Editing Kate Winslet (section)

===Awards success (2008–2011)===
Winslet had two critically acclaimed roles in 2008.<ref name="award09">{{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 (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}}</ref> After reading [[Justin Haythe]]'s script for ''[[Revolutionary Road (film)|Revolutionary Road]]'', an adaptation of [[Richard Yates (novelist)|Richard Yates]]'s [[Revolutionary Road|debut novel]], Winslet recommended the project to her then-husband, director [[Sam Mendes]], and her ''Titanic'' co-star Leonardo DiCaprio.<ref name="deneuvely">{{cite news |last = Smith |first = Krista |title = Isn't she Deneuvely? |url = https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/12/winslet200812 |work = [[Vanity Fair (magazine)|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}}</ref> 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,<ref name="guardian08">{{cite news |last = Cochraine |first = Kira |title = 'I did have moments where I'd say, Oh my God&nbsp;...' |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}}</ref> and she read ''[[The Feminine Mystique]]'' to understand the psychology of unhappy housewives from the era.<ref name="deneuvely" /><ref name="guardian08" /> 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.<ref name="deneuvely" /> Hailing her as "the best English-speaking film actress of her generation", [[David Edelstein]] of ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine wrote that "[t]here isn't a banal moment in Winslet's performance&mdash;not a gesture, not a word."<ref name="season">{{cite news |last = Edelstein |first = David |title = 'Tis the Season&nbsp;... |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}}</ref>

[[File:KateWinsletAAFeb09.jpg|thumb|upright|200px|Winslet at the [[81st Academy Awards]] 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 (2008 film)|The Reader]]''. After her replacement [[Nicole Kidman]] left the project due to her pregnancy, Winslet was signed to it.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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 [[Schutzstaffel|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.<ref name="huffington" /> She was unable to sympathise with Schmitz and struggled to play the part honestly without humanising the character's actions.<ref name="award09" /><ref name="huffington">{{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}}</ref> Despite this, some historians criticised the film for making Schmitz an object of the audience's sympathy and accused the filmmakers of [[Holocaust revisionism]].<ref>{{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 }}</ref> 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."<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

Winslet received significant awards attention for her performances in ''Revolutionary Road'' and ''The Reader''.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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 in a Leading Role|BAFTA Award for Best Actress]].<ref name="award09" /> At age 33, she surpassed her own record as the youngest performer to accrue six Oscar nominations.<ref name="award09" /> She also became the third actress in history to win two Golden Globe Awards at the same ceremony.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Exhausted by the media attention during this period, Winslet took two years off work until she was ready to creatively engage again.<ref name="vogue11">{{cite journal |title = Solo Act |journal = Vogue |date = April 2011 |pages = 218–225 |last = Ellison |first = Jo }}</ref>

Winslet returned to acting with the five-part [[HBO]] series ''[[Mildred Pierce (miniseries)|Mildred Pierce]]'' (2011), an adaptation of [[James M. Cain|James M. Cain's]] [[Mildred Pierce|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.<ref name="vogue11" /> She was intimidated by the scope of the production, as she featured in every scene of the 280-page script.<ref name="mildred1">{{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}}</ref> She was disturbed and upset by the story, and was particularly fascinated by the complex relationship between the mother-daughter pair.<ref name="mildred1" /><ref name="mildred2">{{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}}</ref> She collaborated closely with the production and costume designers, and learnt to bake pies and prepare chickens.<ref name="mildred1" /> The broadcast received a limited audience but gained positive reviews.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> [[Matt Zoller Seitz]] of ''[[Salon.com|Salon]]'' called the series a "quiet, heartbreaking masterpiece" and described Winslet's performance as "terrific&mdash;intelligent, focused and seemingly devoid of ego".<ref>{{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 }}</ref> She won the [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie|Primetime Emmy Award]], [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film|Golden Globe]] and [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie|SAG Award]] for Best Actress in a miniseries.<ref>{{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}}<br />{{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}}<br />{{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}}</ref>

The ensemble thriller ''[[Contagion (2011 film)|Contagion]]'' from [[Steven Soderbergh]] was Winslet's first film release of 2011. She was cast as a disease detective for the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|CDC]], and she modelled her role on [[Anne Schuchat]], the director of the [[National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases|NCIRD]].<ref>{{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 }}</ref> ''Contagion'' was a commercial success, and [[David Denby]] of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' credited Winslet for capturing the essence of an exasperated woman.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> Her next project was the [[Roman Polanski]]-directed ''[[Carnage (2011 film)|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> Critics found the adaptation to be less compelling than the play, but praised the performances of Winslet and Foster.<ref>{{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}}</ref> They both received Golden Globe nominations for it.<ref>{{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}}</ref>