SOME guests at the “Away We Go” premiere party at the Jane Hotel wondered if Oscar winner Kate Winslet (there with her husband, the movie’s director, Sam Mendes) was aware of the hotel’s ties to the Titanic, subject of Kate’s most famous film. The building housed and sheltered all of the ship’s survivors right after the 1912 tragedy, and a memorial service was held there at the time. Eerily, the very last Titanic survivor, Millvina Dean, passed away over the weekend. Kate had just weeks earlier contributed to fund her nursing-home bills with “Titanic” castmate Leonardo DiCaprio and their director, James Cameron.

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In her Oscar-winning role in The Reader, Winslet skilfully plays a German streetcar attendant–cum–Nazi guard in her late 30s who has an affair with a teenage boy who is so scandalously young, he could be a Jonas brother. In Revolutionary Road, Winslet tackles the psyche of an equally complex woman—a psychologically unstable newlywed living in Connecticut in the 1950s—someone who’s living in a world that makes Desperate Housewives look like High School Musical. Both films are hard-to-watch yet satisfying-to-finish pieces of cinema, showcasing Winslet’s range in a way that blows her Titanic persona right out of the water. Which is a tad ironic, as Revolutionary Road—directed by Winslet’s husband, Sam Mendes—reunites the British actor with her former Titanic costar and beloved friend, Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays her husband in the film. The three of them grew so close during the making of the project that Winslet now wears her wedding rings from Mendes as well as a mysteriously inscribed piece of gold gifted to her by DiCaprio shortly after the film was made. “Yes, [Leo’s ring] is engraved on the inside,” she maintains, “but I’m not going to tell you what it says,” she adds cheekily.

Another mystery is how Winslet kept her professionalism intact while filming Revolutionary Road’s pivotal love scenes with DiCaprio (while her husband directed them). It seems as difficult a job as the one she had trying to lure the average moviegoer into sympathizing with her portrayal of a Nazi war criminal in The Reader. Yet, Winslet’s talent, a byproduct of what she deems “a manifestation of something within me and an accumulation of life experience,” managed to get her through both scripts without a nervous breakdown and attract audiences and critics with equal force. One look at the recent additions to her trophy case—two Golden Globes, two BAFTAs, two SAGs and one Oscar—and even the most jaded Hollywood casting agent will tell you Winslet can make any script work.

“Yes, [all the awards] are absolutely an acknowledgment of our hard work and a testament to the long hours we’ve pulled,” Winslet says, referring to Mendes, who not only had to hear her talk shop about Revolutionary Road nonstop (on set and in bed) but she asserts he was the one who urged her to accept the lead in The Reader after Nicole Kidman dropped out of the project.

“But I don’t think [the awards] have necessarily boosted my confidence. If I was younger and going through this particular time, it might make a definitive impact. I know who I am now,” she states. This is probably one of the reasons why she decided to take a break from acting this year and signed on to be the spokesperson for Lancôme’s Trésor Sheer Fragrance perfume. It’s a job that brings with it a lot more glamour and a lot less drama than the emotionally wrought scenes she usually slaves over. “The biggest cliché about acting is that it is glamorous,” she says. “The process is wonderful, but there is nothing glamorous about it.”

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Slumdog Millionaire was named best picture at the 81st annual Academy Awards on Sunday. The film’s director Danny Boyle was named best director.

In the best actress category, Kate Winslet won for her role as a concentration camp guard in The Reader.

While accepting her award, she joked that she wrote her first Oscar acceptance speech when she was 8, staring into a bathroom mirror. Holding her Oscar, she added, “This would have been the shampoo bottle. Well, it’s not a shampoo bottle now!”

Said Winslet (who made her father whistle from the audience so she knew where he was sitting), “I feel fortunate to have made it from there to here!”

Accepting the award for best actor for playing gay politician Harvey Milk, Milk’s Sean Penn joked that the Academy was a group of “homo loving sons of guns!”

“I did not expect this. I am touched by the appreciation,” said Penn, who previously won for Mystic River.

Before leaving the stage, he gave a shout out to fellow nominee Mickey Rourke (”he is my brother,” Penn said). Piggybacking off the themes of Milk, he also told the audience, “We’ve got to have equal rights for everyone.”

Emotions also ran high when the late Heath Ledger won best supporting actor for The Dark Knight. His mother and father and sister accepted the award on his behalf. For best supprting actress, the award went to Penelope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

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The Best Actress nominee for “The Reader,” who spends a good deal of time in the Holocaust movie naked and in bed with a teenager, tells next week’s Time magazine: “I think I won’t [get naked in a movie] again. I can’t keep getting away with it, and I don’t want to become ‘that actress who always gets her kit off.’ ” Winslet has previously appeared nude in 10 films, including “Titanic,” “Hamlet” and “Little Children.”

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet

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Kate Winslet says she didn’t always want to be famous.

“I was fat. I didn’t know any fat famous actresses,” she tells December’s Vanity Fair. “I just did not see myself in that world at all, and I’m being very sincere.

“You know, once a fat kid, always a fat kid,” she adds. “Because you always think that you just look a little bit wrong or a little bit different from everyone else. And I still sort of have that.”

But she says she looks at “women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city and I think, ‘I should make more of an effort. I should look like that,’” she says. “But then I think, ‘They can’t be happy in those heels.’”

Winslet has become a hero to fans for refusing to bow to Hollywood pressure to be skinny. (In 2007, she won libel damages after Britain’s Grazia magazine falsely reported that she used a diet doctor.)

Still, she says, “everyone can commit to 20 minutes” of working out, “especially if there’s a glass of Chardonnay afterwards.”

Above all, the actress wants fans to know she’s just like them - zits and all.

When she walks her children (Mia, 8, and Joe, 5) to school, she says, “Some [parents] will even say to me, ‘O.K., what’s the secret with the skin?’ At which point I’m like, ‘Oh my God, there’s no secret. I have makeup on.’

“And by the way, since I turned 30, I’ve had an acne problem on my chin,” adds the actress. “I’m just like everybody else — I just know how to cover it. If you’d like me to show you how, I’d be more than happy.”

She says she is lucky she’s wed to Sam Mendes, who directs her and Leonardo DiCaprio in the December drama Revolutionary Road.

“I need to be looked after,” she tells the magazine. “I’m not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff - in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn’t grow up with it, and it’s not me, you know?

“But I need someone to say to me, ‘Shall I run you a bath?’ or ‘Let’s go to the pub, just us.’ I mean, the things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner,” she says. “Big family gatherings, and being able to go to the grocery store — if I can get those things in, I’m doing good.”

What would really make her happy? Winning an Oscar.

“Do I want it? You bet your f–king ass I do!” admits Winslet, who’s been nominated five times. “I think that people assume that I don’t care or don’t want it or don’t need it or something. It’s hard to be there five times, and I’m only human, you know? But I don’t go home and cry, because we’re all grown-ups here.”

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