Third Oscar for Cate Blanchett? Part 2

Better not tell you now.

I can understand how some people can call things hammy or pretentious. The fact is, if you have seen the movie and if you understand how they are made, that Blanchett pulled off some seriously skilled acting and gave a performance of a lifetime. Michelle Yeoh may win Oscar because Cate has 2 already and Oscar seems to be favouring more diversity over acting skill these days. If you haven't seen TÁR, the 10 minute Julliard scene is an Oscar performance by Cate. One take, many complex camera moves so she has to: act with an American accent, hit the marks so that the other actors are in frame, play piano and impersonate people while doing it. In addition, the dialogue is very complicated for that scene, lots of places to make errors, plus she is working against a relatively inexperienced actor who may fuck up at any time and try to focus on her own and his performance. Bravo Cate , and bravo to the director and the people behind the camera. Apparently it took 2 days and 12 takes to complete so just that endurance without saying fuck it and using the usual tricks to make the scene seem seamless is very impressive.

Overhyped movie, overrated performance by Cate

Where is the Part One of this thread?

Here.

TY.

No! It took my thirty years and a little help from God Weinstein to get my third. They better not give that Aussie hack a third so quickly!

[quote] took my thirty years

Oh dear

Aussie hack you say?

If she does, it will be an egregious case of white supremacy and misogynoir. She lived. She breathed. She took up space.

Tar is incredible and Cate Blanchett is BRILLIANT in it.

I thought I wouldn't be able to finish it but I did. It is very very slow and the showy stuff doesn't come until the end. I did not expect that twist at the end about where she came from. I wouldn't watch it again but I thought it was an interesting take on the changing nature of power and the dynamics of cancel culture. I can understand why some find it overrated and polarizing. In terms of Cate, I think it's a fine performance but certainly not nomination worthy. Also, her desperate attempts to get that elusive third Oscar are getting really annoying. She keeps saying I'm really done I'm really done with acting. My ass. She thinks she's way smarter than she actually is.

^ Cate

Does anybody know if she used a body double for the nude scene or is that her real ass?

I don't remember a nude scene.

R14, yes, that was her real ass in a flesh-toned thong. Quick shot of her sideboob too.

R16, If it is real then Cate has a bit of a bubble ass, top heavy ass

Perfect timing?

Colin Farrell and Cate Blanchett are bookies favourite to triumph at Sunday's 76th British Academy Film Award.

The stars are expected to walk away with Best Actor and Best Actress gongs, for their roles in The Banshees Of Inisherin and Tar respectively.

Cate, 53, enjoys healthy odds of 8/15 followed by Michelle Yeoh. Yeo, 60, is close behind for spellbinding performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once after waiting 40 years for a nomination. bookies have placed her at 15/8.

R19. What is up with reposting articles ?

Cate is on her way to her 3rd Oscar

Michelle Yeoh FTW

Colin lost to Elvis.

Yeoh will win. Cate's reverse psychology has backfired...no one believes she wants Andrea or Michelle Y to win. It's all the more apparent with her idle threat to retire. She's like the Cher of the Oscars world. Oh, wait...

Backstage Blanchett told why this movie was different for her.

"The character couldn't be further or away from my own experience, but perhaps where I deeply connected with her circumstance – she's more than a character, she's a sort of a, she has a kind of a spatial crisis in a way," Blanchett said.

"She's coming to the end of something. She's coming to the end of a teaching cycle, the end of an artistic cycle, and she's about to hit 50.

"I've moved beyond 50," Blanchett added, partially covering her mouth mockingly as she said the words.

However, the Australian actress said the idea of changing life as we know it in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic seemed particularly poignant and personal for her.

There were certain changes creatively and personally, you know, that I thought there was the only opportunity out of that devastating event is to make changes that you've been wanting to make for a long time," Blanchett said cryptically.

"So and that's sort of being apart... I mean, my daughter was there in Berlin, but it was, I was away from my husband and my other three children for quite a while so it was very painful."

She should have won for Elizabeth

How about when Cate said, "I don't think a lot about legacy."

But she does love to collect awards - will the awards be considered a part of her legacy?

Within the past year, Goya, Cesar, the Chaplin, etc. Not to mention all of the film festival awards this year and the past. And Cannes/Venice President.

I tend to think if the local community center gave her an award, she'd show up.

That's her NIDA training.

She loves to hear herself talk she'd show up to accept a Razzie.

Cate is a master. The haters must be miserable idiots who hate white artists.

It’s a showboating performance for sure. Lacks subtlety. Michele Yeoh’s the sentimental favorite

Michelle Yeoh is secretly prepared to go Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon on her ass.

Love her in Crazy Rich Asians

R19, So much for the feckin' bookies, like.

When will Michelle Williams get her Oscar

R35, Michelle Williams is merely a backup singer from Destiny's Child. Beyonce will never will, but she'll win before Michelle. I won't win, either.

These posts read like a troll replying to itself

Like I’m doing now

Cate Blanchett pretended to be 'shocked' by latest award win

Don't feel bad for Viola or " Till." They are guaranteed " prestigious" awards this year.... more valuable than an Oscar, so the bitching can stop.

Cate can have the Oscar as long as she keeps her promise and retires from acting.

Can Cate Blanchett catch Katharine Hepburn's Oscar record? Can anyone?

With Cate's third Oscar win looking likelier by the day, I am starting to think about what her speech will sound like:

"...I am but a small part of the vast and wondrous tapestry of the human experience, and I hope that my work has served to exacerbate this project."

No she’s not winning her third Oscar.

Unless Riseborough emerges victorious as the maverick choice or Yeoh pulls off an upset but I don't see a prayer of either happening. People say Blanchett is reasonably intelligent but really she painted herself into a corner. If she wins her third Oscar and her ego doesn't follow through on retiring, she'll be exposed as a lifeless phony.

Nope. Not winning

When she thanked her husband in her BAFTA speech and called him darling I threw up a little.

What’s up with the hate for Cate and JLC at DL

I've never seen Cateb whore herself out so much for an Oscar. She should have done so for Carol and perhaps, that would've netted her a Best Actress win.

R47, sorry I offended your senses by referring to my husband of 25 years as darling. The next time I will address him as piece of shit, garbage whore.

Forgot to sign as *Cate Blanchett*

R49: I get she wants to join the 3x Oscar winner club but this campaign is really desperate and annoying. Does she really want to be remembered for this? It's not like anybody saw the movie.

[Quote]She should have won for Elizabeth

She should have won for Notes on a Scandal even if her role could be considered a lead. She lost to the dreary Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls.

I still hope Andrea Riseborough provides an upset. Not only will it make it interesting but also cause many aneurysms!

It's not that Cate isn't a tremendous talent. We all know she is.

But she already has two Oscars. If the Academy Award is meant to recognize talent among actors, then what "statement" will be made by the third statue that wasn't already conveyed with the first two?

Her stature is secure, as is Meryl's.

She should do the classy thing, like Candy Bergen, and decline future nominations just to give other actresses a chance.

I think she's talented but overrated and certainly not the genius of acting that she's made out to be.

No, JHud deserved that Oscar but she definitely deserved it for Elizabeth

[quote] I think she's talented but overrated and certainly not the genius of acting that she's made out to be.

Yes. I was a very early Cate fan (when just coming from Australia), but feel she’s now become smug, pretentious and preachy. Years of being lauded has gone to her head. And it seems to have impacted her professionally.

Having seen both Cate and Michelle, believe Michelle should win the Oscar. Definitely. Michelle doesn’t overact.

R42 If anyone can catch Hepburn's record it will be Frances McDormand, who has won 3 Leading Oscars already. Streep has 3 Oscars but only 2 Leading, and if Blanchett wins, she's tie Streep (1 supporting, 2 lead).

If there is an upset this year, it will be Yeoh over Blanchett. I think the other acting categories are all decided at this point.

We’ll see if she wins SAG then the Oscars for sure

[Quote] No, JHud deserved that Oscar but she definitely deserved it for Elizabeth

It wasn't acting it was singing. And what 'acting' has she done since? Respect as Aretha?

Michelle was named Best Actress by The National Board of Review.

The NYFCC, Los Angeles Film Critics and The National Society of Film Critics awards went to Cate.

For diversity the Academy may very well choose Michelle.

R59 - remember when there was early Oscar buzz for Frances over The Tragedy of Macbeth but then she didn't even get a nomination.

Whoever wins Best Actress better be wary of Kanye coming up on stage and shouting that Viola should have won.

R64 Why the FUCK would Kanye West be at the Academy Awards?

And after last year, AMPAS will be especially careful about letting celebrities - especially The Blacks - anywhere near the stage. They can do without another scandal, and so what if Jada wags her finger in fury?

R58 - did you like Cate when she was shilling Tim Tams?

[quote][R64] Why the FUCK would Kanye West be at the Academy Awards?

You must be very young...or very old.

R67 it was a music award and Kanye was invited

TarD.

R67 is very stupid.

R67 Yes, I know what the VMAs are. I got your joke.

But the VMAs are not the Oscars. It made sense for Kanye West to be at the fucking VMAs. But why would he be invited to the Oscars? He's not an actor, nor a producer, nor affiliated in any way with a major film this year. He can't even go the Rita Wilson route and be the spouse of a film legend. He's irrelevant to the film community.

I can’t see who it would go to out of merit besides Cate. Michelle Yeoh is a stuntwoman who turned in something passable. This is like if people were clamoring for an Oscar for Arnold Schwarzenegger after True Lies.

And the Cate bashing on here is weird. She does not strike me as the pretentious cunt you all make her out to be at all. Every single thing she says is torn apart on here nowadays for no reason. Are these Twitter stan trolls? They can’t be gay men, they don’t give this much of a shit what some actress says on an awards campaign as of that indicates her character.

