Golden Globe: Best Supporting Actress - Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet

Age:

33

Role:

Hanna Schmitz in The Reader

Character:

From Stephen Daldry, the Academy Award nominated director of The Hours and based on the award-winning novel, The Reader is a mesmerizing story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, set against the landscape of post-war Germany.

When he falls ill on his way home from school, 15 year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna (Kate Winslet), a woman twice his age.

The two begin an unexpected and passionate affair only for Hanna to suddenly and inexplicably disappear. Eight years later, Michael, now a young law student observing Nazi war trials, meets his former lover again, under very different circumstances.

Hanna is on trial for a hideous crime, and as she refuses to defend herself, Michael gradually realizes his boyhood love may be guarding a secret she considers to be more shameful than murder.

Previous Golden Globe Wins:

Kate Winslet has no previous Golden Globe wins

Previous Golden Globe Nominations

She has had six other nominations: Two for Best Supporting Actress for Sense and Sensibility and Iris Three for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama in Titanic, Little Children and Revolutionary Road And one for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical/Comedy for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Awards for Role:

For her role Kate Winslet has been nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, and Best Actress at the Satellite Awards.

She won the Best Actress gong at the San Diego Film Critics Society Awards.

Critics:

'A triumphant performance by Kate Winslet anchors the year's most disturbing Holocaust movie.' (MTV)

'The film offers no facile answers, only quietly forceful performances (particularly by Winslet, whose tense body language speaks volumes) that make these characters and the tragedy that colours their lives seem achingly, crushingly real' (San Francisco Examiner)

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