Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#201
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kate Winslet represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 33 years in, and Kate is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Kate Winslet appears in 52 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kate. Finding Harmony: A King's Vision is the clearest case: a film rated 9.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Andy Serkis, Kate Winslet, James Cameron and others, Kate Winslet helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Finding Harmony: A King's Vision (2026) as Narrator (voice over) · Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) as Clementine Kruczynski · Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) as Clementine Kruczynski
Career snapshot
Ranked #201 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
52
1994–2027
Career length
33 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.3
Finding Harmony: A King's Vision
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.3
Finding Harmony: A King's Vision
Most frequent director
James Cameron
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With James Cameron
Most common genre
Drama
33 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.9
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2000s
7.0 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Revolutionary Road, The Reader, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.0
Across 15 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Holy Smoke, Titanic, Hamlet.
Most productive era
2010s
16 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.15 films | 7.112 films | 6.711 films | 7.05 films |
| Action | — | — | 6.43 films | 3.92 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.53 films | 6.54 films | — |
| Comedy | 5.32 films | 6.34 films | 6.34 films | — |
| Sci-Fi | — | 9.21 film | — | — |
| Crime | — | 7.41 film | 6.01 film | 6.91 film |
| Romance | 7.82 films | 7.110 films | 6.75 films | 6.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Juliet Hulme.
First Nutevio masterpiece
2004Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Finding Harmony: A King's Vision
9.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2027The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
The current state of the argument, as Marigol.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
52 of 52 films
as Narrator (voice over)
Directed by Unknown
as Clementine Kruczynski
Directed by Michel Gondry
as Clementine Kruczynski
Directed by Michel Gondry
as Rose DeWitt Bukater
Directed by James Cameron
as Black Beauty (voice)
Directed by Ashley Avis
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 59 titles · 64 total credits · active 1994–2027
The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
2027 · Marigol
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
2026 · Clementine Kruczynski (archive footage) (uncredited)
Finding Harmony: A King's Vision
2026 · Narrator (voice over)
Skip Intro
2026 · TV · Self - Guest
Goodbye June
2025 · Julia · Director · Producer
Avatar: A New Era - Special Edition of 20/20
2025 · Self
Avatar: Fire and Ash
2025 · Ronal
Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films
2025 · TV · Self - "Ronal"
Lee
2024 · Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller · Producer
The Regime
2024 · TV · Chancellor Elena Vernham · Executive Producer
Titanic: Stories from the Heart
2023 · Self
Digman!
2023 · TV · Dr. Sandra Null (voice)
Avatar: The Way of Water
2022 · Ronal
Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20
2022 · Self
Eating Our Way to Extinction
2021 · Narrator (voice)
L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth
2021 · Self
Baba Yaga
2021 · Baba Yaga (voice)
Mare of Easttown
2021 · TV · Marianne 'Mare' Sheehan · Executive Producer
Black Beauty
2020 · Black Beauty (voice)
Ammonite
2020 · Mary Anning
Blackbird
2019 · Jennifer
Manou the Swift
2019 · Manou's Mother(voice)
Buttons
2018 · Narrator (voice)
The Mountain Between Us
2017 · Alex Martin
The defining work
#1
Narrator (voice over)
Finding Harmony: A King's Vision (2026)
Performance score9.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Narrator (voice over) gives Kate Winslet a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Clementine Kruczynski
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Performance score9.3
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Clementine Kruczynski is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Clementine Kruczynski
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Performance score8.5
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Clementine Kruczynski is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rose DeWitt Bukater
Titanic (1997)
Performance score8.4
Titanic asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rose DeWitt Bukater is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Narrator (voice over)
Start here. Finding Harmony: A King's Vision is the clearest statement of what Kate Winslet does — accessible, 89 minutes, and rated 9.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kate at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Titanic (1997)
A deliberate change of key after Finding Harmony: A King's Vision — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Keeps the romance register of Titanic but asks for a colder reading of it.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Same director as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Black Beauty (2020)
Keeps the drama register of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
James Cameron
Director
3 films together
Notably Titanic
Michel Gondry
Director
2 films together
Notably Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Peter Jackson
Director
1 film together
Notably Heavenly Creatures
Ang Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Sense and Sensibility
Kenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Hamlet
Jane Campion
Director
1 film together
Notably Holy Smoke
Philip Kaufman
Director
1 film together
Notably Quills
Michael Apted
Director
1 film together
Notably Enigma
Alan Parker
Director
1 film together
Notably The Life of David Gale
Marc Forster
Director
1 film together
Notably Finding Neverland
John Turturro
Director
1 film together
Notably Romance & Cigarettes
Steven Zaillian
Director
1 film together
Notably All the King's Men
Todd Field
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Children
Nancy Meyers
Director
1 film together
Notably The Holiday
Robert B. Weide
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Stephen Daldry
Director
1 film together
Notably The Reader
Sam Mendes
Director
1 film together
Notably Revolutionary Road
Roman Polanski
Director
1 film together
Notably Carnage
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably Movie 43
Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Labor Day
Neil Burger
Director
1 film together
Notably Divergent
Jocelyn Moorhouse
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dressmaker
Robert Schwentke
Director
1 film together
Notably Insurgent
Alan Rickman
Director