R73, I sense it's Twitter trolls. Cate's new lezzie Fandom faux hating her just to type shit about her and get off on it I suppose

DL never cared for Cate that much at all

[quote]Yes, I know what the VMAs are. I got your joke. But the VMAs are not the Oscars. It made sense for Kanye West to be at the fucking VMAs. But why would he be invited to the Oscars? He's not an actor, nor a producer, nor affiliated in any way with a major film this year. He can't even go the Rita Wilson route and be the spouse of a film legend. He's irrelevant to the film community.

Oh, Jesus Christ.

R75 is the star of Tard!

R76 is obsessed with trying to prove himself correct because he fell for a joke and desperately want others to think he understood. No one cares about your self-esteem. You don't have to try so hard.

Cate in Berlin.

The actress, 53, stunned in a multi-coloured skirt for the event, joining a host of other stars including Nina Hoss and Sophie Kauer.

She paired the ruffled ensemble with a black polo neck jumper, wearing her blonde locks in loose waves.

The star also added a black belt to the outfit, emphasising her slender figure.

No one cares

SAG predictions.

Cate looked stunning in Berlin YASSSSSSS Diva! Queen! Mother! GAWG!

[quote]R2 the 10 minute Julliard scene is an Oscar performance by Cate. One take, many complex camera moves so she has to: act with an American accent, hit the marks so that the other actors are in frame, play piano and impersonate people while doing it. In addition, the dialogue is very complicated for that scene, lots of places to make errors, plus she is working against a relatively inexperienced actor who may fuck up at any time and try to focus on her own and his performance.

Here’s one analysis of that scene.

At the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts’ 12th annual AACTA International Awards.

Austin Butler followed up his BAFTA triumph by taking Best Lead Actor for playing the King in Elvis, and the pic’s Baz Luhrmann won Best Director. Cate Blanchett continued impressive her awards-season run with another Best Lead Actress win for her title role in Tár. It’s her third win in the category, having won for Carol and Blue Jasmine in 2015 and 2013, respectively.

It is no surprise they chose an Australian actress, and an actor for a film made in Australia.

I hope she does win a third Oscar.

We have quite a few 'loving legend' actresses among us today, those who deserve Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor-level status.

Prolific, versatile actresses with long careers who have done some great movies, some bombs, and are always excellent no matter the quality of the projects they do.

Among them: Meryl, Cate B, Kate Winslet, Nicole Kidman, Glenn Close, Helen Mirren, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Renée Zellweger, Julianne Moore, Emily Watson, Emma Thompson, Susan Sarandon. IMO.

The nomination was enough for Yeoh. That movie is a mess.

Well some of us have fine tuned authenticity meters. As a person, Cate has perfected the Grande Dame who acts like she is not a Grande Dame to the effect that she comes over especially grande. Sticks in my craw. How dare she do it so well.

JLC will definitely drink if both she AND her precious costar lose.

Wow is Jamie Lee really so much taller than Michelle?

^Are you stupid or something

I finally got around to watching Tár last night. Cate was amazing. But the movie was fucking boring. I kept waiting for something to happen. The first 2/3 of it was a mundane look behind the scenes of a symphony orchestra. When something did finally happen in the last 1/3, I was so bored I didn't really care anymore.

[quote]R88 Wow is Jamie Lee really so much taller than Michelle

[quote]R89 Are you stupid or something?

JLC is much taller than Michelle in the pic. It’s obvious.

It’s over for Hate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett Wears Armani Privé Gown for Third Time Since 2014 (in Reworked Form!) at 2023 SAG Awards

Femme fatale

Wahlberg looks yummy and Marsden adorbs.

Dare I say it, Miss Blanchett is looking foine in this hip hugging spandex number.

Curves hunty, cruves!

Third Oscar?

Doesn't look like it.

Nope. Hollywood feels bad that like five asians were mistreated in 2020. So…awards. Meanwhile the asian-made covid virus killed millions.

Yes, the cast of the film produced Covid in their spare time, you imbecile.

R99 you overestimate Hollywood intelligence and underestimate the Hollywood cause celebre phenomenon.

Cate Blanchett at the Producers Guild Awards in Beverly Hills

Is that dress at r101 made from recycled beer cans?

She’ll live if she doesn’t win her third Oscar. Yeoh FTW

Where do I sign up to console Cate while she gets over her SAG loss?

She's a lesbian, apparently.

I don't think her performance was hammy at all. She's a great actress and although I really like Michelle Yeoh, I'd like to see Cate win the Oscar.

Maybe the Academy should rename individual awards to reflect changing times, e.g.:

Most popular performance by a non-white actress, who has had a long career and never won any awards before, so we feel bad, in a leading role.

[quote]Michelle Yeoh is a stuntwoman who turned in something passable.

Hardly. She's not a stunt woman at all. She was a ballet dancer who doesn't know and never learned martial arts and she has to be taught the moves by the stunt coordinators and then she executes them flawlessly because of her dance training.

And I hate seeing people say she would be a "diversity win". That's so disrespectful! Would you like them to create a special little category and put an asterisk next to her and every other actor of color's name on the Oscars website?

She deserves to win because she's a fucking BRILLIANT actress who has displayed range in things like Crouching Tiger, Crazy Rich Asians, EEAAO, and even a Star Trek series! She was amazing in EEAAO. She was a sad sack who turned into a hero while jumping thorough space and time while her marriage was falling apart and her kid was trying to unravel the fucking universe with an everything bagel and she made it seem real!! And sad and funny and exciting to watch. There are so many moments in that movie where just the change of expression on her face tell you more than the dialogue.

If Michelle Yeoh wins an Oscar it's because Michelle Yeoh deserves an Oscar.

It must be crushing to Care’s ego that all of her many campaigns and self-congratulatory speeches were rejected by her fellow actors in SAG.

When will people realize that " diversity" is just another coded word for " black"? Period. It applies to no one else.

R109 MTE. Indeed. And I highly doubt she even came in second place or even third.

She should be grateful she got two. There are countless others who deserved to win but never won an Oscar

Cate's smug holier than thou attiude cost her the SAG trophy but it won't affect her Oscar win.

Also SAG committee has more diverse people voting, and that explains Michelle's win.

Cate's Oscar is locked in. She will get it.

Cate has won only 2 SAG awards. Blue Jasmine and Avaiator. She has never been a heavy favorite to win SAG. Face it she does not come off as a people person a la Meryl.

The fact that Everything swept SAG…it’s possible Michelle got caught in the sweep (I have a hunch Jamie WILL win though). But it’s definitely now a two person race.

Still hope Cate wins because her performance is much, much more deserving.

It looks like JLC has a greater chance to win Oscar than most thought however, I truly believe Cate will win the Oscar. JLC may be the only winner for EEAAO come Oscars

Ke Huy Quan is the favorite for the supporting actor Oscar. JLC and Michelle's wins are possible but not guaranteed at this point.

Cate Blanchett has now revealed that she was told to stop working after filming for the 'all consuming' psychological drama wrapped last year.

The actress, 53, discussed her performance as Lydia Tár with The Argonauts author Maggie Nelson, while posing for a quirky cover shoot with AnOther Magazine.

Detailing the exhausting nature of the role, Cate said: 'After we finished, Todd just put his hand on my shoulder and said, "You shouldn't work for a while."

'Something had happened to both of us through the process of making it. If you're lucky it happens once, maybe twice in your life ... but this was the process of encountering one another and it was all-consuming'

Oh here we go...

What had happened? Had she soiled her pants in the throes of great thesbianism?

R120, English please!

Cate is not winning the Oscar. Read the room.

I fear Cate might not win the Oscar based on the subject matter of the movie

[quote]Cate has won only 2 SAG awards. Blue Jasmine and Avaiator. She has never been a heavy favorite to win SAG.

Those were the exact same two movie she won an Oscar for. Every time she's lost the SAG, she's also lost the Oscar

So if she didn't win the SAG this year, it's doesn't bode well for her at the Oscars.

The interview with Maggie Nelson in the latest magazine cover of Another is one ofnthe most indepth Cate interview I've read

Here tis.

Maggie Nelson, acclaimed writer and academic, lost me with her first “and I was like…”.

Is this what passes for an intellectual in the USA these days?

Isn't Maggie Nelsons's partner a non binary , trans , fluid genedered person?

R126 thanks for the link. Long interesting interview. Cate and this woman seem to be trying to outdo each other in a word battle.

From this interview: it seems Cate is itching to say exactly what she thinks of the character but afraid of being judged for her opinion.

I watched Tar last week and hated it. SO FUCKING BORING!! Yes, Cate is very good in it but she would be good in a movie like Freddy Got Fingered. The movie is long, boring, tedious, incoherent pretentious, stupid and NOTHING FUCKING HAPPENS!! Wasted 2 hours and 38 minutes of my precious life watching this mess. If you want to watch Cate in a lesbian role, watch Carol. Much much better movie and it actually makes sense.

Cate is an icon, she is a legend and she is the moment!

[quote]Isn't Maggie Nelsons's partner a non binary , trans , fluid genedered person?

Yea, so she's obviously a diversity hire. A friend from high school's middle kid identifies as non-binary so I, by virtue of knowing someone who knows some gender non-cornforming, was also a diversity hire at my job. I love pulling in all the extra millions of dollars at my small non-profit and rubbing it in the white heterosexual cisgender person's faces.

R132, what does any of this have to do with Cate Blanchett winning a 3rd Oscar?

R133, what does r128's post have to do with Cate Blanchett winning an Oscar?

Poor Cate has been working overtime for this Oscar. I've never seen an actress whore herself out like this from interviews to galas, ceremonies, dinners etc. Girl has been working overtime since September Mama must be so tired, give the woman her Oscar already

MPTF’s “Night Before” Party Sets Co-Chairs George Clooney, Cate Blanchett and Angela Bassett

All that jaw and sucking work by Care and now she is favored to lose.

Poor thing

R106 People on DL seem to automatically detest any actor or actress who does consistently well, as well as any actor or actress who has ambition to do well. There's no objective measure of a good performance, but to me, Cate is one of those actors whose performances seem inarguably excellent, and consistently so from the beginning.

