Kate Winslet receives Golden Icon award at Zurich Film Festival

British actress Kate Winslet presented her new film Lee at the Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) and received the Golden Icon award for lifetime achievement on Monday evening. She also got up close and personal with the audience, shaking hands, signing autographs and taking selfies. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Oscar-winning actress's visit is “one of the highlights of ZFF's 20-year history”, said Festival Artistic Director Christian Jungen in a speech at the Palais des Congrès on Monday evening. In the afternoon, Winslet dove into 15-degree Celsius water in Lake Zurich. Film about photographer Miller The 49-year-old film star turned serious when she held up the Golden Icon award. She said that in her luggage was the important film of her career. Lee is a biopic about the American war photographer Lee Miller (1907-1977), who was best known as a former fashion model but who also documented the liberation of the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps.