Cate Blanchett Articles

Cate Blanchett arrives at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Cate Blanchett presented the Academy Award in the Best Makeup and Best Costume Design categories. Her remark, "gross," about some of this year's makeup jobs was greeted with laughter. The winners were The Wolfman for Best Makeup and Alice in Wonderland for Best Costume Design. Blanchett won the Best Supporting [...]

Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon, The Departed Unless things change dramatically (and no, I'm not referring only to environmental chaos and apocalyptic wars), 30 or 40 years from now Martin Scorsese is going to be the best-remembered name of the current top-five Oscar directors for actors. (The others being William Wyler, Elia Kazan, George Cukor, and Fred Zinnemann.) In addition to having the most recent career [...]

Annette Bening (top); Cate Blanchett (bottom) Annette Bening, Cate Blanchett, and Javier Bardem are three more presenters at the 2011 Oscar ceremony. Academy governor Annette Bening is also a Best Actress nominee this year for Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right. She received her first nomination for her supporting role in The Grifters (1990); additionally, Bening was nominated in the Best Actress category for [...]

THE AVIATOR (2004) Direction: Martin Scorsese Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, Kelli Garner, Gwen Stefani, Ian Holm, Adam Scott, Frances Conroy, Willem Dafoe, Jacob Davich, Jude Law, John C. Reilly, Edward Herrmann, Stanley DeSantis, Danny Huston, Matt Ross Screenplay: John Logan Oscar Movies Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, The Aviator WHAT'S NOT GOOD FOR THE SPRUCE GOOSE. . . [...]