1 film together
Notably A Little Chaos
Danny Boyle
Director
1 film together
Notably Steve Jobs
David Frankel
Director
1 film together
Notably Collateral Beauty
John Hillcoat
Director
1 film together
Notably Triple 9
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Wonder Wheel
Roger Michell
Director
1 film together
Notably Blackbird
Ashley Avis
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Beauty
Eric Darnell
Director
1 film together
Notably Baba Yaga
Thomas C. Grane
Director
1 film together
Notably Titanic: Stories from the Heart
Ellen Kuras
Director
1 film together
Notably Lee
Kate Winslet
Director
1 film together
Notably Goodbye June
Andy Serkis
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
Mark Ruffalo
Actor
1 film together
Notably Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Tom Wilkinson
Actor
1 film together
Notably Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Jim Carrey
Actor
1 film together
Notably Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Kirsten Dunst
Actor
1 film together
Notably Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Elijah Wood
Actor
1 film together
Notably Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Jane Adams
Actor
1 film together
Notably Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
David Cross
Actor
1 film together
Notably Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Deirdre O'Connell
Actor
1 film together
Notably Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Thomas Jay Ryan
Actor
1 film together
Notably Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Ryan Whitney
Actor
1 film together
Notably Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Lola Daehler
Actor
1 film together
Notably Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Debbon Ayer
Actor
1 film together
Notably Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
James Cameron
Director
3 films together · 7.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
TitanicMichel Gondry
Director
2 films together · 8.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindStephen Daldry
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ReaderAshley Avis
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black BeautyAlan Parker
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Life of David GaleAng Lee
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sense and SensibilityMarc Forster
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Finding NeverlandKenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HamletDavid Frankel
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Collateral BeautyRoman Polanski
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CarnageJason Reitman
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Labor DayNancy Meyers
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HolidayTodd Field
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little ChildrenPhilip Kaufman
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
QuillsEllen Kuras
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LeeThomas C. Grane
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Titanic: Stories from the HeartJocelyn Moorhouse
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DressmakerSam Mendes
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Revolutionary RoadPeter Jackson
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Heavenly CreaturesNeil Burger
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DivergentRoger Michell
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlackbirdDanny Boyle
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Steve JobsKate Winslet
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Goodbye JuneWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wonder WheelRobert Schwentke
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
InsurgentAlan Rickman
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Little ChaosMichael Apted
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EnigmaJohn Hillcoat
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Triple 9Robert B. Weide
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Lose Friends & Alienate PeopleJohn Turturro
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Romance & CigarettesSteven Zaillian
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All the King's MenJane Campion
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Holy SmokeBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Movie 43Andy Serkis
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for GollumEric Darnell
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Baba YagaSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
15 wins · 8 nominations
1 win · 6 nominations · latest 2009
as Actor
as Actor
as Actor
as Actor
as Actor
as Actor
as Actor
3 wins · latest 2023
as Actor
as Actor
as Actor
1 win · latest 2011
as Actor
2 wins
as Actor
as Actor
2 wins · latest 2002
as Actor
as Actor
1 win · latest 2024
as Actor
1 win · latest 2012
as Actor
1 win · latest 2024
as Actor
1 win · 1 nomination · latest 2009
as Actor
as Actor
1 win · latest 2014
as Actor
1 win · latest 2021
as Actor
No wins yet · 1 nomination
as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
as Clementine Kruczynski
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
as Clementine Kruczynski
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
as Clementine Kruczynski
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as Kate Winslet (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Finding Harmony: A King's Vision
as Narrator (voice over)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Kate Winslet has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.3 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #150 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.2 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Romance, Drama, Sci-Fi | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Michel Gondry | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Emotional range, Drama, Quiet performance | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2004–2004 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Clementine Kruczynski — Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Sci-Fi Movies, Drama Movies
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
33 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
33 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
as Clementine Kruczynski
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
as Clementine Kruczynski
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Ammonite
as Mary Anning
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
as Clementine Kruczynski
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Finding Harmony: A King's Vision
as Narrator (voice over)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Avatar: The Way of Water
as Ronal
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
as Clementine Kruczynski
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
as Clementine Kruczynski
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 5 Nutevio collections
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