Kate Winslet#External links

Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born on 5 October 1975, in Reading, Berkshire, to Sally Ann (née Bridges) and Roger John Winslet.{{cite web |url = http://www.biography.com/people/kate-winslet-9534599 |title = Kate Winslet Biography: Film Actress, Television Actress (1975–) |publisher = Biography.com (FYI/A&E Networks) |access-date = 7 July 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160717230735/http://www.biography.com/people/kate-winslet-9534599 |archive-date = 17 July 2016}}{{cite news |first = Nick |last = Barratt |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/12/05/lnickbarratt05.xml |title = Family detective: Kate Winslet |work = The Daily Telegraph |date = 5 December 2005 |location = London | access-date = 16 October 2021 |archive-date = 3 March 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080303210601/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=%2Farts%2F2005%2F12%2F05%2Flnickbarratt05.xml |url-status=dead }} Her mother worked as a nanny and waitress, and her father, a struggling actor, took labouring jobs to support the family.{{cite news |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10528659/Kate-Winslet-I-dont-do-theatre-because-Im-not-prepared-to-miss-my-childrens-bedtime.html |title = Kate Winslet: 'I don't do theatre because I'm not prepared to miss my children's bedtime' |work = The Daily Telegraph |date = 3 January 2013 |access-date = 29 October 2017 |first = Chloe |last = Fox |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170728070142/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10528659/Kate-Winslet-I-dont-do-theatre-because-Im-not-prepared-to-miss-my-childrens-bedtime.html |archive-date = 28 July 2017}}{{cite news |first = Richard |last = Benson |title = Kate Winslet: girl interrupted |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3723192/Kate-Winslet-girl-interrupted.html |work = The Daily Telegraph |date = 12 December 2008 |access-date = 14 April 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110304174628/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3723192/Kate-Winslet-girl-interrupted.html |archive-date = 4 March 2011}} Her maternal grandparents were both actors and ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company.{{cite news |last = Feinberg |first = Scott |url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/labor-day-star-kate-winslet-653268 |title = 'Labor Day' Star Kate Winslet on Defying Expectations, Onscreen and Off (Q&A) |work = The Hollywood Reporter |date = 11 November 2013 |access-date = 30 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160324201840/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/labor-day-star-kate-winslet-653268 |archive-date = 24 March 2016}} Winslet has two sisters, Anna and Beth, both of whom are actresses, and a younger brother, Joss. The siblings are of British, Irish, and Swedish descent.{{cite web | url=https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/genealogy/kate-winslet-irish-roots | title=Kate Winslet discovers her Irish roots | website=Irish Central | date=6 August 2019 | access-date=12 August 2019 | quote=Kate Winslet can trace her roots back to Dublin. She learns about this link, courtesy of her paternal great-great-great-grandmother Eliza O'Brien... her roots are primarily British, Irish, and Swedish... The actress had long had a hunch her maternal ancestors were from Sweden but sadly was unable to confirm this before her mother, Sally, died| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807180512/https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/genealogy/kate-winslet-irish-roots | archive-date=7 August 2019 | url-status=live }} The family had limited financial means; they lived on free meal benefits and were supported by a charity, the Actors' Charitable Trust. When Winslet was ten, her father severely injured his foot in a boating accident and found it harder to work, leading to more financial hardships for the family. Winslet has said her parents always made them feel cared for and that they were a supportive family.

File:Redroofs Theatre School.jpg in Maidenhead, where Winslet was educated|alt=A sign displaying the name of Redroofs Theatre School.]]

Winslet attended St Mary and All Saints' Church of England primary school.{{cite news |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/219717.stm |title = Titanic star in low-key wedding |publisher = BBC News |date = 22 November 1998 |access-date = 1 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150927062835/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/219717.stm |archive-date = 27 September 2015}} Living in a family of actors inspired her to pursue acting from a young age. She and her sisters participated in amateur stage shows at school and at a local youth theatre, named Foundations. When she was five, Winslet made her first stage appearance as Mary in her school's production of the Nativity play.{{cite news |last = Hiscock |first = John |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-blog/10316035/Kate-Winslet-I-still-absolutely-believe-in-true-love.html |title = Kate Winslet: 'I still absolutely believe in true love' |newspaper = The Daily Telegraph |date = 18 September 2013 |access-date = 1 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160609164757/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-blog/10316035/Kate-Winslet-I-still-absolutely-believe-in-true-love.html |archive-date = 9 June 2016}} She describes herself as an overweight child, and was called "blubber" by her schoolmates and was bullied for her appearance.{{cite magazine |last = Real |first = Evan |url = http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/a17803/kate-winslet-bullied-cbs-sunday-morning-interview/ |title = Kate Winslet Opens Up About Being Bullied as a Kid: "I Was Teased for How I Looked" |magazine = Marie Claire |date = 3 January 2016 |access-date = 30 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160930185313/http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/a17803/kate-winslet-bullied-cbs-sunday-morning-interview/ |archive-date = 30 September 2016}}{{cite magazine |last = Berrington |first = Katie |url = http://www.vogue.co.uk/article/kate-winslet-reveals-revenge |title = Kate Winslet's "Sweet" Revenge |magazine = Vogue |date = 23 September 2016 |access-date = 30 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170625182421/http://www.vogue.co.uk/article/kate-winslet-reveals-revenge |archive-date = 25 June 2017}} She said she did not let this stop her.{{cite news |url = http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/15176695._This_is_who_I_am__The_real_me__Kate_from_Reading___Hollywood_star_inspires_youngsters_with_speech/ |title = Kate Winslet, who is from Reading, took part in the WE Day arena tour |work = The Reading Chronicle |date = 23 March 2017 |access-date = 30 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170323194305/http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/15176695._This_is_who_I_am__The_real_me__Kate_from_Reading___Hollywood_star_inspires_youngsters_with_speech/ |archive-date = 23 March 2017}}

At eleven, Winslet was accepted into the Redroofs Theatre School, an independent school in Maidenhead. The school also functioned as an agency and took students to London to audition for acting jobs. She appeared in a Sugar Puffs commercial and dubbed for foreign films. At school, she was made head girl, took part in productions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and played the lead role of Wendy Darling in Peter Pan.{{cite news |last1 = Foster |first1 = Patrick |last2 = Ward |first2 = Victoria |title = Kate Winslet's school denies claims that teacher told her to settle for 'fat girl parts' |work = The Daily Telegraph |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12158177/Kate-Winslets-school-denies-claims-that-teacher-told-her-to-settle-for-fat-girl-parts.html |date = 15 February 2016 |access-date = 30 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170202105122/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12158177/Kate-Winslets-school-denies-claims-that-teacher-told-her-to-settle-for-fat-girl-parts.html |archive-date = 2 February 2017}} She worked simultaneously with the Starmaker Theatre Company in Reading. She participated in over twenty of their stage productions, but was rarely selected as the lead due to her weight. Nonetheless, she played key roles as Miss Agatha Hannigan in Annie, the Mother Wolf in The Jungle Book, and Lena Marelli in Bugsy Malone.{{cite news |title = Kate Winslet passed over for being too fat |work = The Daily Telegraph |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/8336544/Kate-Winslet-passed-over-for-being-too-fat.html |date = 21 February 2011 |access-date = 13 March 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150403014108/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/8336544/Kate-Winslet-passed-over-for-being-too-fat.html |archive-date = 3 April 2015}}{{cite news |first = Emma |last = Midgley |title = Reading charity celebrates birthday with Winslet film |publisher = BBC News |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/berkshire/hi/things_to_do/newsid_9406000/9406539.stm |date = 24 February 2011 |access-date = 13 March 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150403041030/http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/berkshire/hi/things_to_do/newsid_9406000/9406539.stm |archive-date = 3 April 2015}}

In 1991, within two weeks of finishing her GCSE examinations, Winslet made her screen debut as one of the main cast members of the BBC science fiction television series Dark Season written by Russell T Davies.{{cite news |first = Paul |last = Vallely |title = Kate Winslet: The golden girl |work = The Independent |url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/kate-winslet-the-golden-girl-1418269.html |date = 17 January 2009 |access-date = 3 December 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100322230023/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/kate-winslet-the-golden-girl-1418269.html |archive-date = 22 March 2010}}{{cite news |title = Profile: Kate Winslet |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7867946.stm |publisher = BBC News |date = 23 February 2009 |access-date = 3 December 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090930040239/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7867946.stm |archive-date = 30 September 2009}} Her part was that of Reet, a schoolgirl who helps her classmates fight against a sinister man distributing free computers to her school.{{cite book |last1 = Cornell |first1 = Paul |last2 = Day |first2 = Martin |last3 = Topping |first3 = Keith |title = The Classic British Telefantasy Guide |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hAcaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PP28 |date = 30 July 2015 |publisher = Orion |isbn = 978-0-575-13352-5 |page = 28 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171030104133/https://books.google.com/books?id=hAcaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PP28 |archive-date = 30 October 2017}}{{cite book |last1 = Docherty |first1 = Mark J. |last2 = McGown |first2 = Alistair D. |title = The Hill and Beyond: Children's Television Drama – An Encyclopedia |url = https://archive.org/details/hillbeyondchildr0000mcgo |url-access = registration |date = 26 April 2003 |publisher = British Film Institute |isbn = 978-0-85170-878-2 |pages = [https://archive.org/details/hillbeyondchildr0000mcgo/page/237 237]–238}} She did not earn much from the job and, at age sixteen, lack of funds forced Winslet to leave Redroofs. To support herself, she worked at a delicatessen. In 1992, she had a small part in the television film Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, an adaptation of Angus Wilson's satirical novel.{{cite book |last = Roberts |first = Jerry |title = Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=kW8j6sHvrewC&pg=PA327 |date = 5 June 2009 |publisher = Scarecrow Press |isbn = 978-0-8108-6378-1 |page = 327 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171030104133/https://books.google.com/books?id=kW8j6sHvrewC&pg=PA327 |archive-date = 30 October 2017}}{{cite news |last = Wiegand |first = David |title = DVD review: 'Anglo-Saxon Attitudes' |work = San Francisco Chronicle |url = http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/DVD-review-Anglo-Saxon-Attitudes-3205486.php |date = 13 July 2008 |access-date = 26 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027024612/http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/DVD-review-Anglo-Saxon-Attitudes-3205486.php |archive-date = 27 October 2017}} Winslet, who weighed {{convert|13|st|3|lb|kg lb}} at the time, played the daughter of an obese woman. During filming, after hearing an off-hand comment from the director Diarmuid Lawrence about the likeness between her and the actress who played her mother, Winslet became motivated to lose weight.{{cite magazine |last = Lipsky |first = David |title = The Unsinkable Kate Winslet |url = https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/the-unsinkable-kate-winslet-19980305 |magazine = Rolling Stone |date = 5 March 1998 |access-date = 26 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171026214719/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/the-unsinkable-kate-winslet-19980305 |archive-date = 26 October 2017}} She next took on the role of the young daughter of a bankrupt self-made man (played by Ray Winstone) in the television sitcom Get Back (1992–1993).{{cite news |last = Leith |first = William |title = It's a funny business |url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/its-a-funny-business-1552507.html |access-date = 25 September 2010 |newspaper = The Independent |date = 20 September 1992 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121109045710/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/its-a-funny-business-1552507.html |archive-date = 9 November 2012}}{{cite news |last = Chagollan |first = Steve |title = Walk of Fame Honoree Kate Winslet Keeps Raising the Bar |url = https://variety.com/2014/film/news/walk-of-fame-honoree-kate-winslet-keeps-raiding-the-bar-1201128903/ |access-date = 26 October 2017 |newspaper = Variety |date = 17 March 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027024539/http://variety.com/2014/film/news/walk-of-fame-honoree-kate-winslet-keeps-raiding-the-bar-1201128903/ |archive-date = 27 October 2017}} She also had a guest role in a 1993 episode of the medical drama series Casualty.{{cite news |title = Casualty's Oscar links |url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/2011/wk9/feature_casualty.shtml |publisher = BBC News |date = 26 February 2009 |access-date = 26 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121111221324/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/2011/wk9/feature_casualty.shtml |archive-date = 11 November 2012}}

Winslet was among 175 women to audition for Peter Jackson's psychological drama Heavenly Creatures (1994), and was cast after impressing Jackson with the intensity she brought to her part.{{cite book |last = Sibley |first = Brian |title = Peter Jackson: A Film-maker's Journey |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ljcdAQAAIAAJ |year = 2006 |publisher = HarperCollins Entertainment |isbn = 978-0-00-717558-1 |page = 243 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171030104133/https://books.google.com/books?id=ljcdAQAAIAAJ |archive-date = 30 October 2017}} The New Zealand-based production is based on the Parker–Hulme murder case of 1954, in which Winslet played Juliet Hulme, a teenager who assists her friend, Pauline Parker (played by Melanie Lynskey), in the murder of Pauline's mother. She prepared for the part by reading the transcripts of the girls' murder trial, their letters and diaries, and interacted with their acquaintances.{{cite news |last = Dening |first = Penelope |title = Winslet ways |work = Irish Times |url = https://www.irishtimes.com/news/winslet-ways-1.33997 |date = 9 March 1996 |access-date = 26 October 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171101132225/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/winslet-ways-1.33997 |archive-date = 1 November 2017 |url-status = live }} She has said she learnt tremendously from the job. Jackson filmed in the real murder locations, and the experience left Winslet traumatised.{{cite journal |title = The New Passions of Kate Winslet |journal = Premiere |date = November 1999 |asin = B000A7IUZA |pages = 127–140 |last = Millea |first = Holly }} She found it difficult to detach herself from her character, and said that after returning home, she often cried. The film was a critical breakthrough for Winslet;{{cite web |url = https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/heavenly_creatures/ |title = Heavenly Creatures |date = 16 November 1994 |publisher = Rotten Tomatoes |access-date = 6 October 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141029003015/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/heavenly_creatures/ |archive-date = 29 October 2014}}{{Cite news |last = Masters |first = Tim |title = Kate Winslet: 'I wish I'd had help dealing with fame' |date = 3 April 2014 |publisher = BBC News |url = https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26856910 |access-date = 26 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027024550/http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26856910 |archive-date = 27 October 2017}} Desson Thomson, a reviewer for The Washington Post, called her "a bright-eyed ball of fire, lighting up every scene she's in".{{cite news |author = Howe, Desson |title = Heavenly Creatures |newspaper = The Washington Post |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/heavenlycreaturesrhowe_a02149.htm |date = 25 November 1994 |access-date = 2 February 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120319074913/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/heavenlycreaturesrhowe_a02149.htm |archive-date = 19 March 2012}} Winslet recorded "Juliet's Aria" for the film's soundtrack.{{cite web |title = Heavenly Creatures (Original Soundtrack) |url = https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/heavenly-creatures-original-soundtrack/id385637044 |date = 1 January 1994 |publisher = BMG Rights Management |access-date = 6 November 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171106112553/https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/heavenly-creatures-original-soundtrack/id385637044 |archive-date = 6 November 2017}} Also that year, she appeared as Geraldine Barclay, a prospective secretary, in the Royal Exchange Theatre production of Joe Orton's farce What the Butler Saw.{{cite journal |title = Venice Preserved |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=SGwIAQAAMAAJ |year = 1994 |journal = Plays and Players |page = 32 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171030104133/https://books.google.com/books?id=SGwIAQAAMAAJ |archive-date = 30 October 2017}}

While promoting Heavenly Creatures in Los Angeles, Winslet auditioned for the minor part of Lucy Steele for a 1995 film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility, written by and starring Emma Thompson. Impressed by her reading, Thompson cast her in the much larger part of the recklessly romantic teenager Marianne Dashwood.{{cite news |last = Elias |first = Justine |title = Kate Winslet: No 'Period Babe' |date = 7 December 1995 |work = The New York Times |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/07/arts/film-kate-winslet-no-period-babe.html |access-date = 2 February 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121111140645/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/07/arts/film-kate-winslet-no-period-babe.html |archive-date = 11 November 2012}} The director Ang Lee wanted Winslet to play the part with grace and restraint—aspects that he felt were missing from her performance in Heavenly Creatures—and thus asked her to practise tai chi, read gothic literature, and learn to play the piano. David Parkinson of Radio Times considered Winslet to be a standout among the cast, and Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle took note of how well she portrayed her character's growth and maturity.{{cite news |last = Parkinson |first = David |url = http://www.radiotimes.com/film/8hfz/sense-and-sensibility/ |title = Sense and Sensibility |work = Radio Times |access-date = 1 September 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120829235909/http://www.radiotimes.com/film/8hfz/sense-and-sensibility |archive-date = 29 August 2012}}{{cite news |url = http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/A-Fine-Sensibility-Emma-Thompson-adapts-Jane-3018044.php |title = A fine 'Sensibility', Emma Thompson adapts Jane Austen's classic story |work = San Francisco Chronicle |date = 13 December 1995 |first = Mick |last = LaSalle |access-date = 31 August 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121026115337/http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/A-Fine-Sensibility-Emma-Thompson-adapts-Jane-3018044.php |archive-date = 26 October 2012 }} The film grossed over $134 million worldwide.{{cite web |url = https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=senseandsensibility.htm |title = Sense and Sensibility (1995) |publisher = Box Office Mojo |access-date = 23 August 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120725111841/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=senseandsensibility.htm |archive-date = 25 July 2012 }} She won the Screen Actors Guild and British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress, and received an Academy Award nomination in the same category.{{cite web |url = http://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/2nd-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards |title = The 2nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards |publisher = Screen Actors Guild |access-date = 13 August 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140118090218/http://sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/2nd-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards |archive-date = 18 January 2014}}
{{cite news |url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/emma-thompson-adds-bafta-to-oscar-trophies-1306175.html |title = Emma Thompson adds Bafta to Oscar trophies |first = Marianne |last = Macdonald |work = The Independent |location = UK |date = 22 April 1996 |access-date = 13 August 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094103/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/emma-thompson-adds-bafta-to-oscar-trophies-1306175.html |archive-date = 26 January 2012}}
{{cite web |url = http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/1990-1999/68nominees.html |title = Nominees & Winners for the 68th Academy Awards |publisher = Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date = 13 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140201155958/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/1990-1999/68nominees.html |archive-date = 1 February 2014 }} Also in 1995, Winslet featured in the poorly received Disney film A Kid in King Arthur's Court.{{cite magazine|last1=Nashawaty|first1=Chris|title=24 Stars' Worst Movies|url=https://ew.com/gallery/24-stars-worst-movies/daniel-craig-a-kid-in-king-arthurs-court-1995|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=16 February 2018|date=2 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180217202832/http://ew.com/gallery/24-stars-worst-movies/daniel-craig-a-kid-in-king-arthurs-court-1995/|archive-date=17 February 2018|url-status=live}}

