Kate Winslet commanded attention in a stunning red jumpsuit as she attended the 20th Zurich Film Festival at Corso in Switzerland on Monday.
The British actress was all smiles as she was awarded the festival’s Golden Icon Award before the screening of her new film Lee.
She showed off her amazing figure in the eye catching red number which boasted a halter neckline and wide legged trousers.
Kate cinched in her waist with a chunky black belt and elevated her frame in a pair of pointed toe heels.
The Titanic star styled her long blonde tresses in a neat waved up do and accessorised with a dazzling pair of gold drop earrings.
Kate Winslet commanded attention in a stunning red jumpsuit as she attended the 20th Zurich Film Festival at Corso in Switzerland on Monday
The British actress was all smiles as she was awarded the festival’s Golden Icon Award before the screening of her new film Lee
Kate flashed her gorgeous smile as she posed for stunning photographs on the red carpet ahead of the event.
The Dressmaker star was seen signing autographs for fans and posing for selfies before sheltering under an umbrella and making her way inside the theatre.
Kate was all smiles as she took to the stage to receive her award and made a speech to the crowd.
In a statement ahead of receiving the award, Kate said: ‘Thank you to the Zurich Film Festival for this wonderful honour and for recognising Lee, a film that has truly been a labour 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 to everyone who has been a part of this epic journey. Lee has been and remains, a pride and joy for me.’
In Lee, Kate portrays Lee Miller, a correspondent for British Vogue during World War II who became one of the most important war photographers of the 20th century.
With Kate starring as Miller in the biopic, the new release also boasts the likes of Josh O’Connor, Marion Cotillard, and Succession star Alexander Skarsgard, among others.
Kate recently claimed she was told to hide her ‘belly rolls’ while filming, a comment she said she found ‘absolutely bizarre’ because Miller’s body ‘would be soft’.
She showed off her amazing figure in the eye catching red number which boasted a halter neckline and wide legged trousers
Kate cinched in her waist with a chunky black belt and elevated her frame in a pair of pointed toe heels
The Titanic star styled her long blonde tresses in a neat waved up do and accessorised with a dazzling pair of gold drop earrings
Kate flashed her gorgeous smile as she posed for stunning photographs on the red carpet ahead of the event
The Dressmaker star was seen signing autographs for fans
In Lee, Kate portrays Lee Miller, a correspondent for British Vogue during World War II who became one of the most important war photographers of the 20th century
She told the BBC‘s Laura Kuenssberg: ‘It was my job to be like Lee. She wasn’t lifting weights and doing Pilates, she was eating cheese, bread and drinking wine and not making a big deal of it, so of course her body would be soft.
‘But I think we’re so used to perhaps not necessarily seeing that and enjoying it – the instinct, weirdly, is to see it and criticise it or comment on it in some way.
‘It’s interesting how much people do like labels for women. And they very much liked them in Lee’s day, and, annoyingly, they sort of still do – we slap these labels on women that we just don’t have for men. It’s absolutely bizarre to me.’
Kate said she believes women should be having conversations about the labels given to women depending on their body shape and ‘celebrate being a real shape and being soft’.
She added: ‘Life is too short, do you know? I don’t want to look back and go “Why did I worry about that thing?” And so, guess what? I don’t worry anymore. I don’t care.
‘I’m just going to live my life, going to enjoy it, get on with it. You’ve got one go around – make the most of it.’
The blockbuster explores Miller’s journey from fashion model to acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
Miller’s work took her across the whole of Europe, working for the Allied forces and teaming up with fellow American photographer David E. Scherman, a correspondent for Life magazine.
Her collection includes incredible photos she took documenting the end of the war, traveled to France less than a month after D-Day and to record the Siege of the heavily fortified city of St. Malo.
Kate beamed for selfies with fans
Kate was all smiles as she took to the stage to receive her award and made a speech to the crowd
In a statement ahead of receiving the award, Kate said: ‘Thank you to the Zurich Film Festival for this wonderful honour and for recognising Lee, a film that has truly been a labour of love’
She said: ‘I am so grateful to the Zurich Film Festival for creating this moment to celebrate our film and to everyone who has been a part of this epic journey’
She sheltered under an umbrella as she made her way inside the theatre
Kate carried her phone in her hand
The actress greeted fans before the screening
She also witnessed the liberation of Paris, the Battle of Alsace, and the horrors of the first soldiers arriving at Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.
And while visiting Germany, David Scherman took a photograph of Miller lying in the bathtub of Adolf Hitler’s apartment in Munich, with its shower hose looped in the center behind her head, resembling a noose.
The images became one of the most iconic of their partnership, and showed off her infamous modelling skills.
One of only two women combat photographers during World War II, she was also one of the few female correspondents who ventured into the liberated concentration camps.
