Well, Kate Winslet finally got the oscar for best actress for her 'mesmerising' performance in 'The Reader'. It has been, really, a long hard road since her first nomination. To be clear its fourteen years ago that she got the first nomination. Totally its seven nominations, the first for Sense and sensibility, then Titanic (1997), Iris (2001), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Little Children (2006) and finally The Reader. In-between, there were lots of other attempts to get nominated, with performances in Kenneth Branagh's amazing four-hour Hamlet (1996), Philip Kaufman's fascinating Quills (2000), the awful anti-death-penalty message movie The Life of David Gale (2003), the turgid Finding Neverland (2004), and even a remake of a former Oscar-winner, All the King's Men (2006).
The Reader has done the rounds as the year's most provocative thriller ! Do you know what element in her performance that lead to Oscar in The Reader. To me its nothing but her 'outstanding' seductive performance with the youg boy Michael Berg. Her poetic acting of sex and nudity has got much attention rather than what the whole film is all about.