Winslet had roles in two period dramas of 1996—Jude and Hamlet. As with Heavenly Creatures, her roles in these films were those of women with a "mad edge". In Michael Winterbottom's Jude, based on the novel Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, she played Sue Bridehead, a young woman with suffragette leanings who falls in love with her cousin, Jude (played by Christopher Eccleston). The critic Roger Ebert believed the part allowed Winslet to display her acting range, and praised her for the defiance she brought to the role.{{cite news |last = Ebert |first = Roger |url = https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/jude-1996 |title = Jude Movie Review |date = 1 November 1996 |work = Chicago Sun-Times |access-date = 26 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171026214703/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/jude-1996 |archive-date = 26 October 2017}} After unsuccessfully auditioning for Kenneth Branagh's 1994 film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, she was cast in the part of Ophelia, the doomed lover of the title character, in Branagh's adaptation of the William Shakespeare tragedy Hamlet. Twenty-year-old Winslet was intimidated by the experience of performing Shakespeare with established actors such as Branagh and Julie Christie, saying the job required a level of intellect that she thought she did not possess. Mike Jeffries of Empire believed that she had played the part "well beyond her years".{{cite news |last = Jeffries |first = Mike |url = https://www.empireonline.com/movies/hamlet-2/review/ |title = Hamlet Review |date = 1 January 1996 |work = Empire |access-date = 26 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171026215406/https://www.empireonline.com/movies/hamlet-2/review/ |archive-date = 26 October 2017}} Despite the acclaim, Jude and Hamlet earned little at the box office.{{cite web |url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=katewinslet.htm |title = Kate Winslet Movie Box Office Results |publisher = Box Office Mojo |access-date = 26 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027024809/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=katewinslet.htm |archive-date = 27 October 2017}}{{cite web |url = https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/kate_winslet/ |title = Kate Winslet |publisher = Rotten Tomatoes |access-date = 26 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170830083345/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/kate_winslet |archive-date = 30 August 2017}}

Winslet was keen on playing Rose DeWitt Bukater, a socialite aboard the ill-fated RMS Titanic, in James Cameron's epic romance Titanic (1997). Cameron was initially reluctant to cast her, preferring the likes of Claire Danes and Gwyneth Paltrow, but she pleaded with him, "You don't understand! I am Rose! I don't know why you're even seeing anyone else!"{{cite magazine |title=Titanic|magazine = Entertainment Weekly |access-date = 24 January 2010 |pages = 1–7 |url = https://ew.com/article/1997/11/07/titanic-10/|date = 7 November 1997 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081010192823/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,290182,00.html |archive-date = 10 October 2008 }} Her persistence led him to give her the part. Leonardo DiCaprio featured as her love interest, Jack. Titanic had a production budget of $200 million, and its arduous principal photography was held at Baja Studios where a replica of the ship was created. Filming proved taxing for Winslet; she almost drowned, caught influenza, experienced hypothermia, and had bruises on her arms and knees. The workload allowed her only four hours of sleep per day and she felt drained by the experience.{{cite news |last = Gritten |first = David |title = Back From the Abyss |date = 11 May 1997 |work = Los Angeles Times |url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-11-ca-57559-story.html |access-date = 27 October 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170204164303/http://articles.latimes.com/1997-05-11/entertainment/ca-57559_1_winslet-characterized-cameron |archive-date = 4 February 2017}}{{cite news |last = Perez |first = Lexy |title = Kate Winslet, Stephen Colbert Reenact 'Titanic' Ending |date = 1 December 2017 |work = The Hollywood Reporter |url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kate-winslet-stephen-colbert-reenact-titanic-ending-1063389 |access-date = 23 June 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190623083554/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kate-winslet-stephen-colbert-reenact-titanic-ending-1063389 |archive-date = 23 June 2019 |url-status = live }} Writing for Newsweek, David Ansen commended Winslet for capturing her character's zeal with delicacy,{{cite news |last = Ansen |first = David |title = Rough Waters |date = 14 December 1997 |work = Newsweek |url = http://www.newsweek.com/rough-waters-170336 |access-date = 27 October 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161013103504/http://www.newsweek.com/rough-waters-170336 |archive-date = 13 October 2016}} and Mike Clark of USA Today considered her to be the film's prime asset.{{cite news |last = Clark |first = Mike |title = Flashback: Read our original review of 'Titanic' |work = USA Today |url = https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/story/2012-03-29/flashback-original-titanic-review/53870824/1 |access-date = 27 October 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170516160137/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/story/2012-03-29/flashback-original-titanic-review/53870824/1 |archive-date = 16 May 2017 |url-status = live }} Against expectations, Titanic went on to become the highest-grossing film to that point, earning over $2 billion in box office receipts worldwide,{{cite web |url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |title = Worldwide Grosses |publisher = Box Office Mojo |access-date = 18 April 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20010716094602/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ |archive-date = 16 July 2001}} and established Winslet as a global star.{{cite news |last = Riding |first = Alan |title = For Kate Winslet, Being a Movie Star iIs 'a Bit Daft' |date = 12 September 1999 |work = The New York Times |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/12/movies/the-new-season-film-hollywood-for-kate-winslet-being-a-movie-star-iis-a-bit-daft.html |access-date = 27 October 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170103220103/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/12/movies/the-new-season-film-hollywood-for-kate-winslet-being-a-movie-star-iis-a-bit-daft.html |archive-date = 3 January 2017}} The film won eleven Academy Awards—tied for most for a single film—including Best Picture, and earned the 22-year-old Winslet a nomination for Best Actress.{{cite news |first = Jason |last = Davis |title = Love story that won the heart of the Academy: The love story that stole the world's hearts |publisher = BBC News |access-date = 11 September 2007 |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/03/98/oscars/69009.stm |date = 24 March 1998 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080308052908/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/03/98/oscars/69009.stm |archive-date = 8 March 2008}} She also received Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Best Actress.{{cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/titanic|title=Titanic - Golden Globes|publisher=Golden Globes|access-date=13 October 2021|url-status=live|archive-date=1 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201154636/https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/titanic}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/4th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards|title=The 4th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards|publisher=Screen Actors Guild Awards|access-date=13 October 2021|url-status=live|archive-date=1 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501220959/https://sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/4th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards}}

Winslet did not view Titanic as a platform for larger salaries. She avoided parts in blockbuster films in favour of independent productions that were not widely seen, believing that she "still had a lot to learn" and was unprepared to be a star. She later said her decision ensured career longevity.{{cite news |last = Mackenzie |first = Suzie |title = Perfecting the illusion |date = 10 April 2004 |work = The Guardian |url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/apr/10/features.weekend |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027131442/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/apr/10/features.weekend |archive-date = 27 October 2017}} Hideous Kinky, a low-budget drama shot before the release of Titanic, was Winslet's sole film release of 1998.{{cite news |last = Maslin |first = Janet |title = Life With Mother Can Be Erratic, to Say the Least |date = 16 April 1999 |work = The New York Times |url = https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A01E3D9153BF935A25757C0A96F958260 |access-date = 4 February 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120222094112/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A01E3D9153BF935A25757C0A96F958260 |archive-date = 22 February 2012}} She turned down offers to star in Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Anna and the King (1999) to do the film.{{cite news |last = Wloszczyna |first = Susan |title = A Revolutionary Road for Titanic friends DiCaprio, Winslet |date = 23 December 2008 |work = USA Today |url = https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2008-12-22-dicaprio-winslet_N.htm |access-date = 4 February 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081228084039/http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2008-12-22-dicaprio-winslet_N.htm |archive-date = 28 December 2008}} Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Esther Freud, Hideous Kinky tells the story of a single British mother yearning for a new life in 1970s Morocco. Janet Maslin of The New York Times credited Winslet for her decision to follow-up Titanic with such an offbeat project and highlighted how well she captured her character's "obliviousness and optimism".

Jane Campion's psychological drama Holy Smoke! (1999) featured Winslet as an Australian woman who joins an Indian religious cult. She found the script brave and was challenged by the idea of playing an unlikeable, manipulative woman. She learnt to speak with an Australian accent and worked closely with Campion to justify her character's vileness.{{cite news |last = Gerrard |first = Nicci |title = Kate gets real |date = 12 March 2000 |work = The Guardian |url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/mar/12/niccigerrard |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027181631/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/mar/12/niccigerrard |archive-date = 27 October 2017}} The film required her to perform explicit sex scenes with co-star Harvey Keitel, and featured a scene in which her character appears naked and urinates on herself.{{cite news |last = Brook |first = Tom |title = Holy Smoke: Winslet's back |date = 5 November 1999 |publisher = BBC News |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1999/03/99/tom_brook/506621.stm |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027183815/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1999/03/99/tom_brook/506621.stm |archive-date = 27 October 2017}} David Rooney of Variety wrote, "Showing the kind of courage few young thesps would be capable of and an extraordinary range ... from animal cunning to unhinged desperation, [Winslet] holds nothing back."{{cite news |last = Rooney |first = David |title = Holy Smoke |date = 7 September 1999 |work = Variety |url = https://variety.com/1999/film/reviews/holy-smoke-1117752088/ |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027182234/http://variety.com/1999/film/reviews/holy-smoke-1117752088/ |archive-date = 27 October 2017}} That same year, she voiced a fairy for the animated film Faeries,{{cite news |title = Festive TV treat for Winslet fans |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/526260.stm |date = 18 November 1999 |publisher = BBC News |access-date = 5 February 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080308165128/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/526260.stm |archive-date = 8 March 2008}} and won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for narrating the short story "The Face in the Lake" for the children's audiobook Listen to the Storyteller.{{cite web |title = Listen to the Storyteller – A Trio of Musical Tales from Around the World |url = https://music.apple.com/us/album/listen-to-storyteller-trio-musical-tales-from-around/158474154 |date = 17 August 1999 |publisher = Sony Classical Records |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171028005618/https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/listen-to-storyteller-trio-musical-tales-from-around/id158474154 |archive-date = 28 October 2017}}{{cite web |title = Grammy Award Results for Kate Winslet |url = https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/kate-winslet |publisher = The Recording Academy |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171030104133/https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/kate-winslet |archive-date = 30 October 2017}}

In Quills (2000), a biopic of the erratic Marquis de Sade, starring Geoffrey Rush and Joaquin Phoenix, Winslet played the supporting role of a sexually repressed laundress working in a mental asylum.{{cite web |last = Allen |first = Jamie |title = 'Quills' scribe channels sadistic Sade |publisher = CNN |url = http://edition.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/15/quills/ |date = 15 December 2000 |access-date = 31 March 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070624092733/http://edition.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/15/quills/ |archive-date = 24 June 2007}}{{cite news |last = Thomas |first = Rebecca |title = Quills Ruffling Feathers |publisher = BBC News |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1081669.stm |date = 28 December 2000 |access-date = 27 March 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080201013743/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1081669.stm |archive-date = 1 February 2008}} Hailing her as the "most daring actress working today", James Greenberg of Los Angeles magazine praised Winslet for "continuing to explore the bounds of sexual liberation".{{Cite journal|last=Greenberg|first=James|title=Say Anything|journal=Los Angeles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BF4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA54|date=November 2000|pages=54–55|issn=1522-9149|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030104133/https://books.google.com/books?id=BF4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA54|archive-date=30 October 2017}} She received a SAG Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.{{cite web |url = http://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/7th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards |title = The 7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards |year = 2001 |publisher = Screen Actors Guild Award |access-date = 22 January 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160317231639/http://sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/7th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards |archive-date = 17 March 2016}} The following year, she played a fictitious mathematician involved in the cracking of the Enigma ciphers in Michael Apted's espionage thriller Enigma. Winslet's character was vastly expanded from a subsidiary love-interest in the novel it was based on to a prominent code-breaker in the film.{{cite news |last = Mottram |first = James |title = Interview – Kate Winslet |date = 20 August 2001 |publisher = BBC News |url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2001/08/20/kate_winslet_interview.shtml |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070405145440/http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2001/08/20/kate_winslet_interview.shtml |archive-date = 5 April 2007}} She was pregnant while filming, and to prevent this from showing, she wore corsets under her costume.{{cite web |title = Winslet Hid Pregnancy Under Corsets |date = 20 August 2001 |publisher = ABC News |url = https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=102917&page=1 |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027181508/http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=102917&page=1 |archive-date = 27 October 2017}}

The biopic Iris (2001) featured Winslet and Judi Dench as the novelist Iris Murdoch at different ages. The director Richard Eyre cast the two actresses after finding a "correspondence of spirit between them".{{cite news |last = Turan |first = Kenneth |title = Connecting with the Poignant 'Iris' |date = 14 December 2001 |work = Los Angeles Times |url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-14-et-iris14-story.html |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151017162347/http://articles.latimes.com/2001/dec/14/entertainment/et-iris14 |archive-date = 17 October 2015}} Winslet was drawn to the idea of playing an intellectual and zesty female lead, and in research, she read Murdoch's novels, studied her husband's memoir Elegy for Iris, and watched televised interviews of Murdoch.{{cite news |last = Youngs |first = Ian |title = The importance of being Iris |date = 24 February 2002 |publisher = BBC News |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1839316.stm |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027183740/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1839316.stm |archive-date = 27 October 2017}} The project was filmed over four weeks and allowed Winslet to bring her daughter, who was six months old at the time, on set. Writing for The Guardian, Martin Amis remarked that "the seriousness and steadiness of [Winslet's] gaze effectively suggest the dawning amplitude of the Murdoch imagination".{{cite news |last = Amis |first = Martin |title = Age will win |date = 21 December 2001 |work = The Guardian |url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/dec/21/artsfeatures.fiction |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027181327/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/dec/21/artsfeatures.fiction |archive-date = 27 October 2017}} She received her third Oscar nomination for Iris, in addition to BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress.{{cite news |last = Irvine |first = Chris |title = Oscar nomination 2009: Kate Winslet will join list of great Oscar losers if she is defeated |date = 23 January 2009 |work = The Daily Telegraph |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/4319387/Oscar-nomination-2009-Kate-Winslet-will-join-list-of-great-Oscar-losers-if-she-is-defeated.html |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100326172142/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/4319387/Oscar-nomination-2009-Kate-Winslet-will-join-list-of-great-Oscar-losers-if-she-is-defeated.html |archive-date = 26 March 2010}}

Winslet's third film release of 2001 was the animated film Christmas Carol: The Movie, based on Charles Dickens' novel. For the film's soundtrack she recorded "What If", which proved to be a commercial hit.{{cite news |url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/jun/25/news4 |title = Kate Winslet tunes up for a singing career |work = The Guardian |date = 25 June 2001 |access-date = 3 December 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131225063842/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/jun/25/news4 |archive-date = 25 December 2013}}{{cite news |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1676426.stm |title = Winslet launches festive chart bid |publisher = BBC News |date = 26 November 2001 |access-date = 4 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170126073103/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1676426.stm |archive-date = 26 January 2017}} After a year-long absence from the screen, Winslet starred as a headstrong journalist interviewing a professor on death row in the thriller The Life of David Gale (2003). She agreed to the project to work with the director Alan Parker, whom she admired, and believed the film raised pertinent questions about capital punishment.{{cite news |last = Lee |first = Alana |title = Kate Winslet: The Life of David Gale |date = 10 March 2003 |publisher = BBC News |url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/03/10/kate_winslet_the_life_of_david_gale_interview.shtml |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060627025622/http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/03/10/kate_winslet_the_life_of_david_gale_interview.shtml |archive-date = 27 June 2006}} Mick LaSalle thought the film had muddled the subject and disliked both the film and Winslet's performance.{{cite news |last = LaSalle |first = Mick |title = Lack of mystery undermines 'David Gale' / Muddled treatise on death penalty |date = 21 February 2003 |work = San Francisco Chronicle |url = http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Lack-of-mystery-undermines-David-Gale-Muddled-2633168.php |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027181811/http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Lack-of-mystery-undermines-David-Gale-Muddled-2633168.php |archive-date = 27 October 2017}}

