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Friday, February 27, 2009
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Monday, February 23, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Best Actress 2007: Best Actress Nomination
A great year for women in film Much like this year really.
Penelope Cruz, Volver; Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal; Helen Mirren, The Queen; Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada; Kate Winslet, Little Children.
So many wonderful choices.
Truth be told I could have gone with any but the winner Helen Mirren. Ms. Mirren did a wonderful Impression of Elisabeth 2.
Meryl amazed in comic brilliance wearing Prada.
Judi was scarily sinister who caused a scandal.
Penelope proved once and for all that she WAS an actress to be reckoned with.
Kate created a character from the inside out. She had her best role to date with 'Little Children'. She should have won.
Penelope Cruz, Volver; Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal; Helen Mirren, The Queen; Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada; Kate Winslet, Little Children.
So many wonderful choices.
Truth be told I could have gone with any but the winner Helen Mirren. Ms. Mirren did a wonderful Impression of Elisabeth 2.
Meryl amazed in comic brilliance wearing Prada.
Judi was scarily sinister who caused a scandal.
Penelope proved once and for all that she WAS an actress to be reckoned with.
Kate created a character from the inside out. She had her best role to date with 'Little Children'. She should have won.
Beat Actress Nomination 2005
THE BIG INSULT.
Hillary Skank won for 'Million Dollar Baby'
Kate should have won in the most versatile role of her career to date: 'The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'.
Her Clenintine was amazingly different and comic.
She was brilliant. Jim Carey was robbed of a nomination for the film. It remains his best work to date.
Hillary Skank indeed!!!
Kate WAS the Best Actress that year!!!
Hillary Skank won for 'Million Dollar Baby'
Kate should have won in the most versatile role of her career to date: 'The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'.
Her Clenintine was amazingly different and comic.
She was brilliant. Jim Carey was robbed of a nomination for the film. It remains his best work to date.
Hillary Skank indeed!!!
Kate WAS the Best Actress that year!!!
Saturday, February 21, 2009
The Day Before SHE Came
turn volume on to hear blancmange's 'the day before you came'
(best viewed if you watch on full screen)
(best viewed if you watch on full screen)
2/21/2009 New York Daily News
From My Former Hometown Newspaper
When was the first time you saw Kate Winslet? Sure, the English actress officially came into moviegoers' view as one-half of a dysfunctional, desperate-to-love pair of teenage murderesses in Peter Jackson's 1994 "Heavenly Creatures." But most people have a moment and a movie when they really, truly saw her.
That sense of discovery is crucial to every Winslet performance. But she doesn't force it; often it's just the opposite. Sometimes she's still as a ghost, as if she were always there, waiting for the camera to come around.
The shadowy entrance she makes inside a tunnel at the beginning of "The Reader," which earned Winslet a sixth Oscar nomination in 14 years - a record for someone 33 years old - will forever haunt the young man who meets her there in director Stephen Daldry's Holocaust drama.
For her character, Hanna Schmitz, is not who she appears to be, not when Michael (David Kross) meets her when he's a teenager in Berlin in the '50s - and Hanna is in her mid-30s - nor when he reencounters her years later and discovers her culpability in Nazi atrocities.
But "The Reader" is, among other things, about reconciling truth and memory, perception and reality. And Hanna is someone who runs from all of those things, leaving Michael to try and understand why she did what she did.
In Winslet's other major movie of 2008, "Revolutionary Road," her character, April, is first glimpsed at a party, the camera lazily scoping the room until it finds her - and stops. Just like Leonardo DiCaprio's Frank Wheeler, we, too, have no need to look further: She's our focus. And like Frank, we'll try damn hard to figure her out.
In 1995's "Sense and Sensibility," the first time Oscar noticed her, she was a Jane Austen spitfire in a bonnet. In "Iris," she was the young Iris Murdoch, grabbing life but unaware of the ravages it would inflict. (She got noticed for that, too - Best Supporting Actress, same as "Sense.")
And in "Little Children" - the last time she got a Best Actress nom - she's first seen sitting quietly on a bench in a playground, aching so badly for a life beyond motherhood it hurts.
"Titanic" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" were her other Best Actress chances, and two parts on either side of a mountain: modern woman in the making, and modern woman unraveling. (In "Eternal Sunshine," she almost hops out of her seat in front of Jim Carrey while they ride the LIRR, a girl with blue streaks in her hair, talking a blue streak.)
In all of these films - and others of hers as different as "Jude," "Quills," "Finding Neverland" and "The Holiday" - Winslet can be counted on to just connect. And every time she shows up, no matter the character, we see something new.By Joe Neumaier
When was the first time you saw Kate Winslet? Sure, the English actress officially came into moviegoers' view as one-half of a dysfunctional, desperate-to-love pair of teenage murderesses in Peter Jackson's 1994 "Heavenly Creatures." But most people have a moment and a movie when they really, truly saw her.
