British actress Kate Winslet will remember the year 2009 all her life. First, because she won her maiden Oscar this year for The Reader, and second, she was more talked about this year than ever before, and had gathered something of an informal lobby of supporters who wanted her Oscar dry-spell to end.
Statistics can explain the wonderment that most felt at Kate Winslet being Oscar-less thus far.
At age 33, she is the youngest actress to have six Oscar nominations. In fact, she has even defeated veteran Sean Penn, who has only five nominations.
Meryl Streep holds the record for most oscar nominations at 15 (the way she understands it, she also holds the record for losing most often). After Streep is Katherine Hepburn with 12 nominations.
Winslet stands alongside Thelma Ritter and Deborah Kerr with six nominations and what is worth noting, at a much younger age.
Somehow, Winslet had been denied an Oscar thus far, despite all in the industry claiming that she is easily among the finest actresses of her generations. Some commentators went as far to say that she is the Meryl Streep of her generation.
During her emotional acceptance speech, Winslet mentioned all her fellow nominees and paid a special tribute to Meryl Streep by saying, "I want to acknowledge my fellow nominees, these goddesses. I think we all can't believe we are in the same category as Meryl Streep at all. I'm sorry Meryl but you have to just suck that up."
she deserved oscar for titanic but unfortunately she did not got, but now she has.
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