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To avoid typecasting in historical dramas, Winslet actively looked for roles in contemporary-set films.{{cite news |last = Bunbury |first = Stephanie |title = Mother Superior |url = http://www.theage.com.au/news/Film/Mother-superior/2005/01/01/1104345034348.html |work = The Age |date = 2 January 2005 |access-date = 7 February 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090218192000/http://www.theage.com.au/news/Film/Mother-superior/2005/01/01/1104345034348.html |archive-date = 18 February 2009}} She found it in the science fiction romance Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), in which she played a neurotic and impetuous woman who decides to erase memories of her ex-boyfriend (played by Jim Carrey).{{cite news |last = Rosen |first = Christopher |title = Kate Winslet Remembers How 'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind' Helped Change Her Career |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kate-winslet-eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind_n_4989538|work = HuffPost |date = 19 March 2014 |access-date = 28 February 2020|url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027232123/http://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/kate-winslet-eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind_n_4989538 |archive-date = 27 October 2017}}{{cite news |title = Kate Winslet: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |url=https://variety.com/2005/film/awards/kate-winslet-1117915626/ |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050314230754/http://www.variety.com/ac2005_article/VR1117915626?nav=actress&categoryid=1815 |archive-date = 14 March 2005 |last = Oei |first = Lily |date = 2 January 2005 |work = Variety |access-date = 28 February 2020}} Unlike her previous assignments, the role allowed her to display the quirky side to her personality.{{cite news |last = Holmes |first = A.M. |title = Kate Winslet, 2004 |url = http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/kate_winslet.shtml |work = Index Magazine |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170528054927/http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/kate_winslet.shtml |archive-date = 28 May 2017}} Gondry encouraged Winslet and Carrey to improvise on set, and to keep herself agile she practised kickboxing. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind proved to be a modest financial success and several critics have regarded it as one of the best films of the 21st century.{{cite news |title = Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |publisher = Box Office Mojo |url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=eternalsunshine.htm |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130510065632/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=eternalsunshine.htm |archive-date = 10 May 2013 }}{{cite news |url = http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160819-the-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films |title = The 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films |date = 23 August 2016 |publisher = BBC News |access-date = 16 August 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170131124228/http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160819-the-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films |archive-date = 31 January 2017}}
{{cite news |last1 = Dargis |first1 = Manohla |last2 = Scott |first2 = A.O. |title = The 25 Best Films of the 21st Century...So Far |url = https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/09/movies/the-25-best-films-of-the-21st-century.html |work = The New York Times |date = 9 June 2017 |access-date = 8 July 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170708065541/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/09/movies/the-25-best-films-of-the-21st-century.html |archive-date = 8 July 2017}} Peter Travers of Rolling Stone described it as a "uniquely funny, unpredictably tender and unapologetically twisted romance" and found Winslet to be "electrifying and bruisingly vulnerable" in it.{{cite magazine |title = Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind-91692/ |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080622052028/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/5948633/review/5948634/eternal_sunshine_of_the_spotless_mind |archive-date = 22 June 2008 |last = Travers |first = Peter |date = 10 March 2004 |magazine = Rolling Stone |access-date = 28 February 2020 }} A journalist for Premiere magazine commended her for abandoning her "corseted English rose persona", and ranked it as the 81st greatest film performance of all time.{{cite web |url = http://www.premiere.com/List/The-100-Greatest-Performances-of-All-Time/The-100-Greatest-Performances-of-All-Time-100-75 |title = The 100 Greatest Performances of All Time: 100–75 |work = Premiere |access-date = 30 January 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090331131542/http://www.premiere.com/List/The-100-Greatest-Performances-of-All-Time/The-100-Greatest-Performances-of-All-Time-100-75 |archive-date = 31 March 2009 }} Winslet considers it to be a favourite among her roles, and she received Best Actress nominations at the Oscar and BAFTA award ceremonies.{{cite web |url = http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2005 |title = Nominees & Winners for the 74th Academy Awards |year = 2005 |publisher = Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date = 22 April 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170502002335/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2005 |archive-date = 2 May 2017}}{{cite web |url = https://www.today.com/popculture/bafta-gives-winslet-two-best-actress-nods-wbna6840150 |title = BAFTA gives Winslet two best actress nods |date = 19 January 2005 |work = Today |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027233539/https://www.today.com/popculture/bafta-gives-winslet-two-best-actress-nods-wbna6840150 |archive-date = 27 October 2017}} She has said the film marked a turning point in her career and prompted directors to offer her a wide variety of parts.

Her next release of the year was the drama Finding Neverland, about the relationship between J. M. Barrie (played by Johnny Depp) and the Llewelyn Davies boys, which inspired Barrie to write Peter Pan. Winslet was paid £6 million to play the boys' mother, Sylvia, and despite her reluctance to star in another period piece, she agreed to the project after empathising with Sylvia's love for her children.{{cite news |last = Irvine |first = Chris |title = Kate Winslet 'worth £60 million' to British economy |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/6524675/Kate-Winslet-worth-60-million-to-British-economy.html |work = The Daily Telegraph |date = 8 November 2009 |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091111001845/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/6524675/Kate-Winslet-worth-60-million-to-British-economy.html |archive-date = 11 November 2009}}{{cite news |last = Hohenadel |first = Kristen |title = Behind the Writer Behind Peter Pan |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/movies/moviesspecial/behind-the-writer-behind-peter-pan.html |work = The New York Times |date = 7 November 2004 |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027233027/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/movies/moviesspecial/behind-the-writer-behind-peter-pan.html |archive-date = 27 October 2017}} Ella Taylor of LA Weekly found her to be "radiant and earthy as ever", and CNN's Paul Clinton thought she was "exceptional in a delicate and finely tuned performance".{{cite news |last = Taykor |first = Ella |title = The Other Dr. Strangelove |url = http://www.laweekly.com/film/the-other-dr-strangelove-2139063 |work = LA Weekly |date = 11 November 2004 |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027233423/http://www.laweekly.com/film/the-other-dr-strangelove-2139063 |archive-date = 27 October 2017}}{{cite web |last = Clinton |first = Paul |title = Review: 'Finding Neverland' a joy to see |url = http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/19/review.neverland/index.html |publisher = CNN |date = 19 November 2004 |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160512121548/http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/19/review.neverland/index.html |archive-date = 12 May 2016}} She received a second Best Actress nomination at that year's BAFTA Award ceremony. With a box office gross of $116 million, Finding Neverland became her most widely seen film since Titanic.{{cite web |title = Finding Neverland |publisher = Box Office Mojo |url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=findingneverland.htm |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170405172502/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=findingneverland.htm |archive-date = 5 April 2017}}

In 2005, Winslet took on a guest role in an episode of the British comedy sitcom Extras, starring Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. She played a satirical version of herself in it—an actress, who in an effort to win an Oscar, takes the role of a nun in a Holocaust film.{{cite magazine |last = Ryan |first = Amy |title = Snap Judgment: 'Extras' |url = https://ew.com/article/2005/09/26/snap_judgment_e-2/ |magazine = Entertainment Weekly |date = 26 September 2005 |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027232900/http://ew.com/article/2005/09/26/snap_judgment_e-2/ |archive-date = 27 October 2017}} She received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series nomination.{{cite web |title = Kate Winslet: Awards and nominations |publisher = Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |url = https://www.emmys.com/bios/kate-winslet |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027234338/https://www.emmys.com/bios/kate-winslet |archive-date = 27 October 2017}} Within three months of giving birth to her second child, Winslet returned to work on Romance & Cigarettes, a musical romantic comedy directed by John Turturro, in which she played Tula, a promiscuous and foul-mouthed woman.{{cite news |title = Winslet swears by role |last = Schaefer |first = Stephen |date = 27 November 2007 |work = Boston Herald |page = 27 }} The part required her to sing and dance, and it helped her lose weight gained during the pregnancy.{{cite news |first = Stephen |last = Holden |title = Blue Collar Guy Loses His Heart and Ruins His Lungs |url = https://movies.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/movies/07roma.html |work = The New York Times |date = 7 September 2007 |access-date = 3 December 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090417032524/http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/movies/07roma.html |archive-date = 17 April 2009}} She twisted her ankle while filming one of the dance sequences. Derek Elley of Variety wrote that despite her limited screen time, Winslet had "the showiest role and filthiest one-liners".{{cite news |last = Elley |first = Derek |title = Romance & Cigarettes |url = https://variety.com/2005/film/markets-festivals/romance-cigarettes-1200523448/ |date = 5 September 2007 |work = Variety |access-date = 7 February 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151104104121/http://variety.com/2005/film/markets-festivals/romance-cigarettes-1200523448/ |archive-date = 4 November 2015}} She turned down an offer from Woody Allen to star in Match Point (2005) to spend more time with her children.

File:Kate Winslet at the BAFTAs 2007 (cropped).jpg in 2007, where she received her fifth BAFTA Award nomination|alt=A profile view of Winslet as she speaks into a microphone.]]

Winslet had four film releases in 2006. She first appeared in All the King's Men, a political thriller set in 1940s Louisiana, featuring Sean Penn and Jude Law. She played the supporting part of the love interest to Law's character.{{cite journal |title = In Conversation with Kate Winslet |journal = Empire |date = November 2006 |pages = 159–164 |last = Richards |first = Olly }} The film received negative reviews for its lack of political insight and narrative cohesiveness, and failed to recoup its $55 million investment.{{cite web |title = All The King's Men (2006) |date = 22 September 2006 |publisher = Rotten Tomatoes |url = https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/all_the_kings_men/ |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170830120315/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/all_the_kings_men |archive-date = 30 August 2017}}{{cite web |title=All the King's Men |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl574850561/ |publisher=Box Office Mojo |access-date=27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027232032/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=allthekingsmen.htm |archive-date = 27 October 2017 }} Her next release, the Todd Field drama Little Children, was better received. Based on the novel of the same name, the film tells the story of Sarah Pierce, an unhappy housewife who has an affair with a married neighbour (played by Patrick Wilson). Winslet was challenged by the role of an uncaring mother, as she did neither understand nor respect her character's actions.{{cite news |last = Chang |first = Justin |title = Kate Winslet, 'Little Children' |url = https://variety.com/2006/film/awards/kate-winslet-little-children-1117955604/ |date = 12 December 2006 |work = Variety |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171028043627/http://variety.com/2006/film/awards/kate-winslet-little-children-1117955604/ |archive-date = 28 October 2017}} Scenes requiring her to be hostile towards the child actress playing her daughter proved upsetting for her.{{cite news |last = Hiscock |first = John |title = Why Winslet bared body and soul |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3656133/Why-Winslet-bared-body-and-soul.html |date = 27 October 2006 |work = The Daily Telegraph |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150831194717/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3656133/Why-Winslet-bared-body-and-soul.html |archive-date = 31 August 2015}} Having borne two children, she was nervous about the sex scenes in which she had to be nude; she took on the challenge to present a positive image for women with, in her words, "imperfect bodies". A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote that Winslet successfully "registers every flicker of Sarah's pride, self-doubt and desire, inspiring a mixture of recognition, pity and concern".{{cite news |url = https://movies.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/movies/29chil.html |title = Playground Rules: No Hitting, No Sex |last = Scott |first = A.O. |date = 29 September 2006 |work = The New York Times |access-date = 29 September 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071113112515/http://movies.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/movies/29chil.html |archive-date = 13 November 2007}} Once again, she received BAFTA and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress; the latter making her, at 31, the youngest performer to accrue five Oscar nominations.{{cite news |title = Baftas 2007: The winners |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6254717.stm |publisher = BBC News |date = 11 February 2007 |access-date = 30 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160305225930/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6254717.stm |archive-date = 5 March 2016}}
{{cite news |title = In profile: Best actress nominees |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6278069.stm |publisher = BBC News |date = 23 January 2007 |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171028045534/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6278069.stm |archive-date = 28 October 2017}}

After Little Children, Winslet took on a part she found more sympathetic in Nancy Meyers's romantic comedy The Holiday.{{cite web |last = Weintraub |first = Steve |title = Collider Interviews Kate Winslet and Nancy Meyers – 'The Holiday' |url = https://collider.com/collider-interviews-kate-winslet-and-nancy-meyers-the-holiday/ |work = Collider |date = 8 December 2006 |access-date = 27 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171028042216/http://collider.com/collider-interviews-kate-winslet-and-nancy-meyers-the-holiday/ |archive-date = 28 October 2017}} She played a Briton who temporarily exchanges homes with an American (played by Cameron Diaz) during the Christmas holiday season. It became her biggest commercial success in nine years, grossing over $205 million worldwide.{{cite web |title = The Holiday |url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=holiday.htm |publisher = Box Office Mojo |access-date = 7 February 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090129214313/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=holiday.htm |archive-date = 29 January 2009}} The critic Justin Chang found the film formulaic yet pleasing, and took note of Winslet's radiance and charm.{{cite news |url = https://variety.com/2006/film/awards/the-holiday-1200511718/ |title = The Holiday |last = Chang |first = Justin |date = 30 November 2006 |work = Variety |access-date = 28 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171028043644/http://variety.com/2006/film/awards/the-holiday-1200511718/ |archive-date = 28 October 2017}} In her final release of the year, she voiced Rita, a scavenging sewer rat, in the animated film Flushed Away.{{cite news |last = Stuart |first = Jen |url = http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/ny-etmovie4956340nov03,0,1061487.story?coll=ny-moviereview-headlines |title = A puppet's life goes down the toilet |work = Newsday |date = 3 November 2006 |access-date = 8 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061126111144/http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/ny-etmovie4956340nov03,0,1061487.story?coll=ny-moviereview-headlines |archive-date = 26 November 2006 }} Her sole project of 2007 was as the narrator for the English version of the French children's film The Fox and the Child.{{cite news |last = Quinn |first = Anthony |title = The Fox and the Child (U) |url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/the-fox-and-the-child-u-887951.html |work = The Independent |access-date = 2 April 2014 |date = 8 August 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140407122914/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/the-fox-and-the-child-u-887951.html |archive-date = 7 April 2014}}

Winslet had two critically acclaimed roles in 2008.{{cite magazine |author = Harris, Mark |url = https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1880650,00.html |title = Best Actress: Kate Winslet's Moment |magazine = Time |date = 19 February 2009 |access-date = 28 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171030104147/http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1880650,00.html |archive-date = 30 October 2017}} After reading Justin Haythe's script for Revolutionary Road, an adaptation of Richard Yates's debut novel, Winslet recommended the project to her then-husband, director Sam Mendes, and her Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio.{{cite news |last = Smith |first = Krista |title = Isn't she Deneuvely? |url = https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/12/winslet200812 |work = Vanity Fair |date = 3 November 2008 |access-date = 28 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170103220131/http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/12/winslet200812 |archive-date = 3 January 2017}} The film traces the tribulations of a young married couple in 1950s suburban America. Winslet was drawn to the idea of playing a woman whose aspirations had not been met,{{cite news |last = Cochraine |first = Kira |title = 'I did have moments where I'd say, Oh my God ...' |url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/dec/19/kate-winslet-film-the-reader-revolutionary-road |work = The Guardian |date = 19 December 2008 |access-date = 28 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171029012619/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/dec/19/kate-winslet-film-the-reader-revolutionary-road |archive-date = 29 October 2017}} and she read The Feminine Mystique to understand the psychology of unhappy housewives from the era. Mendes encouraged Winslet and DiCaprio to spend time together, and she believed the small set they used helped them to develop their characters' strained relationship. Hailing her as "the best English-speaking film actress of her generation", David Edelstein of New York magazine wrote that "[t]here isn't a banal moment in Winslet's performance—not a gesture, not a word."{{cite news |last = Edelstein |first = David |title = 'Tis the Season ... |url =https://nymag.com/movies/reviews/52914/ |work = New York |date = 12 December 2008 |access-date = 10 January 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090131083540/http://nymag.com/movies/reviews/52914/ |archive-date = 31 January 2009}}

File:KateWinsletAAFeb09.jpg in 2009, where she won the Academy Award for Best Actress|alt=Kate Winslet smiles and waves at the camera.]]

To avoid a scheduling conflict with Revolutionary Road, Winslet turned down an offer to star in The Reader. After her replacement Nicole Kidman left the project due to her pregnancy, Winslet was signed to it.{{cite news |first = Ed |last = Meza |author2 = Fleming, Michael |url = https://variety.com/2008/film/awards/winslet-replaces-kidman-in-reader-1117978660/ |title = Winslet replaces Kidman in 'Reader' |work = Variety |date = 8 January 2008 |access-date = 10 January 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151104104323/http://variety.com/2008/film/awards/winslet-replaces-kidman-in-reader-1117978660/ |archive-date = 4 November 2015}} Directed by Stephen Daldry, The Reader is based on Bernhard Schlink's novel Der Vorleser and is about Hanna Schmitz, an illiterate Nazi concentration camp guard (Winslet), who has an affair with a teenage boy. Winslet researched the Holocaust and the SS guards. To educate herself on the stigma of illiteracy, she spent time with students at the Literacy Partners, an organisation that teaches adults to read and write. She was unable to sympathise with Schmitz and struggled to play the part honestly without humanising the character's actions.{{cite news |first = Brad |last = Balfour |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/actress-kate-winslet-stru_b_152832|title = Actress Kate Winslet Struggles With Making The Reader, The Nazi Era and Oscar Buzz |work = HuffPost |date = 23 January 2009 |access-date = 28 February 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160928100028/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-balfour/actress-kate-winslet-stru_b_152832.html |archive-date = 28 September 2016}} Despite this, some historians criticised the film for making Schmitz an object of the audience's sympathy and accused the filmmakers of Holocaust revisionism.{{cite news |first = Tim |last = Shipman |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/4624573/Kate-Winslets-Oscar-chances-hit-by-The-Reader-Nazi-accusation.html |title = Kate Winslet's Oscar chances hit by The Reader Nazi accusation |work = The Daily Telegraph |date = 15 February 2009 |access-date = 8 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160814101831/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/4624573/Kate-Winslets-Oscar-chances-hit-by-The-Reader-Nazi-accusation.html |archive-date = 14 August 2016 }} Writing for Variety, Todd McCarthy commended Winslet for "suppl[ying] a haunting shell to this internally decimated woman," and Sukhdev Sandhu of The Daily Telegraph considered her to be "absolutely fearless here, not just in her willingness to expose herself physically, but her refusal to expose her character psychologically."{{cite news |first = Todd |last = McCarthy |url = https://variety.com/2008/film/awards/the-reader-3-1200472005/ |title = The Reader |work = Variety |date = 30 November 2008 |access-date = 28 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171028201208/http://variety.com/2008/film/awards/the-reader-3-1200472005/ |archive-date = 28 October 2017}}{{cite news |first = Sukhdev |last = Sandhu |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/sukhdev-sandhu/4014816/The-Reader-review.html |title = The Reader – review |work = The Telegraph |date = 29 December 2008 |access-date = 28 October 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151128150718/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/sukhdev-sandhu/4014816/The-Reader-review.html |archive-date = 28 November 2015}}

Winslet received significant awards attention for her performances in Revolutionary Road and The Reader.{{cite news |author = Graham, Mark |url = https://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/01/kate_winslets_unprecedented_os.html |title = Getting to the Bottom of Kate Winslet's Unprecedented Oscar Snubs |work = New York |date = 23 January 2009 |access-date = 30 January 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090127002636/http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/01/kate_winslets_unprecedented_os.html |archive-date = 27 January 2009}} She won a Golden Globe Award for each of these films, and for the latter, she was awarded the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actress. At age 33, she surpassed her own record as the youngest performer to accrue six Oscar nominations. She also became the third actress in history to win two Golden Globe Awards at the same ceremony.{{cite web |url = https://www.goldenglobes.com/trivia-0 |title = Trivia |publisher = Hollywood Foreign Press Association |access-date = 28 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171028201804/https://www.goldenglobes.com/trivia-0 |archive-date = 28 October 2017}} Exhausted by the media attention during this period, Winslet took two years off work until she was ready to creatively engage again.{{cite journal |title = Solo Act |journal = Vogue |date = April 2011 |pages = 218–225 |last = Ellison |first = Jo }}

