Kate Winslet, who is well-known for her extraordinary career, received the Munich Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Her amazing collection of honors now includes two Primetime Emmys, an Academy Award, and a Grammy Award. As Winslet ascended the stage to accept her award and talk about the European premiere of her most recent picture, “Lee,” which was directed by Ellen Kuras, the crowd at Munich’s Deutsches Theatre erupted in cheers.
The major part in the 2023 British biographical drama “Lee” is played by Winslet and features Lee Miller, a war photographer. The movie, which is based on Antony Penrose’s 1985 biography “The Lives of Lee Miller,” made its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. On September 13, 2024, it will be released in the United Kingdom. Winslet declared, “It feels like I’m a movie star!” as she showed her delight. No, truly, I don’t typically receive treatment like this…I’ll just gobble it up.”
Winslet’s co-star from “The Reader,” David Kross, gave her the CineMerit award while reminiscing about their first encounter, which occurred sixteen years ago when he was barely seventeen. Jokingly, he mentioned Winslet’s function as his “intimacy coordinator” while filming “The Reader,” a notion that wasn’t widely accepted at the time. Thinking back to her own days as an emerging performer, Winslet praised Kross for his encouraging remarks and acknowledged the difficulties they had experienced together.
The Munich CineMerit Prize honors Winslet’s enduring accomplishments to the motion picture industry. Even though Winslet has almost every major prize under her belt, the moderator of the program pointed out that this one was especially meaningful. Winslet talked passionately about “Lee,” her first feature film as a fully-credited producer and a project she has been working on for almost ten years. She remarked, “I can’t believe we did it,” underscoring the film’s examination of a crucial decade in which Lee Miller changed careers and became a war photographer instead of a fashion model.
Winslet and producer Kate Solomon talked about the difficulties and the process of bringing “Lee” to life. Winslet stressed the challenges of producing movies about women, particularly from a female point of view. Solomon acknowledged Winslet’s commitment, pointing out that she appeared in almost every scene. Winslet revealed how they put together their “dream cast,” which was excited to work on the project and included Andy Samberg, Andrea Riseborough, Marion Cotillard, and Alexander Skarsgård.
On September 13, 2024, “Lee” will open in theaters in the UK. Later that month, it will also open in US theaters. A major turning point in Winslet’s remarkable career, this movie highlights her adaptability and long-lasting influence on the motion picture business.