Her Elizabeth was elegant and commanding and powerful, and she was only 28 when she played her. She didn't have as much screen time as most others in Lord of the Rings, in which she was mysterious, elegant and scary, and The Talented Mr. Ripley, in which she was daft and silly, and she stands out as memorable and extremely important among talented casts.

It seems ridiculous to me to suggest Blanchett is 'hammy' in all her roles and that her time is up. People say there are no more movie stars and to me she's one of the few counterparts to Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn still making movies.

Her only performance that didn’t land for me was Lord of the Rings. She acts like she’s on quaaludes the entire time. Otherwise, she’s ranged from very good to brilliant in everything else I’ve seen her in, and I’ve seen most of her stuff.

R140 I didn't love LOTR the first time around and her character stood out in my mind for many years as the best part of it. I'm not an action/battle-scene person so much and her strange, mystical creature and graceful movements and deep voice somehow anchored the whole narrative for me. I really liked Liv Tyler's performance, too, but upon rewatching recently after many years (and loving everything about the movies except some overlong battles), it struck me that Liv's role was a lot bigger than I remembered and Cate's was a lot smaller.

She's also amazing in Notes on a Scandal, and comparing that with, for example, Elizabeth and Mr. Ripley, shows her wild range and control. Notes on a Scandal is campy, as is Ripley. Elizabeth is all power with some vulnerability.

Her Ripley character is all brass and ignorance and obnoxiousness with some vulnerability and no ill will or menace.

There's no hint of 'powerful' in the Notes on a Scandal character. She's entirely vulnerable, but she's also a villain, and not accidentally so, and she's self-deluded, and utterly pathetic, but also sort of proud and weak at the same time. There are a lot of shared qualities between the Ripley character and the Notes character—hardly any between those two and Elizabeth except vulnerability—and yet the characters are entirely different. The one from Ripley is unbearably annoying and comically stupid but also kind of a victim, and the one in Notes is only annoying because she's a monster, yet she attempts to be and fails at being cunning, she's immoral and she knows it, she appears to have a conscience about it but she doesn't, and she seems utterly weak and vulnerable but is doing bad things and feeling victimized, and the only sympathy we have for her is because of how Judi Dench torments her. And although the movie is regarded as campy, both her performance and Dench's performance manage to be arch and yet deeply sad and funny.

That movie could have been a throwaway Lifetime movie without such brilliant starring actors. I think she is magnificent. All her performances are so layered. I feel the same way about Kidman, Danes and usually Zellweger.

The one I don't really get is Reese Witherspoon. She seems to be a mastermind of a businessperson, but her acting has always felt superficial to me, which worked really well in Legally Blonde and Election, but with Blanchett, I feel like we get endless layers of psyche with every role, and when the role calls for it, with a layer of hilarity on top.

Cate not winning for excellence because michelle yeoh is asian is so dumb. Fucking retarded.

I have yet to see or read anything from anyone who has worked wth Cate Blanchett which is negative, which is where it counts. Actors and other creatives seem to really love making movies and putting on theatre with her.

Tough call. This was arguably the best role Michelle Yeogh has had and she was fun in it--although not the most accomplished actress and hardly no extraordinary acting going on here. After the exposition, the movie basically devolves in a series of martial arts set pieces. (however, let's be honest worse actresses have won for worse performances). I think people will want to support a first Asian Best Actress winner and th movie has a lot of momentum and a near certain Best Picture win. It's hard though because Blanchett really easily gives the best performance in the category. Tar was more of a critics favorite than an audience favorite-and that character is rather unsympathetic. It's also very hard to pick up that third Oscar--historically its just been Hepburn, Meryl and Frances McDormand. And Meryl & Kate had to wait like 30 years between #2 and #3. McDormans came quicker but that was also the buzzard asterisk pandemic year

I don't think that her being the first Asian to win Best Actress is the reason people would vote for her as much as voting for her whole body of work which has gone unacknowledged. She's very popular in Hollywood.

[quote]Tar was more of a critics favorite than an audience favorite

But the Oscars have never given a fuck about audience favorites. Otherwise Top Gun WOULD be winning Best Picture.

I meant people didnt really like Tar which. doesn't work in Cates favor. Ditto The Whale which was an admirable performance in an otherwise unwatchable film

R148 Moviegoers don't vote on Oscar winners. Moviemakers vote on Oscar winners.

Movie makers didnt really enjoy Tar either outside of the amazing Cate

It was nominated for several other awards including Best Picture

[quote]Cate not winning for excellence because michelle yeoh is asian is so dumb. Fucking retarded.

When are you going to get it through your thick skull that she's not going to win because she's Asian. If she wins it's because she was AMAZING.

And we don't use the R-word anymore.

Cunt.

[quote]It was nominated for several other awards including Best Picture

Wasn't nominated for 11 awards.

That's a fluke, R151. Everyone hates Cate and everyone hates the movie, and that is why both are nominated for Oscars. All actors know Cate is a hammy, superficial, daytime soap-level actress. That's why she's been a major leading actor for 25 years and why she gets heaped with awards and more work ceaselessly. Poor deluded Cate.

[quote] Everyone hates Cate and everyone hates the movie, and that is why both are nominated for Oscars. All actors know Cate is a hammy, superficial, daytime soap-level actress. That's why she's been a major leading actor for 25 years and why she gets heaped with awards and more work ceaselessly. Poor deluded Cate.

Is this satire?

Cate is great in Tar and her performance is really one for the ages but I want Michelle Yeoh to win. Her performance is what drives EEAAO and she delivers in every scene in that movie. I think it would be very anti-climatic if Cate wins.

R84 All of those names you mentioned work except for Claire Danes. I've never even heard anyone mention her in the same breath as those other women. Replace her with Naomi Watts or Rachel Weisz.

R157 Danes hasn'r headlined a lot of big movies, but she has been excellent in everything she's done, and she has done a lot:

My So-Called Life

Romeo + Juliet

Brokedown Palace

The Hours

Temple Grandin

Homeland

Stardust

...and a lot more. She's been extremely versatile, playing delicate girly girls and mannish autistic and hardened CIA agent and more, always convincingly.

I do think she belongs among better-known great actresses of the era, she's just under the radar with less celebrated projects.

R2 Yeoh established and maintained the profoundly emotional throughline of a film that spanned multiple genres, from action and comedy to sci-fi and horror, while playing to those genres with skill and aplomb, often simultaneously, and in a second language (i.e., English). And she did so without ever winking at or patronizing but rather illustrating and mirroring for the audience with sublime delicacy the universal “hero’s journey” expounded upon by the likes of Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Otto Rank, and Lord Raglan. She was genius.

Blanchett was phenomenal but Yeoh was ultimately more skillful and impactful and, ultimately, human.

I watched both films and I love Tar and Cate's performance better because she really didn't do a lot like Yeoh did for audience to get it. I find so much in the movie was implied and yet I just got it.

Also I've watched Tar 3 times and eveytime I discover something new. I watched EEAMO 1.5 times , the second time I couldn't finish it

R158 I was not impressed with anything about Romeo + Juliet. I liked her in Stardust but the top female performance of that movie was definitely Michelle Pfeiffer. She was competent in Evening but she also didn't have to share any scenes with Vanessa Redgrave or Meryl and I don't know if I bought her as a young Vanessa Redgrave. She lacked chemistry with Patrick Wilson, whereas there was clearly something between her and Hugh Dancy's gay character so she came across as terribly unlikable after she drives Hugh Dancy to suicide and keeps mooning over Patrick Wilson.

I have no recollection of her in The Hours. Was she supposed to be Meryl's daughter?

It's also very hard to pick up that third Oscar--historically its just been Hepburn, Meryl and Frances McDormand.

R145 - You forgot Ingrid Bergman.

[quote]I have no recollection of her in The Hours. Was she supposed to be Meryl's daughter?

Yes. If I recall correctly. For about 5 minutes.

Time Women of the Year 2023: Quinta Brunson, Cate Blanchett, more honored

Huh? How are these people " women of the year"? And we're only TWO days in March!

R158 can fuck off. Danes is a CUNT who looks like the mannish, poor person's Cate Blanchett. Danes plays a histrionic bitch in every role because that's who she is. Strike her from this thread.

Cate Blanchett's Greatest Gift Is Her Humanity

" I think it would be very anti-climatic if Cate wins."

Hold my Chianti.

Time cover

R168 okayyy she is human big deal, aren't we all?

Photo at r170, highlights that Cate has had a lot of work done

[quote]Huh? How are these people " women of the year"? And we're only TWO days in March!

😂

Once, I went to a Prince concert that was like on January 3rd and there was this repeating voiceover playing in the auditorium that said "YOU. Are about to experience. The JAM. Of the YEAR."

And my friend sitting next to me said "of the year? Well that seems ambitious. And premature."

(But it was Prince. 🤷🏻. He was actually right)

No R173. It's not the same thing. Prince was a musical genius. No offense to these women named I'm sure they've all done great things .

Time has discounted every woman regardless of whatever great things they may produce before the year ends.

Anyways Time is MSM trash

R172, the cheek filler/implant is so noticeable. She's engineered the face & nose she wants.

I read somewhere a while back that Cate said she felt sorry for women who went under the knife. Also, that her husband would divorce her if she had surgery?

At least she still looks human and doesnt have the embalmed look of that wax figure Nicole Kidman

Ok not reading the thread, but can someone tell me what M and G have said about the possibility of this third Oscar?

R178 why would they have anything to say out publicly?

The only thing Cate is winning is a swift kick to the cooch.

[quote]No [R173]. It's not the same thing. Prince was a musical genius. No offense to these women named I'm sure they've all done great things .

I think you missed the point that they were announcing the "Jam of the year" on January 3rd. 362 before the end of the year. (And I did say it was anyway)

Really, R175?