Winslet returned to acting with the five-part HBO series Mildred Pierce (2011), an adaptation of James M. Cain's novel from the director Todd Haynes. It is about the titular heroine (Winslet), a divorcée during the Great Depression struggling to establish a restaurant business while yearning for the respect of her narcissistic daughter (played by Evan Rachel Wood). Winslet, who had recently divorced Mendes, believed certain aspects of her character's life mirrored her own. She was intimidated by the scope of the production, as she featured in every scene of the 280-page script.{{cite news |url = http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2011-06-24/interview-kate-winslet-on-mildred-pierce/ |title = Interview: Kate Winslet on Mildred Pierce |work = Radio Times |date = 24 June 2011 |access-date = 28 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171029012947/http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2011-06-24/interview-kate-winslet-on-mildred-pierce/ |archive-date = 29 October 2017}} She was disturbed and upset by the story, and was particularly fascinated by the complex relationship between the mother-daughter pair.{{cite web |last = Raddish |first = Christina |url = https://collider.com/kate-winslet-todd-haynes-interview-mildred-pierce/ |title = Kate Winslet and Director Todd Haynes Interview: Mildred Pierce |publisher = Collider |date = 2 February 2011 |access-date = 28 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171029013040/http://collider.com/kate-winslet-todd-haynes-interview-mildred-pierce/ |archive-date = 29 October 2017}} She collaborated closely with the production and costume designers, and learnt to bake pies and prepare chickens. The broadcast received a limited audience but gained positive reviews.{{cite news |first = Scott |last = Collins |title = HBO's 'Mildred Pierce' With Kate Winslet Opens To Disappointing Ratings |url = http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/03/hbos-mildred-pierce-with-kate-winslet-opens-to-disappointing-ratings-.html?cid=6a00d8341c630a53ef0147e38f2bc3970b |work = Los Angeles Times |date = 29 March 2011 |access-date = 21 May 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110405165743/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/03/hbos-mildred-pierce-with-kate-winslet-opens-to-disappointing-ratings-.html?cid=6a00d8341c630a53ef0147e38f2bc3970b |archive-date = 5 April 2011}}{{cite web |url = https://www.metacritic.com/tv/mildred-pierce |title = Mildred Pierce |publisher = Metacritic |access-date = 21 May 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110830213125/http://www.metacritic.com/tv/mildred-pierce |archive-date = 30 August 2011}} Matt Zoller Seitz of Salon called the series a "quiet, heartbreaking masterpiece" and described Winslet's performance as "terrific—intelligent, focused and seemingly devoid of ego".{{cite web |first = Matt Zoller |last = Seitz |url = http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/03/24/mildred_pierce_hbo_overview/index.html |title = Mildred Pierce Is A Quiet, Heartbreaking Masterpiece |work = Salon |date = 24 March 2011 |access-date = 21 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110604142652/http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/03/24/mildred_pierce_hbo_overview/index.html |archive-date = 4 June 2011 }} She won the Primetime Emmy Award, Golden Globe and SAG Award for Best Actress in a miniseries.{{cite web |last = Wicks |first = Kevin |url = http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2011/09/live-tweeting-the-primetime-emmys |title = Emmys: 'Downton' Nearly Sweeps, Kate Winslet Edges Toward EGOT |work = BBC America |publisher = BBC America |date = September 2011 |access-date = 28 October 2017 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131023073928/http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2011/09/live-tweeting-the-primetime-emmys/ |archive-date = 23 October 2013}}
{{cite web |url = http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/film/26376 |title = Mildred Pierce |publisher = Hollywood Foreign Press Association |access-date = 16 January 2012 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120120025335/http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/film/26376 |archive-date = 20 January 2012}}
{{cite web |url = http://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/18th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards |title = The 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards |publisher = Screen Actors Guild |access-date = 30 January 2012 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://www.webcitation.org/68XjVAcAZ?url=http://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/18th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards |archive-date = 19 June 2012}}

The ensemble thriller Contagion from Steven Soderbergh was Winslet's first film release of 2011. She was cast as a disease detective for the CDC, and she modelled her role on Anne Schuchat, the director of the NCIRD.{{cite web |url = https://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/09/14/140464792/cdc-basks-in-contagions-admiring-take-on-disease-detectives |title = 'Contagion': CDC Basks In Hollywood's Admiring Take On Disease Detectives |last = Barclay |first = Eliza |date = 14 September 2011 |publisher = National Public Radio |access-date = 16 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110916021507/http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/09/14/140464792/cdc-basks-in-contagions-admiring-take-on-disease-detectives |archive-date = 16 September 2011 }} Contagion was a commercial success, and David Denby of The New Yorker credited Winslet for capturing the essence of an exasperated woman.{{cite web |url = https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=contagion.htm |title = Contagion (2011) |publisher = Box Office Mojo |access-date = 28 October 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111024181035/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=contagion.htm |archive-date = 24 October 2011}}{{cite magazine |first = David |last = Denby |title = Call the Doctor |url = https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/09/19/call-the-doctor-david-denby |magazine = The New Yorker |date = 19 September 2011 |access-date = 28 October 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150408223447/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/09/19/call-the-doctor-david-denby |archive-date = 8 April 2015}} Her next project was the Roman Polanski-directed Carnage, adapted from the play God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza. Set entirely inside an apartment, the black comedy follows two sets of parents feuding over their respective children. Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, and Christoph Waltz co-starred. The cast rehearsed the script like a play for two weeks, and Winslet brought her children with her to Paris for the eight weeks of filming.{{cite news |first = Gamerman |last = Ellen |title = On Playing One of Four 'Caged Animals' |url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204770404577082821800702602 |work = The Wall Street Journal |date = 9 December 2011 |access-date = 28 October 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150530040427/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204770404577082821800702602 |archive-date = 30 May 2015}}{{cite news |first = Michaud |last = Chris |title = Kate Winslet finds delight in "Carnage" |url = https://www.reuters.com/article/us-katewinslet-carnage/kate-winslet-finds-delight-in-carnage-idUSTRE7BF0Z120111216 |publisher = Reuters |date = 16 December 2011 |access-date = 28 October 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171029064955/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-katewinslet-carnage/kate-winslet-finds-delight-in-carnage-idUSTRE7BF0Z120111216 |archive-date = 29 October 2017}} Critics found the adaptation to be less compelling than the play, but praised the performances of Winslet and Foster.{{cite web |url = https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/carnage |title = Carnage (2011) |publisher = Rotten Tomatoes |access-date = 28 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170830074628/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/carnage |archive-date = 30 August 2017}} They both received Golden Globe nominations for it.{{cite web |url = https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/carnage |title = Carnage |publisher = Hollywood Foreign Press Association |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171029013544/https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/carnage |archive-date = 29 October 2017}}

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Winslet said her workload in 2011 helped her overcome heartbreak from her divorce, and after completing work on Carnage she took a break from acting to focus on her children. A short part that she had filmed four years prior for the anthology film Movie 43 was her sole screen appearance of 2012, and it received the worst reviews of her career.{{cite news |last = Sherwell |first = Phillip |title = Movie 43: How Kate Winslet and Hugh Jackman lured all-star cast to 'the worst film ever' |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9844090/Movie-43-How-Kate-Winslet-and-Hugh-Jackman-lured-all-star-cast-to-the-worst-film-ever.html |work = The Daily Telegraph |access-date = 2 February 2013 |date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130203042239/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9844090/Movie-43-How-Kate-Winslet-and-Hugh-Jackman-lured-all-star-cast-to-the-worst-film-ever.html |archive-date = 3 February 2013}}{{cite news |last = Roeper |first = Richard |title = There's awful and then there's 'Movie 43' |url = http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/17804431-421/theres-awful-and-then-theres-movie-43.html |work = Chicago Sun-Times |access-date = 26 January 2013 |date = 25 January 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140214142846/http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/17804431-421/theres-awful-and-then-theres-movie-43.html |archive-date = 14 February 2014}} Winslet also performed an audiobook recording of Émile Zola's novel Thérèse Raquin.{{cite news |url = https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-audible-books-20120314,0,1816688.story |title = Audiobooks are going Hollywood |work = Los Angeles Times |date = 14 March 2012 |access-date = 14 March 2012 |first = Jessica |last = Gelt |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120314144327/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-audible-books-20120314,0,1816688.story |archive-date = 14 March 2012}}{{cite news |url = http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/dbsearch/showreview.cfm?Num=72843 |title = Audiobook Review: Thérèse Raquin |work = AudioFile |date = 5 May 2012 |access-date = 5 May 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121030080252/http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/dbsearch/showreview.cfm?Num=72843 |archive-date = 30 October 2012}} She was reluctant to accept Jason Reitman's offer to star in his 2013 film adaptation of Joyce Maynard's novel Labor Day, but agreed after Reitman postponed the production for a year to accommodate Winslet's commitment to her children. Set over a Labor Day weekend, it tells the story of Adele (Winslet), an agoraphobic single mother who falls in love with an escaped convict. Describing Adele's characterisation as having "more vulnerability than strength", Winslet found her a departure from the strong-willed women she typically played. A scene in the film required her to make a pie, for which she drew on her baking experience from Mildred Pierce.{{cite web |last = Hammond |first = Pete |url = https://deadline.com/2013/12/oscars-kate-winslet-labor-day-interview-654101/ |title = Oscars Q&A: Kate Winslet On 'Labor Day' |website = Deadline Hollywood |date = 22 December 2013 |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170621093639/http://deadline.com/2013/12/oscars-kate-winslet-labor-day-interview-654101/ |archive-date = 21 June 2017}} Reviews of the film were negative; Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly dismissed it as "mawkish and melodramatic" but credited Winslet for adding layers to her passive role.{{cite web |url = https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/labor_day_2013 |title = Labor Day (2014) |publisher = Rotten Tomatoes |access-date = 8 February 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140208013555/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/labor_day_2013/ |archive-date = 8 February 2014}}{{cite magazine |last = Nashwaty |first = Chris |url = https://ew.com/article/2014/02/11/labor-day-movie/ |title = Labor Day Movie |magazine = Entertainment Weekly |date = 11 February 2014 |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171029173759/http://ew.com/article/2014/02/11/labor-day-movie/ |archive-date = 29 October 2017}} She received her tenth Golden Globe nomination.{{cite news |title = Making Sense of This Morning's Golden Globe Nominations and Snubs (Analysis) |url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/golden-globes-making-sense-mornings-665260 |access-date = 1 January 2014 |work = The Hollywood Reporter |date = 12 December 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131216095715/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/golden-globes-making-sense-mornings-665260 |archive-date = 16 December 2013}}

The novelty of playing a villain drew Winslet to the part of Jeanine Matthews in the science fiction film Divergent (2014).{{cite news |last = Alexander |first = Bryan |url = https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/07/16/divergent-kate-winslet-pregnant/2507183/ |title = On set of 'Divergent', Kate Winslet is pregnant and mean |work = USA Today |date = 6 July 2013 |access-date = 17 March 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140218062408/http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/07/16/divergent-kate-winslet-pregnant/2507183/ |archive-date = 18 February 2014}}{{cite magazine |last = Feeney |first = Nolan |url = https://time.com/3738175/kate-winslet-insurgent-shailene-woodley/ |title = Kate Winslet on Insurgent: I Wanted More Fight Scenes With Shailene Woodley |magazine = Time |date = 17 March 2015 |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160724041156/http://time.com/3738175/kate-winslet-insurgent-shailene-woodley/ |archive-date = 24 July 2016}} Set in a dystopian future, the adaptation of Veronica Roth's young adult novel stars Shailene Woodley as a heroine fighting an oppressive regime headed by Winslet's character. She was pregnant with her third child during production, and her tight-fitting costumes had to be altered to accommodate the pregnancy. To maintain her character's intimidating persona, she remained aloof from her co-stars for much of the filming. Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair compared the film unfavourably to the Hunger Games series, and found Winslet to be underutilised in it.{{cite magazine |last = Lawson |first = Richard |url = https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/03/divergent-review |title = The Generic Dystopia of Divergent |magazine = Vanity Fair |date = 20 March 2014 |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160413021936/http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/03/divergent-review |archive-date = 13 April 2016}} The film grossed $288 million worldwide.{{cite web |url = https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=divergent.htm |title = Divergent (2014) |publisher = Box Office Mojo |date = 21 March 2014 |access-date = 2 October 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141001031608/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=divergent.htm |archive-date = 1 October 2014}} A Little Chaos marked her return to the period film genre.{{cite news |last = Kilcooley-O'Halloran |first = Scarlett |url = http://www.vogue.co.uk/article/kate-winslet-interview-a-little-chaos |title = Kate's Occasional Chaos |work = Vogue |date = 15 April 2015 |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170625182401/http://www.vogue.co.uk/article/kate-winslet-interview-a-little-chaos |archive-date = 25 June 2017}} Directed by Alan Rickman, it is about a rivalry among gardeners commissioned to create a fountain at the Palace of Versailles. Winslet's role was that of fictional architect Sabine de Barra, a character she believed had overcome extreme grief and hardship like herself. Catherine Shoard of The Guardian took note of the "emotional honesty" Winslet brought to her part, but criticised the implausibility of her role.{{cite news |last = Shoard |first = Catherine |title = A Little Chaos review – Louis XIV gardening romp borders on ridiculous |url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/10/a-little-chaos-alan-rickman-kate-winslet-louis-xiv-film |work = The Guardian |date = 10 September 2014 |access-date = 10 September 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140911010143/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/10/a-little-chaos-alan-rickman-kate-winslet-louis-xiv-film |archive-date = 11 September 2014}} Also that year, she read audiobooks of Roald Dahl's children's novels Matilda and The Magic Finger.{{cite book |title = Matilda by Roald Dahl |date = 11 September 2014 |url = https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/58699/matilda/9780141349213/ |publisher = Penguin Random House |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171030104133/https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/58699/matilda/9780141349213/ |archive-date = 30 October 2017}}{{cite web |title = The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl |url = https://www.penguin.co.uk/puffin/books/58692/the-magic-finger/9780141349565/ |publisher = Penguin Random House |date = 11 September 2014 |access-date = 14 November 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171114133700/https://www.penguin.co.uk/puffin/books/58692/the-magic-finger/9780141349565/ |archive-date = 14 November 2017}}

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In 2015, Winslet reprised the role of Jeanine Matthews in the second instalment of the Divergent series, subtitled Insurgent, which despite negative reviews grossed $297 million worldwide.{{cite web |url = https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/insurgent/ |title = Insurgent |publisher = Rotten Tomatoes |access-date = 20 March 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150317225133/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/insurgent |archive-date = 17 March 2015}}{{cite web |url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=insurgent.htm |title = Insurgent (2015) |publisher = Box Office Mojo |access-date = 19 April 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150419032159/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=insurgent.htm |archive-date = 19 April 2015}} Her next film, an adaptation of the Australian gothic novel The Dressmaker, was described by the director Jocelyn Moorhouse as being reminiscent of the western Unforgiven (1992).{{cite news |last = Yuan |first = Jada |url = https://www.vulture.com/2015/09/winslet-on-the-dressmaker-liam-hemsworths-abs.html |title = Kate Winslet Discusses the Many Reasons The Dressmaker Will Make You Jealous of Her |work = New York |date = 15 September 2015 |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170630232743/http://www.vulture.com/2015/09/winslet-on-the-dressmaker-liam-hemsworths-abs.html |archive-date = 30 June 2017}} Winslet starred as the femme fatale Tilly Dunnage, a seamstress who returns to her hometown years after she was accused of murder. She learnt to sew for the part and designed some of her own costumes. The project was filmed in the Australian desert and she found it difficult to wear couture dresses in the harsh weather.{{cite news |last = Schonfield |first = Zach |url = http://www.newsweek.com/kate-winslet-dressmaker-steve-jobs-interview-503971 |title = Kate Winslet: The Newsweek Interview |work = Newsweek |date = 3 October 2016 |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170819110715/http://www.newsweek.com/kate-winslet-dressmaker-steve-jobs-interview-503971 |archive-date = 19 August 2017}} Despite disliking the film, Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times credited Winslet for underplaying her over-the-top part.{{cite news |last = Abele |first = Robert |url = https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-dressmaker-review-20160919-snap-story.html |title = Review: Australian drama 'The Dressmaker' has hearty energy but quickly wears out its welcome |work = Los Angeles Times |date = 21 September 2016 |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171024043923/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-dressmaker-review-20160919-snap-story.html |archive-date = 24 October 2017}} The film emerged as one of the highest-grossing Australian films of all time, but earned little elsewhere.{{cite news |last = Bodey |first = Michael |url = http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/film/the-dressmaker-set-to-enter-top-10-at-box-office/news-story/545bbba608634b250b90fe9c744d46d6 |title = The Dressmaker set to enter top 10 at box office |work = The Australian |date = 23 December 2015 |access-date = 29 October 2017 }}{{cite web |url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=thedressmaker.htm |title = The Dressmaker (2016) |publisher = Box Office Mojo |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171029173626/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=thedressmaker.htm |archive-date = 29 October 2017}} Winslet won the AACTA Award for Best Actress.{{cite news |last = Frater |first = Patrick |title = 'Mad Max,' 'Dressmaker' Split Australian Academy Awards |url = https://variety.com/2015/film/asia/mad-max-dressmaker-share-australian-academy-awards-1201657144/ |work = Variety |date = 9 December 2015 |access-date = 28 October 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151211053729/http://variety.com/2015/film/asia/mad-max-dressmaker-share-australian-academy-awards-1201657144/ |archive-date = 11 December 2015}}

