Cate Blanchett is an actor and producer from Australia. She has earned herself a name for her versatility in indie films, blockbusters, and the stage. She is one of the best actors of her generation. The French government named her Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2012. She was awarded the British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015 by the Museum of Modern Art.
The University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney, and Macquarie University have all awarded Blanchett honorary Doctor of Letters degrees. In 2007, Time magazine named her one of the world’s 100 most important people. She was one of the highest-paid actresses in the world in 2018.
Recently, the actress has won a Chaplin Award Honor.
Cate Blanchett Is Very Happy With Her Win
Due to health issues, colleagues, Todd Haynes, and Bradley Cooper were unable to attend the occasion. Making the two-time Oscar winner the second-youngest recipient of the Film at Lincoln Center distinction.
Cate Blanchett joined Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, Elizabeth Taylor, Martin Scorsese, Diane Keaton, and Meryl Streep.
Adding more, Tom Hanks, Sidney Poitier, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro, Helen Mirren, and its namesake Charlie Chaplin as the second-youngest recipient of Film at Lincoln Center’s Chaplin Award on Monday night.
Even though Blanchett is a two-time Oscar winner who has worked with Scorsese. Steven Spielberg, Guillermo del Toro, and Wes Anderson, among others.
She was “completely and utterly overwhelmed” to accept the award this year, she told The Hollywood Reporter.
“I don’t even know how to express it because you look at the look of previous honorees, and they’re so eclectic, but to a woman, they’re all of them are people who’ve had a deep influence on the American cultural landscape and on filmmaking at large internationally,” she continued.
“They’re people who I have individually revered, but collectively it’s like entering some sort of strange pantheon.” She continued, laughing, “Hopefully, I can make it out of the building without them taking the award away from me.”
Cate Blanchett Saves The Day
The award marks Film at Lincoln Center’s second Chaplin Award in the last 12 months, after Spike Lee’s recognition at a postponed event in September. However, the COVID-19 epidemic had an impact on Monday night’s activities. Director Todd Haynes was supposed to do a Q&A with Blanchett.
At the start of the event, organizers stated, “Q&A will not be there since Todd had tested positive for COVID that morning.” Then, they informed the audience that Presenter Bradley Cooper, who later starred with Blanchett in Nightmare Alley, was also “not feeling well.”
These two pronouncements met with moans from the audience, but Blanchett swiftly responded with a yell from the audience, “I’m here,” which elicited applause.
The evening set to appear to pay tribute to Scorsese, Richard Linklater, Hugh Jackman, and producer Christine Vachon, who presented Blanchett with her award. He told the audience that, despite being “devastated” by her absence, Haynes was still feeling well enough to text her throughout the event, asking what they were doing.
Devika Girish, a co-deputy editor at Film Comment, stepped in for Haynes.
Cate Blanchett’s On Her Achievements And Future
Blanchett, although not being old enough for a lifetime achievement award. She has gathered enough remarkable. Her diversified work during her almost 30-year career in the business makes her deserving of this recognition.
“I think Cate really embodies a really extraordinary artist of this time who has worked in independent films; she has worked on studio films; she works on blockbuster studio films,” Klainberg informed THR.
“The extraordinary variety of directors that she’s worked with, it’s just amazing to think about how many of the finest directors of our time she has been able to work with and all of her projects. We felt that she was also a person who was so active still, still working—this is not intended as an end of your career award.”
Blanchett said she doesn’t have a certain sort of film she wants to pursue next. She is looking forward to getting a “strange ask.“
“I always think that the job I just finished is my last, and I will finally go and grow orchids in my greenhouse,” she said of her career plans. “I guess if I look back, it’s that I’ve always gravitated towards the strange ask or the ask that’s just an antidote to what I’ve done in some way. It’s an undeniable ask, and the directors I’ve worked with have usually made those asks of me.
“Not necessarily that I’ve achieved what I’ve wanted to achieve through that role or that production or that they have either, but the ask has been really undeniable.”
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