Exactly photo at R182 is evidence she hasn't had any * major work done

Cate has odd features and it's always been an asset. She's oddly beautiful, with al the strangeness working to her advantage.

I did notice the fillers in her cheeks years ago. I thought, oh, no, here we go. But she worked it out IMO. She is 53 and she looks like herself totally to me.

The main reason her cosmetic procedures are obvious is that she doesn't look 53. I'd say early to mid-40s, but a well-maintained person of that age range.

I think she must have had at least one deep-plane facelift. She doesn't look the way she looks because of injectables or 'good genes.' Her skin doesn't sag at all and by now she would not have the jawline she has without manual tugging and tightening.

Yes, R184. Further proving that's she Madame Disingenuous.

I never felt the Cate is an Icon blah blah. Cate is a legend. blah blah. She's fine. Nothing more.

Here are some legends and icons without Oscars: Sharon Stone and Sigourney Weaver. Stone isn't even a fantastic actress. But she is an Icon.

Yes-forgot that Ingrid Berman had a third as well--although her third was almost 20 years after the second. Also there was that whole blacklisted thing going for her-which tipped it in her direction since she won for a very small role. (Diane Ladd or Valentina Cortese should probably have won that year)

R182 and R183, she's had multiple nose jobs/tweaks done over the years. The most significant change was late October 2018. She's had many tweaks.

Her face in Ocean's 8 looked like it was inflated. There are times when her face looks stretched out & then it calms down.

Cate dances.

^^ wtf

This is what passes as dancing nowadays?

Cate acts like she's above it all and complains about how the award shows are patriarchal and then spends all of her time campaigning for awards.

R191, shut your whore mouth

Sparks have enlisted Cate Blanchett for the video of the title track from their new album, The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte. Watch the Tár star fling out an array of Stop Making Sense–style moves while wearing a vibrant yellow suit below.

Of the team-up, Sparks brothers Ron and Russell Mael told Variety, “We met Cate Blanchett in Paris at the César Awards last year, little knowing that a year later, one of the great actors of our time (and a splendid person!) would graciously consent to lending her bootie-shaking skills to the first video from our new album, ‘The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte.’ Dreams really do come true. We will sleep well tonight knowing that forever we can say we co-starred in a film with Cate Blanchett!”

[quote] little knowing that a year later, one of the great actors of our time (and a splendid person!) would graciously consent to lending her bootie-shaking skills to the first video

Is he referring to another video? I see no booty shaking here

You call that dancing, you sanctimonious cunt?

Cate Blanchett Talks ‘Tár’ and Fulfilling the Awards Prophecy of Winning an Oscar Every Nine Years

Sparks on Recruiting Cate Blanchett as the Dance-Happy Star

Cate Loon

From that article @ R196: Cate Blanchett wants to marry her son off to Martin Scorsese 's son?! What the hell did I just read and what in the arranged marriage hell is that about?

Revisiting her outstanding career, we also asked for an update on whether her son Dash (born in 2001) and Martin Scorsese’s daughter Francesca (born in 1999) will ever get married, as she proclaimed during her Oscar speech in 2005. Blanchett jokes, “I’m working on it.”

Blanchett’s eldest son and Scorsese’s youngest are now moving into the film industry. Blanchett added, “we’ll just have to finagle a way for them to work together.”

Has she seen Francesca lately?? Also she looks like the type who is into black guys.

Hopefully, the prophecy will be wrong and you become Susan Lucci.

The reach of Tar, it was a Jeopardy answer

Michelle Yeoh Yeoh Ma is taking the Oscar. Her Hippity-Hoppity little co-star, BSActor. BSActress, JLC.

Best Actor? Probably Brendan Fraser. I went to see "Elvis" in the theater again yesterday (Thursday). While Austin's performance has been praised and rewarded, and I agree with all accolades, I am not convinced that his dramatic (non-singing) scenes were of sufficient duration to garner the Oscar. And for that I blame Baz, who too often when given a choice, took the Baz Style route over substance. And Tom H. as Col. Parker had way too much on-screen time without Butler, and too much dialogue with.

Topic: But hey! From their photos, Cate seems to be rather fond of Austin!

I hope Angela Bassett wins over JLC. I love Jamie Leigh, but Angela Bassett winning for a Marvel movie would be awesome.

The fact that a move where almost every single hero is a Black woman and it still made close to $900 million should tell people that it's not diversity that's bringing folks to the theaters and rooting for persons of color to win awards. It's the movies.

R205 That Black Panther sequel was utter garbage. Angela deserves to win for something prestigious, not some comic book adaptation crap.

[quote][R205] That Black Panther sequel was utter garbage. Angela deserves to win for something prestigious, not some comic book adaptation crap.

So you don't liken comic book movies 🤷🏻

Ana de Armas was nominated for a hell of a crappier movie!!

R207 Anna de Armas has been shared around Hollywood for a few years now like a crack pipe.

She earned her nomination between her legs.

Cate in the music video just hit a level of cool for me that i didn't know existed.

I love Cate but the music video is a miss for me.

I would have loved it had she just danced as herself but orchestrated moves of that specific type always put me off. It's just so hipsterish or something, I don't know, so self-consciously weird and orchestrated that it looks like it's trying way too hard to look like it's not trying at all.

r210 pretty much that. 👍

R210, I watched the video and I couldn't decide if she was just flailing around or if that's how she really dances...? Not a lot of rhythm in any case.

Those knock knees take center stage in her dancing and her running scenes in Tar. Tall and awkward.

R212 That's definitely choreographed. I think it's supposed to be ironic or whatever.

This marks her second music video performance, having previously appeared in Massive Attack’s 2016 clip for “The Spoils.”

R210 do you have the same sentiment about the Moby video with Christopher Walken?

R191, she's obviously a hypocrite. I want my Oscae now!

How the fuck does Cate think she is? Tilda sleeping in a glass box at the MoMA?

oh I ruined it. 🤡

WHO the fuck does Cate think she is? Tilda sleeping in a glass box at the MoMA?

I feel like Cate Blanchett copies Tilda

I think Tilda has made more stinkers.

Tilda is more authentic and weird in a good way. Cate ' s antics seem too self conscious/ pre planned

Cate Blanchett hides under the table

At the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards Cate went shirtless underneath a plunging black blazer with cape-like sleeves and asymmetric pocket placement.

The edgy outfit from the Loewe Fall/Winter 2018 line also featured matching pants, and blue piping throughout.

The look was an eco-friendly choice, as the beauty had previously worn it in 2018 at the Annual Vanity Fair/CHANEL dinner during the Cannes Film Festival.

Cate wore her light blonde tresses parted in the middle and cascading down in gentle waves. The beauty opted for delicate makeup, wearing just a hint of eyeliner and nude lipstick.

Cate looks like she wished she had a shiv at 1:50.

R205, Oh, I agree it's not diversity making the money!

Re article @ R222, would they have done this if it was a white male/ female comedian? So disrespectful to this young man

Why did Cate go under the table? Why was she covering her face? IDGI

I thought it was lame how the others did the same copying her.

I feel sorry now for Cate. And who can blame her for going under the table? She’s not into celebrity abuse.

[quote] feel sorry now for Cate.

Why ? Don't worry she will be fine.

As poster above said, what is more lame than cate hiding under the table is the others who joined in

But maybe Todd Field and Marisa Tomei thought it would have been worse for her if no one else did the same.

Yes r231 she would come off looking like a stuck up bitch. She was prob relieved that they joined in

She hid because she's a cunt.

I missed this is the video ;

Finally, Minhaj called on Regina Hall's help, only for her to also take her leave under the table.

Cate was excellent in tar. Embarrassing how all the minorities have editorialized all their wins during their speeches. “I’m the first asian actress blah blah blah.” Well if you stayed in china, you wouldn’t have been there so f off. As if American owes minorities or smaller population groups something just because they’re minorities. Retarded.

R235 Michelle Yeoh is from Malaysia not China - they are different countries.

R236 Americans aren’t especially known for their knowledge of geography.

Cate Blanchett goes sleeveless in pink at the 75th Annual Writers Guild Awards

[quote][R236] Americans aren’t especially known for their knowledge of geography.

especially blatant racists.

One prediction.

Another.

Screenrant

It sucks that middling action star Michelle Yeoh will win over the best lead performance of the past ten years because she’s….old and Asian. If a white actress had given that exact same performance, nobody would care.

What R243 said.

Cate Blanchett deserves an Oscar for voicing the world's most embarrassing dialogue in the Julliard scene.

Sucks to be you, Cate at R243. Only the gays are rooting for you.

I suspect Asian Twitter will have a meltdown when Cate wins the Oscar

Go on, R245. How was it embarrassing?

The win for Blue Jasmine really solidified Cate as one of the greats in her profession. She was against Sandra, Amy Admas, Meryl, Judi Dench and beat them all. Now to think she may lose out on this Oscar for what may be her greatest performance, over Wokeness . Even more pitiful that she may lose to a martial arts/ Kung fu actress

.. the best lead performance of the past ten years ..

That's a big statement.

Oh, the Cate fan club is worried, so they have to smear the other candidate. How very Trumpian.

No one gives a shit about Cate or Tar. You can stop posting about her.

R251 you are drawing a very long bow if you are trying to link Blanchett with Trump.

I don't think woke culture is to blame if Cate Blanchett doesn't win her third Oscar this year. Michelle Yeoh's film is clearly more popular among the American guilds, performed much better at the box office, and gave her a more emotional role than Blanchett had in Tár.

The Academy also has a significant international membership that I wager is less interested in political correctness, diluting the impact of those who are inclined to vote based on the narrative of awarding Best Actress to an Asian woman for the first time in history.

For what it's worth, I simply think Yeoh was better and that Tár and Blanchett's performance are overpraised. Field's first film, In the Bedroom, was superior, as were the lead performances of Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek.

