Kate Winslet cut a stylish figure in a black suit as she accepted the Golden Icon Award at the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland on Monday.
The Oscar-winning actress, 49, looked cheerful as she stopped to pose for selfies with fans outside the theater.
The Titanic star looked stunning in the black blazer and trousers which she teamed with a matching blouse and sky-high heels.
Kate left her long blonde locks loose in neat curls and completed her outfit with a simple gold pendant necklace.
The British actress received the festival’s Golden Icon Award prior to the screening of her new film Lee.
Kate Winslet cut a stylish figure in a black suit as she accepted the Golden Icon Award at the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland on Monday
The Oscar-winning actress, 49, looked cheerful 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 will continue to be a pride and joy to me.”
In Lee, Kate Lee portrays Miller, a correspondent for British Vogue during World War II who became one of the most important war photographers of the 20th century.
Starring Kate as Miller in the biopic, the new release also stars Josh O’Connor, Marion Cotillard and Succession star Alexander Skarsgard.
Kate recently claimed she was told to hide her “belly rolls” during filming, a comment she found “absolutely bizarre” because Miller’s body “was supposed to be soft.”
She told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg: ‘My job was to be like Lee. She wasn’t lifting weights or doing Pilates, she wasn’t eating cheese, bread or drinking wine or making much of it, so of course her body would be soft.
“But I think we’re so used to it that maybe we don’t necessarily see that and enjoy it. Strangely enough, the instinct is to see it and criticize it or comment on it in some way.
“It’s interesting how many people like labels for women. And they really liked them in Lee’s day, and, annoyingly, they still do – we put these labels on women that we just don’t have for men. I think it’s absolutely bizarre.’
The Titanic star looked stunning in the black blazer and trousers which she teamed with a matching blouse and sky-high heels
Kate left her long blonde locks loose in neat curls and completed her outfit with a simple gold pendant necklace
The British actress received the festival’s Golden Icon Award prior to the screening of her new film Lee
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.
Kate said she thinks women should have conversations about the labels given to women depending on their body shape and “celebrate having real shape and being soft.”
She added: “Life is too short, you know that? I don’t want to look back and say, “Why was I worried about that?” And so, guess what? I don’t worry anymore. I don’t care.
‘I’m just going to live my life, enjoy it, carry on. You only have one chance: 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 throughout Europe, where she worked for the Allied forces and collaborated with American photographer David E. Scherman, a correspondent for Life magazine.
Her collection includes incredible photographs she took to document the end of the war, traveling to France less than a month after D-Day, and to document the siege of the heavily fortified town of St. Malo.
She also witnessed the liberation of Paris, the Battle of Alsace and the horrors of the first soldiers arriving at the Nazi concentration camps at 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 part of this epic journey. Lee has been and will continue to be a pride and joy to me.”
And during a visit to Germany, David Scherman took a photo of Miller lying in the bathtub of Adolf Hitler’s Munich apartment, with the shower hose looped in the middle behind her head, resembling a noose.
The images became one of the most iconic of their partnership and showcased her infamous modeling skills.
She was one of only two female combat photographers during World War II and also one of the few female correspondents to venture into the liberated concentration camps.