While filming The Dressmaker, Winslet became aware of a forthcoming Steve Jobs biopic written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle. Keen to play Jobs's marketing chief and confidante Joanna Hoffman, she sent a picture of herself dressed as Hoffman to the film's producer.{{cite news |last = Lipsky-Karasz |first = Elisa |url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/kate-winslet-stars-in-the-highly-anticipated-film-steve-jobs-1443621106 |title = Director's Darling: Kate Winslet Stars in the Highly Anticipated Film 'Steve Jobs' |work = The Wall Street Journal |date = 30 September 2015 |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170909025658/https://www.wsj.com/articles/kate-winslet-stars-in-the-highly-anticipated-film-steve-jobs-1443621106 |archive-date = 9 September 2017}} Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender in the title role, is told in three acts, each depicting a key milestone in Jobs's career. In preparation, Winslet spent time with Hoffman, and worked with a dialect coach to speak in Hoffman's accent, a mixture of Armenian and Polish, which she considered to be the most difficult of her career. The cast rehearsed each act like a play and filmed it in sequence. Winslet collaborated closely with Fassbender, and their off-screen relationship mirrored the collegial dynamic between Jobs and Hoffman. The film earned her some of the best reviews of her career, though it was a box-office flop.{{cite news |last = Lang |first = Brent |title = 'Steve Jobs' Bombs: What Went Wrong With the Apple Drama |url = https://variety.com/2015/film/box-office/steve-jobs-flops-1201626243/ |work = Variety |date = 25 October 2015 |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170614124843/http://variety.com/2015/film/box-office/steve-jobs-flops-1201626243/ |archive-date = 14 June 2017}}{{cite news |url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wandas-legendary-lost-500-million-894103 |title = Wanda's Legendary Lost $500 Million in 2015, Chinese Filing Reveals |work = The Hollywood Reporter |date = 14 May 2016 |access-date = 9 November 2017 |last = Brzeski |first = Patrick |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171110114507/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wandas-legendary-lost-500-million-894103 |archive-date = 10 November 2017}} Peter Howell of the Toronto Star commended Winslet for finding "strength and grace" in her part, and Gregory Ellwood of HitFix thought she improved on Hoffman's characterisation.{{cite news |last = Howell |first = Peter |url = https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2015/10/16/steve-jobs-a-man-as-imperfect-and-insanely-great-as-his-machines-review.html |title = Steve Jobs a man as imperfect and 'insanely great' as his machines: review |access-date = 16 October 2015 |date = 29 October 2017 |work = Toronto Star |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151018070851/http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2015/10/16/steve-jobs-a-man-as-imperfect-and-insanely-great-as-his-machines-review.html |archive-date = 18 October 2015}}{{cite news |url = http://www.hitfix.com/awards-campaign/review-aaron-sorkin-dominates-the-ambitious-three-act-drama-that-is-steve-jobs |title = Review: Aaron Sorkin dominates the ambitious three-act drama that is 'Steve Jobs' |access-date = 6 September 2015 |date = 6 September 2015 |work = HitFix |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150908220412/http://www.hitfix.com/awards-campaign/review-aaron-sorkin-dominates-the-ambitious-three-act-drama-that-is-steve-jobs |archive-date = 8 September 2015}} She won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards for Best Supporting Actress, and received her seventh Oscar nomination.{{cite news |last1 = Ellis-Petersen |first1 = Hannah |last2 = Lee |first2 = Benjamin |url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/14/kate-winslet-bafta-2016-best-supporting-actress-steve-jobs |title = Kate Winslet: I was told to 'settle for the fat girl parts' |access-date = 29 October 2017 |date = 14 February 2016 |work = The Guardian |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171007172508/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/14/kate-winslet-bafta-2016-best-supporting-actress-steve-jobs |archive-date = 7 October 2017}}
{{cite news |last = Konerman |first = Jennifer |url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/golden-globes-kate-winslet-wins-853125 |title = Golden Globes: Kate Winslet Wins Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture |access-date = 29 October 2017 |date = 10 January 2016 |work = The Hollywood Reporter |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160511233511/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/golden-globes-kate-winslet-wins-853125 |archive-date = 11 May 2016}}
{{cite news |last = Piccalo |first = Gina |url = https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/la-en-kate-winslet-steve-jobs-20160121-story.html |title = The Envelope: Oscars 2016: How a wig helped Kate Winslet snag her nominated 'Steve Jobs' role |access-date = 29 October 2017 |date = 21 January 2016 |work = Los Angeles Times |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171024043929/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/la-en-kate-winslet-steve-jobs-20160121-story.html |archive-date = 24 October 2017 }}

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John Hillcoat's ensemble crime-thriller Triple 9 (2016) featured Winslet as Irina Vlaslov, a ruthless Russian-Israeli gangster.{{Cite news |last = Rubenstein |first = Holly |url = http://in.reuters.com/article/film-kate-winslet-brit/kate-winslet-says-playing-a-brit-would-be-ultimate-challenge-idINKCN0VQ1LI |title = Kate Winslet says playing a Brit "would be ultimate challenge" |date = 17 February 2016 |access-date = 29 October 2017 |publisher = Reuters |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171030104147/http://in.reuters.com/article/film-kate-winslet-brit/kate-winslet-says-playing-a-brit-would-be-ultimate-challenge-idINKCN0VQ1LI |archive-date = 30 October 2017}} The critic Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post felt Winslet had failed to effectively portray her.{{cite news |first = Ann |last = Hornady |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/an-appealing-casey-affleck-plays-one-of-atlantas-finest-in-triple-9/2016/02/25/11c5e58e-da66-11e5-891a-4ed04f4213e8_story.html |title = An appealing Casey Affleck plays one of Atlanta's finest in 'Triple 9' |newspaper = The Washington Post |date = 25 February 2016 |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171108151611/https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/an-appealing-casey-affleck-plays-one-of-atlantas-finest-in-triple-9/2016/02/25/11c5e58e-da66-11e5-891a-4ed04f4213e8_story.html |archive-date = 8 November 2017}} Her next release of the year, Collateral Beauty, about a man (played by Will Smith) struggling with the death of his daughter, was panned by critics.{{cite magazine |last = Jackson |first = Danielle |title = Collateral Beauty reviews: Will Smith movie slammed by critics |url = https://ew.com/article/2016/12/13/collateral-beauty-reviews-roundup/ |magazine = Entertainment Weekly |date = 13 December 2016 |access-date = 31 December 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170101165300/http://ew.com/article/2016/12/13/collateral-beauty-reviews-roundup/ |archive-date = 1 January 2017}} Writing for Vulture, Emily Yoshida dismissed the film as a vacuous remake of A Christmas Carol and added that Winslet had "never looked more painted and tired".{{cite news |first = Emily |last = Yoshida |url = https://www.vulture.com/2016/12/collateral-beauty-movie-review.html |title = Collateral Beauty Is a Cold and Crass Christmas Carol Remake That's Exactly As Bad As You've Heard |work = Vulture |date = 16 December 2016 |access-date = 17 December 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161216210906/http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/collateral-beauty-movie-review.html |archive-date = 16 December 2016}} It was a modest earner at the box office.{{cite web |url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=collateralbeauty.htm |title = Collateral Beauty (2016) |publisher = Box Office Mojo |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170805181858/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=collateralbeauty.htm |archive-date = 5 August 2017}} Winslet agreed to the romantic disaster film The Mountain Between Us (2017) to take on the challenge of a role requiring physical exertion.{{cite news |first = Emily |last = Zemler |url = http://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/news/a46080/kate-winslet-mountain-between-us-titanic/ |title = Kate Winslet Says Titanic Prepared Her for The Mountain Between Us |work = Elle |date = 19 June 2017 |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171030104148/http://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/news/a46080/kate-winslet-mountain-between-us-titanic/ |archive-date = 30 October 2017}}{{cite news |first = Melena |last = Ryzik |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/movies/kate-winslet-relives-two-haunting-film-experiences.html |title = Kate Winslet Relives Two Haunting Film Experiences |work = The New York Times |date = 6 September 2017 |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170910113743/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/movies/kate-winslet-relives-two-haunting-film-experiences.html |archive-date = 10 September 2017}} It featured her and Idris Elba as two strangers who crash land on an icy and isolated mountain range. They filmed in the mountains of Western Canada at {{convert|10000|ft|abbr=off}} above sea level where the temperature was well below freezing. Winslet performed her own stunts and described it as the most physically gruelling experience of her career.{{cite news |first = Helen |last = Whitaker |url = http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/kate-winslet-cover-october-2018 |title = Kate Winslet: "Me and Leo? We quote the odd Titanic line to each other." |work = Glamour |date = 27 September 2017 |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171030104147/http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/kate-winslet-cover-october-2018 |archive-date = 30 October 2017}} Moira Macdonald of The Seattle Times opined that the duo's charisma and chemistry enhanced a mediocre film.{{cite news |first = Moira |last = Macdonald |url = https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/idris-elba-and-kate-winslet-crash-on-a-mountain-find-love-and-theres-a-dog/ |title = 'The Mountain Between Us' review: Idris Elba, Kate Winslet keep film aloft |work = The Seattle Times |date = 3 October 2017 |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171006185956/https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/idris-elba-and-kate-winslet-crash-on-a-mountain-find-love-and-theres-a-dog/ |archive-date = 6 October 2017}}

Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel, a drama set in 1950s Coney Island, was Winslet's final release of 2017. She played Ginny, a temperamental housewife having an affair with a lifeguard (played by Justin Timberlake). She described Ginny as permanently dissatisfied and uneasy, and playing her proved difficult for Winslet, who experienced anxiety.{{cite news |first = Ramin |last = Setoodeh |url = https://variety.com/2017/film/features/kate-winslet-wonder-wheel-woody-allen-1202595654/ |title = Kate Winslet on Woody Allen, 'Wonder Wheel' and the 20th Anniversary of 'Titanic' |work = Variety |date = October 2017 |access-date = 29 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171024210044/http://variety.com/2017/film/features/kate-winslet-wonder-wheel-woody-allen-1202595654/ |archive-date = 24 October 2017}} Manohla Dargis of The New York Times disliked Allen's writing but credited Winslet for filling her "shabby character with feverish life".{{cite news |last = Dargis |first = Manohla |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/movies/woody-allen-wonder-wheel-kate-winslet-review.html |title = Review: 'Wonder Wheel,' Woody Allen's Coney Island Memory Palace |work = The New York Times |date = 30 November 2017 |access-date = 8 December 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171208004057/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/movies/woody-allen-wonder-wheel-kate-winslet-review.html |archive-date = 8 December 2017 |url-status=live}} When asked during the film's promotion about her decision to work with Allen despite an allegation of child sexual abuse against him, Winslet chose not to comment on the filmmaker's personal life but said she was pleased with the collaboration. She would later go on to express regret over working with both Allen and Roman Polanski.{{cite magazine |last = Miller |first = Julie |url = https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/09/kate-winslet-on-her-career |title = Kate Winslet, Unfiltered: 'Because Life Is F–king Short' |magazine = Vanity Fair |date = 10 September 2020 |access-date = 11 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001043634/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/09/kate-winslet-on-her-career|archive-date=1 October 2020|url-status=live}} In 2019, Winslet provided her voice to Moominvalley, an animated television series about the Moomins, and took on a leading role alongside Susan Sarandon and Mia Wasikowska in Blackbird, a remake of the Danish film Silent Heart (2014).{{cite news |last = Golby |first = Joel |url = https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/apr/13/moominvalley-sky-tv-rosamund-pike-kate-winslet |title = Why are Rosamund Pike and Kate Winslet stuck in the CGI Moominvalley? |work = The Guardian |date = 13 April 2019 |access-date = 16 April 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190416073654/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/apr/13/moominvalley-sky-tv-rosamund-pike-kate-winslet |archive-date = 16 April 2019 |url-status = live }} Benjamin Lee of The Guardian dismissed it as "less of a film and more of an actors' workshop" and found Winslet miscast.{{cite news |last = Lee |first = Benjamin |url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/07/blackbird-review-sarandon-and-winslets-lifeless-death-drama |title = Blackbird review – Sarandon and Winslet's lifeless death drama |work = The Guardian |date = 7 September 2019 |access-date = 10 September 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190908193058/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/07/blackbird-review-sarandon-and-winslets-lifeless-death-drama |archive-date = 8 September 2019 |url-status = live }}

Winslet portrayed paleontologist Mary Anning in Ammonite (2020), a period drama about a romance between Anning and Charlotte Murchison (played by Saoirse Ronan) set in 1840s England.{{cite news |last = Wiseman |first = Andreas |url = https://deadline.com/2018/12/kate-winslet-saoirse-ronan-to-star-in-romance-ammonite-for-the-kings-speech-lady-macbeth-producers-1202520081/ |title = Kate Winslet & Saoirse Ronan To Star In Romance 'Ammonite' For 'The King's Speech' & 'Lady Macbeth' Producers |work = Deadline Hollywood |date = 14 December 2018 |access-date = 15 December 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181214220446/https://deadline.com/2018/12/kate-winslet-saoirse-ronan-to-star-in-romance-ammonite-for-the-kings-speech-lady-macbeth-producers-1202520081/ |archive-date = 14 December 2018 |url-status = live }} She dropped out of Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch to have more preparation time for the project. She collaborated closely with Ronan, and they choreographed their own sex scenes.{{cite news |last = Siegel |first = Tatiana |url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/oh-f-ive-forgotten-how-to-act-kate-winslet-back-in-the-awards-race-with-same-sex-romance-ammonite-on-getting-back-to-work |title = "Oh F***, I've Forgotten How to Act": Kate Winslet, Back in the Awards Race With Same-Sex Romance 'Ammonite,' on Getting Back to Work |work = The Hollywood Reporter |date = 26 August 2020 |access-date = 27 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200827183332/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/oh-f-ive-forgotten-how-to-act-kate-winslet-back-in-the-awards-race-with-same-sex-romance-ammonite-on-getting-back-to-work|archive-date=27 August 2020|url-status=live}} For much of the filming, she lived in isolation in a rented cottage in Dorset, where the film was shot, to get into her character's headspace. Caryn James of the BBC credited Winslet for portraying Anning as "stern and brittle but immensely sympathetic" and considered her "contained, potent performance" to be one of the best of her career, and Manuel Betancourt of New York magazine welcomed it as a "return to form".{{cite web |last = James |first = Caryn |url = https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200911-film-review-five-stars-for-the-exquisite-ammonite |title = Film review: Five stars for the 'exquisite' Ammonite |publisher = BBC |date = 12 September 2020 |access-date = 12 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200912104816/https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200911-film-review-five-stars-for-the-exquisite-ammonite|archive-date=12 September 2020|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last = Betancourt |first = Manuel |url = https://www.vulture.com/article/best-kate-winslet-performances.html |title = 12 Essential Kate Winslet Performances |work = New York |date = 27 May 2021 |access-date = 27 May 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210527213035/https://www.vulture.com/article/best-kate-winslet-performances.html |archive-date = 27 May 2021}} She next voiced the titular horse in a film adaptation of the novel Black Beauty, which was released on Disney+.{{cite news |last = McNary |first = Dave |url = https://variety.com/2019/film/festivals/mackenzie-foy-kate-winslet-black-beauty-1203207937/ |title = Mackenzie Foy, Kate Winslet to Star in 'Black Beauty' |work = Variety |date = 7 May 2019 |access-date = 8 May 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190507221025/https://variety.com/2019/film/festivals/mackenzie-foy-kate-winslet-black-beauty-1203207937/ |archive-date = 7 May 2019 |url-status = live }}

In 2021, Winslet executive produced and starred in Mare of Easttown, an HBO miniseries about a troubled police detective solving a murder case.{{cite news |last = Porter |first = Rick |url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/kate-winslet-returns-hbo-limited-series-1178331 |title = Kate Winslet Returns to HBO for Limited Series |work = The Hollywood Reporter |date = 23 January 2019 |access-date = 23 January 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190123223331/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/kate-winslet-returns-hbo-limited-series-1178331 |archive-date = 23 January 2019 |url-status = live }} Set in Delaware County, Winslet insisted on using the "Delco accent", a version of Philadelphia English used in the county; she considered it to be one of the hardest accents she has had to learn.{{cite web |last=Adams |first=Sam |title=Why Most Actors Won't Even Attempt a Philadelphia Accent |url=https://slate.com/culture/2021/04/mare-of-easttown-kate-winslet-philadelphia-accent.html |website=Slate |date=16 April 2021 |accessdate=18 April 2021 |archive-date=17 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517225703/https://slate.com/culture/2021/04/mare-of-easttown-kate-winslet-philadelphia-accent.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Travers |first=Ben |title='Mare of Easttown': Kate Winslet's HBO Limited Series Sets Release Date, First Details |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2021/02/mare-of-easttown-hbo-release-date-kate-winslet-series-1234616135/ |website=IndieWire |date=10 February 2021 |accessdate=18 April 2021 |archive-date=8 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508053723/https://www.indiewire.com/2021/02/mare-of-easttown-hbo-release-date-kate-winslet-series-1234616135/ |url-status=live }} To play Mare, a woman who has lost a child to suicide, she created a backstory for her character and collaborated closely with a grief counsellor.{{cite web |last=Hill |first=Libby |title=Kate Winslet Details the Tragic Backstory She Constructed for 'Mare of Easttown' |url=https://www.indiewire.com/video/kate-winslet-mare-of-easttown-backstory-interview-part-2-1234642477/ |website=IndieWire |date=6 June 2021 |accessdate=9 December 2022 |archive-date=9 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209072225/https://www.indiewire.com/video/kate-winslet-mare-of-easttown-backstory-interview-part-2-1234642477/ |url-status=live }} The series and Winslet's performance received critical acclaim;{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/mare_of_easttown/s01 |title=Mare of Easttown: Miniseries (2021) |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=1 December 2021 |url-status=live |archive-date=27 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427221938/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/mare_of_easttown/s01 }} Richard Roeper wrote that she "adds to a long list of magnificent, disappear-into-the-character performances" and Lucy Mangan of The Guardian opined, "If you can have a defining performance this late in a career, this is surely Winslet's."{{cite web |last = Mangan |first = Lucy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/apr/19/mare-of-easttown-review-kate-winslet-hbo-murder-mystery|title= Mare of Easttown review – Kate Winslet triumphs in a moreish murder mystery|website= The Guardian|date= 19 April 2021|access-date=3 May 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210608083713/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/apr/19/mare-of-easttown-review-kate-winslet-hbo-murder-mystery |archive-date = 8 June 2021}}{{Cite web |last=Roeper |first=Richard |title='Mare of Easttown': Kate Winslet plays a troubled detective with authority, authenticity |date=16 April 2021 |work=Chicago Sun-Times |access-date=3 July 2022 |url-status=live |url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2021/4/16/22383837/mare-of-easttown-review-hbo-kate-winslet-series |archive-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420075542/https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2021/4/16/22383837/mare-of-easttown-review-hbo-kate-winslet-series }} Mare of Easttown proved to be a ratings hit for HBO,{{cite news |last = Porter |first = Rick |url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mare-of-easttown-finale-ratings-1234961572/ |title = 'Mare of Easttown' Finale Reaches Series Highs on HBO, HBO Max |work = The Hollywood Reporter |date = 1 June 2021 |access-date = 8 June 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210609081408/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mare-of-easttown-finale-ratings-1234961572/ |archive-date = 9 June 2021}} and Winslet once again won the Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Awards for Best Actress in a miniseries.{{cite news |last = Perez |first = Lexy |url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mare-of-easttown-kate-winselt-wins-emmy-best-actress-limited-series-emmy-1235016221/ |title = Emmys: Kate Winslet Wins Best Limited Series Actress for Playing "Imperfect, Flawed Mother" in 'Mare of Easttown' |work = The Los Angeles Times |date = 19 September 2021 |access-date = 19 September 2021 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210920031343/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mare-of-easttown-kate-winselt-wins-emmy-best-actress-limited-series-emmy-1235016221/ |archive-date = 20 September 2021 }}
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{{cite news |last = Respers France |first = Lisa |url = https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/27/entertainment/sag-awards-2022-winners-list/index.html |title = SAG Awards 2022: The winners list |access-date = 1 March 2022 |date = 28 February 2022 |publisher = CNN |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220301021356/https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/27/entertainment/sag-awards-2022-winners-list/index.html |archive-date = 1 March 2022 }}

