Editing Cate Blanchett (section)

===1992–2000: Early work and international breakthrough===
Blanchett's first stage role was opposite [[Geoffrey Rush]], in the 1992 [[David Mamet]] play ''[[Oleanna (play)|Oleanna]]'' for the [[Sydney Theatre Company]]. That year, she was also cast as [[Clytemnestra]] in a production of ''[[Electra (Sophocles play)|Sophocles' Electra]]''. A couple of weeks after rehearsals, the actress playing the title role pulled out, and director [[Lindy Davies]] cast Blanchett in the role. Her performance as Electra became one of her most acclaimed at NIDA.<ref name=act>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/02/12/disappearing-act |title=Disappearing Act|last=Lahr|first=John|author-link=John Lahr|magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=12 February 2007 |access-date=17 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915041652/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/02/12/disappearing-act |archive-date=15 September 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1993, Blanchett was awarded the Sydney Theatre Critics' Best Newcomer Award for her performance in [[Timothy Daly (playwright)|Timothy Daly]]'s ''Kafka Dances'' and won Best Actress for her performance in Mamet's ''Oleanna'', making her the first actor to win both categories in the same year.<ref name=act/> Blanchett played the role of [[Ophelia]] in a 1994–1995 [[Company B (theatre)|Company B]] production of ''[[Hamlet]]'' directed by [[Neil Armfield]], starring Rush and [[Richard Roxburgh]], and was nominated for a [[Green Room Award]].<ref name=walk/>

Blanchett's first screen appearance was in the 1994 TV miniseries ''[[Heartland (Australian TV series)|Heartland]]''<ref>{{cite interview | interviewer-last=Denny | interviewer-first=Spence| author1= Enoch, Wesley| author2= Maza, Rachel|author-link1= Wesley Enoch|author-link2= Rachel Maza| format=audio | title=Tributes to groundbreaking SA actor & performer Lillian Crombie | website=ABC listen | date=4 January 2024 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/adelaide-breakfast/lillian-crombie/103287846 | access-date=20 January 2024}}</ref> opposite [[Ernie Dingo]], and she went on to appear in the miniseries ''[[Bordertown (1995 TV series)|Bordertown]]'' (1995) with [[Hugo Weaving]], and in an episode of ''[[Police Rescue]]'' entitled "The Loaded Boy".<ref name="stateless">{{cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2015/07/cate-blanchett-tv-series-stateless-director-1201482652/|title=Cate Blanchett To Helm 'Stateless'; Drama Series Has Oz Immigration Focus|date=21 July 2015|access-date=11 August 2015|website=Deadline Hollywood|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150811055419/http://deadline.com/2015/07/cate-blanchett-tv-series-stateless-director-1201482652/|archive-date=11 August 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.locatetv.com/tv/police-rescue/season-3/1805746 |title=Police Rescue: Season 3 Episode 5 |publisher=LocateTV |access-date=5 March 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402132032/http://www.locatetv.com/tv/police-rescue/season-3/1805746 |archive-date=2 April 2015 }}</ref> She also appeared in the 50-minute drama short film ''[[Parklands (film)|Parklands]]'' (1996), which received an [[Australian Film Institute]] (AFI) nomination for Best Original Screenplay.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/136547/Parklands/overview |title=Parklands (1996) |access-date=23 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403040903/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/136547/Parklands/overview |archive-date=3 April 2015 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roninfilms.com.au/person/230/kathryn-millard.html |title=Kathryn Millard |publisher=RoninFilms.com.au |access-date=23 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402122627/http://www.roninfilms.com.au/person/230/kathryn-millard.html |archive-date=2 April 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Blanchett made her feature film debut with a supporting role as an Australian nurse captured by the [[Imperial Japanese Army|Japanese Army]] during [[World War II]], in [[Bruce Beresford]]'s film ''[[Paradise Road (1997 film)|Paradise Road]]'' (1997), which co-starred [[Glenn Close]] and [[Frances McDormand]].<ref name=tca /> The film made just over $2&nbsp;million at the box office on a budget of $19&nbsp;million and received mixed reviews from critics.<ref>{{cite web|title=Paradise Road|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2288616961/weekend/|access-date=27 October 2020|website=Box Office Mojo|archive-date=31 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031012421/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2288616961/weekend/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/paradise-road|title=Paradise Road|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=18 July 2015|archive-date=15 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230815155413/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/paradise-road|url-status=live}}</ref> Her first leading role came later that year as eccentric heiress Lucinda Leplastrier in [[Gillian Armstrong]]'s romantic drama ''[[Oscar and Lucinda (film)|Oscar and Lucinda]]'' (1997), opposite [[Ralph Fiennes]].<ref name=tca /> Blanchett received wide acclaim for her performance,<ref name=NYT/> with [[Emanuel Levy]] of [[Variety (magazine)|''Variety'']] declaring, "luminous newcomer Blanchett, in a role originally intended for [[Judy Davis]], is bound to become a major star".<ref>{{cite web|last=Levy|first=Emanuel|date=7 December 1997|title=Oscar and Lucinda|url=https://variety.com/1997/film/reviews/oscar-and-lucinda-111738170/|access-date=27 October 2020|website=Variety|archive-date=30 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030232508/https://variety.com/1997/film/reviews/oscar-and-lucinda-111738170/|url-status=live}}</ref> She earned her first AFI Award nomination as Best Leading Actress for ''Oscar and Lucinda''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aacta.org/winners-nominees/1990-1999/1998.aspx |title=1998 Winners & Nominees |publisher=aacta.org |access-date=1 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103161152/http://www.aacta.org/winners-nominees/1990-1999/1998.aspx |archive-date=3 January 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> She won the AFI Best Actress Award in the same year for her starring role as Lizzie in the romantic comedy ''[[Thank God He Met Lizzie]]'' (1997), co-starring Richard Roxburgh and [[Frances O'Connor]].<ref name=NYT/>