R254 = Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek

If Frances has 3 Oscars then Cate definitely deserved 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

I didn't see all this crying when Frances was going for 3. Nobody said give it to Viola instead.

That EEAAO movie is trash, utter garbage. Michelle doesn't deserve any Oscar. She is lucky she got a nomination

No one cares about a lesbian drama that did poorly at the box office.

The EEAAO defenders are lemmings who don’t care about greatness.

[quote][R251] you are drawing a very long bow if you are trying to link Blanchett with Trump.

Not Cate and Trump, but their sycophants. No difference in the attacking of rivals.

R259 = thin skinned.

R260 = MAGAt

In my opinion Michelle Yeoh gives an OK performance in a horrible film and Cate Blanchett gives an extraordnary performance in a challenging film.

Excuse me-EXTRAORDINARY.

Michelle Yeoh has never been seen as a legitimate actress until about six months ago. The adulation is really bizarre. There’s a slew of other foreign stars that deserve this more than her.

[quote] The adulation is really bizarre.

This part, yes

Absolutely.

Like…uhhh…Isabelle Huppert, one of the greatest film actresses of all time?

I wouldn't go as far as saying that she's never been considered a legitimate actress, but the remaking of Michelle Yeoh into this great talent is bizarre.

She was good in Crouching Tiger, but the real standout from that movie was Zhang Ziyi, and she's fine in Crazy Rich Asians, but that's a role that any competent actress could do in her sleep. Beyond that, there's the awful Memoirs of a Geisha, a Mummy sequel that no one remembers and I guess she was in Sunshine.

She was also in a James Bond film and a Jackie Chan Police Story sequel nobody remembers! She’s Huppert and Adjani combined!

Why aren’y we getting any brutally honest anonymous Oscar ballots in the Hollywood Reporter this year? Is it because nobody wants to be mean to Michelle Yeoh even if it’s anonymous?

I can't see them being too mean to Michelle Yeoh, but I could imagine some really brutal reactions to what Jamie Lee Curtis does in that movie.

R269,that's a great sign. It means Cate will win by a landslide.

The movie industry is desperate to recover post Covid hence they will not hand out an Oscar to an unknown average actress. What direction will that dictate for the movie industry going forward??

It's obvious Cate will win. This is not the woke awards

R266 - Yes Isabelle Huppert is a great actress. I'd much rather watch her than Cate even in one on her stinkers. In a way The Piano Teacher is a forerunner of Tar but Isabelle didn't get a nomination I guess because the role was too edgy.

Michelle Yeoh just said Fuck Cate Blanchett on her IG. For all the hugging Cate did with Michelle, this is how she is rewarded?

This is apparently what R273 is talking about. Yeoh (or more accurately, Yeoh's publicity team) posted an article that argues that Cate Blanchett already has two Oscars and there hasn't been a non-white winner in the category in decades, so Yeoh should win.

Bad move, but I can't even pretend to be offended about it, and I think every nomination for Everything Everywhere is ridiculous.

[quote] posted an article that argues that Cate Blanchett already has two Oscars and there hasn't been a non-white winner in the category in decades, so Yeoh should win.

How uncouth! Not even Viola would do such a thing. It's not a diversity award. It's an acting award.

After the Academy president was championing EEAAO, the fix was in.

If this is how Yeoh and that woman who runs the Academy want things, fine: such nominees and winners will always have a figurative asterisk beside them.

[quote]If this is how Yeoh and that woman who runs the Academy want things, fine: such nominees and winners will always have a figurative asterisk beside them.

No, if she wins, she'll give a very gracious speech, acknowledge Cate, will be remembered as the first Asian actress to win on Oscar and 99% of the world will never know or remember what happened before or care until those that do all die. And then in the future when there are other Asian actresses who win Oscars and a second Black woman finally wins an Oscar, all the racist "ew, this is obviously a diversity award" whiners will be dead. Including you. And nobody will think of it in terms of affirmative action and race.

^ You people always have such a fascination with the prospect of those who disagree with you being dead. #RightSideOfHistory, though, right?

Get a life you fuckers. Sore mf losers

[quote] ^ You people

Oh dear!

Yeoh’s movie was a hit, Tar hasn’t even cracked $20 million worldwide so your comment is silly r271.

Would you care to explain the supposed error, R281?

Tar a challenging movie? Yeah, challenging to sit through that crapfest.

Michelle is a legend and does things onscreen that male action stars, like Tom Cruise and Dwayne Johnson, could never do. Cate is just an actress, while Michelle is an actress and an action star. That's why Michelle deserves the Oscar.

Cate is not winning.

[quote]You people always have such a fascination with the prospect of those who disagree with you being dead.

Well, I'll be dead too, so I don't really care and it's not a fascination, just an observation.

R285 Yeohs career has been middling at best. She got a lucky break in a shit film like EEAAO where she gets to show off her stunt woman shtick and register pained expressions on her face every few minutes. This is hardly Blanchett or Streep territory. Every actress in the lead actress category is better and can do what Yeoh could never pull off in her wildest dreams. Even Yeoh herself would tell you this. Please live in reality and not the multiverse.

Cate just tweeted she’s not going to be at the Oscars

R269, here you go:

[quote]Every actress in the lead actress category is better and can do what Yeoh could never pull off in her wildest dreams.

I wanna see Cate and Meryl do the fight scenes that Michele who IS NOT a stunt woman, but a ballerina, does. And made people cry at the thought of having to stop her her daughter from destroying the multiverse with an everything bagel.

You keep calling it a "shit movie" but it has more nominations and better reviews than Tār.

R290, that brutally honest Oscar voter is a complete idiot. Good fucking lord!

But the relevant bit is

For me, it was really close between [Tár’s] Cate [Blanchett] and [Everything Everywhere All at Once’s] Michelle [Yeoh]. Cate gets lost in Lydia Tár — it’s such an incredible performance — but to see what Michelle, a woman who’s so overdue, did in her movie, with the action and the fighting and the emotion? I had to pick Michelle. Tie goes to the person who hasn’t won over the person who already has two.

R291 You know how ridiculous the way you describe the movie is don’t you? Did you actually keep a straight face while typing it? Streep and Blanchett would never lower themselves in doing the junk that Yeoh has built her career on. EEAAO got a few more nominations because of its tech crap. And it’s an extremely polarizing love it or hate it type film, in which many Oscar voters are going to place it last on the ballot to keep it from winning. Most people can’t get through it in one sitting. I doubt it’s gotten better reviews numbers wise than Tar. If you want to provide links, go for it. From reputable sources.

I can’t imagine wanting to win knowing people only voted for me because of nothing to do with my actual performance. Then again, Yeoh has never been a prestige actress.

[quote]R291] You know how ridiculous the way you describe the movie is don’t you? .... I doubt it’s gotten better reviews numbers wise than Tar. If you want to provide links, go for it. From reputable sources.

It was a RIDICULOUS premise elevated by incredible writing, direction, and acting. What's so hard to understand?

Nah, you can look up the reviews yourself. You're just gonna have an excuse for anything I post anyway so I'm not wasting my time with you.

R292, they always publish the idiots. They don’t want voters who are going to make well-reasoned choices, they want the ones whose reason for their votes will piss everyone off.

The EEAAO cultists are getting ridiculous with their praise for Yeoh. She does her own stunts, but she’s not a stunt woman, she’s a ballerina! (She never did it professionally). At least they haven’t started calling her Dr. Yeoh like I’ve seen elsewhere (it’s Honorary, and from the AFI at that).

R295 bingo. If Blanchett wins it’ll be based on performance. If Yeoh wins, it’ll be based on its time for the second woman of color to win lead actress for a mediocre, forgettable film. Pure and simple.

R292 many of them are idiots and haven’t seen any of the films. The Blanchett Yeoh rationale is especially galling. One has two already the other doesn’t have one yet. The fucker probably voted for third Oscars for Streep, Day Lewis and McDormand the last ten years.

[quote]If Yeoh wins, it’ll be based on its time for the second woman of color to win lead actress for a mediocre, forgettable film.

What an incredibly myopic and racist view you have. I've never ONCE said anything negative about Blanchett in this or any thread. I've only ever posted the Yeoh was incredible and I believe she should win. That's what most Yeoh supporters are saying. But you've made it about race again and again which just tells me You. Are. A. Racist.

R300 Wtf are you talking about? Yeoh could be purple for all I care. If Yeoh pulls it off, it won’t be based only on her performance, which is nothing special. Practically everyone voting for her will feel this need to give it to the first Asian to win in this category. If you think that’s not going to figure into it, you’re deluding yourself. Nothing racist in what I said, so lay off the crack pipe.

[quote]Yeoh could be purple for all I care.

Fuck yes you'd care! You'd be all over this board talking about them awarding an actress in an inferior movie "just because she's purple".

And I know that because you follow up that stupid shit up with "Practically everyone voting for her will feel this need to give it to the first Asian to win in this category". You DO care!! You don't want her to win BECAUSE she's Asian.

I'm done with your racist Bullshit. No need to reply to me. You're blocked and I won't see it.

Michelle got a standing ovation last week on the Colbert Show. The people adore her. She and Jamie Lee Curtis are the most beloved actresses right now.

Snooty Cate would never get a standing ovation by Colbert's audience.

Minorities don’t care about affirmative action wins. Because they’re feral on some level about capitalistic gain. It’s all about taking over the table, not having a seat at it. This is where white liberals are so dumb. Triangle of Sadness git it right. People are monsters across all fucking races.

[quote]Minorities don’t care about affirmative action wins. Because they’re feral on some level about capitalistic gain. It’s all about taking over the table, not having a seat at it.

I think you see it that way because for so long you and your fiends have had the ENTIRE table, denied them a seat, and then got uptight when they tried to get their own table. And to use "feral" to describe racial minorities-pretty fucking racist.

People want Michelle to win because she is a rock star who made a popular movie.

