Is it possible that Jeff Wells and The Playlist’s shared gloomy outlook on 2009 Oscar bait (or lack thereof) has anything to do with the fact that neither Kate Winslet nor Marisa Tomei has a film coming out this year? And that even if they had something coming soon, there’s a good chance they wouldn’t get naked for it? Probably this fact and subfact have nothing to do with their premature worries, and it’s just a coincidence that the internerds were hit by the misfortunate news that Winslet is giving up onscreen nudity plus the clarification from Tomei that she’s actually not in a nudity phase of her life.

After the jump, some of the more together reactions (meaning the ones not from gossip blogs claiming Winslet hates us).

• “Tomei isn’t the only Oscar nominee this year who shed her clothes for the part,” writes Rachel Abramowitz in a piece for The Envelope about nudity equaling Oscar glory (and also it’s where the Tomei statement comes from). “Kate Winslet’s haunting performance as the enigmatic Hanna Schmitz in “The Reader” involved extensive nudity, sparking one critic to fume that her nakedness trivialized the Holocaust.” Hey, Abramowitz, wouldn’t it be better to say the actresses shed their clothes in the part? The way you wrote it, the act sounds more like a casting couch scenario.
• Mr. Skin thinks his site’s awarding of Winslet with this year’s “Lifetime Skinchievement Award” backfired: “Lest this fact send the wrong message to Kate Winslet and all future recipients of Mr Skin’s Lifetime Skin-chievement Award, let there be no mistake: The purpose of the Lifetime Skin-chievement Award is to honor a long history of outstanding nudity, not to signal the end of an actress’s on-screen flesh-flasing.”
• Kyle Buchanan at Defamer blames the Academy and the tabloids for Winslet’s decision and to them exclaims, “We hope you’re all happy when she films Titanic 2: Escaping the Challenger while wearing a burqa in every scene.”
• Related, Gold Derby’s Tom O’Neil comments on how Winslet may win the Oscar due to the “babe factor,” while Brad Pitt will lose because the Academy has a converse “anti-stud factor” for male actors.
• In Vulture’s suggestions for post-Oscar roles, Winslet is recommended a blockbuster musical (no nudity there) and Tomei should play a “stripper-nun” in a kinky Tarantino flick (not sure about nudity potential there).
• Spencer Green, writing at The Huffington Post, imagines Winslet will have one more lapse in exhibitionism this Sunday in his fore-live-blogging of the telecast: “Daniel Day-Lewis: The nominees for Best Actress are Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie, Melissa Leo, Meryl Streep, and Kate Winslet. And the Oscar goes to…Kate Winslet! … Kate Winslet instinctively rips off her clothes as she runs to the stage, then has sex with Spencer Green.”
• And lastly, evidence that you should have seen Winslet’s retirement from nudity coming, and also evidence that she should never say never, a quote from the actress (via PopSugar) from 2006: “When you get up in the morning and you know you are going to have to go to work and take your clothes off it’s the worst day of your life. You feel awful. You feel sick. And you remind yourself you must never agree to do this again … Every time I do a nude scene, I think ‘That’s it now!’ because it’s so painful and scary, and I think: ‘Why does it keep happening to me?’”