Cynthia McFadden Interviews Kate Winslet

Feb. 5, 2009— -- "Nightline" co-anchor Cynthia McFadden sat down with best actress nominee Kate Winslet to discuss her award winning and Oscar-nominated role in "The Reader." As part of "Nightline's" Inside Hollywood series leading up to the Academy Awards, Winslet talked about how she prepared for her role as a Nazi prison guard, the busy awards season and the challenge of juggling her career and motherhood.

Watch the interview Friday on "Nightline" at 11:35 p.m. ET

Cynthia McFadden: Nominated for the Oscar again. Sixth time's a charm, do you think?

Winslet: I can honestly say, for a start, I'm tremendously lucky that in my life I have received these nominations and got to play these extraordinary parts, but I think this year more than any other year that I have been aware of it feels very, very special.

McFadden: Do you expect you're not going to pretend you don't want it? That you do want to win this year?

Winslet: Well, I said I'd like to at some point in my life. ... But now it would be a feeling for me if it were to happen at some point in my life on just personal satisfaction. What an amazing feeling that would be for me to have been doing this for 15, 16 years and to now what it feels like to lose a great many times. It would be nice to know what it feels like in that situation to win sometime.

McFadden: Indeed, if you don't win this year, you're going to get a distinction all of its own. The most-nominated nonwinner.

Winslet: The most-nominated loser, which is what I've been hearing people saying. Yes, no, I don't really want to be the most-nominated loser ?

McFadden: Did it hurt a little bit not to get nominated for "Revolutionary Road"?

Winslet: I can't say that -- I am so genuinely happy that I have been nominated for "The Reader." I really, really am. I mean, it was a huge turning point for me, that film, because I -- when I first read the script, you know, I really thought, oh, no, no, I can't do this. I mean, I really don't think I've got the stuff to do this. I don't have enough -- I don't have enough tools with which to play this part.

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