Kate Winslet holding the Oscar she won for 2008's 'The Reader.'
Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images

Kate Winslet won the Oscar for Best Actress earlier this year. You may soon see her move to television.

Variety reports that HBO may be about to pick up a miniseries adaptation of Mildred Pierce, starring Kate Winslet — and written and directed by Todd Haynes, who made I'm Not There and Far From Heaven.

It's an interesting progression: television used to be primarily a place for people who hadn't yet made movies but hoped they eventually would, and then it became an equally welcoming place for people who have in the past made movies, and now, more and more, it's a perfectly viable place for people who remain bankable movie stars and filmmakers.

As Sunday night's premiere of the very cinematic Mad Men approaches, that line between television and film only gets finer.