Editing Cate Blanchett (section)

=== 2001–2007: ''The Lord of the Rings'' and established actor ===
Blanchett appeared in [[Peter Jackson]]'s [[Blockbuster film|blockbuster]] trilogy, ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', playing the role of elf leader [[Galadriel]] in all three films.<ref name=tca /> The trilogy was a major critical and financial success, earning $2.981&nbsp;billion at the box office worldwide,<ref>{{cite web|title=The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0120737/|access-date=9 December 2020|website=Box Office Mojo|archive-date=17 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200517125521/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0120737/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0167261/|access-date=9 December 2020|website=Box Office Mojo|archive-date=17 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200517125522/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0167261/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0167260/|access-date=9 December 2020|website=Box Office Mojo|archive-date=17 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200517125524/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0167260/|url-status=live}}</ref> and all three films were later ranked within the top 10 greatest fantasy movies of all time in a poll conducted by American magazine [[Wired (magazine)|''Wired'']] in 2012.<ref>{{Cite news|title=And the Winner Is&nbsp;... Reader's Choice for Top 10 Fantasy Movies|magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]|url=https://www.wired.com/2012/12/winners-fantasy-movies/|access-date=9 December 2020|archive-date=22 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222061621/http://www.wired.com/2012/12/winners-fantasy-movies/|url-status=live}}</ref> In addition to ''The Lord of the Rings'', 2001 also saw Blanchett diversify her portfolio with a range of roles in the dramas ''[[Charlotte Gray (film)|Charlotte Gray]]'' and ''[[The Shipping News (film)|The Shipping News]]'' and the American crime-comedy ''[[Bandits (2001 film)|Bandits]]'', for which she earned a second Golden Globe and SAG Award nomination.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reelga.com/2013/08/the-goods-cate-blanchetts-10-best.html |work=Reel Georgia |title=The Goods: Cate Blanchett's 10 Best Performances |access-date=9 December 2013 |date=18 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212120127/http://www.reelga.com/2013/08/the-goods-cate-blanchetts-10-best.html |archive-date=12 December 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Bandits'' marked Blanchett's first notable foray into the comedy genre, with Ben Falk of the [[BBC Online|BBC]] declaring her and co-star [[Billy Bob Thornton]] "a real find as comedians" and calling her performance as an unsatisfied housewife caught between two escaped convicts, "unhinged, though undeniably sexy".<ref>{{cite web|title=BBC - Films - review - Bandits|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2001/11/05/bandits_2001_review.shtml|access-date=27 October 2020|website=BBC|archive-date=30 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200130175650/http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2001/11/05/bandits_2001_review.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2002, Blanchett starred opposite [[Giovanni Ribisi]] in [[Tom Tykwer]]-directed ''[[Heaven (2002 film)|Heaven]]'', the first film in an unfinished trilogy by writer-director [[Krzysztof Kieślowski]].<ref name="walk" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/the-essentials-5-great-cate-blanchett-performances-20130723?page=2 |title=The Essentials: 5 Great Cate Blanchett Performances |work=[[Indiewire]] |date=23 July 2013 |access-date=1 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403043400/http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/the-essentials-5-great-cate-blanchett-performances-20130723?page=2 |archive-date=3 April 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> Her performance in the film as a grieving woman who commits a desperate act of terrorism was highly praised, with [[Stephen Holden]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' calling it, "the most compelling screen performance of her career" and going on to state, "Although Ms. Blanchett{{'s}} face has always registered emotion with a mercurial fluidity, the immediacy of feeling she conveys in "Heaven" is astonishing."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Holden|first=Stephen|author-link=Stephen Holden|date=4 October 2002|title=Film Review; When Fate Intrudes, Death on Screen as Well as Off|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/04/movies/film-review-when-fate-intrudes-death-on-screen-as-well-as-off.html|access-date=27 October 2020|archive-date=31 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031085605/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/04/movies/film-review-when-fate-intrudes-death-on-screen-as-well-as-off.html|url-status=live}}</ref> 2003 saw Blanchett again playing a wide range of roles: Galadriel in [[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King|the third and final instalment]] of the ''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy (which won the [[Academy Award for Best Picture]]);<ref>{{cite web|title=The 76th Academy Awards {{!