Cate Blanchett Archives

Cate Blanchett glows in Nicolas Ghesquiere by Balenciaga at the 2008 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium on Sunday in Los Angeles.

Cate the Great is nominated for two SAG awards this time around. The mom-to-be is up for “Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role” for her role as Queen Elizabeth I in Universal Pictures’ Elizabeth: The Golden Age and “Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role” for in The Weinstein Company’s I’m Not There.

Mom-to-be Cate Blanchett (in Herve Leroux) attends the Santa Barbara International Film Festival at the at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, Calif. on Saturday.

The 38-year-old Aussie beauty received the highest honor as the 2008 Modern Master (Will Smith won last year). She was recently interviewed by SBIFF and here’s an excerpt Q&A:

And you have managed to [provoke, inspire, challenge, and reawaken ideas] by being involved in so many thinking-person’s films. I wonder if that has always been a premium for you? Yes, box-office death (laughs), those thinking-people’s films. I don’t know. I’ve been involved in films that have worked and have not found an audience. I’ve been involved in films that have found an audience and haven’t necessarily been the best films in the world. I’ve been involved in projects that fall somewhere in between all of those goalposts. It has been an interesting experience, particularly having gone to drama school and never really being fascinated by films, to tell you the truth. It was never particularly a mecca for me. Working in the film industry wasn’t a destination for me, because I couldn’t consume film the way I could the live experience. Maybe that’s why I’ve been fortunate in my experiences. I haven’t been so ambitious to try and get somewhere in the film industry. I feel like I’ve been meandering.

Check out Cate the Great’s full interview with SBIFF at Independent.com. More Here! »

Elegant Australian mother-to-be Cate Blanchett arrives at the 2007 Sydney Theatre Awards at the Paddington RSL on Monday in Sydney, Australia. (She and director husband Andrew Upton recently took over as artistic directors for the Sydney Theatre Company.)

When Oscar nominations are announced tomorrow, Blanchett, 38, is expected to does pick up nominations for best actress for Elizabeth: The Golden Age and best supporting actress for I’m Not There.

Cate the Great is due in April.

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Mom-to-be Cate Blanchett positively glows alongside director husband Andrew Upton at the opening night of Ngapartji Ngapartji at the Belvoir St Theatre during the 2008 Sydney Festival on Friday in Sydney, Australia.

Ngapartji ngapartji is a main stage theatre production that explores themes of dispossession and displacement from country, home and family. The phrase translates as ‘I give you something, you give me something,’ a concept of reciprocity which governs relationships in Pitjantjatjara society and culture.

(Pitjantjatjara is a central desert language spoken by around 2,500 people across the north-western parts of South Australia and adjacent areas of W.A and N.T. Members of the Pitjantjatjara community will teach us their language - which is one of the world’s oldest - through online stories, songs, animations and short films.)

Cate the Great is due in April.

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Pregnant and proud Cate Blanchett joins actors Peter Kowitz, Danielle Catanzariti and Paula Arundell for the opening night of the controversial play Blackbird at the Sydney Theatre Company on Thursday in Sydney, Australia.

Blackbird is shocking, compelling and morally challenging, with its focus on the taboo of child sexual abuse. The storyline is about a 12-year-old girl’s relationship with a pedophile and what happens when she confronts him 15 years later. Cate the Great directs, reviews have been very positive.

Blackbird runs until February 16. More Here! »

Cate Blanchett puts on her award presenting shoes at the L’Oreal Paris 2007 AFI Awards Dinner at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre on Thursday in Melbourne, Australia.

Cate the Great, 38, and her director husband Andrew Upton are expecting their third child in April 2008.

Blanchett joked before the ceremony started: “Yes, take a few snaps of that, my cleavage is fantastic at the moment”.

The Australian Film Institute (AFI) gave out 21 awards across feature film, television, non-feature, international and miscellaneous categories.

15+ pictures inside of Cate Blanchett @ AFI Awards 2007… More Here! »

A glowing Cate Blanchett shows off her baby bump in an off-the-shoulder halter dress on Tuesday at the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia.

“People often talk about pregnancy as if it’s an illness, don’t they, and the thing is I’m very fortunate to feel disgustingly well,” Cate said.

The mom-to-be was in town for an advanced screening of her new film, the Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There. The screening helped raise funds for the company, which is helping to launch a new ticketing initiative: 20 tickets for $20.

“[My husband Andrew Upton] and I really want to find a way to make cheaper tickets available across all productions and we’ll be looking for a corporate partner to be able to do that in 2008,” Blanchett told The Sunday Telegraph. “I think a lot more people would go if they felt they could afford to go so we’re kicking off the initiative (with Blackbird) and hoping to extend the 20 for $20 idea further. I think generally theatre is very expensive for a lot of people (so hopefully this will) make it available to the wider community and invite new audiences in.” (Blackbird is the controversial play Cate is directing for the STC that explores the taboo of child sex abuse.)

Cate the Great, 38, and her director husband Andrew Upton (pictured) are expecting their third child in April 2008.

10+ pictures inside of Cate Blanchett’s burgeoning baby bump… More Here! »

The December 2007 issue of Esquire celebrates “Performances of the Year” with two sexy covers circulating!

Cover stars: Denzel Washington from American Gangster, Cate Blanchett from I’m Not There, Javier Bardem from No Country for Old Men, Robert Downey Jr. from Zodiac, Emile Hirsch from Into The Wild and Jake Gyllenhaal from Rendition.