Cate is in a pretentious lesbian dud film, for the millionth time. Zzzzz

R305 forgive me for not demonizing a majority population for holding majority control of anything. I don’t project these bullshit assumptions of “racism” on them either.

But people like you… who see everything as racist… your projection speaks volumes.

You, my friend, are the true racist.

Trolls are out in force on DL. Who cry racism when you try to explain reality if Yeoh ends up winning and what contributed to it. And it’s a big IF because the movie sucked.

[quote]forgive me for not demonizing a majority population for holding majority control of anything.

You're not forgiven. And calling someone a racist after you've been told YOU ARE A RACIST is a very weak argument. I'm a white gay man telling you you're a fucking racist.

This thread. My word.

Michelle Yeoh defenders: Michelle would be the first Asian woman and the second woman of color to win the Best Actress Oscar! It's a great movie, too - Everyone Everytime All of a Sudden!

Neutrals: I'm not sure that awarding the Oscar on the basis of race is the right thing to do. Maybe we should look at the performances themselves.

Yeoh defenders: OMFG, you fucking racist! Who even suggested giving it on the basis of race?! But giving it on the basis of race is also, like, super okay.

Stfu all of you, I am winning this shit

Yeah give it to the nobody who just kept her mouth shut. What a relief.

[quote]Yeoh defenders: OMFG, you fucking racist! Who even suggested giving it on the basis of race?! But giving it on the basis of race is also, like, super okay.

Nobody has said anything remotely like that. What they have said is it wouldn't be a "diversity win" from a bunch of "woke" academy members who support "affirmative action" and think that racial minorities are "ferals" that want to "take over the table".

If it walks like a racist duck, and talks like a racist duck, it's a racist duck.

She's had sufficient.

Gimme!

Cunty Cate should win her 3rd Oscar this Sunday

Michelle could never!

Michelle Yeoh's Instagram Post About Cate Blanchett Sparks Backlash

I hope Blanchett slaps Yeoh when Yeoh wins the Oscar Sunday

Has Michelle fucked up her Oscar chances by violating the rules with that Instagram post?

That Michelle Yeoh IG post has gained traction and being reported on by major publications. It doesn't look good for Michelle.

Is Oscar voting done?

R321 yes. I think it ended yesterday

Just give it to the other Michelle. Love her on The Fabelmans

Who give a shit about Best Actress? Lenny Kravitz is doing the In Memoriam section. That will draw tens of people to watch the telecast.

Lenny Kravitz — In Memoriam Along with a host and awful dance numbers, the “In Memoriam” segment is an Oscar staple that has been a part of the ceremonies for decades. The segment usually features one musician singing a ballad as pictures and clips of people in the film industry who passed away are displayed across the screen. Past singers of this segment include Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, Queen Latifah, and Celine Dion.

Deadline recently confirmed that rock singer Lenny Kravitz will sing in this year’s “In Memoriam” segment.

Lenny is so ugly, maybe they will focus on the actual dead people.

What is Lenny going to sing??

R326, who knows, maybe Fly Away?

Well, it had better not be " Nattu Nattu."

SEVEN BALLOTS AVAILABLE, PLUS I'LL POST AN 8TH SOON.

The headline is completely misleading!! Of the seven ballots, Colin Farrell gets only 1 vote!

BEST ACTOR:

FIRST 5 BALLOTS ALL DIFFERENT! Yes, one vote for Bill Nighy and one for Paul. But that also means one each for Austin, Brendan, Colin (ABC!).

BALLOTS 6 & 7 = AUSTIN.

Another:

Kerry Condon seems like a dark horse. I think she could be the Marcia Gay Harden win of this - Jamie Lee and Angela will probably split the vote…..

Also a lot of the EEAO/Yeoh love seems to be from younger people. The academy still skews older and more “conservative” in their choices.

BA I think will be Austin Butler.

Gold Derby is rooting for EEAAO so therefore any post they put up is irrelevant.

Nobody but Daily Mail has posted pics of Cate at the Writers Guild Awards so a description will have to suffice.

The Australian 53-year-old - rocking a gold ear cuff - went sleeveless in a whisper pink silk Sportmax gown featuring pockets and white heels selected by stylist Elizabeth Stewart.

Hairstylist Robert Vetica coiffed Cate's elegant updo and make-up artist Mary Greenwell brought out her blue eyes with mascara and applied a darker pink lipstick on her pout.

There is now a new thread about the Michelle Instagram thing

I'm rooting for Cate!!

R334, thank you for the daily update

Damn, Cate is only 53???

Catherine Elise Blanchett born 14 May 1969.

R334, you'll be delighted to know that your post inspired me to direct some traffic the Daily Mail's way by looking up those photos of Cate.

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

Something seems wrong about this headline" cate blanchett and Tiffany Hadish"

Also what the fuck are both of them wearing?

Tiffany is dressed dlike a ho

Cate is wearing a sack

Why is Cate's arm so brown in the photo at 341?

How many lesbian roles has Cate done?

Just Carol and TAR. And I guess The Aviator, but that movie bought into the hetero Kat Hepburn (hahahahahha) mythos. I don’t get why she’s made out to be some extremely lezzie seeming icon.

People also do this for Rachel Weisz (who I do think is a lez, FWIW) and she’s also only played two lesbian roles.

Catherine Deneuve has played about five! But French actresses are much less neurotic about sexuality on screen in general.

There are other women who have played and continue to play more lesbian roles than Cate. She is not the first " big name" to play such roles. Also, i dont believe Cate has aby issues with playing lesbisn roles otherwise she wouldn't sign up for them. I think the obsessive, cult like lesbian fandom makes her dismissive of these claims of " lesbian icon"

THAT'S an elegant updo?? She looks like she has Carol Brady hair!

She always seems lez

This is a hilarious take on Cate. Must be a dl-er.

Yeoh will win because she's Asian.

It will look very, very bad if a white woman who already won an Oscar wins over an Asian woman who could be the first lead actress to win it for her race.

The Academy will not want to deal with those bad optics.

Why must everything be politicized r350?

Why is the husband looking like he wants to disappear into the chair while Cate was speaking on stage?

What will the poor Cate loon post about after she loses?

Oh my god, Jamie Lee is so so much worse than Cate. Cate is doing standard actor awards campaigning.

R352 Andrew Upton always looks like that.

You know him personally r355?

I see the Oscars matching the SAG winners. I said what I said

Another related thread.

No, R356 however he has quite a high profile as a director, not just as Cate Blanchett’s husband in Australia - especially when they were running the Sydney Theatre Company.

Cate is the load her mother should have swallowed.

The Hollywood Reporters’ David Rooney and Scott Feinberg both predict that Cate WILL WIN and believe she SHOULD WIN. Because nobody else’s performance comes close. Which I absolutely agree with.

Hell I have to stop reading here before bed!

I just had a dream where Cate won but was incredibly drunk. She'd ordered all the women to line up against the walls and told them this is the moment they will claim back their power. Then she singled out Viola, telling her she's the most magical person she's met and is so "chaotic" (as a compliment), and someone must remind her to get them an important movie together. She then started rambling about her dad leaving her mum when she was a kid and everyone being palpably uncomfortable.

NYT predicts Michelle Yeoh:

Unless Riseborough pulls off a win even more shocking than her surprise nomination, this battle royal comes down to Blanchett and Yeoh, the season’s top prize-earners. Both women are so fabulous in what will almost certainly be their signature roles that I’m hoping for a deeply unlikely tie, but I do think the scales will tip toward Yeoh in the end: Blanchett already has two Oscars, and Yeoh’s first win would be historic in a category where no women of color have won since Halle Berry over two decades ago. If voters want to give this telecast the sort of memorable, dream-come-true moment that will be referenced for years to come, they’ve got to pick Yeoh.

Sadly, it’s beef curtains for Cate Blanchett.

[quote]R236 Michelle Yeoh is from Malaysia not China - they are different countries.

She was MISS Malaysia!

A little [italic]respect.

Anyone for the win but Cate Blanchett.

Speaking of the Oscars, I hate that most acceptance speeches aren’t heartfelt, and sound prerecorded. It’s usually acknowledging fellow nominees, then a dive into thanking producers, agents, etc. Very impersonal.

On the other hand, Michelle and Jamie Lee would just lecture us, so maybe the first option is less painful.

[quote]If voters want to give this telecast the sort of memorable, dream-come-true moment that will be referenced for years to come, they’ve got to pick Yeoh.

Horseshit from the NYT at R363. No-one will care about this except her fellow Asians and I understand why they might.

Remember the pundits saying Chadwick Boseman would win the Oscar (a dream-come-true moment & tribute) and the Academy awarded Anthony Hopkins for Best Actor?

Banshees will leave Oscar night with zero awards.

[quote]Remember the pundits saying Chadwick Boseman would win the Oscar (a dream-come-true moment & tribute) and the Academy awarded Anthony Hopkins for Best Actor?

Didn't they move the Best Actor award to the final award, after the best picture to end on an emotional high. Bad move in retrospect. The winner wasn't there because even he thought Boseman would win.

Pundits were sure Boseman would win and Close would win. Neither sentimental pick happened. My money is on Cate.

They are not going to repeat the outrage of snubbing a minority for a white winner. Michelle has this in the bag.

R373 Hon, they snubbed a dead black guy during the "BLM" year. I think the media is setting up a Yeoh win (all the anon ballots that were chosen) but I don't think it's going to be her.

Sorry Michelle, better luck next time

If Michelle loses, we're getting an EEAAO II where Jobu Tupaki creates an all-in-one pocket tool that has literally ALL the tools in the world, in an attempt to make up for her past in the original, but everything goes wrong. Evelyn again has to save the day. There are tears. Ke Huy Quan wins his second Oscar.

Why would Cate win? All the momentum went out of her campaign and no one likes Tar.

