GALLERY LINKS:
• Award Shows & Galas: 81st Annual Academy Awards – February 22
2009 Feb 24
Oscar pics!
2009 Feb 24
Quotes from former Directors and Producers!
Heavenly Creatures:
“She scared the hell out of me,” recalls the Weinstein Co. honcho Harvey Weinstein, who released that early film and also distributed “The Reader.”
Titanic:
Her early penchant for costume dramas had initially dissuaded James Cameron from even considering her for the part of Rose in his epic “Titanic,” a prejudice he reconsidered after seeing almost every actress in the 18-to-21 age range. “She was already known as ‘Corset Kate,’ ” recalls the director, who admits, “When I met her, all that intellectualizing went out the window.”
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2009 Feb 23
Kate Winslet defends right to cry
Oscar winner Kate Winslet has defended her right to cry when accepting film awards.
Kate Winslet has said she ‘doesn’t care’ about the criticism she has received in the press for being over-emotional when accepting awards. Though she was tear-free when she collected the Best Actress award at Sunday’s Oscars she was criticised heavily for crying earlier this year when collecting the same honour at the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards but she’s insisted she has no plans to change. “I really don’t care and quite frankly, I’m sad that my country can’t be pleased with the successes of their own kind, as the US does,” she told the Daily Telegraph. “I got through it, I didn’t blub, I remembered everybody and hopefully the Brits won’t be able to be mean to me.”
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2009 Feb 23
Oscars videos!!!
VIDEO LINKS:
• Appearances: 81st Annual Academy Awards: E!’s Red Carpet Interview
• Appearances: 81st Annual Academy Awards: TNT’s Red Carpet Interview
• Appearances: 81st Annual Academy Awards: Best Actress Speech
• Appearances: 81st Annual Academy Awards: Press Room
• Appearances: 81st Annual Academy Awards: Vanity Fair Party
I would like to thank my dearest friend Mariana for making most of these videos exclusively for the site!
Come back later for pictures!!!
2009 Feb 23
Oscar Winner Reactions!
Backstage, Best Actress winner Kate Winslet (The Reader) gushed, “It’s just dawning on me now that I’ve won an Oscar. It’s just starting to sink in. Oh my God…And as someone who’s been nominated before, I can tell you winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.”
When a gossip columnist insisted Winslet give an answer for who she would pass the nude-scene torch to, she took some time and then replied with a glint in her eye, “Susan Sarandon.”
‘Now I’m going to get very drunk’, says Kate Winslet as she takes Best Actress Oscar
It was a triumphant night for British film as heavily tipped Kate Winslet took the best actress Oscar for her role in The Reader, while Slumdog Millionaire swept the board with EIGHT awards this morning.
Dressed in a gunmetal grey one-shoulder gown, Reading-born Kate, 33, managed to hold back the tears as she accepted her award from a group of past winners including Nicole Kidman and Sophia Loren.
In her acceptance speech, a composed Kate thanked director husband Sam Mendes, 43, and children Mia, 8, and Joe, 5, for loving her just the way she is.
And she said she planned to get ‘very drunk’.
‘You just don’t think that these dreams that seem so silly and so impossible could ever really come true’, she said backstage at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.
2009 Feb 22
Latest magazine scans
GALLERY LINKS:
• 2008 Magazines: Entertainment Weekly – December 19
• 2009 Magazines: InStyle – February
• 2009 Magazines: Elle UK – February 9
2009 Feb 21
Huge videos update!!!
VIDEO LINKS:
• Interviews: GMTV – January 19, 2009
• Other Interviews: 24th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival – January 23, 2009
• Appearances: 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards: Red Carpet Interview – January 25, 2009
• Other Interviews: 59th Annual Berlinale Film Festival: The Reader Interview – February 4, 2009
• Appearances: 2009 BAFTA Awards: Best Actress Speech – February 8, 2009
• Interviews: The View – February 11, 2009
