Cate Blanchett won Best Supporting Actress for The Aviator, playing Katharine Hepburn, and Best Actress for Blue Jasmine, playing a woman in complete social and psychological collapse.
I’m Not There required her to play Bob Dylan, one of six actors doing so, and hers is the performance everyone remembers.
Tár is the recent achievement, a two-and-a-half hour film resting entirely on her, including conducting and German dialogue she learned for it.
She ran the Sydney Theatre Company with her husband for several years while maintaining the film career, and played Galadriel and Hela in the two large franchises.
Cate BlanchettElizabeth (1998) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Shekhar Kapur made a Tudor film that behaves like a political thriller, with Cate Blanchett moving from frightened prisoner to constructed icon across two hours. She lost Best Actress…
Andy SerkisThe Hobbit Trilogy (2012-2014) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A three hundred page children's book became nearly eight hours of film at a reported seven hundred and forty-five million dollars. Guillermo del Toro spent two years…
Cate BlanchettIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A hundred and eighty-five million dollars, seven hundred and ninety million back, and it is still the film that damaged the…
Cate BlanchettCarol (2015) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two women fall in love in 1952 and the film says almost none of it out loud. Todd Haynes shot it on Super 16 for under twelve million dollars…
Anjelica HustonThe Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Anderson's least loved film and his saddest. A failing documentarian on a converted research vessel, hunting a shark that may not exist, and the…
Cate BlanchettAdam McKay's 2021 climate-denial satire. Don't Look Up is Adam McKay's 2021 American satirical science fiction comedy.
Anne HathawayOcean's Eight is the all-female spinoff of Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven (2001) trilogy. Ross and Olivia Milch wrote.
Anthony HopkinsTaika Waititi's tonal pivot that broke the Thor character and signaled the MCU's slide into decorative comedy. The 6 reflects honest evaluation of a film that is funny in its individual moments but represents a structural betrayal of the Thor…
Andy SerkisPeter Jackson's three films, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, are the best fantasy adaptation ever made and among the best films ever made in the genre. The extended editions are the…
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