Cate Blanchett Tries Out This Season’s Most Divisive Accessory

Attending the Green Carpet Fashion Awards in Hollywood, Blanchett wore a custom Valentino haute couture suit, made from a mix of deadstock and archival fabrics from the atelier. The actor paired the mint green slouchy trouser suit—which featured striking black lapels on the blazer—with a tonal shirt and black court shoes. It’s the small details that give the look its quirky edge, however, with Blanchett wearing a giant pink bow on her left hip as well as the stand-out accessory from the fall 2023 shows: a black tie.

pic.

Hopkins gave a performance for the ages in The Father. Boseman was borderline supporting and the movie wasn’t universally loved. Plus posthumous Oscar wins are very rare. Heath Ledger and Peter Finch are the only two to do it in acting and only 16 in total have ever been awarded.

Are posthumous acting wins rare because voters don't fall for the narrative, or are they rare simply because the nominations themselves are so rare, R381? There have been nine total nominations (the two winners, Boseman, Spencer Tracy, Massimo Troisi, Jeanne Eagels, Ralph Richardson and two for James Dean) out of nearly two thousand acting nominations, so this may be a case where the sample size is too small to draw any conclusions.

If Cate wins it will be because of her reputation. I don't sense a lot of love for Tar. EEAAO is polarizing but has a lot of passionate supporters.

I see, R383 - if Blanchett wins it will be for her reputation, not for her performance. If Yeoh wins it will be for her performance, not for her race.

Seems fair.

This tweet is getting raked over the coals. I believe the guy who tweeted it is South Asian.

Jesus, R384. That is so not the case AT ALL.

R373, that's right, they didn't vote for Boseman (that's a pretty sad story of a relatively young man dying from cancer) despite what the media & pundits kept telling us...

Oh, wait, R384. You were being sarcastic? I apologize if that was the case.

R383, TÁR may not be loved but the film, largely because of Cate's performance, is respected.

Respected film? Oh, I needed a big laugh today.

Oscar favorite Cate Blanchett seen on a grocery run with eight-year-old daughter Edith

R390, it made it onto umpteen Films of the Year list but did poorly at the box office, so I think "respected but not loved" is a fair summary.

[quote]Hopkins gave a performance for the ages in The Father. Boseman was borderline supporting and the movie wasn’t universally loved. Plus posthumous Oscar wins are very rare. Heath Ledger and Peter Finch are the only two to do it in acting and only 16 in total have ever been awarded.

I think Heath Ledger only won that Oscar not because the performance was so amazing (he was good but anyone else could've done the same thing) but because the voters knew they had screwed him over for "Brokeback Mountain" the year before. It was nothing more than a makeup Oscar made even more urgent by the fact he died and that would be the last chance they'd ever have to make it up to him.

I was indeed, R388! It sometimes gets me into trouble.

I will laugh my ass off if Michelle Williams wins. Not likely, I know but we need an upset.

Maybe Cate and Michelle will split the vote and Andrea’s supporters will push her over the line?

Or imagine the DL meltdown if Ana wins!!

391, is that Cate on a paparazzi run? I would think someone like her is above this

R397 if it was a pap stroll she would have made more of an effort in what she wore (see Sussex, Duchess of).

In what was is she someone who would do a pap stroll? I’m curious.

But r398 srsly if she didnt want to be photographed not on ly would she send an assistant , but she would have been a litte more Incognito. Look at the pics, the woman is crossing the streets in broad daylight, she obviously wants to be seen

You’re not from LA, are you, R399?

She is one of the most famous people in the world - why would she have the need to get her picture in the Daily Mail of all the press? To raise her profile?

You tell me r400. That is the question

The Dailymail don’t just publish PR paps - do you think Bridget Fonda called someone to be photographed a few months ago?

Idk r402, you tell me

Watchung SVU and it just hit me. Cate blanchett looks exactly like Amanda Rollins

Amazing comeback, R401!

Maybe because she’s like most stars in LA (and New York and other large cities) who do their own stuff in public because they know that they won’t be harassed by rubes like you. They don’t all swan around in convertible Bentlies, dripping in diamonds and with a retinue of servants.

You tell me.

This made me laugh:

They headed back to their $1,800 a night hotel in the Golden Triangle section of Beverly Hills.

A source tells DailyMail.com, 'Just because you stay at a fancy hotel, it doesn't mean that they have everything you want to eat, especially when it comes to healthy items."

The mother-daughter duo first headed to the dairy section where Blanchett carefully read the labels on various yogurts.

Several times Blanchett appeared to get a bit of sticker shock herself, picking up items, checking the price and putting them down.

Cate talks about Edith.

Blanchett gave birth to daughter Edith in 2015. And her three sons could not have been happier to have a little sister. “I find it EXTRAORDINARY, glimpsing them becoming a unit. And a very welcoming unit,” the proud mom of four told the Sydney Morning Herald in 2015. “I'm very proud of them.”

When lockdown measures saw parents trying to home school their kids, Blanchett found her daughter less than enthused about the process. So much so that she was forced to dress as her daughter’s teacher in order to get her to learn. “She wouldn’t start the classes until we had a full array of stuffed animals, all of which had the names of all the people in her class," she explained in 2021. “It felt like some weird kind of cross between The Muppets and MasterClass. It was quite traumatic actually.”

Fortunately for Blanchett, she’s got plenty of experience as both a mom and an actress under her belt. I’m sure it was the performance of a lifetime.

Amazing how all of these closet Cate fans have come out of their closet since the race became close. She's one that is rarely spoken of on DL.

Here’s why Cate Blanchett will win Oscar #3 for ‘Tar’

It’s one loon.

It’s a different lost cause each year:

Jessica Lange for Feud

Nicole Kidman for Being the Ricardos

Cate Blanchett for Tar

[quote] Several times Blanchett appeared to get a bit of sticker shock herself, picking up items, checking the price and putting them down.

Lol, what a bunch of garbage reporting

I didn't know Cate Blanchett had a daughter or even such a young kid. She seems so uhm old to have such a young kid

Her son is named after Roman Polanski.

R413 so?

It's not like she had the son with Roman Polanski

Edith was adopted - Blanchett didn’t give birth to her.

R407 what’s the source for your article? It quotes the Sydney Morning Herald but the SMH uses the word “mom” - Australians don’t use that word.

Though I didn’t really love Feud, Jessica Lange was way better than awards sweeping plastic ice maven Nicole Kidman in Big Little Lies. So was Susan Sarandon. The only good performance in that glorified soap opera was Laura Dern.

R417 - Cate Blanchett's Husband & Kids: The Actress Is A Proud Mom Of 4

Cate Blanchett wows at Australian Oscars Nominees Reception

Thanks R429 - MSN quoting the SMH - now I see where “mom” comes from.

[quote]I said a little prayer during TÁR that I would never have to watch Cate Blanchett act again. I thought, this has got to be the end of this, this can't go on. I think she's a talented woman, but she's so technical, she's ice cold, and I always see her acting.

The comment comparing Cate to Judy Davis is interesting though she plays more of a supporting role in Nitram and even then only really has one good scene. But I agree that Judy is a better actress and has more range. eg I've never seen Cate be funny but Judy often is.

R422'a link is interesting to read. They're all unanimous on Michelle Yeoh (which still seems very up in the air) but split on Ke Huy Quan who is probably the only sure thing in the acting categories.

I'm sure EEAAO is going to win best picture and Director and probably original screenplay. I'd be shocked if Jamie Leigh Curtis wins. I'm sure it'll be either Kerry Condon or Angela Bassett. I honestly don't even care about Best Actor. 5 actors in 5 movies I didn't even want to see.

And so much love for Maverick! I've never even seen Top Gun. Absolutely no interest in watching Tom Cruise in anything.

[quote]I've never seen Cate be funny but Judy often is.

You're right. She wasn't even funny in Oceans 8 and everyone was. Rihanna was funny and great. Cate was forgettable.

I do love Cate Blanchett, but after I saw Nightmare Alley, I started thinking "ohhhh, does she play the same character in every movie but sometimes she's happy, sad, or evil depending on the job?"

The quote at r422 is on the mark

"EEAAO" will take 4 of the Big 5, except for the one it isn't nominated for: Best Actor.

That Oscar will be Austin's.

One iconic thing will be changed thanks to fucking New Yorkers:

On Wednesday outside the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, workers unspooled a champagne-colored carpet as Jimmy Kimmel, who is hosting the 95th Oscars on Sunday, presided over the occasion.

“I think the decision to go with a champagne carpet over a red carpet shows how confident we are that no blood will be shed," Kimmel said.

The decision to change the color came from creative consultants Lisa Love, a longtime Vogue contributor, and Raúl Àvila, the creative director for the glamourous Met Gala in New York.

It's almost like Cate shot heerself in the foot at the beginning of awards season. She got giddy and too comfortable by criticizing award shows. Bad move. After that, Michelle Yeoh's chances gained momentum

R429 she was bitchy in acceptance speeches before her win for Blue Jasmine, plus the latest Woody allegations coming out during the voting period. Granted, she was the only front runner that year. A lot of industry people feel the same about the 193 award shows leading up to the Oscars, but no one says it. I just don’t think it will make that much difference in the voting between her and Michelle anyway.

Judy is just as brittle as Cate. People are only pretending she’s better (for the record I love both) because of well, cue the Chinatown quote….

of course Yeoh will win. The new rule is that is you're non-white you ae required to be nominated or else youre racist. If nominated, youre required to win or else youre racist. Notice how they Academy wasn't racist when Viola won, but it is when she's not nominated. Note to Viola-you know who also isn't nominated this year? Tom Cruise-in favor of Pascal Mescal and Bill Nighy--also both in films that didnt make squat at the box office

Michelle Yeoh was a fine-a likable actress is an agreeable performance in a movie that was off beat, though not wholly successful. She in no way the actress that Cate Blanchett is-and the performances are nowhere equal. But, the best performance doesn't always win. (And lesser performances than Yeoh's have won--im looking at you Sandra Bullock)

Cate has always been gracious and showered praises on her fellow actresses. It's a shame that Michelle resorted to a catfight witht that instagram post

It's all so arbitrary anyway so who cares if what you think is the best doesn't win?

