Kate Winslet cut an elegant figure in a black suit as she received the Gold Icon award during the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland on Monday.
The Oscar-winning actress, 49, looked in high spirits as she stopped to pose for selfies with fans outside the theater.
The Titanic star looked incredible in the black jacket and pants which she paired with a matching blouse and sky-high heels.
Leaving her long blonde tresses loose in neat curls, Kate completed her look with a simple gold pendant necklace.
The British actress received the festival’s Golden Icon award before a screening of her new film Lee.
Kate Winslet cut an elegant figure in a black suit as she received the Gold Icon award during the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland on Monday.
The Oscar-winning actress, 49, looked in high spirits as she stopped to pose for selfies with fans outside the theater.
She said in a statement: “Thank you to the Zurich Film Festival for this wonderful honor and for recognizing Lee, a film that has truly been a labor of love for me and of which I am immensely proud.”
‘I am so grateful to the Zurich Film Festival for creating this moment to celebrate our film and everyone who has been part of this epic journey. “Lee has been and continues to be a pride and joy to me.”
In Lee, Kate plays Lee Miller, a correspondent for British Vogue magazine during World War II who became one of the most important war photographers of the 20th century.
With Kate playing Miller in the biopic, the new release also features the likes of Josh O’Connor, Marion Cotillard and Succession star Alexander Skarsgard, among others.
Kate recently claimed she was told to hide her “tummy rolls” while filming, a comment she said she found “absolutely strange” because Miller’s body “would be soft.”
He told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg: “My job was to be like Lee. He wasn’t lifting weights or doing Pilates, he was casually eating cheese, bread and drinking wine, so of course his body would be soft.
“But I think we’re so used to not necessarily watching it and enjoying it; the instinct, strangely, is to watch it and criticize it or comment on it in some way.”
‘It’s interesting to see how much people like labels for women. And they really liked them in Lee’s day and, annoyingly, still like them: we put these labels on women that we just don’t have for men. It’s absolutely strange to me.
The Titanic star looked incredible in the black jacket and pants which she paired with a matching blouse and sky-high heels.
Leaving her long blonde tresses loose in neat curls, Kate completed her look with a simple gold pendant necklace.
The British actress received the festival’s Golden Icon award before the screening of her new film Lee
In Lee, Kate plays Lee Miller, a correspondent for British Vogue during World War II who became one of the most important war photographers of the 20th century.
Kate said she thinks women should talk about the labels they are given based on their body shape and “celebrate having a real shape and being soft.”
And he added: ‘Life is too short, you know? I don’t want to look back and say “Why did I worry about that thing?” And then, guess what? I don’t worry anymore. I don’t mind.
‘I’m just going to live my life, I’m going to enjoy it, I’m going to move on. You have a choice: make the most of it.’
The blockbuster explores Miller’s journey from model to acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
Miller’s work took her throughout Europe, working for the Allied forces and teaming up with fellow American photographer David E. Scherman, a correspondent for Life magazine.
His collection includes incredible photographs he took to document the end of the war, traveling to France less than a month after D-Day, and to record the siege of the heavily fortified city of St. Malo.
He also witnessed the liberation of Paris, the Battle of Alsace and the horrors of the first soldiers who arrived at the Nazi concentration camps of Buchenwald and Dachau.
She said in a statement: “Thank you to the Zurich Film Festival for this wonderful honor and for recognizing Lee, a film that has truly been a labor of love for me and of which I am immensely proud.”
She continued: ‘I am so grateful to the Zurich Film Festival for creating this moment to celebrate our film and everyone who has been a part of this epic journey. Lee has been and continues to be a pride and joy to me.’
And while visiting Germany, David Scherman took a photograph of Miller lying in the bathtub of Adolf Hitler’s Munich apartment, with the shower hose coiled in the center behind her head, resembling a noose.
The images became one of the most iconic of their partnership and showcased her infamous modeling skills.
One of only two combat photographers during World War II, she was also one of the few correspondents to venture into the liberated concentration camps.