That sense of discovery is crucial to every Winslet performance. But she doesn't force it; often it's just the opposite. Sometimes she's still as a ghost, as if she were always there, waiting for the camera to come around.
The shadowy entrance she makes inside a tunnel at the beginning of "The Reader," which earned Winslet a sixth Oscar nomination in 14 years - a record for someone 33 years old - will forever haunt the young man who meets her there in director Stephen Daldry's Holocaust drama.
For her character, Hanna Schmitz, is not who she appears to be, not when Michael (David Kross) meets her when he's a teenager in Berlin in the '50s - and Hanna is in her mid-30s - nor when he reencounters her years later and discovers her culpability in Nazi atrocities.
But "The Reader" is, among other things, about reconciling truth and memory, perception and reality. And Hanna is someone who runs from all of those things, leaving Michael to try and understand why she did what she did.
In Winslet's other major movie of 2008, "Revolutionary Road," her character, April, is first glimpsed at a party, the camera lazily scoping the room until it finds her - and stops. Just like Leonardo DiCaprio's Frank Wheeler, we, too, have no need to look further: She's our focus. And like Frank, we'll try damn hard to figure her out.
In 1995's "Sense and Sensibility," the first time Oscar noticed her, she was a Jane Austen spitfire in a bonnet. In "Iris," she was the young Iris Murdoch, grabbing life but unaware of the ravages it would inflict. (She got noticed for that, too - Best Supporting Actress, same as "Sense.")
And in "Little Children" - the last time she got a Best Actress nom - she's first seen sitting quietly on a bench in a playground, aching so badly for a life beyond motherhood it hurts.
"Titanic" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" were her other Best Actress chances, and two parts on either side of a mountain: modern woman in the making, and modern woman unraveling. (In "Eternal Sunshine," she almost hops out of her seat in front of Jim Carrey while they ride the LIRR, a girl with blue streaks in her hair, talking a blue streak.)
In all of these films - and others of hers as different as "Jude," "Quills," "Finding Neverland" and "The Holiday" - Winslet can be counted on to just connect. And every time she shows up, no matter the character, we see something new.By Joe Neumaier
Today: Best Actress Nominees And My Pick
Three great performances: Kate Winslet, Meryl Streep and Melissa Leo.
One good performance: Angelina Jolie.
One hysterical, over the top performance in the worst movie of the year: Anne Hathaway.
You know who I want to win. You know who I think will win. You know who I think should win.
You know they've snubbed her 5 times already.
You know I don't trust the voters.
You know I shouldn't care.
But this year I do more than most in this category.
So I'm going out on the proverbial limb.
The winner should be: Kate Winslet.
The winner will be: Kate Winslet.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Kate's Third Nomination Was for 'Iris'
Kate lost to Jennifer Connelly in 'A Beautiful Mind' in 2002.
With Marisa Tomey also in the mix for 'In the Bedroom' it was a tough race in a tough year.
Jennifer won and there is no argument from me.
The argument comes with the next nomination when she was ROBBED!!!
With Marisa Tomey also in the mix for 'In the Bedroom' it was a tough race in a tough year.
Jennifer won and there is no argument from me.
The argument comes with the next nomination when she was ROBBED!!!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
'Titanic': Kate's Second Nomination and The First for Best Actress
Helen Hunt won for 'As Good As It Gets' good god!
Miss Hunt won as part of the Oscar sweep for the film.
Kate was good but not ready yet especially against Julie Christie in 'Afterglow' and Judi Dench in 'Mrs Brown'. Julie should have gotten it that year. Judi would have been acceptable. But Helen Hunt? Just check her body of work since then. Oh right she doesn't have a body of work since then. DUH!!!.
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Miss Hunt won as part of the Oscar sweep for the film.
Kate was good but not ready yet especially against Julie Christie in 'Afterglow' and Judi Dench in 'Mrs Brown'. Julie should have gotten it that year. Judi would have been acceptable. But Helen Hunt? Just check her body of work since then. Oh right she doesn't have a body of work since then. DUH!!!.
Longer Theatrical Trailer"
Shorter Trialer:
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
'Sense and Sensibility': Kate's First Oscar Nomination
Kate's first Oscar nomination was for 'Sense and Sensibility' in 1995.
She won the BAFTA for Supporting Actress but lost the Oscar to Mira Sorvino in 'Mighty Aphrodite'.
Monday, February 16, 2009
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The 'Vanity Fair' Shot: March 9th Issue
Kate and husband, director Sam Mendes, photographed by Annie Leibovitz.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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