best film of 2008, Tasha Robinson of The A.V. Club named it the eighth best film of 2008, and Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times placed it on his unranked top 20 list. Special praise went to Winslet's acting; she then swept the main prizes in the 2008/2009 award season, including the Golden Globe, the Critic's Choice Award, the Screen Actor's Guild Award, the BAFTA, and the Academy Award for Best Actress. Several writers noted that her success seemed to have made real her appearance in the BBC comedy Extras, in which she played a fictionalized version of herself desperate to win an Academy Award. In the episode, Winslet decided to increase her chance of winning an Oscar by starring in a film about the Holocaust, noting that such films were often awarded Oscars. However, in the fictional film, Winslet played a nun sheltering children from the Holocaust rather than one of its perpetrators. Winslet commented that the similarity "would be funny", but the connection didn't occur to her until "midway through shooting the film...this was never a Holocaust movie to me. That's part of the story and provides something of a backdrop, and sets the scene. But to me it was always an extraordinarily unconventional love story." Awards and nominations References External links 2008 films 2000s English-language films English-language German films 2000s German-language films Greek-language films Latin-language films 2008 romantic drama films 2000s coming-of-age drama films American coming-of-age drama films American courtroom films American romantic drama films BAFTA winners (films) Babelsberg Studio films German coming-of-age drama films German courtroom films German romantic drama films Films about the aftermath of the Holocaust Films based on German novels Films directed by Stephen Daldry Films featuring a Best Actress Academy Award-winning performance Films featuring a Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe-winning performance Films produced by Sydney Pollack Films scored by Nico Muhly Films set in Berlin Films set in Heidelberg Films set in Germany Films set in 1958 Films set in 1966 Films set in the 1970s Films set in 1988 Films shot in Berlin Films shot in Cologne Films shot in Germany Films set in West Germany Films set in 1995 The Weinstein Company films 2000s American films 2000s German films