There will be a tie.

Twitter stans will go nuts if Cate doesn't win

DL queens who didn't see Cate's film will go nuts if she doesn't win.

No one cares. Cate is losing.

Maybe there will be a surprise win with Jamie Lee being announced as BEST ACTRESS.

Because she’s so great and all? Best Supporting just can’t contain her!

[quote] It's all so arbitrary anyway so who cares if what you think is the best doesn't win?

Cate?

R431 - Judy is not as pretentious as Cate. But she is older and despite her efforts to ward off sun damage she has aged badly. Maybe it's genetics.

I love seeing all the emotions flicker across her face before she answers, like what is this bitch asking me?!

R442 When young Judy Davis was attractive but whether it’s though genetics or sheer force of will she seems to go out of her way to look as unattractive as possible. I suspect she likes to be intimidating as well, and in this she is very successful! The same for her actor husband Colin Friels - very handsome when younger and while we all age, he seems to have taken it up a notch. Not any moisturiser in their bathroom cupboard!

I saw Davis and Mel Gibson as Romeo and Juliet in their NIDA final year production of the play when they were both unknowns - both were breathtaking. I know - MARY! But look at them now.

R428, I hope that champagne colored carpet looks feckin' grungy within five minutes! A Red Carpet tradition that needed no changing!

I've never seen Tar nor wanted to and was only able to watch EEOAO as far as the guy beating the security guards with his belt bag and lost interest after that. So I have no opinion as to who should win. This is the least interesting actor oscar for me this year.

Cate.could never!

Is that a photo shoot for Ikea? The setting is…

Michelle Yeoh is going to win.

I'm not so certain about JLC but there will be fireworks whatever the outcome. She'll embarrass herself if she wins and I bet she'll have a sour look on her face if she loses.

How awkward if Yeoh wins and does some long ode to loser JLC and they keep cutting to her in the audience.

I saw Tár last night. Cate is great, as expected. Very interesting role to follow Notes on a Scandal in her career.

I liked the movie overall.

For one thing, it's a movie-movie, the kind that would have been made in the 90s by Miramax. It felt both big-enough budget and thoughtful. I stopped paying any attention to movies because everything became Marvel/Disney/DC shit. This isn't that, and so it's a welcome film as far as I am concerned.

I was thrown by the ending but (SPOILER-ISH!!!!) I just read a review that suggests everything that happens after she falls in the ruined apartment complex may be imagined, and that the movie is ultimately a gothic horror and that does change things a lot. It changes some things for the better and some for the worse. If this was meant to be Cate's 'The Others,' it's not that.

It's still an interesting movie, and more than anything upon one view it's an interesting character study blended with consideration of what standards artists should be held to in the context of cancel culture.

If the best-actor categories go to actors for their performances alone, then I can't imagine many actresses outcompeted Cate this year.

If the acting categories consider writing, then perhaps she isn't a lock.

The Academy, like the Grammys/NARAS, is an industry association whose real interest is profits and celebrating profitable entertainment, and Tár is not a profitable movie, so I can imagine that costing her. At the same time, I can't imagine anyone involved in the production possibly expected a movie about a lesbian conductor of classical music whose name is (of all things!) TAR to break box-office records. That seems like a formula not to do well financially. Tar? Tar? It's not based on a real person. I cannot figure how they came up with tar.

Worth a read.

[quote] No, JHud deserved that Oscar but she definitely deserved it for Elizabeth

[quote] It wasn't acting it was singing. And what 'acting' has she done since? Respect as Aretha?

What acting has J.K. Simmons done since winning his? A bunch of shitty insurance commercials.

While Blanchett was acting her ass off waiving her arms about, Yeoh was acting her ass off and kicking ass doing her own stunts.

R453 have you checked his IMDb? The man never stops working. And he was Oscar nominated again last year.

Cate Blanchett may have blown her Best Actress Oscar nomination

R456 Oh dear!

Poor thing.

All this talk I read online about how amazing Blanchett was in Tār and her performance was so *real* led me to believe that it was based on a true story. But she's totally fictional? I guess it easier to deem a performance "good" or "bad" if the actor is playing someone real and you get the sense that there's authenticity behind it. And you have the great (Streep as Julia Child) and the terrible (Streep as Margaret Thatcher).

So I'm not sure what the criteria are for a performance like Blanchett in Tār where a lot of folks say the story is problematic, but the performance was amazing. So she played her as unlikeable and complicated and that's enough to declare it amazing? Sounds like she could have played her any way she wanted to and people would have raved about it.

So for me, Michele Yeoh, who also played a completely fictitious character, did so in a way that seemed to resonate and touch more people. And that seems like a bigger accomplishment.

I'm not trying to over simplify what is and isn't a good performance, and I'm actually glad that almost all of the Actor nominations are for fictitious characters this year. The endless biopic Oscar bait movies are tedious.

It sounds like more people enjoyed Yeoh's performance than Blanchett's. 🤷🏻

So we should give an Oscar for stunt work now? Christ.

You're an idiot, no not for the stunt work, but it is just one part of her great multi layered performance. Now go sit down.

Cate is going to win. Sorry Kung fu fans

I think Cate will win too but I want Michelle Yeoh. It's all ultimately subjective so why not give it to the underdog. Yeoh is still the underdog despite surging in the last month.

Cate is not winning. How many times does this need to be explained?

[quote]R456 Cate Blanchett may have blown her Best Actress Oscar nomination

A story planted BY Yeoh, FOR Yeoh.

That woman will stop at nothing.

[quote]R462 Yeoh is still the underdog despite surging in the last month.

She is? And what about me?

I just watched EEAAO last night for the first time and can understand why Yeoh is favored to win. The role has everything -- action/adventure plus all of the emotional drama with her husband and daughter -- and Yeoh handles it all beautifully. She would be a totally deserving winner in my opinion (though admit I have not seen any of the other nominees in order to make a fair comparison). I'm sure they're all great performances and the fact that this has turned somewhat ugly is both unfortunate and unnecessary.

[quote]So we should give an Oscar for stunt work now? Christ.

I don't know. Do they have a category for stunt doubles? If they did, they'd have to give it to a woman named Kiera O'Connor who was Yeoh's stunt double.

Because Michelle Yeoh isn't a stunt actor. Has zero stunt credits. Because she's an actress.

R458, "Oscar-bait" is one of those recent pejoratives, like "woke."

Movies have included "biopics" about real, actual, well-known or should be, PEOPLE since, well, movies.

Nobody ever termed a 20th-Century biopic "Oscar bait." Indeed, it wasn't a "biopic"; it was considered just a film, period, to be considered on its merits or demerits.

To say one is tired of, up to here with, bored silly with "biopics," because of course a synonym is "Oscar bait," is to declare, quite childishly, that one is---apologies to Dr. Samuel Johnson---tired of movies about real life.

Biographies, begone!

[quote]Nobody ever termed a 20th-Century biopic "Oscar bait."

You have no idea what you’re talking about.

Bugsy, Nixon, and Chaplin were all high profile “Oscar bait” and were called such when they were released in the 99s.

*90s

Anyone who believes Michelle Yeoh should win the Oscar over Cate Blanchett’s master class in acting has shit for taste.

[quote]Because Michelle Yeoh isn't a stunt actor. Has zero stunt credits. Because she's an actress.

Dude, she isn't a stunt double, she does her own. This is all Michelle on the motorcycle, she did it all including jumping on the train. Not a secret.

[quote]Anyone who believes Michelle Yeoh should win the Oscar over Cate Blanchett’s master class in acting has shit for taste.

You didn't even see Blanchett, but are just parroting what others on DL have said and trolling.

I saw Tar this morning. There was nothing special there until her concert breakdown which lasted a whole five minutes. Tar was a terrible person and Cate never made her likeable at all so when the shit hit the fan, who cares? People want to root for the heroine.

I havent seen it yet but does she need to be likeable. Maybe to enjoy her downfall?

Fuck off, R473, I’ve seen Tár twice.

I have seen Tar as well. Not a Cate fan but I was more interested in the subject and watched it online. I have bought the DVD as a keeper. I think it is the only Cate DVD I own.

Cate Blanchett speaks on preparing for role as a troubled musical conductor in 'Tár'

Give up. She’s over.

Good Luck Cate!

You can see Kelly Ripa's panties.

NO, thanks.

[quote]Dude, she isn't a stunt double, she does her own

I didn't say she can't do stunts, I said she was not a stunt woman but an actress. And she had a stunt double for EEAAO. I'm not trying to take anything away from her, she's amazing, just tired of those claiming she's really just s lucky stunt woman. And Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie literally BRAG about doing their own stunts and have never been called lucky stunt actors.

And to all the "Cate will win with the superior performance" posters.

We've been trying to tell you for months. 🤷🏻

Fine, r469; I yield.

It is still beyond stupid for one to use that term for the entire genre of movies about real people, be they entertainers, politicians, scientists, or televangelists.

Cate needs to bring g a bit of warmth and humanity to her acting so people can relate to the character. She is too technical

[quote]Cate needs to bring g a bit of warmth and humanity to her acting so people can relate to the character. She is too technical.

The discussion of how cold and precise Cate's acting keeps making me think of Tilda Swinton. Tilda seems less warm and fuzzy in real life than Cate does, but she can play funny and dumb excellently. I've never seen Cate play a dumb, humorous character. Only stiff and serious.

I think that actually gave Michelle Yeoh the edge. She got to be silly and sad and funny and an action star all in one film.

They never were going to give a third to a pretentious Australian in a lesbian film.

Cate, that's what you get for condemning the awards system. People don't vote for you. It's that simple. You, and only you, cost yourself an Oscar.

Don't worry bitches I will be back in my next role as a lesbian professor, err business woman, err writer!

Next time Cate the Great, next time.