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Winslet had just won the best actress award for her part in Holocaust drama The Reader, beating off competition from Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie, Melissa Leo and Meryl Streep.
She said: "I'd be lying if I hadn't made a version of this speech before. I think I was probably eight years old and staring into the bathroom mirror.
"This would've been a shampoo bottle. Well, it's not a shampoo bottle now!"
Winslet thanked her family, as well as the cast and crew and dedicated the award to the late producers Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack.
Last week, Harvey Weinstein claimed that Winslet was the studio's fourth choice to take the lead part in The Reader, behind Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard and Naomi Watts, though he admitted that director Stephen Daldry always favoured the Titanic star.
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