Kate Winslet's chances of emerging victorious at the Oscars next Sunday are in jeopardy due to an orchestrated campaign against The Reader, the post-war drama for which she has been nominated as best actress, in the run-up to tomorrow’s deadline for the Academy’s final votes.
According to the Sunday Telegraph, emails detailing the movie's alleged ambivalence to the Nazi regime - it has been said that Winslet's character, Hanna Schmitz, an illiterate concentration camp guard who shows no remorse for her crimes, is treated too sympathetically - have been sent to selected Jewish members of the 5,800 voting panel by publicists batting for rival films. More...
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