17871-438: The job. Jackson filmed in the real murder locations, and the experience left Winslet traumatised. She found it difficult to detach herself from her character, and said that after returning home, she often cried. The film was a critical breakthrough for Winslet; Desson Thomson , a reviewer for The Washington Post , called her "a bright-eyed ball of fire, lighting up every scene she's in". Winslet recorded "Juliet's Aria" for
18032-464: The journey of two Afghan refugees from Pakistan , across the Middle East and Europe to Britain, which they try to enter with the help of people smugglers . Shot on digital video at a cost of $ 2 million, it featured non-professional actors and brought Winterbottom numerous awards, including a Golden Bear and a BAFTA for best film not in the English language. Code 46 is a sci-fi retelling of
18193-542: The kind of courage few young thesps would be capable of and an extraordinary range [...] from animal cunning to unhinged desperation, [Winslet] holds nothing back." That same year, she voiced a fairy for the animated film Faeries , and won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for narrating the short story "The Face in the Lake" for the children's audiobook Listen to the Storyteller . In Quills (2000),
18354-640: The latter making her, at 31, the youngest performer to accrue five Oscar nominations. After Little Children , Winslet played a part she found more sympathetic in Nancy Meyers 's romantic comedy The Holiday . She played Iris, a Briton who temporarily exchanges homes with an American (played by Cameron Diaz ) during the Christmas holiday season. It became her biggest commercial success in nine years, grossing over $ 205 million worldwide. Critic Justin Chang found
18515-875: The lead role of Wendy Darling in Peter Pan . She worked simultaneously with the Starmaker Theatre Company in Reading. She participated in over twenty of their stage productions, but was rarely selected as the lead due to her weight. Nonetheless, she played key roles as Miss Agatha Hannigan in Annie , the Mother Wolf in The Jungle Book , and Lena Marelli in Bugsy Malone . In 1991, within two weeks of finishing her GCSE examinations, Winslet made her screen debut as one of
18676-429: The main cast members of the BBC science fiction television series Dark Season written by Russell T Davies . Her part was that of Reet, a schoolgirl who helps her classmates fight against a sinister man distributing free computers to her school. She did not earn much from the job and, at age sixteen, lack of funds forced Winslet to leave Redroofs. To support herself, she worked at a delicatessen. In 1992, she had
18837-454: The miniseries, which he co-wrote with Kieron Quirke . However, after filming began in February 2021, Winterbottom stepped down from directing in March, reportedly due to health issues. The miniseries was broadcast on Sky on 28 September 2022. Winterbottom's political thriller Shoshana , previously titled Promised Land , had its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival . It
18998-472: The much larger part of the recklessly romantic teenager Marianne Dashwood . The director Ang Lee wanted Winslet to play the part with grace and restraint—aspects that he felt were missing from her performance in Heavenly Creatures —and thus asked her to practise tai chi , read gothic literature , and learn to play the piano. David Parkinson of Radio Times considered Winslet to be a standout among
19159-462: The novelist Iris Murdoch at different ages. The director Richard Eyre cast the two actresses after finding a "correspondence of spirit between them". Winslet was drawn to the idea of playing an intellectual and zesty female lead, and in research, she read Murdoch's novels, studied her husband 's memoir Elegy for Iris , and watched televised interviews of Murdoch. The project was filmed over four weeks and allowed Winslet to bring her daughter, who
19320-455: The part allowed Winslet to display her acting range, and praised her for the defiance she brought to the role. After unsuccessfully auditioning for Kenneth Branagh 's 1994 film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , she was cast for the part of Ophelia , the doomed lover of the title character , in Branagh's adaptation of William Shakespeare 's tragedy Hamlet . Winslet, aged 20, was intimidated by
19481-615: 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 Heavenly Creatures , her 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 leanings who falls in love with her cousin, Jude (played by Christopher Eccleston ). The critic Roger Ebert believed
19642-512: The pregnancy. She twisted her ankle while filming one of the dance sequences. Derek Elley of Variety wrote that despite her limited screen time, Winslet had "the showiest role and filthiest one-liners". She turned down an offer from Woody Allen to star in Match Point (2005) to spend more time with her children. Winslet had four film releases in 2006. She first appeared in All the King's Men ,
19803-410: The premiere of Titanic to attend his funeral. In 2008, she said that she had not overcome his death. A year after Tredre's death, Winslet met Jim Threapleton on the set of Hideous Kinky , on which he served as an assistant director. They married in November 1998 at her primary school in Reading, and their daughter, Mia Threapleton , was born in 2000. Describing her marriage to Threapleton as
