Kate Winslets Hottest Moments
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Kate Winslet burst onto the silver screen in 1994's cult fave 'Heavenly Creatures' and has been wowing audiences ever since. In the ensuing 15 years, she's racked up six Oscar nominations (and one very recent win), seven Golden Globe nods (and two wins), the highest-grossing movie in history (a little flick called 'Titanic') -- and made art-house fans of men the world over with her propensity for on-screen nudity (in no fewer than nine films).
With her role as a Holocaust war criminal in 'The Reader' and her big-screen reunion with best bud Leonardo DiCaprio in 'Revolutionary Road' having just earned her a bevy of awards, we look back at Winslet's all-time sexiest, sultriest moments -- both on-screen and off. -- By Tom DiChiara
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Heavenly Creature
In 1994, 19-year-old Winslet made her big-screen premiere in 'Heavenly Creatures,' a film brought to life by a pre-'Lord of the Rings' Peter Jackson. As one of two teens so obsessed with each other that they plot to murder one's mother when she forbids them to be together, Winslet earned critical accolades and shared her first on-screen kiss -- with female co-star Melanie Lynskey. That's what you call an auspicious debut.
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Period Piece
Kate donned a corset to play hopeless romantic Marianne Dashwood in the 1995 Ang Lee-directed adaptation of Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility,' and scored her first -- but definitely not last -- Oscar nod as reward. Though Winslet followed 'Sense' with two more period pieces, earning herself the nickname "Corset Kate," the ravishing pink gown she wore to the 1996 Oscars proved she could be equally entrancing in contemporary garb.
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'Titanic' Success
James Cameron's 1997 sinking-ship epic won Best Picture at the Oscars, catapulted stars Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio to overnight fame, earned Kate her second Academy Award nomination and became the high-grossing film of all time. It also boasted some fairly cheesy dialogue, but we prefer to remember it for the super steamy scene in which Leo sketches Kate while she wears a huge diamond -- and nothing else.
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Kate and Leo: Part 1
Just one of the many things to come out of the gargantuan success of 'Titanic' was a lifelong -- and, we're assured, platonic -- bond between Winslet and DiCaprio. Though the two stars only recently joined forces for a second film together, 2008's 'Revolutionary Road,' they're so close that Kate's kids call DiCaprio "Uncle Leo."
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Kiss Kate, She's Iris
Winslet snagged her third Academy Award nom playing the young version of novelist Iris Murdoch in 2001's 'Iris,' while Judi Dench earned a nomination for playing the older Alzheimer's-stricken Iris. Almost as arresting as Kate's performance was the scene-stealing red dress she wore at the 2002 Oscars. We'd give her an Oscar just for that.
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Ray of 'Sunshine'
Sure, Winslet's character in 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' dresses like a hippie and dyes her hair weird shades of orange, red and blue -- but that's what Jim Carrey (and audiences) dig about her. Kate's Clementine is refreshingly real, the kind of girl you could fall in love with, erase from your memory and somehow fall in love with all over again. It's no surprise that the 29-year-old nabbed another Oscar nod for the role, becoming the youngest actor ever nominated four times.
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'Eternal' Beauty
Kate ditched Clementine's orange hair and steel-toed boots in favor of a baby blue gown at the '05 Academy Awards -- and though she went home sans Oscar for 'Eternal Sunshine,' she certainly lit up the red carpet that night.
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'Extras' Special
As a guest star on Ricky Gervais' hilarious HBO series 'Extras' in 2005, Winslet made envelope-pushing lewdness sexy. Playing a gloriously foulmouthed version of herself, she doles out phone sex tips while dressed as a nun and shamelessly does a Holocaust movie in the hopes of winning an Oscar. Kate was nominated for and lost an Emmy for the role; ironically, in 2009 she won her first Golden Globe ever for 'The Reader' -- a film about the Holocaust.
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Summer Lovin'
Winslet received her fifth Oscar nomination for 2006's 'Little Children,' playing a stifled suburban housewife who finds escape in a hot and heavy summer fling with an unhappily married neighbor (Patrick Wilson). The love scenes -- especially one set in a laundry room -- are epic, the acting superb and Kate's willingness to disrobe for a role never more evident. If we're counting correctly, this was the eighth time she did so for a film.
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