Kate Winslet dedicated her first Emmy to her mum as she scooped the outstanding actress in a mini-series award last night.

The Oscar-winning actress won the award for her lead role in Mildred Pierce, beating Elizabeth McGovern, who plays the Countess of Grantham in ITV1’s Downton Abbey, which took four gongs.

The HBO drama tells the story of a divorced single mother who decides to open a restaurant business during 1930s Depression-era California.

Wearing a stunning red dress, the Titanic star thanked her mum Sally as she collected the award.

She said: “Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother but she was an extraordinary and a multi-tasker, and to that end I do have to share this with my mum.

“It doesn’t matter how old you are or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mum, and I will never stop needing mine.”

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While many aspiring Emmy nominees were in hair and makeup preparing to talk to the press when the nominations were announced in July, Kate Winslet was givin’ a chicken a lickin’.

“Nobody knows this, but I didn’t really know that the nominations were coming out that day,” the 35-year-old actress said by satellite from London last week while promoting her film Contagion.

Winslet starred in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce, based on the 1941 James M. Cain novel, which grabbed a top 21 Emmy bids.

“I was in England, and I was doing some really great daylong cookery classes with my best friend,” Winslet said. “And my best friend and I, that particular day, we happened to be doing a butchery class. And, literally, as the e-mail came through telling me that I had been nominated and that we had received 21 nominations overall — I am not kidding you — I was hacking up a chicken. Isn’t that great? I just love that story.”

Winslet is nominated for lead actress in a miniseries or movie for her title role in Mildred Pierce.

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Kate Winslet is at the Venice Film Festival in Italy, promoting her upcoming Roman Polanski film, Carnage and said a scene where her character projectile vomits still has her children talking.

“My kids came to work for the vomit day, and I am so thrilled that they were there because they literally have not stopped talking about it since. It was hysterical,” Winslet said during a news conference, the Associated Press reports.

The film, which is based on the play by Yasmina Reza, “The God Of Carnage,” follows two sets of parents who organize a “cordial” meeting after their sons are involved in a fight at school which leaves one child with broken teeth. The talk goes awry as the adults reveal their less civilized sides.

Winslet appears opposite Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz as Nancy and Alan Cowan, while Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly portray the victim’s parents, Penelope and Michael Longstreet. During an argument where Foster’s Penelope accuses Winslet’s character of lacking interest in her son’s behavior, Winslet vomits cobbler on Penelope’s rare collection of art books.

“While Kate was the one who threw up, Jodie and I had to clean up the vomit, so we had the more disgusting involvement with the vomit,” Reilly joked of the scene.

Winslet had kind words for Polanski, who is known for his work on “The Ghost Writer,” “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Pianist.”

“If Roman Polanski invites you to join in any project, you really don’t say no,” Winslet said. “I had seen the play in New York so I was already very much a fan on the piece. I just felt extremely fortunate to be included.”

Though Carnage is set in Brooklyn, the film was shot on a soundstage near Paris since director Roman Polanski is limited to France and Switzerland, due to an Interpol warrant for 188 countries for extradition to the United States to face sentencing for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

“The use of space was actually a very precise and confined and minimal and detailed affair,” Waltz said. “But that is exactly Roman’s forte. The precision, the detail, the exactitude. The microscopic way of working.”

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The 35-year-old actress, who’s set to star in Labor Day opposite Josh Brolin, has been nominated to receive her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next year.

“What I’ve learned about acting is that it needs to be mysterious. If you overthink how a beat needs to be played, it can trip you up,” Kate was recently heard telling a popular newspaper.

“Because you’re trying to do something that is real and sincere in the moment, so that people believe you.

There are times when you just have to put yourself as deeply and firmly in a character’s shoes as you can,” she added.

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Kate Winslet is one of Britain’s most successful movie actresses, but this week the Titanic star returns to television in an epic five-part adaption of James M Cain’s novel, Mildred Pierce, on Sky Atlantic.

The drama also features former Neighbours heartthrob Guy Pearce as her new love interest Monty, and True Blood‘s Evan Rachel Wood as her snobby daughter Veda. Kate told What’s On TV what made her choose Mildred…

What attracted you to the role?
“For me the director is always a really big pull. I’ve been a fan of Todd Haynes for many years and I’d also heard many wonderful things about him from other actors who I know. I was very, very excited and flattered that someone I respected want to see me. The scripts are wonderful. I could just feel there was gravity to them as a piece and it would really be challenging for me and they’re very true to the book. Also I saw Mildred as an extraordinary mixture of vulnerability and fragility, but strength at the same time. There were many things about her that I’d never played before which I found very exciting.

“There was also size of the production, too. I wanted to get my teeth into something that’s a big script and a huge project. It’s like a five-hour movie, rather than television.”

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Guy Pearce has claimed that Kate Winslet did not want her breasts showing when filming sex scenes in Mildred Pierce.

The actor told Sky Magazine that the show’s director Todd Haynes gave the cast specific advice to follow when filming love scenes.

Pearce said: “It’s really about choreographing things. ‘So I’ll be on top of Kate, then we’ll kiss?’ I’d ask.

“Todd would say, ‘I’d love for you to roll over, and I’d love Kate to be on top. Then I’ll have the light coming through the window and it will look lovely’.

“And Kate went, ‘Yes, but I don’t want my breasts showing’. It’s all very technical, but there’s this part of your mind going, ‘This is really erotic and strange’.”

Winslet has previously admitted that she hates stripping off for sex scenes, but later said that she looked good naked in her Oscar-winning performance in The Reader.

Co-star Evan Rachel Wood said that Winslet gave her advice and encouragement before she filmed her own nude scenes in Mildred Pierce.

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