Her win was justified, no matter how you feel about the controversial film. She was award-worthy in at least ten performances, from Sense and Sensibility to being the lead in one of the most popular films of all time. Ralph Fiennes as Michael Berg David Kross as Young Michael Berg Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz Bruno Ganz as Professor Rohl Karoline Herfurth as Marthe. The Reader sex scenes The Reader, released in 2008, follows teenager Michael who falls in love with an older woman named Hanna (Winslet), but their liaison ends when she suddenly vanishes. Winslet deserved recognition after such a strong 15 years of outstanding and complex roles.
Known as the 'Bitch of Buchenwald', concentration camp guard. In hindsight, I’m glad she was able to be rewarded for a leading performance, and Revolutionary Road was not well-liked enough to win any significant awards other than the bizarre Globes. The woman Kate Winslet plays in the Oscar-tipped movie The Reader has been revealed as one of Germany's most notorious war criminals. The lead actress category would have stayed the same five actresses, with Winslet replacing herself. If things had gone as planned, Cruz would have lost to Winslet, and Streep would have won her third Academy Award for Doubt.
Hensen, for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button were likely the beneficiaries of a Winslet-less category. Following more television appearances in the UK, she made her film debut with the leading role of murderess Juliet Hulme in Peter Jacksons crime film Heavenly Creatures (1994). Marisa Tomei, for The Wrestler, or Taraji P. English actress Kate Winslet made her screen debut at age fifteen in the BBC series Dark Season (1991). She played Hanna Schmitz with such commitment and intensity that she was able to justify some of the more controversial elements of that film. Winslet might have been more prominent in the latter, but she was full-blown BAIT in the former. The sole reason she was ever placed in supporting was to avoid competition with Revolutionary Road. Kate Winslet plays 36-year-old Hanna, a mysterious trolley car. Winslet would have been considered the lead of The Reader in any other year. THE READER is based on an acclaimed German novel that was also a bestseller in America. The Titanic star, who had previously stripped off for Lancome cosmetics campaign, admitted that she could not say no to Testino when he approached her to feature in his upcoming art show.