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 Cate Blanchett - 59th British Film Institute London Film Festival - Awards Ceremony - London, United Kingdom - Saturday 17th October 2015

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Cate Blanchett - The British Film Institute London Film Festival - 'Truth' - Fellowship Special Presentation Gala held at the Odeon Leicester Square - Arrivals at Odeon Leicester Square - London, United Kingdom - Saturday 17th October 2015

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Cate Blanchett Cast As Lucille Ball In New Biopic


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Cate Blanchett is to be cast as Lucille Ball in an upcoming biopic produced by the late American actress’s two children – Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr – and written by Aaron Sorkin, according to The Wrap.

The website reports that Australian star Blanchett will play the TV sweetheart in a movie that will focus on Ball’s twenty-year marriage to Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz from 1940 to 1960. The couple created and starred in the hugely successful sitcom ‘I Love Lucy’, the very first such show to be filmed in front of a live audience.

Cate BlanchettCate Blanchett will be portraying '50s TV star Lucille Ball

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Cate Blanchett To Receive Fellowship From British Film Institute


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The UK’s leading film agency, the British Film Institute, is to honour Cate Blanchett with a BFI Fellowship at this year’s London Film Festival.

The award – which shouldn’t be confused with the similarly named award bestowed by the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) – is a lifetime achievement recognition, given by the BFI’s board of governors for “outstanding achievement in film and television”. Previous recipients include Mike Leigh, Ralph Fiennes, Al Pacino, Tim Burton, Helena Bonham Carter and Dame Judi Dench.

Cate BlanchettCate Blanchett will be receiving the BFI Fellowship at the London Film Festival in October

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Cate Blanchett Grips Us Once Again With Lesbian Drama 'Carol' [Clips + Pictures]


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Cate Blanchett once again displays her alluringly majestic mystique in the forthcoming 50s romance 'Carol' - and we can't help but fall in love with her for it. Always one to add class and elegance to a movie, this Todd Haynes directed drama proves no different.

Cate Blanchett in 'Carol'Cate Blanchett plays eponymous role in 'Carol'

Almost echoing her role in Woody Allen's 2013 movie 'Blue Jasmine', in which she played a New York socialite with a passion for the finer things, a disastrous marriage and a dark secret, 'Carol' sees Cate Blanchett once again in New York - but this time it's 60 years earlier and she's a little more humble. 

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Carol - Clips


It's 1952 and 20-something Therese Belivet is struggling to contend with her humdrum life working in a New York department store, repulsed by her relationship with a man named Richard and dreaming of a career in set design. Soon she meets a customer named Carol; an older, refined and supremely elegant woman who she immediately forms a connection with. Carol herself is in a marriage that brings her no joy and is hoping desperately for a divorce, but this only seems to threaten her relationship with her daughter, whom she cannot afford to lose. Meanwhile, Therese is struggling to control her feelings for Carol; torn between admiration, deep sexual attraction and jealousy over Carol's history with her best friend Abby. It's a difficult time for both parties as they attempt to find order in their feelings in a decade not altogether supportive of their closeness.

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Cate Blanchett Reveals "Many" Relationships With Women


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Cate Blanchett has revealed that she has had "many" relationships with women in the past. The Oscar-winning star, who has four children with her husband, the playwright Andrew Upton, made the comments during an interview with Variety. 

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Blanchett was promoting her new movie The Price of Salt - in which she plays a New Yorker who has a lesbian affair with a younger woman - when she was asked whether it was her first turn as a lesbian on-screen.

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Cinderella Review


Excellent

The thing that makes this Disney live-action remake so wonderful is the same thing that might put off some audience members: it's a pure fairy tale. This time, the studio has resisted the snarky, post-modern spin that threatened to turn previous live-action remakes (Alice in Wonderland and Maleficent) into pointless Lord of the Rings-style action epics. Instead, this is a genuinely beautiful, surgingly romantic, exquisitely made fantasy.

With only a few minor tweaks, this is the classic story of Ella (Lily James), whose widowed father (Ben Chaplin) marries Lady Tremaine (Cate Blanchett). She arrives with her two spoiled daughters Drizella and Anastasia (Sophie McShera and Holliday Grainger), and when she is also widowed, Ella ends up running the household just to keep things from falling apart. But Lady Tremaine and her daughters taunt her with the nickname "Cinderella" and treat her like a slave, refusing to let her attend the ball thrown by the Crown Prince (Richard Madden). He had met Ella before, and is hoping to see her at the ball, but she only gets a chance to go when her fairy godmother (Helena Bonham Carter) turns up with some magic to make that happen. And after dancing with the Prince all night, her sudden disappearance sends him on a desperate quest involving a single glass slipper.