19964-428: The production for a year to accommodate Winslet's commitment to her children. Set over a Labor Day weekend, it tells the story of Adele (Winslet), an agoraphobic single mother, who falls in love with an escaped convict. Describing Adele's characterisation as having "more vulnerability than strength", Winslet found her a departure from the strong-willed women she typically played. A scene in the film required her to make
20125-514: The project due to her pregnancy, Winslet was signed to it. Directed by Stephen Daldry , The Reader is based on Bernhard Schlink 's novel Der Vorleser and is about Hanna Schmitz, an illiterate Nazi concentration camp guard (Winslet), who has an affair with a teenage boy. Winslet researched the Holocaust and the SS guards. To educate herself on the stigma of illiteracy, she spent time with students at
20286-459: The project to her then-husband, 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 drawn 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 believed
20447-464: The public on the film's unusually frank official website. 24 Hour Party People documents the anarchic, drug and sex-fueled rise and fall of Factory Records and the music scene in Manchester from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s. It would be the first of many collaborations between Winterbottom and actor Steve Coogan , who starred as broadcaster/music-mogul Tony Wilson . In This World depicts
20608-472: The role of Jeanine Matthews in the second instalment of the Divergent series , subtitled Insurgent , which despite negative reviews grossed $ 297 million worldwide. Her next film, an adaptation of the Australian gothic novel The Dressmaker , was described by the director Jocelyn Moorhouse as being reminiscent of the western Unforgiven (1992). Winslet starred as the femme fatale Tilly Dunnage,
20769-460: The role of a nun in a Holocaust film. She received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series nomination. Within three months of giving birth to her second child, Winslet returned to work on Romance & Cigarettes , a musical romantic comedy directed by John Turturro , in which she played Tula, a promiscuous and foulmouthed woman. The part required her to sing and dance, and it helped her lose weight gained during
20930-456: The role of the young daughter of a bankrupt self-made man (played by Ray Winstone ) in the television sitcom Get Back (1992–1993). She also had a guest role in a 1993 episode of the medical drama series Casualty . Winslet was among 175 women to audition for Peter Jackson 's psychological drama Heavenly Creatures (1994), and was cast after impressing Jackson with the intensity she brought to her part. The New Zealand-based production
21091-430: The same name , the film tells the story of Sarah Pierce, an unhappy housewife who has an affair with a married neighbour (played by Patrick Wilson ). Winslet was challenged by the role of an uncaring mother, as she did neither understand nor respect her character's actions. Scenes requiring her to be hostile towards the child actress who played her daughter proved upsetting for her. Having given birth to two children, she
21252-703: The screen. Set to star Jack Black , the film was to follow a man who loses his job and must keep his family afloat by working as a pot dealer. In 2021, Winterbottom published Dark Matter: Independent Filmmaking in the 21st Century , a book about the workings of the British independent film industry. It is based on his own experience over his career, and includes interviews with 15 other major British directors: Paweł Pawlikowski , Danny Boyle , Joanna Hogg , Asif Kapadia , James Marsh , Andrew Haigh , Carol Morley , Edgar Wright , Steve McQueen , Lynne Ramsay , Stephen Daldry , Ben Wheatley , Peter Strickland , Mike Leigh and Ken Loach . Winterbottom has two daughters and
21413-424: The script brave and was challenged by the idea of playing an unlikeable, manipulative woman. She learnt to speak with an Australian accent and worked closely with Campion to justify her character's vileness. The film required her to perform explicit sex scenes with co-star Harvey Keitel , and featured a scene in which her character appears naked and urinates on herself. David Rooney of Variety wrote, "Showing
21574-427: The script like a play for two weeks, and Winslet brought her children with her to Paris for the eight weeks of filming. Critics found the adaptation to be less compelling than the play, but praised the performances of Winslet and Foster. They both received Golden Globe nominations for it. Winslet said her workload in 2011 helped her overcome heartbreak from her divorce, and after completing work on Carnage she took
21735-478: The series a "quiet, heartbreaking masterpiece" and described Winslet's performance as "terrific—intelligent, focused and seemingly devoid of ego". She 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
21896-444: The sheer impossibility of foreign correspondents remaining true to their journalistic neutrality in a war zone". Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle called the film "a compelling but jumbled film that examines the line between journalistic detachment and passion". In a more negative review, Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote "However closely they mirror the real experience of Mr. Nicholson and others, some of
