Steve Jobs won for “Best Screenplay – Motion Picture” (by Aaron Sorkin) and “Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture” (Kate Winslet).
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Winslet said to the press: “I have this recurring neck problem, as I was about to leave the hotel to the carpet, I realized it’s been hurting all day”. Look at Helen Mirren and Jane Fonda, I mean, these wonderful women that we’re so fortunate to stand along side and to learn from still.
She laughed and said she’ll probably be “hanging” with her husband instead.
I remember being asked that in a room with lots of really scary people, like Kenneth Branagh and Derek Jacobi. “I promise you, I’m shocked”.
“I’m standing here and I keep thinking maybe this is not happening”. I honestly, truthfully, did not expect this at all, and I’m so delighted. The third weekend, the title of the movie changed to “Box Office Failure Steve Jobs” …
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In Danny Boyle’s “Steve Jobs”, Kate Winslet took everything in stride as Joanna Hoffman, Steve Jobs’ Polish Armenian marketing matriarch at Apple. “There’s a real sense of girl power this year”. After looking genuinely shocked as she got up to accept her award in a stunning deep blue Ralph Lauren gown, social media was aflutter talking about Winslet’s sweet reaction. It was 187 pages long. We just didn’t want that to be the epitaph for the movie. She apologized backstage for her omission, saying: “I forgot to mention her in my speech, because I never thought I’d be making one!”
