Another group of winning actors and actresses received their awards during the 81st annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles California last February 22, 2009 and that includes the every beautiful Kate Winslet who won the best actress category.
On her speech, Kate thanked her husband Sam Mendes and kids Mia who is now a beautiful 8 years old daughter of hers, and Joe her 5-year-old cutie son, for loving her just the way she is. According to Kate, she can’t believe that she is now in the category with Meryl Streep and thanked the Academy for giving her such award. She further said that she would be lying if she will tell the people that she haven’t made a version of an academy award winner speech before. She stated that it was when she was about eight years old when she stared in a mirror and the as if Oscar would be a shampoo bottle. However, this time around, it is not a shampoo bottle anymore but the real Oscar award and just like any other awardees, she is very happy with it.
The occasional singer Titanic girl had starred various movies already and was renowned for her role as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility and as Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic. She had also played the role of Clementine Kruczynski for the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Sarah Pierce for Little Children. Also included in the list is her role as April Wheeler in Revolutionary Road, and as Schmitz in The Reader.
Winslet’s top notch performances can be noticed on her numerous award nominations from various award winning bodies including the six Academy Awards nominations. She has also been nominated for an Emmy.
Another evidence of Kate Winslet’s fineness was her various awards that includes her recent Academy Awards for Best Actress for the movie The Reader. Another awards that she got are from Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Aside from being a successful actress, Kate is also enjoying her career as a singer and was briefly successful with it with her single What If, a soundtrack of Christmas Carol: The Movie. The single reached number one in Ireland and number six in the UK charts. Winslet also filmed a music video for the said song. Aside from her single, Kate also did a duet with Weird Al” Yankovic for the Sandra Boynton CD Dog Train. In 2006, she sang in the film Romance and Cigarette, and sang an aria from La boheme, called “Sono andati” for the film Heavenly Creatures wherein she is one of the stars.
Other nominees for the best actress category includes Anne Hathaway for the movie Rachel Getting Married, Angelina Jolie for Changeling, Melissa Leo for Frozen River, and Meryl Streep for the movie Doubt. With all the previous awards Kate has received, she unquestionably deserves to win the best actress award for this year’s annual Academy Award, and will never be using a shampoo bottle anymore, for she already had the Oscars.