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[113] February 19th – 4th Annual Oscar Wilde Honoring The Irish In Film Awards – Arrivals
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[197] February 22nd – 81st Annual Academy Awards – Arrivals
[225] February 22nd – 81st Annual Academy Awards – Press Room
[049] February 22nd – 81st Annual Academy Awards – Show
[167] February 22nd – 2009 Vanity Fair Oscar Party – Arrivals
[071] February 22nd – 2009 Vanity Fair Oscar Party – Inside
[008] February 23rd – Heading to LAX

Oscar winner Kate Winslet is suing a British newspaper over an article which suggested she was ‘The World’s Most Irritating Actress’.

The star is seeking $225,000 (GBP150,000) from the Daily Mail after writer Liz Jones called her vain and accused her of lying about her fitness habits.

In an January 2009 article, under the headline ‘Should Kate Winslet Win an Oscar for the World’s Most Irritating Actress?’ Jones wrote, “She caught a nasty dose of Hollywooditis. It happens to the best of them, of course it does. It is the duplicitousness that enrages me and most other women I have spoken to.”

She also questioned a quote Winslet gave to Elle magazine, in which the actress said, “I don’t go to the gym because I don’t have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.”

In a lawsuit filed in London in April, Winslet insists the article “injured her personal and professional reputation” and left her feeling “distressed and embarrassed”.

The suit adds, “(Winslet) was particularly upset by what she regarded as the very unpleasant and nasty way in which the article was written.”

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[040] February 2nd – 2009 Oscar Nominees Luncheon
[067] February 6th – 59th Berlin International Film Festival – The Reader Photocall
[043] February 6th – 59th Berlin International Film Festival – The Reader Premiere
[012] February 6th – 59th Berlin International Film Festival – The Reader Private Dinner Reception
[004] February 7th – At Tegel Airport in Berlin geading to London

[221] January 25th – 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards – Arrivals & Red Carpet
[026] January 25th – 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards – Backstage & Audience
[148] January 25th – 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards – Press Room
[014] January 25th – 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards – Show

CONGRATULATIONS KATE!!!! 2009 Academy Award Winner for Best Actress in a Motion Picture!

[097] January 23rd – 2009 Santa Barbara International Film Festival – Montecito Awards Gala
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[196] January 18th – Revolutionary Road London Premiere
[013] January 18th – Revolutionary Road London Premiere – Cocktail Reception

[010] January 5th – Strolling in Manhattan
[025] January 8th – Visiting The Late Show with David Letterman
[081] January 11th – 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards – Arrivals & Red Carpet
[003] January 11th – 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards – Backstage & Audience
[063] January 11th – 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards – Press Room
[003] January 11th – 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards – Show
[011] January 11th – NBC, Universal Pictures & Focus Features After Party

Despite all her accolades and awards, Kate Winslet cherishes her ‘normal’ life as wife and mother

Enough with the suffering. Kate Winslet’s killing herself for an Oscar.

The 33-year-old actress has gone down with the Titanic for James Cameron, lost her memory in Michel Gondry’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” endured an unhappy marriage and a lingering pedophile in Todd Field’s “Little Children,” played the Alzheimer’s-doomed poet Iris Murdoch in Richard Eyre’s “Iris,” and courted heartache as Marianne Dashwood in Ang Lee’s “Sense and Sensibility.” These pedigreed performances have earned Winslet five Oscar nominations and five Golden Globe nods, but the awards themselves eluded her.

This year, Winslet has upped the ante by becoming suicidal. First, there was her performance in husband Sam Mendes’ adaptation of Richard Yates’ novel “Revolutionary Road,” playing April Wheeler, a wife unmoored by life in 1950s suburbia; then, a turn as an illiterate former SS guard in Stephen Daldry’s ” The Reader,” based on the novel by Bernhard Schlink. Both scored her an extraordinary two-time visit to the Golden Globe dais, but it’s her nuanced and Oscar-nominated role in “The Reader” — also up for best picture — that has made her the odds-on favorite at the Academy Awards.

“You don’t win two, you don’t win . . . two!” crows Winslet about the Globes, leaning back in her chair as she rolls a cigarette. She’s returned home to New York after the ceremony but before the Oscar nominations announcement and is clearly enjoying her victory lap. “Losing in those situations has been such a natural place for me, so to now have both of them? To say I’m shocked is the understatement of my life.”

Winslet, who was raised in Reading, England — among an acting clan that she is quick to say “are not the Redgraves” — is known for keeping her head when all about her are losing theirs. She arrives for a photo shoot near the home she shares with Mendes and their children, Mia, 8, and Joe, 5, in jeans, a baggy sweater and camera-ready makeup she’s done herself; her two outfit changes were snatched from her closet and donned without the help of a stylist or assistant.

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