The Santa Barbara Film Festival has announced that Kate Winslet will receive the Montecito Award, which honors "a performer who has given a series of classic and standout performances in his/her career."
The Montecito Award Tribute to Kate Winslet will be held on Friday, January 23, at the Arlington Theatre, with a multimedia presentation produced by Paul Fagen of P. Fagen Productions.
2009 Santa Barbara Film Festival honorees.
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"It is Kate Winslet's face and Kate Winslet's face alone that looks out from the cover of the new 'now a major motion picture' paperback edition of Bernhard Schlink's exceptional novel, The Reader, and that's as it should be," writes Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times.
"For though The Reader costars the gifted Ralph Fiennes and gives a lot of screen time to a young actor named David Kross, it is Winslet's haunting performance that gives the film what success it has."
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Kate Winslet is one of the frontrunners for the 2009 Academy Awards for both The Reader and Revolutionary Road.