To spice things up, screenwriter Chris Weitz has included a conspiratorial sideplot in which the increasingly wicked stepmother plots with a royal advisor (Stellan Skarsgard) to thwart the Prince's wishes. But otherwise, the film hews closely to both Charles Perrault's 1697 folktale and Disney's 1950 animated classic. This includes lavish sets and costumes that continually take the breath away, giving the characters the same silhouettes as their cartoon counterparts. And within this extravagant design work, the actors are able to create surprisingly textured characters. James' Ella isn't a simple farm girl in need of a man. Madden's Prince is looking for real love. And Blanchett's riveting Lady Tremaine is eerily sympathetic even in her darkest moments.

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"That's Your F*cking Question?" Cate Blanchett Burns Reporter


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Cate Blanchett, the Oscar-winning actress deemed one of the best in the world - if not the best - burned a reporter this week after he asked her about the cat in Cinderella. After landing a few minutes with the legendary actress, the Australian reporter could only muster a silly question about the fairytale feline.

Cate BlanchettCate Blanchett wasn't best pleased with an Australian reporter's silly question

"Serious question: How were you able to get that cat to do what you wanted to do on a leash? Because I try and put my girlfriend's cat on a leash and it just never works for me," he said.

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Cate Blanchett Ends Awkward 'Cinderella' Interview Over Cat Question


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Awkward interview everybody! Gather round! Cinderella actress Cate Blanchett endured a rather pointless series of questions that had little or nothing to do with her role in the Disney blockbuster, ending with her losing her cool and swearing on national television.

During a chat on Australian TV show ‘The Project’, the former Oscar winner was expecting to answer some questions about her role as Cinderella’s wicked stepmother, but instead was asked some eccentric questions from interviewer Jonathan Hyla about beer, vodka and why the movie wasn’t R-rated.

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Cate Blanchett lost her cool with some bizarre questions on Australian TV

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"Cinderella's" $70 Million Debut Is Just A Part Of The Well-Oiled Disney Machine


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Cinderella’s super successful release this weekend proves two things.

1.    People will watch almost anything, if it’s colourful, loud and features Cate Blanchett and

2.    There is still money to be made from the fairytale genre.

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"Perfectly Marvellous" Cinderella Could Be Big Hit For Disney


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Following quickly and assuredly in the footsteps of Maleficent - and with Beauty & The Beast and Dumbo yet to come - Kenneth Branagh's live action retelling of Cinderella is scoring a slew of positive reviews ahead of its worldwide at the end of the month. Cate Blanchett stars as the Wicked Stepmother in the new vision of the classic fairytale from the screenwriting team of Chris Weitz and Aline Brosh McKenna.

Lily JamesLily James plays Cinderella in Kenneth Branagh's retelling of the classic Disney animation

Made for $95 million, Branagh's Cinderella remains largely faithful to the plot of the 1950 classic animation though includes several twists. In his version, Cinderella (or Ella) and the Prince meet prior to the ball, with him telling her he is a palace employee named Kit. The Fairy Godmother - played here by Helena Bonham Carter - also has a bigger role than in previous version. 

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Cate Blanchett And Andrew Upton Name Adopted Daughter Edith Vivian Patricia


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Congratulations to Cate Blanchett and husband Andrew Upton, who have just grown their family with one new member. The couple have adopted a baby girl, Edith Vivian Patricia Upton, according to The Daily Telegraph. The infant joins elder brothers Dashiell, 13, Roman, 10 and Ignatius, 6.

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Congratulations to Mrs Blanchett and her family.

The baby is already being welcomed by Blanchett and Upton's circle, with DNA India reporting that the couple have already introduced Edith to family friends Russell Crowe and Chris Rock. Blanchett has spoken out previously about wanting to have more children with 49-year-old Upton.

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Cate Blanchett Adopts A Baby Girl With Her Husband


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Cate Blanchett has become a mother again with the news that she’s adopted a baby girl with her husband Andrew Upton.

The 45 year old actress is already a mother to three boys – Dashiell John (13), Roman Robert (10) and Ignatius Martin (6) – with her husband, who is an artistic director of the Sydney Theater Company.

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Cate Blanchett has become a mother for the fourth time

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Cinderella - Extended Trailer


Cinderella is an uncommonly kind young woman, overcome with the loss of her dear father. Her kindness extends to rescuing a stag from the woods, who's being hunted by the Prince and his men. Her resolute opinions strongly affect the Prince, who's life and sense of self begins to change following their frosty first meeting. But as determined and feisty as she may be, she still finds herself unable to stand up for herself back home, where she is forced into doing the cooking and cleaning by her wicked stepmother Lady Tremaine and her daughters. That is until she is invited to a ball at the Prince's palace. With the help of her mysterious Fairy Godmother, she transforms into a Princess for the day and, lo and behold, the Prince falls heavily in love with her and will do everything he can to find her after she disappears. But, alas, there are others determined to stand in the way of their happiness.

