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Alicia Vikander beats Kate Winslet to win "Best Supporting Actress"

Alicia Vikander has won the "Best Supporting Actress" for her role as Gerda in "The Danish Girl."

Alicia Vikander

The actress beat Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight), Rooney Mara (Carol), Rachel McAdams (Spotlight), and Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs) to win the award.

'The Danish Girl' stars Edide Redmayne as Einar, one of the first known recipients of sexual reassignment surgery. It also stars Ben Whishaw, Sebastian Koch, Amber Heard and Matthias Schoenaerts.

Based on the novel of same name by David Ebershoff, 'The Danish Girl'  is produced by Gail Mutrux and Anne Harrison, and directed by Academy award winner Tom Hooper.

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Plot.

In early 1920s Copenhagen, the illustrator and artist Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander) asks her husband, Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne) to stand in for a female model.

The popularity of the portraits leads to Gerda painting her husband in further pictures as a woman. Einar develops an attraction for a female physical appearance and begins living as a woman named Lili Elbe.

Ultimately Elbe becomes the first ever recipient of male to female sex reassignment surgery, and Gerda supports her decision, although their marriage becomes strained when Gerda comes to the realization that Lili is no longer the person she married.

A childhood friend of Einar, Hans Axgil (Matthias Schoenaerts), shows up and forms a complex love triangle with the couple.

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"The Danish Girl " is nominated for four awards, including Best Actor for Eddie Redmayne.

Watch Vindaker in "The Danish Girl" trailer below.

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