Kate Winslet

LOS ANGELES — Kate Winslet is going to be a mom again. A representative for the 37-year-old Oscar winner confirms Winslet and husband Ned Rocknroll are expecting a child. People.com first reported the pregnancy Tuesday. Winslet has two children from her two previous marriages: 12-year-old Mia, whose father is director Jim Threapleton, and 9-year-old Joe, the son of director Sam Mendes. Winslet and Rocknroll were married in December. Rocknroll is the nephew of entrepreneur Richard Branson.

LOS ANGELES — Kate Winslet is going to be a mom again. A representative for the 37-year-old Oscar winner confirms Winslet and husband Ned Rocknroll are expecting a child. People.com first reported the pregnancy Tuesday. Winslet has two children from her two previous marriages: 12-year-old Mia, whose father is director Jim Threapleton, and 9-year-old Joe, the son of director Sam Mendes. Winslet and Rocknroll were married in December. Rocknroll is the nephew of entrepreneur Richard Branson.

"The Reader" has unquestionably earned a place in cinema history as the movie that finally won Kate Winslet a well-deserved Academy Award. Fortunately, Winslet's fierce, nuanced portrayal of the often inscrutable Hanna Schmitz is only one reason to see this adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's best-selling novel, on DVD ($29.95) this week and on Blu-ray ($34.99) April 28. Given its serious subject matter (the Holocaust) and the cachet of all those Oscar nominations (it earned five, including one for Best Picture)

Whatever filmmaker Todd Haynes is serving, it must be a pretty powerful potion, able to bend top producers, actors, set decorators and the people who run HBO to his will in order to create a luxuriously new "Mildred Pierce" mini-series that clocks in at nearly six hours in length and squeezes every last ounce of disciplined energy from its star, Kate Winslet — to say nothing of the energy it will require of its audience. Haynes has even arm-twisted present-day Long Island into doing a reasonable...

Best Picture Should win: "Milk" Will win: "Slumdog Millionaire" Should have been nominated: "WALL E" Best Director Should win: Gus Van Sant, "Milk" Will win: Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire" Should have been nominated: Thomas McCarthy, "The Visitor" Best Actor Should win: Richard Jenkins, "The Visitor" Will win: Mickey Rourke, "The Wrestler" Should have been nominated: Benicio Del Toro, "Che"...

" The Reader " has unquestionably earned a place in cinema history as the movie that finally won Kate Winslet a well-deserved Academy Award. Fortunately, Winslet's fierce, nuanced portrayal of the often inscrutable Hanna Schmitz is only one reason to see this adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's best-selling novel, on DVD ($29.95) today and arriving on Blu-ray ($34.99) April 28. Given its serious subject matter (the Holocaust) and the cachet of all those Oscar nominations (it earned five, including one for Best Picture)

Bernhard Schlink's highly regarded novel "The Reader" receives a graceful, absorbing screen adaptation by director Stephen Daldry ("The Hours"), who conveys a technically and morally complicated story with consummate skill and smoothness. Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes deliver fine performances as the tortured souls at the center of "The Reader's" wrenching portrait of Germany reckoning with its Nazi past. But the standout here is 18-year-old German actor David Kross, whose portrayal of a teenage Michael Berg suggests a promising...

"Plenty of people are on to the emptiness. But it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. " That's one of the funniest lines in "Revolutionary Road," but it's not played for laughs in this somber, almost dirgelike adaptation of the 1961 novel by Richard Yates. A chamber-piece of horrors set in 1950s suburbia, Sam Mendes's film exerts a mesmerizing pull, as its beautiful, doomed protagonists navigate starkly disappointing adulthoods. Austere, controlled, achingly sad, "Revolutionary Road" provides an apt bookend to a holiday season drenched in fatalistic...

Whatever filmmaker Todd Haynes is serving, it must be a pretty powerful potion, able to bend top producers, actors, set decorators and the people who run HBO to his will in order to create a luxuriously new "Mildred Pierce" mini-series that clocks in at nearly six hours in length and squeezes every last ounce of disciplined energy from its star, Kate Winslet — to say nothing of the energy it will require of its audience. Haynes has even arm-twisted present-day Long Island into doing...

NEW YORK In the Hollywood-as-high-school fantasy of our minds, Katherine Heigl and Kate Hudson giggle in the back of RomCom 101; Anne Hathaway rocks an independent study with Julia Roberts; Charlize and Nicole breeze in and out of "Prosthetics and Your Oscar. " And somewhere tucked away -- In an annex? Behind the boiler room? -- is a permission-only course team-taught by Judi Dench, Helen Mirren and Vanessa Redgrave, with occasional guest lectures by Maggie Smith. The class is called "Dame Training: How to Join the Greats.