[[File:Shekhar kapur 02.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Shekhar Kapur]], director of ''[[Elizabeth (film)|Elizabeth]]'' (1998)]]

Blanchett's played a young [[Elizabeth I]] in the historical drama ''[[Elizabeth (film)|Elizabeth]]'' (1998), directed by [[Shekhar Kapur]]. The film catapulted her to international prominence, earning her the [[Golden Globe Award]] and [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|British Academy Award]] (BAFTA), and her first [[Screen Actors Guild]] (SAG) and [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nomination for Best Actress.<ref name=act/><ref name=walk/> In his review for ''Variety'', critic David Rooney wrote of her performance, "Blanchett conveys with grace, poise and intelligence that Elizabeth was a wily, decisive, advanced thinker, far too aware of her own exceptional nature to bow to any man. [She] builds the juicy character almost imperceptibly from a smart but wary young woman who may be in over her head into a powerful creature of her own invention."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rooney|first1=David|date=9 September 1998|title=Elizabeth|url=https://variety.com/1998/film/reviews/elizabeth-2-1200455269/|access-date=27 October 2020|website=Variety|archive-date=30 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030191941/https://variety.com/1998/film/reviews/elizabeth-2-1200455269/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Janet Maslin]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote that Blanchett's performance "brings spirit, beauty and substance to what otherwise might have been turned into a vacuous role",<ref>{{Cite news|last=Maslin|first=Janet|author-link=Janet Maslin|date=6 November 1998|title=Film Review; Amour and High Dudgeon in a Castle of One's Own|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/06/movies/film-review-amour-and-high-dudgeon-in-a-castle-of-one-s-own.html|access-date=27 October 2020|archive-date=30 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030153439/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/06/movies/film-review-amour-and-high-dudgeon-in-a-castle-of-one-s-own.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and Alicia Potter writing for the [[The Phoenix (newspaper)|''Boston Phoenix'']] stated that, "In the end, Kapur's crown jewel is a tale of twin transformations, that of Elizabeth into one of history's most enigmatic and powerful women, and that of Blanchett into, well, a bona fide screen queen."<ref>{{cite web|title=Archives 1998 {{!}} R: Archive, S: Movies, D: 19 November 1998, B: Alicia Potter|url=https://bostonphoenix.com/archives/1998/documents/00525679.htm|access-date=27 October 2020|website=bostonphoenix.com|archive-date=30 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030215700/https://bostonphoenix.com/archives/1998/documents/00525679.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

The following year, Blanchett appeared in ''[[Bangers (1999 film)|Bangers]]'' (1999), an Australian short film and part of ''[[Stories of Lost Souls]]'', a compilation of thematically related short stories. The short was written and directed by her husband, [[Andrew Upton]], and produced by Blanchett and Upton.<ref name="Dirty" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/find-a-film/detail.aspx?tid=14760 |title=Bangers (1999) |publisher=[[Screen Australia]] |access-date=11 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208155329/http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/find-a-film/detail.aspx?tid=14760 |archive-date=8 December 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> She also appeared in the [[Mike Newell (director)|Mike Newell]] comedy ''[[Pushing Tin]]'' (1999), with her performance singled out by critics,<ref name="NYT" /> and the critically acclaimed and financially successful film ''[[The Talented Mr. Ripley (film)|The Talented Mr. Ripley]]'' (1999), alongside [[Matt Damon]], [[Gwyneth Paltrow]], [[Jude Law]], and [[Philip Seymour Hoffman]]. She received her second BAFTA nomination for her performance as Meredith Logue in ''The Talented Mr. Ripley''.<ref name="tca" />