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Following Mare of Easttown, Winslet took a year off work to spend time with her family.{{cite news |last = Longeretta |first = Emily |url = https://variety.com/2022/film/features/kate-winslet-return-to-acting-1235194260/ |title = Kate Winslet Can't Wait to Throw Herself Back Into Work After Yearlong Break: 'I Am Craving' It |work = Variety |date = 8 March 2022 |access-date = 10 March 2022 |archive-date = 9 March 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220309195541/https://variety.com/2022/film/features/kate-winslet-return-to-acting-1235194260/ |url-status = live }} She narrated the documentary Eleven Days in May (2022), about the 2021 bombing of Gaza by Israel.{{cite news |last1=Bradshaw |first1=Peter |title=Eleven Days in May review – heart-wrenching documentary on the grimness of life in Gaza |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/04/eleven-days-in-may-review-michael-winterbottom-documentary-gaza-mohammed-sawwaf-kate-winslet |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=11 May 2022 |date=4 May 2022 |archive-date=10 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220510233506/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/04/eleven-days-in-may-review-michael-winterbottom-documentary-gaza-mohammed-sawwaf-kate-winslet |url-status=live }} She starred with her daughter Mia Threapleton in an improvised feature-length episode of the Channel 4 anthology series I Am..., titled "I Am Ruth", about the negative effects of social media.{{cite news |first=Greg |last=Weatherall |url=https://variety.com/2022/tv/global/kate-winslet-daughter-mia-threapleton-impressed-i-am-ruth-1235448141/ |title=Kate Winslet Was 'Impressed' by Daughter Mia Threapleton's Performance in Drama 'I Am Ruth' |magazine=Variety |date=4 December 2022 |access-date=7 December 2022 |archive-date=7 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207052613/https://variety.com/2022/tv/global/kate-winslet-daughter-mia-threapleton-impressed-i-am-ruth-1235448141/ |url-status=live }} She won two BAFTA TV Awards for Best Actress and Best Single Drama (as producer).{{cite news |last=Yossman |first=K.J. |date=14 May 2023 |title=Kate Winslet, Netflix's 'Dahmer' Among the Winners at BAFTA TV Awards 2023 |url=https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/bafta-tv-awards-2023-winners-1235609578/ |access-date=14 May 2023 |work=Variety |archive-date=14 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230514155914/https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/bafta-tv-awards-2023-winners-1235609578/ |url-status=live }} In her acceptance speech, she urged lawmakers to criminalise harmful digital content.{{cite news |last=Milmo |first=Dan |date=15 May 2023 |title=Campaigners welcome Kate Winslet plea about online safety and children |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/15/campaigners-welcome-kate-winslet-plea-about-online-safety-and-children |access-date=18 May 2023 |work=The Guardian |archive-date=17 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230517181236/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/15/campaigners-welcome-kate-winslet-plea-about-online-safety-and-children |url-status=live }} In 2017 and 2018, Winslet concurrently filmed two sequels to James Cameron's science fiction film Avatar (2009) using motion capture technology.{{cite news |first=Laurie |last=Brookins |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kate-winslet-talks-timepieces-avatar-2-a-treasured-gift-eli-wallach-1107027 |title=Kate Winslet Talks Timepieces, 'Avatar 2' and a Treasured Gift From Eli Wallach |website=The Hollywood Reporter |date=30 April 2018 |access-date=5 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180505025445/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kate-winslet-talks-timepieces-avatar-2-a-treasured-gift-eli-wallach-1107027 |archive-date=5 May 2018 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last=Guttman |first=Graeme |date=19 January 2021 |title=Avatar 2 Or 3? Kate Winslet Couldn't Tell Them Apart When Filming |website=Screen Rant |url=https://screenrant.com/avatar-2-3-kate-winslet-filming-sequels-confusion/ |accessdate=2 January 2023 |archive-date=31 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221231030329/https://screenrant.com/avatar-2-3-kate-winslet-filming-sequels-confusion/ |url-status=live }} She learnt freediving for her role and was able to hold her breath underwater for seven minutes, setting a new record for any film scene shot underwater.{{cite news |last = Stolworthy |first = Jacob |url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/kate-winslet-avatar-2-3-underwater-james-cameron-release-date-trailer-sequel-a8398366.html |title = Avatar director James Cameron required Kate Winslet to hold breath underwater for seven minutes in watery sequels |work = The Independent |date = 14 June 2018 |access-date = 27 June 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180627151316/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/kate-winslet-avatar-2-3-underwater-james-cameron-release-date-trailer-sequel-a8398366.html |archive-date = 27 June 2018 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |first=Jessica |last=Rawden |url=https://screenrant.com/avatar-2-kate-winslet-underwater-breath-time-tom-cruise/ |title=Kate Winslet Beats Tom Cruise's Underwater Record In Avatar 2 |website=Screen Rant |date=1 November 2020 |access-date=4 April 2022 |archive-date=1 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101172618/https://screenrant.com/avatar-2-kate-winslet-underwater-breath-time-tom-cruise/ |url-status=live }} Released in 2022, Avatar: The Way of Water earned over $2 billion to rank as the third highest-grossing film of all time and Winslet's second film after Titanic to cross the $2 billion mark.{{cite web |last=Klein |first=Brennan |date=22 January 2023 |title=Avatar: Way of Water Makes Box Office History By Crossing $2 Billion |website=Screen Rant |url=https://screenrant.com/avatar-way-water-box-office-history-2-billion/ |accessdate=23 January 2023 |archive-date=22 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122195922/https://screenrant.com/avatar-way-water-box-office-history-2-billion/ |url-status=live }}

After being attached to a biopic of model and war photographer Lee Miller for eight years, Winslet produced and starred in Lee (2023). She hired cinematographer Ellen Kuras (who had filmed her in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) to make her feature directorial debut with the project.{{cite magazine |last=Canfield |first=David |title=Kate Winslet Embodies an Unsung American Icon in Lee |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/09/awards-insider-kate-winslet-lee-miller-first-look |magazine=Vanity Fair |access-date=10 September 2023 |date=6 September 2023 }}{{cite news |last=Davis |first=Clayton |title=Kate Winslet Bares It All for Another Trip to the Oscars With Her Passion Project 'Lee' Following Its TIFF Premiere |url=https://variety.com/2023/film/awards/kate-winslet-lee-best-actress-tiff-1235718876/ |work=Variety |access-date=10 September 2023 |date=9 September 2023 |archive-date=10 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230910120441/https://variety.com/2023/film/awards/kate-winslet-lee-best-actress-tiff-1235718876/ |url-status=live }} Winslet slipped and fell while filming, leading to three haematomas on her spine; she continued working despite the pain.{{cite news |last1=Sharf |first1=Zack |title=Kate Winslet Had to Be 'F—ing Brave' for 'Lee' Nude Scenes, Calls Out Male Investors Who Asked: 'Why Am I Supposed to Like This Woman?' |url=https://variety.com/2023/film/news/kate-winslet-lee-nude-scenes-calls-out-male-investors-1235719705/ |work=Variety |access-date=26 September 2022 |date=11 September 2022 }} Reviewers for The Hollywood Reporter and The Daily Beast noted how much Winslet's performance helped elevate a conventional biopic.{{cite news |last1=Gyarkye |first1=Lovia |title='Lee' Review: Kate Winslet Energizes a Glossy Biopic of Vogue Photographer |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/lee-review-kate-winslet-1235586645/ |work=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=11 September 2023 |date=10 September 2023 |archive-date=10 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230910212251/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/lee-review-kate-winslet-1235586645/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last1=Schager |first1=Nick |title=Kate Winslet Shoots for Her Next Oscar in 'Lee' |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/lee-review-kate-winslet-shoots-for-next-oscar-as-lee-miller |website=The Daily Beast |access-date=11 September 2023 |date=10 September 2023 |archive-date=11 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230911150506/https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/lee-review-kate-winslet-shoots-for-next-oscar-as-lee-miller |url-status=live }} Winslet next executive produced and starred in the HBO miniseries The Regime (2024), a satire about a fictional authoritarian country.{{cite news|url= https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/kate-winslet-hbo-limited-series-the-palace-1235326160/|title= Kate Winslet to Lead HBO Limited Series 'The Palace,' Stephen Frears to Direct|work=Variety|date= 26 July 2022|accessdate= 27 July 2022|archive-date= 27 July 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220727214603/https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/kate-winslet-hbo-limited-series-the-palace-1235326160/|url-status= live}} To play a megalomaniac dictator, she consulted a neuroscientist and a psychotherapist to create a backstory for her character.{{cite web|last=Foreman|first=Alison|url= https://www.indiewire.com/features/interviews/kate-winslet-the-regime-interview-1234959521/|title= Kate Winslet Cried, Consulted a Neuroscientist, and Rehearsed Constantly to Prepare for 'The Regime'|website=IndieWire|date=2 March 2024|accessdate=8 March 2024}} Critics deemed her performance superior to the series.{{Cite Rotten Tomatoes|id=the_regime|title=The Regime|type=tv|access-date=7 March 2024|publisher_hide=y}}{{cbignore}} She earned Golden Globe nominations for her performances in both Lee and The Regime, in addition to a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding British Film as a producer on Lee.{{Cite magazine |date=December 9, 2024 |title=2025 Golden Globes nominations revealed: See the full list of nominees |url=https://ew.com/2025-golden-globes-nominations-full-list-8756192 |access-date=December 9, 2024 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}}{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2025/01/bafta-nominations-conclave-emilia-perez-wicked-hugh-grant-1236257429/|title=BAFTA Nominations: 'Conclave' & 'Emilia Pérez' Lead The Field As Open Awards Race Takes Shape|last=Wiseman|first=Andreas|date=15 January 2025|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=15 January 2025}}

Winslet will next reprise her role in the sequel Avatar: Fire and Ash. She is set to make her directorial debut with the Netflix drama film Goodbye June, written by her son Joe Anders, in which she will also star and produce.{{cite web|first=Zac|last=Ntim|url=https://deadline.com/2025/02/kate-winslet-directorial-debut-goodbye-june-netflix-1236291498/|title=Kate Winslet To Make Directorial Debut With 'Goodbye June' For Netflix|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=16 February 2025|accessdate=25 March 2025}}

Journalists consider Winslet to be among the finest actresses of her generation.{{cite news |last = Clarke |first = Cath |url = https://www.timeout.com/london/film/kate-winslet-interview-i-never-felt-that-i-was-in-any-way-entitled-to-be-an-arsehole |title = Kate Winslet interview: 'I never felt that I was in any way entitled to be an arsehole' |work = Time Out |date = 30 September 2013 |accessdate = 4 November 2017 |df = dmy-all |archive-date = 24 June 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170624003835/https://www.timeout.com/london/film/kate-winslet-interview-i-never-felt-that-i-was-in-any-way-entitled-to-be-an-arsehole |url-status = live }} Despite achieving stardom early in her career with the blockbuster Titanic, she has rarely acted in commerce-driven films.{{cite web |last = Whitty |first = Stephen |url = http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/01/kate_winslet_on_labor_day_pregnancy_acting_and_her_titanic_breakthrough.html |title = Kate Winslet on 'Labor Day,' pregnancy, acting and that 'Titanic' breakthrough |publisher = NJ.com |date = 26 January 2014 |access-date = 4 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150319172236/http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/01/kate_winslet_on_labor_day_pregnancy_acting_and_her_titanic_breakthrough.html |archive-date = 19 March 2015}} A journalist for Elle believes that her choices reflect the "soul and attitude of a jobbing actress, trapped in the body of a movie star".{{cite journal |title = Falling in Love Again |journal = Elle |date = November 2004 |pages = 131–136 }} Winslet was voted one of the 50 greatest actors of all time in a 2022 readers' poll by Empire; the magazine termed her "a dramatic force, turning her hand to all kinds of periods and genres with an inimitable sense of dignity and strength".{{cite news|first1=Ben|last1=Travis|first2=Sophie|last2=Butcher|first3=Nick|last3=De Semlyen|first4=James|last4=Dyer|first5=John|last5=Nugent|first6=Alex|last6=Godfrey|first7=Helen|last7=O'Hara|title=Empire's 50 Greatest Actors of All Time List, Revealed|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/best-actors/|magazine=Empire|date=20 December 2022|access-date=4 February 2023|archive-date=29 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229101239/https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/best-actors|url-status=live}}

Winslet belongs to a group of esteemed British actresses who are typically showing "restraint, rendering emotions through intellect rather than feelings, and a sense of irony, which demonstrates the heroine's superior understanding".{{cite book |last=Hollinger |first=Karen |title=The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=89W0QMDjA7gC&pg=PA62 |year=2006 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-415-97792-0 |page=62 |access-date=17 December 2021 |archive-date=14 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014121253/https://books.google.com/books?id=89W0QMDjA7gC&pg=PA62 |url-status=live }} Tom Perrotta, the author of Little Children, has said that Winslet "gravitates toward troubling roles in smaller films", typically those of "thorny, potentially unsympathetic" women.{{cite news |last = Perrotta |first = Tom |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/magazine/08Winslet-t.html |title = Kate Winslet |work = The New York Times |date = 4 February 2009 |access-date = 4 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151002120355/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/magazine/08Winslet-t.html |archive-date = 2 October 2015}} The journalist Mark Harris writes that she specialises in "unsentimentalized, restless, troubled, discontented, disconcerted, difficult women" and John Hiscock of The Daily Telegraph has identified a theme of characters who are free-spirited with a sexual edge to them. Anthony Lane of The New Yorker associates Winslet with stubbornness, writing that "the set of her jaw and the blaze of her glance suggest a self-freeing spirit who knows the path ahead and is determined to take it".{{cite magazine |last = Lane |first = Anthony |url = https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/16/discoveries-and-awakenings-in-ammonite |title = Discoveries and Awakenings in 'Ammonite' |magazine = The New Yorker |date = 6 November 2020 |access-date = 14 June 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20210301190116/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/16/discoveries-and-awakenings-in-ammonite |archive-date = 1 March 2021}} Stephen Whitty of NJ.com associates Winslet with "serious, almost despairing material", although he finds it hard to pigeonhole her as an actress. Josephine Livingstone of The New Republic, however, finds Winslet unconvincing in roles where she has "no real emotional vulnerability", believing she is most compelling when she has "the opportunity to get hysterical".{{cite magazine |last = Livingstone |first = Josephine |url = https://newrepublic.com/article/145261/mountain-us-lesson-bad-casting |title = The Mountain Between Us is a Lesson in Bad Casting |magazine = The New Republic |date = 12 October 2017 |access-date = 17 June 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200102/https://newrepublic.com/article/145261/mountain-us-lesson-bad-casting |archive-date = 24 June 2021}} 

{{Quote box|width=20%|bgcolor=#E0E6F8|align=right|quote="I can't just learn my lines and do [my job], but perhaps that's because I don't want to act, I want to be. And I do think there's a difference."|source={{mdash}}Winslet on acting}}

Leonardo DiCaprio, her co-star in Titanic and Revolutionary Road, considers Winslet to be "the most prepared and well-researched actor on set", and Jude Law, her co-star in The Holiday, believes that despite her seriousness she remains "very calm and good-natured".{{cite journal |title = Out of the Ordinary |journal = Vogue |date = January 2007 |pages = 122–126 |last = Bilmes |first = Alex }} Her Steve Jobs director Danny Boyle has identified a willingness in Winslet to avoid typecasting and said that she takes an effort "to reposition directors' and producers' perspective on her" to allow herself to be challenged as an artist.

