Kate Winslet's Award Potential

9 months ago 28th Jan 10:14

Kate Winslet is currently the toast of tinsel town riding high on her Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild success. Following this up with an Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role in The Reader what are Winslet's chances?

It's fair to say that the British actress is unlucky when it comes to the Oscars, having been nominated on five previous occasions without ever picking up the gong.

The thirty three year old made her acting breakthrough in 1994 in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, a role which brought her to the attention of filmmakers, critics and audiences.

It was only twelve months later, with her role as Marianne Dashwood in Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility, that the young actress received her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

But it was her role as Rose DeWitt Bukater in 1997's Titanic that shot her to worldwide fame, as well as earning her her first Best Actress nod, losing out to Helen Hunt for her performance in As Good As It Gets.

With this nomination she became the youngest person to receive two Oscar nominations at the tender age of twenty two.

Despite roles in Quills and Enigma Winslet would have to wait until 2001 for another shot at the Oscar for her role as the young Iris Murdoch in Iris, however she was to be denied again by Jennifer Connelly.