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Richard Madden Opens Up About Cinderella And Prince Charming's Equal Partnership


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Richard Madden opens up about just how Cinderella and her Prince Charming get together, and how they rely on each other to free them from the restrictions in their lives in the forthcoming adaptation by director Kenneth Branagh and screenwriter Chris Weitz.

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Richard Madden stars as Prince Charming in Cinderella

It's nice to see modern big screen fairytale re-tellings looking at relationships in a much more equal way. Rather than princesses of late being swept of their feet by proverbial knights in shining armour, they're coming together while fighting for justice in their own lives. You had 'Snow White and the Huntsman', which saw a clear romance forming between the two title characters as they worked together to lead an army, and then there is, of course, 'Frozen' which saw bravery on the part of both Anna and her faithful quest companion Kristoff. Now 'Cinderella' brings together two souls, who must help each other escape the prison of their families.

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The Turning Trailer


In 2005, Australian author Tim Winton collected a series of 17 short stories and published them under the title 'The Turning'. The stories revolve around the character Vic Lang (Dougie Baldwin, Richard Roxburgh, Josh McConville, Casey Douglas and Dan Wyllie), with themes involving companionship, sentimentality and drug abuse. The book received multiple awards for the stories, and went on to become a part of the Western Australian English curriculum in schools. In 2013, the book was turned into a movie, nominated for numerous awards at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards.  

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'Cinderella' Villain Cate Blanchett Says Big Screen Fairytales Are Bringing Heroines To The Fore


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Cate Blanchett talks about her exploration of the female superhero within Cinderella, ahead of the March 2015 release of Kenneth Branagh's vibrant re-telling of the Disney fairytale in which she stars as the title character's terribly wicked stepmother Lady Tremaine.

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Cate Blanchett is the wicked Lady Tremaine in Cinderella

Everyone loves a good fairytale; a timeless classic that will never cease to have meaning in a person's life no matter how old they get. Nowadays, they're providing much needed relief from male role models in cinema, with numerous feisty heroines that we already all know and love taken over the screen, from Kristen Stewart's vision of Snow White in 'Snow White And The Huntsman' to Angelina Jolie's misunderstood character in 'Maleficent' - not to mention the more original arrivals of Elsa and Anna in 'Frozen'.

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Banned Iranian Director Jafar Panahi's 'Taxi' Wins Golden Bear At Berlin Film Festival


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Jafar Panahi, the critically acclaimed Iranian director, has won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear for his film Taxi. Panahi has been banned from making films by the Iranian authorities yet continues to work and gain international support. Panahi also stars in Taxi as a driver who meets a variety of people as he drives them around Tehran. The film both celebrates Iranian culture and condemns the censorship imposed by the Iranian authorities.

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Kenneth Branagh's 'Cinderella' Premieres At Berlinale Film Festival, But What Did The Critics Think Of The Re-booted Fairytale?


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Fairytales have certainly been going through a bit of a rebirth as of late, thanks to films like Maleficent, so logically next in line for the 21st century treatment was Cinderella, who has just been brought back to life on the big screen by a Shakespearian actor. Yes Kenneth Branagh has gone behind the camera to breathe new life into the classic tale, which first got the Disney treatment in 1950. But is this Cinderella really much different?

Lily James CinderellaLily James meets her Prince in Cinderella

Starring ‘Downton Abbey’s’ Lily James (that’s Lady Rose) as the titular princess and Cate Blanchett as her very wicked stepmother, Cinderella’s impressive cast list also includes Helena Bonham-Carter as the Fairy Godmother and Richard Madden as Prince Charming.

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Lily James Admits Cinderella Is Not 'Swept Off Her Feet' In Live Action Re-Boot


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There's been astronomical success in modern fairytale reboots recently, with 'Cinderella' being the next to be released starring Lily James from 'Downton Abbey'. However, according to her, this movie presents a lot more modern themes than you might think.

Lily James and Richard Madden in 'Cinderella'
Lily James and Richard Madden star in 'Cinderella'

'Cinderella' seems to have become a particular favourite in recent months, with the exceptionally well-received Broadway show having recently played and not to mention the story's appearance in Rob Marshall's cinematic adaptation of Stephen Sondheim musical 'Into The Woods'. The forthcoming new movie directed by Kenneth Branagh is a live action rendition of the Oscar nominated 1950 Disney animation, with all the vibrancy and magic multiplied tenfold. 

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The Turning Review


Excellent

Life-changing moments feature in each of the nine short films in this Australian anthology, and each is told with remarkable artistry and sensitivity. While the filmmakers use different styles of filmmaking, there's a clever connection between the shorts, as themes of inner longing are made resonant by earthy honesty. So even if each brief segment film feels like just a fragment of an idea, taken together the film is remarkably moving.

