- Hilarious in Hindsight: When she guest starred in Ricky Gervais' Extras in 2005, she plays an bawdy, exaggerated version of herself who's starring in a Holocaust movie for Oscar Bait. Three years later, she wins an Oscar for playing a Nazi in The Reader.
- When Gervais hosted the Golden Globes in 2009, he spotted her in the audience and said-- on live television, mind — "I told ya, do a Holocaust movie, the awards come, didn't I?"
- Hollywood Homely: For some unfathomable reason. She seems to get cast in the "frumpy/ordinary girl" role, despite being positively stunning by almost any reasonable standard.
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"In a story rife with implausibilities and absurdities, perhaps the most Egregious is that we're told we should accept Kate Winslet as somehow "unattractive," compared to [[[Jennifer Connelly]]'s character]." — Roger Ebert in his review of Little Children. |
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- Hollywood Pudgy: For equally unfathomable reasons. James Cameron reputedly nicknamed her "Kate Weighs-a-lot."