22057-495: The shocks here are too sadly predictable". A similar opinion was shared by Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times , who wrote that "Too often we sense that the actors are drifting and the story is at sea", in an "air of improvisation" that "combines fact and fiction", giving the film a two-star review. The film opened on 108 screens in the United Kingdom and grossed $ 199,659 in its opening weekend, finishing in tenth place at
22218-513: The small set they used helped them to develop their characters' strained relationship. Hailing Winslet as "the best English-speaking film actress of her generation", David Edelstein of New York magazine wrote that "there isn't a banal moment in Winslet's performance—not a gesture, not a word". To avoid a scheduling conflict with Revolutionary Road , Winslet turned down an offer to star in The Reader . After her replacement Nicole Kidman left
22379-419: The streets, etc. The second piece is " Adagio in G minor " by Remo Giazotto , based on a fragment from Sonata in G minor by Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni . The House of Love 's " Shine On " ( Creation , 1987) and Stone Roses ' " I Wanna Be Adored " ( Silvertone , 1989) are among the English independent rock classics featured in contrast to the dark barbarism affecting the people of Sarajevo. Rock anthems from
22540-408: The suffering of the people of Sarajevo. The situation changes when Henderson makes a report from Ljubica Ivezic, an orphanage located on the front lines, in which two hundred children live in desperate conditions. After increasingly indiscriminate attacks fail to make the lead story in the United Kingdom, Henderson makes the orphanage his lead story to try to bring full attention to the war and encourage
22701-563: The summer of 2007. Winterbottom was reunited with his The Road to Guantanamo co-director Mat Whitecross on a documentary based on Naomi Klein 's bestselling book The Shock Doctrine . The film follows the use of upheavals and disasters by various governments as a cover for the implementation of free market economic policies that benefit only an elite few. Klein at first disowned the film after learning that it would be composed almost entirely of period footage and narration, with virtually no interview material with sources. The film premiered at
22862-517: The titular horse in a film adaptation of the novel Black Beauty , which was released on Disney+ . In 2021, Winslet executive produced and starred in Mare of Easttown , an HBO miniseries about a troubled police detective solving a murder case. Set in Delaware County , Winslet insisted on using the "Delco accent", a version of Philadelphia English used in the county; she considered it to be one of
23023-506: The war in Syria, focusing on the involvement of foreign journalists and Non-governmental organizations . He first announced in May 2017 that he was researching the project. In May 2014, it was announced that Winterbottom would direct a feature adaptation of Richard Hammer's 1982 book The Vatican Connection , the true story of how NYPD detective Joe Coffey uncovered connections between the Vatican and
23184-457: Was a modest earner at the box office. Winslet agreed to the romantic disaster film The Mountain Between Us (2017) to take on the challenge of a role requiring physical exertion. It featured Idris Elba and her as two strangers who crash land on an icy and isolated mountain range. They filmed in the mountains of Western Canada at 10,000 feet (3,000 metres) above sea level where the temperature
23345-643: Was able to hold her breath underwater for seven minutes, setting a new record for any film scene shot underwater. Released in 2022, Avatar: The Way of Water earned over $ 2 billion to rank as the third highest-grossing film of all time and Winslet's second film after Titanic to cross the $ 2 billion mark. After being attached to a biopic of model and war photographer Lee Miller for eight years, Winslet produced and starred in Lee (2023). She hired cinematographer Ellen Kuras (who had filmed her in Eternal Sunshine of
23506-626: Was accepted into the Redroofs Theatre School , an independent school in Maidenhead . The school also functioned as an agency and took students to London to audition for acting jobs. She appeared in a Sugar Puffs commercial and dubbed for foreign films. At school, she was made head girl , took part in productions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , and played
23667-406: Was also the first film from Winterbottom's company Revolution Films. Winterbottom next adapted his favourite novel, Thomas Hardy 's bleak classic Jude the Obscure , a tale of forbidden love between two cousins, starring Christopher Eccleston and Kate Winslet . The film brought Winterbottom wider recognition, his first screening at Cannes and numerous Hollywood offers. Welcome to Sarajevo
23828-450: Was announced that Winterbottom will write and direct Fall of the God of Cars , a 6-part miniseries in which Tony Shalhoub is set to play Lebanese/Brazilian auto executive Carlos Ghosn , who was arrested in Japan, eventually escaping house arrest and fleeing the country and prosecution. In 2017, it was announced that Winterbottom was developing a 10-part TV series with Annapurna Pictures about
23989-504: Was co-financed by Channel 4 . A Mighty Heart is based on the book by Mariane Pearl , wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl . The film stars Angelina Jolie and focuses on the pregnant Mariane's search for her missing husband in Pakistan in 2002. Produced by Jolie's then-partner Brad Pitt , it was shot in the autumn of 2006 in India, Pakistan and France and premiered out of competition at
