Kate Winslet dazzles as she accepts Golden Icon Award at the Zurich Film Festival

Kate Winslet was honoured astatine the 2024 Zurich Film Festival successful Switzerland connected Monday wherever she scooped the Golden Icon Award wherever she gushed astir her latest movie project

Kate Winslet was a imaginativeness successful reddish arsenic she attended the 20th Zurich Film Festival astatine Corso successful Switzerland connected Monday to prime up an award.

The 49-year-old Oscar winner was successful the Swiss metropolis to beryllium honoured with the Golden Icon Award. This twelvemonth has marked the merchandise of Kate's movie Lee - which tells the communicative of exemplary turned warfare analogous Lee Miller and is the archetypal movie the Hollywood prima has produced.

Attending the awards connected Monday, Kate commanded attraction arsenic she wore a striking reddish jumpsuit that made her basal retired from the crowd. She accessorised with a melodramatic achromatic loop and glittering golden jewellery - and aboriginal posed with the dazzling spherical grant which was presented to her astatine the event.

Accepting the gong, Kate took the accidental to radiance attraction connected her caller movie - which she described arsenic a 'labour of love'. The movie had been owed for merchandise successful 2023, but was pushed backmost by a twelvemonth to debar the SAG-AFTRA onslaught which rumbled connected from June until November past twelvemonth and would person meant the prima would beryllium banned from promoting the project.

In her acceptance speech: "Thank you to the Zurich Film Festival for this fantastic honour and for recognising Lee, a movie that has genuinely been a labour of emotion for me, and of which I americium immensely proud. I americium truthful grateful to the Zurich Film Festival for creating this infinitesimal to observe our movie and to everyone who has been a portion of this epic journey. Lee has been and remains, a pridefulness and joyousness for me."

Kate has been heavy promoting the movie successful caller weeks. In August, she posed for Harper's Bazaar and gushed astir the film. She said: "Lee’s phenomenal stoicism and ngo to uncover the information due to the fact that truthful overmuch was hidden – of each the characters I’ve ever played, I was genuinely inspired by her and successful a lasting way.

"Post-#MeToo, we person a overmuch greater position connected what women successful the nationalist oculus had to enactment up with. My anticipation is that, astatine the precise least, the movie volition amusement radical who Lee truly was and what she went through, and hopefully redefine however a younger procreation understands her, truthful that she isn’t continually viewed done the antheral gaze."

She went connected to picture however she felt adjacent to the humanities fig - who passed distant successful 1977 astatine the property of 70. She said: "It’s truthful interesting, due to the fact that successful each the letters I read, and her idiosyncratic diaries, she was ne'er down connected herself, oregon captious of men. I respect that truthful much.

"We statement women each the clip – it drives maine mad. If you deliberation astir however Lee’s described, it’s: 'outspoken', 'headstrong', 'determined' – these big, abdominous words... We don’t picture men arsenic ballsy oregon outspoken, due to the fact that men conscionable accidental immoderate they privation to accidental and bash immoderate they privation to do, and it’s expected and permitted, but erstwhile a pistillate does that, we slap her with a label, and it sticks."

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