Winslet has said she is interested in playing "angst-ridden women" with strong dispositions masking flaws and insecurities, and that she connects with "women who are either finding their way out of a situation, looking for love, having some struggle within love, or questioning the big things in life". Drawn to parts that are in tandem with her personal struggles at certain points in her life, she finds it difficult to detach herself from her roles, saying that "you have to confront your true feelings every single day. And that's pretty exhausting. Then you have to go home and make dinner". Even so, she finds it therapeutic to perform. Winslet is known for her willingness to perform nude scenes, having done so in over a dozen of her films, although she considers its contribution to the narrative before agreeing to it.{{cite news |last = Dwyer |first = Michael |url = https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/what-kate-did-next-1.1231930 |title = What Kate did next |newspaper = The Irish Times |date = 3 January 2009 |access-date = 4 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171104170320/https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/what-kate-did-next-1.1231930 |archive-date = 4 November 2017}} She believes that such scenes promote a positive body image amongst women.

While filming Dark Season, a fifteen-year-old Winslet began a romantic relationship with actor-writer Stephen Tredre, who was twelve years her senior.{{cite news |first = Vickie |last = Reid |title = Waving, not drowning |url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/jan/15/features2 |work = The Guardian |date = 15 January 1999 |access-date = 30 November 2009 |location = London |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131002202855/http://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/jan/15/features2 |archive-date = 2 October 2013}} She considered him a major influence in her life and they lived together in London from 1991.{{cite news |first = John |last = Clark |title = Winslet Sets a New Course |url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-apr-17-ca-28133-story.html |work = Los Angeles Times |date = 17 April 1999 |access-date = 3 November 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171114133655/http://articles.latimes.com/1999/apr/17/entertainment/ca-28133 |archive-date = 14 November 2017 |url-status = live }} They broke up in 1995, but remained close until Tredre died of bone cancer two years later.{{cite news |first = Cole |last = Moreton |title = Film world acclaims writer's final act |url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/film-world-acclaims-writers-final-act-1118628.html |work = The Independent |date = 12 September 1999 |access-date = 14 April 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120123065710/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/film-world-acclaims-writers-final-act-1118628.html |archive-date = 23 January 2012}} Winslet decided not to attend the premiere of Titanic to attend his funeral.{{cite news |title = Kate Winslet: Queen of the World |url = http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2006/edition_11-05-2006/Kate_winslet |work = Parade |date = 5 November 2006 |access-date = 14 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090207082023/http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2006/edition_11-05-2006/Kate_winslet |archive-date = 7 February 2009}} In 2008, she said that she had not overcome his death.

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A year after Tredre's death, Winslet met Jim Threapleton on the set of Hideous Kinky, on which he served as an assistant director. They married in November 1998 at her family's local church, and their daughter, Mia, was born in 2000.{{cite news |title = Winslet Gives Birth To Daughter Mia In England |url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/2000/10/16/winslet-gives-birth-to-daughter-mia-in-england/ |work = Chicago Tribune |access-date = 10 August 2015 |date = 16 October 2000 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151007042249/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-10-16/news/0010170058_1_jim-threapleton-mia-london-hospital |archive-date = 7 October 2015}} Describing her marriage to Threapleton as a "mess", Winslet later said that she lost control of her instincts during this period. They divorced in 2001.{{cite news |title = Winslet's divorce finalized |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1707904.stm |publisher = BBC News |date = 12 December 2001 |access-date = 14 April 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100809014952/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1707904.stm |archive-date = 9 August 2010}}{{cite journal |title = Kate Our Hero |journal = Glamour |date = February 2002 |pages = 179–180 |last = Yazel |first = Leslie }}

Soon after separating from Threapleton, she met director Sam Mendes when he offered her a part in a play; she turned down the offer but began dating him.{{cite news |last = Hiscok |first = John |title = Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes: Hollywood's golden couple |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/4324607/Kate-Winslet-and-Sam-Mendes-Hollywoods-golden-couple.html |work = The Daily Telegraph |date = 23 January 2009 |access-date = 31 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130617114254/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/4324607/Kate-Winslet-and-Sam-Mendes-Hollywoods-golden-couple.html |archive-date = 17 June 2013}} Dismayed at how the British tabloids portrayed her personal life, Winslet relocated to New York City. She married Mendes in May 2003 on the island of Anguilla, and their son, Joe, was born later that year.{{cite news |first1 = Neil |last1 = Midgeley |first2 = Tom |last2 = Leonord |title = Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes: Hollywood couple split after seven year marriage |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/7450941/Kate-Winslet-and-Sam-Mendes-Hollywood-couple-split-after-seven-year-marriage.html |work = The Daily Telegraph |date = 16 March 2010 |access-date = 31 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110916024241/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/7450941/Kate-Winslet-and-Sam-Mendes-Hollywood-couple-split-after-seven-year-marriage.html |archive-date = 16 September 2011}} The family divided their time in New York with frequent visits to their estate in the Cotswolds, England. Amid intense media speculation of an affair between Mendes and actress Rebecca Hall, he and Winslet announced their separation in 2010 and were divorced a year later.{{cite news |title = Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes split |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8569145.stm |publisher = BBC News |date = 15 March 2010 |access-date = 15 March 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100316053319/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8569145.stm |archive-date = 16 March 2010}} She reported being heartbroken by the split, but affirmed her determination to look after her children in spite of her marital break-ups.{{cite magazine |title = Forever Chic |magazine = Harper's Bazaar |date = November 2011 |pages = 188–192 |last = Picardie |first = Justine|quote=there's no way I'm going to allow my children to be fucked up because my marriages haven't worked out}}

While holidaying at Richard Branson's estate on Necker Island in 2011, Winslet met his nephew Edward Abel Smith (legally known as Ned Rocknroll from 2008 to 2019){{Cite web|last=Kurp|first=Josh|date=15 January 2021|title=Kate Winslet Explains Why Husband Is No Longer Named 'Ned Rocknroll'|url=https://uproxx.com/tv/kate-winslet-husband-ned-rocknroll/|access-date=23 May 2021|website=Uproxx|archive-date=9 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409233808/https://uproxx.com/tv/kate-winslet-husband-ned-rocknroll/|url-status=live}} during a house fire.{{cite magazine |last = Ho |first = Erica |title = Kate Winslet Weds Ned RocknRoll, Richard Branson's Nephew |url = https://newsfeed.time.com/2012/12/27/kate-winslet-weds-ned-rocknroll-richard-bransons-nephew/ |access-date = 27 December 2012 |date = 30 October 2017 |magazine = Time |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121230050554/http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/12/27/kate-winslet-weds-ned-rocknroll-richard-bransons-nephew/ |archive-date = 30 December 2012}} They married in December 2012 in New York, and their son, Bear, was born the following year.{{cite news |title = Kate Winslet marries Ned RocknRoll in private New York ceremony |url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20849906 |access-date = 27 December 2012 |publisher = BBC News |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121227182509/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20849906 |archive-date = 27 December 2012}}{{cite news |url = https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-kate-winslet-baby-name-bear-blaze-ellen-degeneres-divergent-20140318-story.html |title = Kate Winslet explains her son's name, Bear Blaze, on 'Ellen' |first = Nardine |last = Saad |date = 18 March 2014 |access-date = 8 November 2017 |work = Los Angeles Times |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171109080830/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-kate-winslet-baby-name-bear-blaze-ellen-degeneres-divergent-20140318-story.html |archive-date = 9 November 2017}} After moving back to England, Winslet purchased a property worth £3.25 million by the sea in West Wittering, Sussex, where she lives with Abel Smith and her children {{as of|2015|lc=y}}.{{cite news |last = Pells |first = Rachel |title = Kate Winslet in Titanic battle over plan to build 600ft seawall to protect her home |url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/kate-winslet-in-titanic-battle-over-plan-to-build-600ft-seawall-to-protect-her-home-10153213.html |access-date = 30 October 2017 |date = 2 April 2015 |work = The Independent |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151215124303/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/kate-winslet-in-titanic-battle-over-plan-to-build-600ft-seawall-to-protect-her-home-10153213.html |archive-date = 15 December 2015}} In a 2015 interview, she commented on how much she enjoyed living in the countryside.{{cite magazine|date=8 February 2015|title=Kate Winslet is Bazaar's March cover star|magazine=Harper's Bazaar|url=http://www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/fashion/fashion-news/kate-winslet-march-issue-cover|url-status=live|access-date=23 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317054633/http://www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/fashion/fashion-news/kate-winslet-march-issue-cover|archive-date=17 March 2015}}

Winslet has stated that despite three marriages and a family structure that might be perceived by some as "unconventional", she does not consider it to be any "less of a family". She turns down offers of work that otherwise would take her away from her children for too long, and likes to schedule her filming commitments around their school holidays. Discussing her parenting style, she said she enjoys packing lunches and doing the school run.{{cite news |last = Smith |first = Liz |title = Kate Winslet: What Matters Most |url = http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/inspirational-stories/interviews/a15901/kate-winslet-mar07/ |access-date = 14 February 2007 |date = 3 November 2017 |work = Good Housekeeping |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150411090208/http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/inspirational-stories/interviews/a15901/kate-winslet-mar07/ |archive-date = 11 April 2015}}

Winslet has lent her support to several charities and causes, along with financial donations and items for auctions.{{cite news |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/3307369/Star-turn-for-house.html |title = Star turn for house |work = The Daily Telegraph |date = 19 May 2004 |access-date = 31 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160301095013/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/3307369/Star-turn-for-house.html |archive-date = 1 March 2016}} In 2006, she became a patron of a Gloucester-based charity, the Family Haven, which provides counselling services to vulnerable families.{{cite news |date = 25 March 2006 |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/4844500.stm |title = Star to be family charity patron |publisher = BBC News |access-date = 31 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120615184210/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/4844500.stm |archive-date = 15 June 2012}} The same year, hand-made envelopes designed by Winslet were auctioned for the "Pushing the Envelope" campaign created by the National Literacy Trust.{{cite web |url = https://www.nme.com/news/music/bloc-party-168-1350671#jMDsYzFdVLYdycM0.99 |title = Bloc Party and Lily Allen auction artwork for charity |work = NME |date = 7 October 2006 |access-date = 31 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171101132225/http://www.nme.com/news/music/bloc-party-168-1350671#jMDsYzFdVLYdycM0.99 |archive-date = 1 November 2017}} Winslet was one of the celebrities to participate in a 2007 auction to raise funds for the Afghanistan Relief Organization.{{Cite news |date = 4 December 2007 |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/4844500.stm |title = Celebs take part in 'Kite Runner' auction |publisher = United Press International |access-date = 31 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120615184210/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/4844500.stm |archive-date = 15 June 2012}} In 2009, she contributed to the Butterfly Book, a compilation of doodles made by several celebrities, to raise money for leukaemia research.{{cite news |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5246726/Tony-Blair-and-Kate-Winslet-contribute-to-butterfly-book.html |title = Tony Blair and Kate Winslet contribute to butterfly book |work = The Daily Telegraph |date = 29 April 2009 |access-date = 31 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160623203955/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5246726/Tony-Blair-and-Kate-Winslet-contribute-to-butterfly-book.html |archive-date = 23 June 2016}} Also in 2009, Winslet participated in a joint effort with Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, James Cameron, and Celine Dion, financially to help Millvina Dean, the then last living survivor of the sinking of the Titanic. The donation amounted to $30,000 which was used to pay the fees of the nursing home in the United Kingdom where Dean was living.{{cite news |title=Kate and Leo help Titanic survivor |url=https://metro.co.uk/2009/05/11/kate-and-leo-help-titanic-survivor-103094/ |author=Metrowebukmetro |work=Metro |date=11 May 2009 |access-date=3 December 2021 |archive-date=2 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202132812/https://metro.co.uk/2009/05/11/kate-and-leo-help-titanic-survivor-103094/ |url-status=live }}

In 2009, Winslet narrated the English version of an Icelandic documentary named A Mother's Courage: Talking Back to Autism, about Margret Ericsdottir, whose child Keli Thorsteinsson has non-verbal autism. Inspired by the story, she teamed with Ericsdottir in 2010 to form an NGO named the Golden Hat Foundation.{{cite magazine |last = de Klerk |first = Amy |title = Kate Winslet on feeling her most confident self in her forties |url = http://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/fashion/jewellery-watches/a42060/kate-winslet-confidence-interview-2017/ |magazine = Harper's Bazaar |date = 13 June 2017 |access-date = 31 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171101132225/http://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/fashion/jewellery-watches/a42060/kate-winslet-confidence-interview-2017/ |archive-date = 1 November 2017}} The organisation aims to create autism awareness and was named after a poem written by Thorsteinsson.{{cite news |last = Clark |first = Cindy |title = Kate Winslet wears a new hat: Charity coordinator |url = http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/story/2012-03-26/Kate-Winslet-Golden-Hat-Foundation/53793266/1 |work = USA Today |access-date = 12 August 2013 |date = 26 March 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140407082729/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/story/2012-03-26/Kate-Winslet-Golden-Hat-Foundation/53793266/1 |archive-date = 7 April 2014 |url-status = live }}{{cite news |title = Film moves Winslet to start charity |url = http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/film-moves-winslet-to-start-charity-28560940.html |work = The Belfast Telegraph |date = 22 September 2010 |access-date = 12 August 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140407093820/http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/film-moves-winslet-to-start-charity-28560940.html |archive-date = 7 April 2014 |url-status = live }} As the ambassador for the luxury brands Lancôme and Longines, Winslet partnered with these companies to raise awareness and funds for the foundation. She created a make-up collection for Lancôme in 2011 and, in 2017, she designed a new watch for Longines.{{cite news |title = Kate Winslet launches makeup range with Lancôme |url = https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/kate-winslet-launches-makeup-range-with-lancme-2340145.html |access-date = 12 August 2013 |work = The Independent |date = 18 August 2011 |archive-date = 22 January 2014 |archive-url = https://archive.today/20140122152853/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/kate-winslet-launches-makeup-range-with-lancme-2340145.html |url-status = live }}{{cite news |last = Clott Kanter |first = Sharon |title = Kate Winslet's Lancôme Collection for Charity |url = http://www.instyle.com/news/kate-winslets-lanc-me-collection-charity |access-date = 6 November 2017 |work = InStyle |date = 19 October 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161007001750/http://www.instyle.com/news/kate-winslets-lanc-me-collection-charity |archive-date = 7 October 2016}}

In 2012, Winslet wrote a book about autism, entitled The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism, which was published by Simon & Schuster. It contains correspondence between Winslet and Ericsdottir, personal statements from various celebrities, and contributions from Thorsteinsson.{{cite web |url = http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/golden-hat-kate-winslet/1100180928?ean=9781451645439 |title = The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism |access-date = 18 March 2015 |publisher = Barnes & Noble |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150713092124/http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/golden-hat-kate-winslet/1100180928?ean=9781451645439 |archive-date = 13 July 2015}} A reviewer for Publishers Weekly praised the book for its "warmth and sincerity".{{cite news |title = Review: The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism |url = http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4516-4543-9 |work = Publishers Weekly |access-date = 12 August 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120512172350/http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4516-4543-9 |archive-date = 12 May 2012}} The United Nations featured the book during a ceremony on the World Autism Awareness Day of 2012.{{cite web |title = World Autism Awareness Day: 2 April |url = http://www.un.org/en/events/autismday/events2012.shtml |publisher = United Nations |access-date = 31 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171101132225/http://www.un.org/en/events/autismday/events2012.shtml |archive-date = 1 November 2017}} For her work with the Golden Hat Foundation, Winslet received Spain's Yo Dona award for Best Humanitarian Work.{{cite news |url = http://www.elmundo.es/yodona/estaticas/especiales/2011/06/fiesta/video02.html |title = Kate Winslet contra el autismo |work = En Mundo |language = es |access-date = 23 June 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110625194339/http://www.elmundo.es/yodona/estaticas/especiales/2011/06/fiesta/video02.html |archive-date = 25 June 2011}}

