Editing Kate Winslet (section)

===Worldwide recognition and independent films (1997–2003)===
Winslet was keen on playing Rose DeWitt Bukater, a socialite aboard the ill-fated [[Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']], in [[James Cameron]]'s epic romance ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|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!"<ref name="www.ew.com">{{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 }}</ref> Her persistence led him to give her the part.<ref name="www.ew.com" /> [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] featured as her love interest, Jack. ''Titanic'' had a production budget of $200&nbsp;million, and its arduous principal photography was held at [[Baja Studios]] where a replica of the ship was created.<ref name="unsinkable" /> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref> Writing for ''[[Newsweek]]'', [[David Ansen]] commended Winslet for capturing her character's zeal with delicacy,<ref>{{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}}</ref> and [[Mike Clark (critic)|Mike Clark]] of ''[[USA Today]]'' considered her to be the film's prime asset.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> Against expectations, ''Titanic'' went on to become the [[List of highest-grossing films|highest-grossing film]] to that point, earning over $2&nbsp;billion in box office receipts worldwide,<ref name="www.ew.com" /><ref>{{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}}</ref> and established Winslet as a global star.<ref name="daft">{{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}}</ref> The film won eleven [[Academy Awards]]&mdash;tied for most for a single film&mdash;including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], and earned the 22-year-old Winslet a nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> She also received [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama|Golden Globe]] and [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role|SAG]] nominations for Best Actress.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

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.<ref name="hrinterview" /><ref name="golden" /><ref name="box office" /> She later said her decision ensured career longevity.<ref name="guardian1">{{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}}</ref> ''[[Hideous Kinky (film)|Hideous Kinky]]'', a low-budget drama shot before the release of ''Titanic'', was Winslet's sole film release of 1998.<ref name="hideous">{{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}}</ref> She turned down offers to star in ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'' (1998) and ''[[Anna and the King]]'' (1999) to do the film.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Based on the [[Hideous Kinky|semi-autobiographical novel]] by [[Esther Freud]], ''Hideous Kinky'' tells the story of a single British mother yearning for a new life in 1970s Morocco.<ref name="daft" /><ref name="hideous" /> [[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".<ref name="hideous" />

[[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.<ref name="daft" /><ref name="guardian1" /> She learnt to speak with an Australian accent and worked closely with Campion to justify her character's vileness.<ref name="daft" /><ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name="daft" /><ref>{{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}}</ref> David Rooney of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' wrote, "Showing the kind of courage few young thesps would be capable of and an extraordinary range&nbsp;... from animal cunning to unhinged desperation, [Winslet] holds nothing back."<ref>{{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}}</ref> That same year, she voiced a fairy for the animated film ''[[Faeries (1999 film)|Faeries]]'',<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name="grammy">{{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}}</ref>

In ''[[Quills (film)|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> Hailing her as the "most daring actress working today", James Greenberg of ''[[Los Angeles (magazine)|Los Angeles]]'' magazine praised Winslet for "continuing to explore the bounds of sexual liberation".<ref name="Communications2000">{{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}}</ref> She received a SAG Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.<ref>{{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}}</ref> The following year, she played a fictitious mathematician involved in the cracking of the [[Cryptanalysis of the Enigma|Enigma ciphers]] in [[Michael Apted]]'s espionage thriller ''[[Enigma (2001 film)|Enigma]]''. Winslet's character was vastly expanded from a subsidiary love-interest in the [[Enigma (novel)|novel]] it was based on to a prominent code-breaker in the film.<ref>{{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}}</ref> She was pregnant while filming, and to prevent this from showing, she wore corsets under her costume.<ref>{{cite web |title = Winslet Hid Pregnancy Under Corsets |date = 20 August 2001 |publisher = [[ABC News (United States)|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}}</ref>

The biopic ''[[Iris (2001 film)|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".<ref>{{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}}</ref> Winslet was drawn to the idea of playing an intellectual and zesty female lead, and in research, she read Murdoch's novels, studied [[John Bayley (writer)|her husband]]'s memoir ''[[Elegy for Iris]]'', and watched televised interviews of Murdoch.<ref name="iris">{{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}}</ref> The project was filmed over four weeks and allowed Winslet to bring her daughter, who was six months old at the time, on set.<ref name="iris" /> 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".<ref>{{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}}</ref> She received her third Oscar nomination for ''Iris'', in addition to BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress.<ref name="iris" /><ref>{{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}}</ref>

Winslet's third film release of 2001 was the animated film ''[[Christmas Carol: The Movie]]'', based on [[Charles Dickens]]' [[A Christmas Carol|novel]]. For the film's soundtrack she recorded "[[What If (Kate Winslet song)|What If]]", which proved to be a commercial hit.<ref name="singer">{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Mick LaSalle thought the film had muddled the subject and disliked both the film and Winslet's performance.<ref>{{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}}</ref>