Kate Winslet will likely be feted with the Zurich Movie Competition’s Golden Icon Award at its upcoming twentieth version operating from October 3 to 13.
Winslet will obtain the award – paying tribute to her stellar profession and filmography spanning movies such Titanic to Everlasting Sunshine Of The Spotless Thoughts, The Reader, Sense and Sensibility and Avatar: The Means of Water – on October 7.
The ceremony will likely be adopted by a screening of Ellen Kuras’s bio-pic Lee, by which Winslet stars because the struggle photographer Lee Miller, and acts as a co-producer.
Lee Miller’s son, Antony Penrose, and Lee co-producer Kate Solomon will even be in attendance.
“Kate Winslet is a real icon of cinema and shines by means of her versatility in huge studio blockbusters in addition to small indie productions. Her multifaceted alternative of roles and her lengthy Hollywood profession make her a favorite with audiences of a number of generations,” stated ZFF Inventive Director Christian Jungen.
“We’re subsequently delighted to welcome her within the 12 months of our twentieth anniversary and to honour her with the Golden Icon Award for her achievements. Now we have tried a number of instances to welcome her as a visitor on the ZFF, and now it has lastly labored out – an incredible reward for our anniversary version.”
Earlier winners of the Golden Icon Award embrace Jessica Chastain, Hugh Jackman, Cate Blanchett and Hugh Grant.
“Thanks to the Zurich Movie Competition for this excellent honor and for recognizing Lee, a movie that has really been a labour of affection for me, and of which I’m immensely proud,” stated Winslet.
“I’m so grateful to the Zurich Movie Competition for creating this second to have fun our movie and to everybody who has been part of this epic journey. LEE has been and stays, a delight and pleasure for me, I’m trying ahead immensely to visiting Zurich in October, alongside my producing accomplice, Kate Solomon, in addition to Lee Miller’s solely son, the endlessly supportive Antony Penrose, and to share our movie with you all in particular person.“
Lee tells the story of photographer Lee Miller (1907–1977), who made a reputation for herself as a correspondent for British Vogue throughout the Second World Warfare. Winslet performs the fearless Lee–some of the essential feminine struggle photographers of the twentieth century–on her mission to disclose the hidden truths of the Third Reich.
The movie reunites Winslet with Oscar-nominated director Ellen Kuras for the primary time since Everlasting Sunshine Of The Spotless Thoughts.
The solid additionally options Andy Samberg, Andrea Riseborough, Alexander Skarsgård, Josh O’Connor, and Marion Cotillard.