It opens and closes with the animated "Ash Wednesday", using the T.S. Elliot poem to explore the idea of communal memory. From here a variety of mini-stories unfurl, often using the same character names even though the films are dramas, comedies or documentaries, and many have no dialogue at all. The lighter clips include "Reunion", in which a couple (Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh) are surprised that spending Christmas with his mum isn't as awful as expected. "Cockleshell" follows a young guy (Toby Wallace) who's obsessed with the girl (Brenna Harding) next door. And both "Big World" and "Boner McPharlin's Moll" take lively kaleidoscopic looks at how reality is often nothing like our idea of how things should be.

Other segments are dark and provocative, including "Aquifer", about a man (Callan Mulvey) who is pushed by a news headline to recall a painful childhood memory. Two young boys (Jakory and Jarli-Russell Blanco) have a creepy adventure while on a beach day out with their dad and uncles in "Sand". The most moving film is "Commission", in which a young man (Josh McConville) drives to the outback to tell his estranged dad (Hugo Weaving) that his mother is dying. The best performance comes from Rose Byrne in the eponymous "The Turning", as a trailer-trash wife and mother whose friendship with a rich woman (Miranda Otto) sparks a religious epiphany. And the most unforgettable short is "Long, Clear View", impressively directed by Mia Wasikowska, which follows a young boy (Matthew Shanley) playing with his dad's rifle.

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Cate Blanchett - The 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival - Dragon 2 - Premiere - Cannes, France - Friday 16th May 2014

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Cate Blanchett - ****File Photo** * 12 YEARS A SLAVE DOMINATES Independent Spirit Awards NOMINATIONS Critically-acclaimed drama 12 YEARS A SLAVE looks set to dominate the 2014 Independent Spirit Awards after landing seven nominations. The period movie, about a free black man from New York who is abducted and sold into slavery, has landed filmmaker Steve McQueen a nod for Best Director, while Chiwetel Ejiofor is shortlisted for Best Male Lead, and Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong'o will compete in the supporting actor and actress categories, respectively. 12 Years A Slave has also scored nods for screenplay and cinematography, and the film will also be up against All Is Lost, Frances Ha, Inside Llewyn Davis and Nebraska for the Best Feature title. Father-and-son movie Nebraska is another multiple nominee, earning five mentions - Alexander Payne is up for Best Director, alongside McQueen, J.C. Chandor for All Is Lost, Jeff Nichols for Mud and Shane Carruth for Upstream Color; and Bruce Dern will battle for Best Male Lead, against Ejiofor, Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis), Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station), Robert Redford (All Is Lost) and Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club). Meanwhile, the Best Female Lead contenders include Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine, Julie Delpy for Before Midnight, and Shailene Woodley for her role in The Spectacular Now. Among the other notable nominations: James Gandolfini has been shortlisted posthumously for Best Supporting Male for his performance in his last film, romantic comedy Enough Said, and the Best First Screenplay category features Lake Bell for In A World and Joseph Gordon-Levitt for Don Jon. Jeff Nichols' Mud will receive the Robert Altman Award, which recognises the director, casting director and ensemble cast of a movie. To be eligible for an Independent Spirit nod, all films must have been made for less than 0 million (£13.3 million). Movies must have either screened at a major film festival, including Sundance, - New York, New York, United States - Wednesday 2nd October 2013

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Cate Blanchett - Los Angeles premiere of 'Blue Jasmine' - Arrivals - Los Angeles, CA, United States - Wednesday 24th July 2013

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Atmosphere and Cate Blanchett Saturday 21st July 2012 The opening night party for 'Uncle Vanya' at the New York City Center

Cate Blanchett - Sunday 18th May 2008 at Cannes Film Festival Cannes, France

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Cate Blanchett

Date of birth

14th May, 1969

Occupation

Actor

Sex

Female

Height

1.74


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Thor: Ragnarok Movie Review

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Song To Song Trailer

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Truth Movie Review

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Carol Movie Review

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Truth Trailer

Truth Trailer

Mary Mapes is the producer of CBS' '60 Minutes' and, in the run up to...

Carol Trailer

Carol Trailer

Therese Belivet is just starting out in life, bored by her simple job in a...

Carol - Clips Trailer

Carol - Clips Trailer

It's 1952 and 20-something Therese Belivet is struggling to contend with her humdrum life working...

Cinderella Movie Review

Cinderella Movie Review

The thing that makes this Disney live-action remake so wonderful is the same thing that...

Cinderella - Extended Trailer

Cinderella - Extended Trailer

Cinderella is an uncommonly kind young woman, overcome with the loss of her dear father....

The Turning Trailer

The Turning Trailer

In 2005, Australian author Tim Winton collected a series of 17 short stories and published...

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