24150-502: Was filmed on location in the titular city , mere months after the Siege of Sarajevo had ended. It was based on the true story of British reporter, Michael Nicholson , who spirited a young orphan girl out of the war zone to safety in Britain. I Want You is a neo-noir sex thriller set in a decaying British seaside resort town. Starring Rachel Weisz and Alessandro Nivola , it was inspired by
24311-469: Was intimidated by the scope of the production, as she featured in every scene of the 280-page script. She was disturbed and upset by the story, and was particularly fascinated by the complex relationship between the mother-daughter pair. She collaborated closely with the production and costume designers, and learnt to bake pies and prepare chickens. The broadcast received a limited audience but gained positive reviews. Matt Zoller Seitz of Salon called
24472-450: Was nervous about the sex scenes in which she had to be nude; she took on the challenge to present a positive image for women with, in her words, "imperfect bodies". A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote that Winslet had successfully "register[ed] every flicker of Sarah's pride, self-doubt and desire, inspiring a mixture of recognition, pity and concern". Once again, she received BAFTA Award and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress;
24633-874: Was nominated for the Golden Palm and for the Golden Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival . It was awarded a "Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking" by the National Board of Review (USA) during the 69th National Board of Review Awards (1997) . Kate Winslet Kate Elizabeth Winslet ( / ˈ w ɪ n z l ə t / ; born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. Known for her roles as headstrong and complicated women in independent films , particularly period dramas , she has received numerous accolades , including an Academy Award ,
24794-490: Was previously set to star Sacha Baron Cohen . Winterbottom completed photography in December 2018. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2019. Coogan and Brydon reunited with Winterbottom for a fourth series of their popular programme, set in Greece. It premiered on 3 March 2020 as a 6-part weekly TV series on SkyOne . It was again edited down into a feature film in
24955-599: Was ready to creatively engage again. Winslet returned to acting with the five-part HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011), an adaptation of James M. Cain's novel from the director Todd Haynes . It is about the titular heroine (Winslet), a divorcée during the Great Depression struggling to establish a restaurant business while yearning for the respect of her narcissistic daughter (played by Evan Rachel Wood ). Winslet, who had recently divorced Mendes, believed certain aspects of her character's life mirrored her own. She
25116-479: Was shot in Jaipur and Mumbai , India in early 2011. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2011. It was released in the UK on 9 March 2012 and in the US on 13 July. Known during its lengthy production first as Seven Days and then as Here and There , the film stars John Simm as a man imprisoned for drug-smuggling and charts his relationship with his wife, played by Shirley Henderson . Written by Winterbottom and Laurence Coriat,
25277-496: Was six months old at the time, on set. Writing for The Guardian , Martin Amis remarked that "the seriousness and steadiness of [Winslet's] gaze effectively suggest the dawning amplitude of the Murdoch imagination". She received her third Oscar nomination for Iris , in addition to BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress. Winslet's third film release of 2001 was
25438-417: Was that of fictional architect Sabine de Barra, a character she believed had overcome extreme grief and hardship like herself. Catherine Shoard of The Guardian took note of the "emotional honesty" Winslet brought to her part, but criticised the implausibility of her role. Also that year, she read audiobooks of Roald Dahl 's children's novels Matilda and The Magic Finger . In 2015, Winslet reprised
25599-414: Was to follow the company and its staff, including DiLello and Derek Taylor , from 1968 to its closure in 1970, when The Beatles split. The book was set to be adapted by Jesse Armstrong and co-produced by Andrew Eaton and Liam Gallagher . Winterbottom was attached in May 2011 to direct Bailout , an adaptation of author Jess Walter 's novel The Financial Lives of the Poets , which Walter adapted for
25760-426: Was well below freezing. Winslet performed her own stunts and described it as the most physically gruelling experience of her career. Moira Macdonald of The Seattle Times opined that the duo's charisma and chemistry had enhanced a mediocre film. Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel , a drama set in 1950s Coney Island , was Winslet's final release of 2017. She played Ginny, a temperamental housewife having an affair with
25921-400: Was written by Matt Greenhalgh . It was released in the UK on 26 April 2013. Winterbottom filmed a second series of the hit BBC show The Trip To Italy in the summer of 2013 in Italy. It followed the route of the Romantics – Percy Bysshe Shelley , Lord Byron and John Keats . Like the first series, IFC Films distributed it in the US as a shorter feature-length film , which premiered at
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