"The Reader" has unquestionably earned a place in cinema history as the movie that finally won Kate Winslet a well-deserved Academy Award. Fortunately, Winslet's fierce, nuanced portrayal of the often inscrutable Hanna Schmitz is only one reason to see this adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's best-selling novel, on DVD ($29.95) this week and on Blu-ray ($34.99) April 28. Given its serious subject matter (the Holocaust) and the cachet of all those Oscar nominations (it earned five, including one for Best Picture)

" The Reader " has unquestionably earned a place in cinema history as the movie that finally won Kate Winslet a well-deserved Academy Award. Fortunately, Winslet's fierce, nuanced portrayal of the often inscrutable Hanna Schmitz is only one reason to see this adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's best-selling novel, on DVD ($29.95) today and arriving on Blu-ray ($34.99) April 28. Given its serious subject matter (the Holocaust) and the cachet of all those Oscar nominations (it earned five, including one for Best Picture)

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 22 -- Jai ho, you Oscar slumdogs, which we think translates loosely as: Shout hallelujah, c'mon get happy! But how happy? After all, the movie that won Best Picture at the 81st annual Academy Awards here Sunday night is supposed to be the "upbeat" one, and it's the one where orphans get acid spooned into their adorable eyes. (But at the end, they dance! Jai ho!) The film of the night would be "Slumdog Millionaire," the triumphant come-from-behind story of a game show within a love story within...

At this point in awards season, it's all distraction. "Slumdog Millionaire" exploited Indian children! Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn hate each other! "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is reheated "Forrest Gump"! All this hoo-ha takes away from the simple task at hand: Picking the winners correctly, looking like a genius and winning the office pool. These days, every $30 counts. So we scoured industry blogs, crunched numbers and plotted historical trends. We listened.

Best Picture Should win: "Milk" Will win: "Slumdog Millionaire" Should have been nominated: "WALL E" Best Director Should win: Gus Van Sant, "Milk" Will win: Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire" Should have been nominated: Thomas McCarthy, "The Visitor" Best Actor Should win: Richard Jenkins, "The Visitor" Will win: Mickey Rourke, "The Wrestler" Should have been nominated: Benicio Del Toro, "Che"...

LONDON -- On Sunday when the cameras in Hollywood zoom in on Kate Winslet as an Academy Award nominee for Best Actress, the British will be rooting for their girl to win -- and bracing themselves for the possibility of excruciating television if she does. The idea that a British actress might win a top acting award, and that it might not be pretty, was planted last month at the Golden Globes when a visibly shocked Winslet won as best actress, her second award of the evening. Breathless and teary, the 33-year-old briefly blanked on Angelina...

At this point in awards season, it's all distraction. "Slumdog Millionaire" exploited Indian children! Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn hate each other! "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is reheated "Forrest Gump"! All this hoo-ha takes away from the simple task at hand: Picking the winners correctly, looking like a genius and winning the office pool. These days, every $30 counts. So we scoured industry blogs, crunched numbers and plotted historical trends. We listened.

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 22 -- Jai ho, you Oscar slumdogs, which we think translates loosely as: Shout hallelujah, c'mon get happy! But how happy? After all, the movie that won Best Picture at the 81st annual Academy Awards here Sunday night is supposed to be the "upbeat" one, and it's the one where orphans get acid spooned into their adorable eyes. (But at the end, they dance! Jai ho!) The film of the night would be "Slumdog Millionaire," the triumphant come-from-behind story of a game show within a love story within class...

Benjamin Button's case grows curiouser still: thirteen Academy Award nominations? Distill! Agonize! Defend! Rationalize! "There wasn't anyone on the crew who didn't immediately feel this film was special," said Eric Barba, who shares the nomination for the many meticulous visual effects in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a strange (but not too strange) and weird (but not too weird) fable in which Brad Pitt plays a man who is born old and dies young. The people who made it all felt it, but the office Oscar pool is scratching...

"Plenty of people are on to the emptiness. But it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. " That's one of the funniest lines in "Revolutionary Road," but it's not played for laughs in this somber, almost dirgelike adaptation of the 1961 novel by Richard Yates. A chamber-piece of horrors set in 1950s suburbia, Sam Mendes's film exerts a mesmerizing pull, as its beautiful, doomed protagonists navigate starkly disappointing adulthoods. Austere, controlled, achingly sad, "Revolutionary Road" provides an apt bookend to a holiday...