Winslet narrated a video for PETA in 2010 that showed animal cruelty in the production of foie gras.{{cite news |title = Actress Winslet speaks out against foie gras in video |url = https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/actress-winslet-speaks-out-against-foie-gras-in-video-5535323.html |work = The Independent |date = 16 April 2010 |access-date = 31 October 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171104170320/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/actress-winslet-speaks-out-against-foie-gras-in-video-5535323.html |archive-date = 4 November 2017 |url-status=live}} She encouraged chefs to remove the item from their menu and urged consumers to boycott it.{{cite news |last = Bumpus |first = Jessica |title = Winslet's Feathered Friends |url = http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2010/04/14/kate-winslet-supports-peta-campaign |work = Vogue |date = 14 April 2010 |access-date = 31 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120806092131/http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2010/04/14/kate-winslet-supports-peta-campaign |archive-date = 6 August 2012}} In 2015, she lent her support to the UNICEF campaign World's Largest Lesson, which creates awareness among children about sustainable development and global citizenship.{{cite web |title = Neymar, Serena Williams, Kate Winslet and Jamie Oliver join UNICEF and the Global Goals campaign to launch the World's Largest Lesson |url = https://www.unicef.bg/en/article/Neymar-Serena-Williams-Kate-Winslet-and-Jamie-Oliver-join-UNICEF-and-the-Global-Goals-campaign-to-launch-the-World-s-Largest-Lesson/926#helpNowModal |publisher = UNICEF |access-date = 31 October 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171104170321/https://www.unicef.bg/en/article/Neymar-Serena-Williams-Kate-Winslet-and-Jamie-Oliver-join-UNICEF-and-the-Global-Goals-campaign-to-launch-the-World-s-Largest-Lesson/926#helpNowModal |archive-date = 4 November 2017 |url-status = live }} Teased as a child for her weight, Winslet takes a stand against body-shaming and bullying.{{cite news |last = Walsh |first = Lara |title = Kate Winslet's Inspiring Speech on Overcoming Bullies, Being Fat Shamed |url = http://www.instyle.com/news/kate-winslet-bullied-fat-shamed-inspiring-speech |work = InStyle |date = 23 March 2017 |access-date = 31 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170517132358/http://www.instyle.com/news/kate-winslet-bullied-fat-shamed-inspiring-speech |archive-date = 17 May 2017}} She narrated an Australian animated short film named Daisy Chain (2015), about a victim of cyberbullying.{{cite news |last = Meade |first = Amanda |title = Kate Winslet and the little Australian anti-bullying film that took on the world |url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/16/kate-winslet-and-the-little-australian-anti-bulling-film-that-could |work = The Guardian |date = 16 October 2015 |access-date = 3 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170920065257/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/16/kate-winslet-and-the-little-australian-anti-bulling-film-that-could |archive-date = 20 September 2017}} In 2017, Winslet teamed with Leonardo DiCaprio's environmental foundation for a fundraiser on global warming.{{cite web |last = Seemayer |first = Zach |url = http://www.etonline.com/news/222491_kate_winslet_and_leonardo_dicaprio_reunite_with_titanic_co_star_billy_zane_now_we_re_saving_icebergs |title = Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio Reunite With 'Titanic' Co-Star Billy Zane: 'Now We're Saving Icebergs' |work = Entertainment Tonight |date = 26 July 2017 |access-date = 31 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170905142043/http://www.etonline.com/news/222491_kate_winslet_and_leonardo_dicaprio_reunite_with_titanic_co_star_billy_zane_now_we_re_saving_icebergs |archive-date = 5 September 2017}} Also that year, she and DiCaprio auctioned a private dinner with themselves to raise money for a British woman's cancer treatment.{{cite web |last = Willis |first = Jackie |url = http://www.etonline.com/news/222327_leonardo_dicaprio_and_kate_winslet_auction_off_a_dinner_with_themselves_for_charity |title = Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet Will Reunite to Auction Off a Dinner With Themselves for Charity |work = Entertainment Tonight |date = 25 July 2017 |access-date = 31 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171005205440/http://www.etonline.com/news/222327_leonardo_dicaprio_and_kate_winslet_auction_off_a_dinner_with_themselves_for_charity |archive-date = 5 October 2017}} Winslet teamed with Lancôme and the National Literacy Trust in 2018 to launch a programme that aims to educate underprivileged women in the UK.{{cite magazine |last = Davis |first = Jessica |title = Kate Winslet and Lancôme launch UK literacy programme |url = https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/culture-news/a23022966/kate-winslet-and-lancome-launch-uk-literacy-programme/ |magazine = Harper's Bazaar |date = 10 September 2018 |access-date = 12 September 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180912131530/https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/culture-news/a23022966/kate-winslet-and-lancome-launch-uk-literacy-programme/ |archive-date = 12 September 2018 |url-status = live }} In 2020, Winslet read a bedtime story as part of Save with Stories to raise funds for Save the Children's Emergency Coronavirus Appeal.{{Cite web|title=HRH the Princess Royal Reads 'Thomas and the Royal Engine' on Instagram for Save the Children's Coronavirus Appeal|url=https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/HRH-READS-THOMAS-AND-THE-ROYAL-ENGINE|date=2 July 2020|access-date=2 April 2021|publisher=Save the Children|archive-date=19 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119031331/https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/HRH-READS-THOMAS-AND-THE-ROYAL-ENGINE|url-status=live}} In 2021, Winslet commented on homophobia in Hollywood, saying that she knew actors "who are terrified their sexuality will be revealed and that it will stand in the way of their being cast in straight roles".{{cite news|last=Lattanzio|first=Ryan|title=Kate Winslet Says She Knows 'At Least Four' Gay Actors Terrified of Coming Out in Hollywood|url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/kate-winslet-gay-actors-hollywood-coming-out-1234628060/|publisher=IndieWire|date=5 April 2021|access-date=5 April 2021|archive-date=26 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626083136/https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/kate-winslet-gay-actors-hollywood-coming-out-1234628060/|url-status=live}}

In a 2015 article for Elle, Sally Holmes described Winslet's ability to establish rapport with her manner.{{cite news |last = Holmes |first = Sally |url = http://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/interviews/a29016/kate-winslet-a-little-chaos/ |title = Why Kate Winslet's Boobs Were Her Biggest Obstacle in 'A Little Chaos' |work = Elle |date = 26 June 2015 |access-date = 1 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161224033511/http://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/interviews/a29016/kate-winslet-a-little-chaos/ |archive-date = 24 December 2016 |quote=She has the kind of personality that puts an entire room at ease, dropping F-bombs and self-deprecating remarks intermittently, while charming everyone with that buttery English accent}} Jo Ellison of Vogue writes that she has an "authoritative, almost ambassadorial aura", and Kira Cochrane of The Guardian considers her to be "articulate, sophisticated, [with] a definite hint of grandeur". Describing Winslet as plain-spoken, Krista Smith of Vanity Fair believes that despite her stardom she is unpretentious.

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Winslet's weight fluctuations over the years have been well-documented by the media.{{cite book |last = Pomerance |first = Murray |author-link = Murray Pomerance|title = Shining in Shadows: Movie Stars of the 2000s |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CaRuVcysg_EC&pg=PA184 |date = 19 October 2011 |publisher = Rutgers University Press |isbn = 978-0-8135-5216-3 |page = 184 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171101132225/https://books.google.com/books?id=CaRuVcysg_EC&pg=PA182 |archive-date = 1 November 2017}} She has been outspoken in her refusal to allow Hollywood to dictate her weight. In 2003, the British edition of GQ magazine published photographs of Winslet which had been digitally altered to make her look thinner and taller.{{cite book |last1 = Smith |first1 = Goldwin |last2 = Gilman |first2 = Sander L. |title = Diets and Dieting: A Cultural Encyclopedia |url = https://archive.org/details/dietsdietingcult0000gilm |url-access = registration |date = 23 January 2008 |publisher = Routledge |isbn = 978-1-135-87068-3 |page = [https://archive.org/details/dietsdietingcult0000gilm/page/44 44]}} She said the alterations were made without her consent, and GQ subsequently issued an apology.{{cite news |url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/feb/18/news1 |title = In brief: Winslet says fuss about figure is 'my own fault' |work = The Guardian |date = 18 February 2003 |access-date = 1 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160318234508/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/feb/18/news1 |archive-date = 18 March 2016}}{{cite news |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2643777.stm |title = Magazine admits airbrushing Winslet |publisher = BBC News |date = 9 January 2003 |access-date = 1 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170301222804/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2643777.stm |archive-date = 1 March 2017}} In 2007, Winslet won a libel case against Grazia magazine after it claimed she had visited a dietitian.{{cite web |first = John |last = Grossberg |title = Kate Winslet Gets Big, Fat Apology |url = http://www.eonline.com/news/54604/kate-winslet-gets-big-fat-apology |publisher = E! News |date = 9 March 2007 |access-date = 30 July 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141229082851/http://www.eonline.com/news/54604/kate-winslet-gets-big-fat-apology |archive-date = 29 December 2014 |url-status=live}} She claimed £10,000 in damages, and donated the amount to an eating disorder charity.{{cite news |first = James |last = Burleigh |title = I'm no hypocrite, says diet libel winner Kate |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1545073/Im-no-hypocrite-says-diet-libel-winner-Kate.html |work = The Daily Telegraph |date = 10 March 2007 |access-date = 31 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110830065057/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1545073/Im-no-hypocrite-says-diet-libel-winner-Kate.html |archive-date = 30 August 2011}} She won another case in 2009 against the British tabloid Daily Mail after it claimed she had lied about her exercise regimen.{{cite news |title = Kate Winslet accepts £25,000 libel damages from Daily Mail |url = https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/nov/03/kate-winslet-libel-damages-mail |work = The Guardian |date = 3 November 2009 |access-date = 1 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160921101026/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/nov/03/kate-winslet-libel-damages-mail |archive-date = 21 September 2016}} She received an apology and a payout of £25,000.

Winslet was included on People magazine's "Most Beautiful People" listing in 2005.{{cite news |title = Most Beautiful People 2005 |url = http://people.com/celebrity/most-beautiful-people-2005/kate-winslet |work = People |date = 9 May 2005 |access-date = 1 November 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171106112553/http://people.com/celebrity/most-beautiful-people-2005/kate-winslet/ |archive-date = 6 November 2017 |url-status = live }} Her beauty and sex appeal have been picked up by several other publications, including Harper's Bazaar, Who, and Empire magazines.{{cite news |last = Campbell-Johnston |first = Rachel |url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article528553.ece |title = The most beautiful women? |work = The Sunday Times |date = 1 June 2005 |access-date = 15 January 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100601082956/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article528553.ece |archive-date = 1 June 2010 |url-status=dead }}
{{cite news |url = https://www.empireonline.com/100sexiest/default.asp?star=1 |title = Angelina Jolie 'Sexiest Movie Star Ever' |work = Empire |date = 5 December 2007 |access-date = 15 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141008003231/http://www.empireonline.com/100sexiest/default.asp?star=1 |archive-date = 8 October 2014}}
{{cite web |title = Who Is the Most Beautiful? |publisher = Yahoo! |date = 9 April 2009 |access-date = 17 January 2015 |url = https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/who/star-style/a/5917588/who-is-the-most-beautiful/ |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140906072452/https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/who/star-style/a/5917588/who-is-the-most-beautiful/ |archive-date = 6 September 2014}} She has said she does not subscribe to the beauty ideal of Hollywood, and uses her celebrity to empower women to accept their appearance with pride.{{cite news |first = Manelis |last = Michelle |title = Kate Winslet and the naked truth |url = http://www.vogue.com.au/culture/features/kate+winslet+and+the+naked+truth,17359?page=2 |work = Vogue |date = 10 April 2012 |access-date = 1 November 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171107031500/http://www.vogue.com.au/culture/features/kate+winslet+and+the+naked+truth,17359?page=2 |archive-date = 7 November 2017 |url-status = live }} She has spoken against Botox and plastic surgery.{{cite news |first = Richard |last = Eden |title = Kate Winslet: Cosmetic surgery goes against my morals |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8700007/Kate-Winslet-Cosmetic-surgery-goes-against-my-morals.html |work = The Daily Telegraph |date = 14 August 2011 |access-date = 1 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171018152215/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8700007/Kate-Winslet-Cosmetic-surgery-goes-against-my-morals.html |archive-date = 18 October 2017}} In an effort to encourage natural ageing, she formed the British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League, alongside fellow actresses Emma Thompson and Rachel Weisz.{{cite news |first = Bibby |last = Sowray |title = Winslet Won't |url = http://www.vogue.co.uk/article/kate-winslet-on-cosmetic-surgery |work = Vogue |date = 16 August 2011 |access-date = 1 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171101132225/http://www.vogue.co.uk/article/kate-winslet-on-cosmetic-surgery |archive-date = 1 November 2017}} She instructs magazines and brands not to digitally smooth her wrinkles in photographs.{{cite news |first = Marianne |last = Mychaskiw |title = Kate Winslet Tells Lancôme Not to Photoshop Out Her Wrinkles in Campaign Images |url = http://www.instyle.com/news/kate-winslet-tells-lancome-no-photoshop-wrinkles-campaign-images |work = InStyle |date = 2 October 2015 |access-date = 1 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160127093751/http://www.instyle.com/news/kate-winslet-tells-lancome-no-photoshop-wrinkles-campaign-images |archive-date = 27 January 2016}}{{cite news |title = Kate Winslet's new contract bans retouching of her photos |url = https://www.hellomagazine.com/healthandbeauty/skincare-and-fragrances/2015102327855/kate-winslet-will-no-longer-let-adverts-be-retouched/ |work = Hello! |date = 23 October 2015 |access-date = 1 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151024172050/http://www1.hellomagazine.com/healthandbeauty/skincare-and-fragrances/2015102327855/kate-winslet-will-no-longer-let-adverts-be-retouched/ |archive-date = 24 October 2015}} Winslet is reluctant to discuss the gender pay gap in the film industry, as she dislikes speaking publicly about her salary.{{cite news |last1 = Jamieson |first1 = Natalie |title = Kate Winslet on gender pay chat: It's a bit vulgar |url = https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-34773959 |access-date = 11 November 2015 |publisher = Newsbeat |date = 10 November 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210326182901/https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-34773959 |archive-date = 26 March 2021}} She has expressed an aversion to elaborate press junkets and red carpet events, terming them a waste of money.

In 2009, Forbes reported her annual salary to be $2 million, a majority of that stemming from her endorsement deals.{{cite news |last = Pomerantz |first = Dorothy |title = Hollywood's Top-Earning Actresses |url = https://www.forbes.com/2009/06/30/top-earning-actresses-business-entertainment-hollywood.html |work = Forbes |date = 1 July 2009 |access-date = 1 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171021221606/https://www.forbes.com/2009/06/30/top-earning-actresses-business-entertainment-hollywood.html |archive-date = 21 October 2017}} Also that year, the UK Film Council calculated that she had earned £20 million from her acting roles since 1995.{{cite news |last = Brooks |first = Xan |title = Kate Winslet 'worth £60m' to UK economy |url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/nov/09/kate-winslet-british-economy |work = The Guardian |date = 9 November 2009 |access-date = 4 November 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171106112553/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/nov/09/kate-winslet-british-economy |archive-date = 6 November 2017 |url-status = live }} She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2009 and 2021.{{cite magazine |last = Jackson |first = Peter |title = Kate Winslet{{snd}} The 2009 Time 100 |url = https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1894410_1893836_1894429,00.html |magazine = Time |access-date = 1 November 2017 |date = 30 April 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161021104654/http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1894410_1893836_1894429,00.html |archive-date = 21 October 2016}}{{Cite magazine|title=Kate Winslet|url=https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2021/6095927/kate-winslet/|magazine=Time|last=Branagh|first=Kenneth|date=15 September 2021|access-date=28 October 2021|author-link=Kenneth Branagh|archive-date=28 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028110737/https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2021/6095927/kate-winslet/|url-status=live}} Madame Tussauds in London unveiled a wax statue of Winslet in 2011.{{cite news |last = Warr |first = Philippa |title = Copy-Kate: Madame Tussauds Unveil Their Kate Winslet Waxwork |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/11/09/copy-kate-madame-tussauds_n_1084199.html|work = HuffPost|date = 11 October 2011 |access-date = 1 November 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171106112553/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/11/10/copy-kate-madame-tussauds-unveil-their-kate-winslet-waxwork_n_7402656.html |archive-date = 6 November 2017 |url-status = live }} The following year, she received the Honorary César award, and in 2014, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.{{cite news |url=https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/14/kate-winslet-receives-star-on-hollywood-walk-of-fame-in-first-post-baby-appearance_n_7333964.html|work = HuffPost |title = Kate Winslet Receives Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame In First Post-Baby Appearance |date = 14 August 2014 |access-date = 1 November 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171106112553/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/14/kate-winslet-receives-star-on-hollywood-walk-of-fame-in-first-post-baby-appearance_n_7333964.html |archive-date = 6 November 2017 |url-status = live }}{{Cite news |url = https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-16759408 |publisher = BBC News |title = Kate Winslet to receive honorary Cesar award |date = 27 January 2012 |access-date = 1 November 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171108212806/http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-16759408 |archive-date = 8 November 2017 |url-status=live}} Winslet was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for her services to drama.{{Cite news |title = Kate Winslet and Gary Barlow receive royal honours |url = https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-20424260 |publisher = BBC News |date = 21 November 2012 |access-date = 1 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140408033644/http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-20424260 |archive-date = 8 April 2014}}

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Prolific in film since 1994, Winslet's most acclaimed and highest-grossing films, according to the online portal Box Office Mojo and the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, include Heavenly Creatures (1994), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Hamlet (1996), Titanic (1997), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Finding Neverland (2004), The Holiday (2006), Contagion (2011), Divergent (2014), Insurgent (2015), Steve Jobs (2015), and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). Her television projects include the miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011) and Mare of Easttown (2021).

Winslet has been recognised by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the following performances:{{cite news |last = Mueller |first = Matt |url = https://www.screendaily.com/awards/we-need-to-talk-about-kate-kate-winslet-on-steve-jobs/5097102.article |title = We need to talk about Kate: Kate Winslet on 'Steve Jobs' |date = 20 November 2015 |access-date = 4 November 2017 |work = Screen International |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151126001900/http://www.screendaily.com/awards/we-need-to-talk-about-kate-kate-winslet-on-steve-jobs/5097102.article |archive-date = 26 November 2015}}

• 68th Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress, nomination, for Sense and Sensibility (1995)
• 70th Academy Awards: Best Actress, nomination, for Titanic (1997)
• 74th Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress, nomination, for Iris (2001)
• 77th Academy Awards: Best Actress, nomination, for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
• 79th Academy Awards: Best Actress, nomination, for Little Children (2006)
• 81st Academy Awards: Best Actress, win, for The Reader (2008)
• 88th Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress, nomination, for Steve Jobs (2015)

Winslet has won five BAFTA Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Reader (2008); Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Steve Jobs (2016); Best Leading Actress and Best Single Drama for I Am Ruth. She has also won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Mildred Pierce (2011), and Mare of Easttown (2021) as well as the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for narrating the children's audiobook Listen to the Storyteller (1999). Winslet is the recipient of five Golden Globe Awards from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, winning Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for The Reader and Steve Jobs, Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for Revolutionary Road, and Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture – Television for Mildred Pierce and Mare of Easttown.{{cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/kate-winslet|title=Person: Kate Winslet|publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association|access-date=23 December 2021|archive-date=22 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211222204813/https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/kate-winslet|url-status=live}} She is among the few actresses to have won three of the four major American entertainment awards.{{cite news |last = Christianson |first = Emily |url = https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/env-egots-on-deck-pictures,0,5358349.photogallery?index=lat-egotkate_kfi6oonc20110325124237 |title = EGOTs on deck: Who will win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award next |date = 21 February 2013 |access-date = 13 March 2014 |work = Los Angeles Times |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140424102407/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/env-egots-on-deck-pictures,0,5358349.photogallery?index=lat-egotkate_kfi6oonc20110325124237 |archive-date = 24 April 2014}}{{cite magazine |last = Buckley |first = Cat |url = https://www.billboard.com/articles/events/oscars/7702125/egot-contenders-winners-emmy-grammy-oscar-tony-awards |title = The Top 11 EGOT Contenders: Who Will Be Next to Win All Four Major Awards? |date = 25 February 2017 |access-date = 4 November 2017 |magazine = Billboard |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170913205230/http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/oscars/7702125/egot-contenders-winners-emmy-grammy-oscar-tony-awards |archive-date = 13 September 2017}}

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