}} 2004|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2004|access-date=9 December 2020|website=Oscars.org {{!}} Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|date=4 October 2014 |archive-date=8 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508171359/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2004|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Ron Howard]]-directed western thriller ''[[The Missing (2003 film)|The Missing]]''; [[Jim Jarmusch]]'s ''[[Coffee and Cigarettes]]'', playing two roles (both against herself), for which she received an [[Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female]] nomination;<ref>{{cite web|work=Indiewire|date=1 December 2004|title="Sideways" and "Maria Full of Grace" Lead Spirit Award Nominations|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2004/12/sideways-and-maria-full-of-grace-lead-spirit-award-nominations-78521/|access-date=9 December 2020|archive-date=24 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024185330/https://www.indiewire.com/2004/12/sideways-and-maria-full-of-grace-lead-spirit-award-nominations-78521/|url-status=live}}</ref> and the biographical ''[[Veronica Guerin (film)|Veronica Guerin]]'', which earned her a Golden Globe Best Actress Drama nomination.<ref name="walk" /> In 2004, Blanchett portrayed a pregnant journalist chronicling an underwater voyage by an eccentric oceanographer in [[Wes Anderson]]'s ''[[The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Kyle |date=11 March 2014 |title=24 'Grand' things you don't know about Wes Anderson's films |url=https://nypost.com/2014/03/11/24-grand-things-you-dont-know-about-wes-andersons-films/ |work=[[New York Post]] |access-date= |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20140315033912/https://nypost.com/2014/03/11/24-grand-things-you-dont-know-about-wes-andersons-films/ |archive-date=15 March 2014}}</ref>

Blanchett won her first [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] in 2005, for her highly acclaimed portrayal of [[Katharine Hepburn]] in [[Martin Scorsese]]'s ''[[The Aviator (2004 film)|The Aviator]]'' (2004).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2013/11/14/cate-blanchetts-top-10-films |title=Cate Blanchett's Top 10 Films |website=[[IGN]] |date=13 November 2013 |access-date=3 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103135356/http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/11/14/cate-blanchetts-top-10-films |archive-date=3 January 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> This made Blanchett the first actor in history to win an Academy Award for portraying another Academy Award-winning actor.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cate Blanchett- Biography |url=https://movies.yahoo.com/person/cate-blanchett/biography.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725052148/http://movies.yahoo.com/person/cate-blanchett/biography.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 July 2013 |publisher=[[Yahoo! Movies]] |access-date=17 June 2013}}</ref> She lent her Oscar statuette to the [[Australian Centre for the Moving Image]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.goldenglobes.com/nominee-profiles/cate-blanchett-blue-jasmine-5215 |title=Cate Blanchett |author=Manelis, Michele |date=13 December 2013 |publisher=GoldenGlobes.com |access-date=27 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114024401/http://www.goldenglobes.com/nominee-profiles/cate-blanchett-blue-jasmine-5215 |archive-date=14 January 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> In his review for ''[[Newsweek]]'', David Ansen wrote that Blanchett portrayed Hepburn with "lip-smacking vivacity",<ref>{{cite web|first=David|last=Ansen|date=19 December 2004|title=The Aviator: 'scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky|url=https://www.newsweek.com/aviator-scuse-me-while-i-kiss-sky-123027|access-date=27 October 2020|website=Newsweek|archive-date=30 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030172204/https://www.newsweek.com/aviator-scuse-me-while-i-kiss-sky-123027|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Roger Ebert]] lauded the performance, describing it as "delightful and yet touching; mannered and tomboyish".<ref>{{cite web|last=Ebert|first=Roger|title=The Aviator movie review & film summary (2004)|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-aviator-2004|access-date=27 October 2020|website=Roger Ebert|archive-date=29 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170129155408/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-aviator-2004|url-status=live}}</ref> During her preparation for the role, and at the request of Scorsese, Blanchett reviewed 35-millimetre prints of all of Hepburn's first 15 screen performances to study and memorise her poise, mannerisms and speech pattern.<ref name="nytimes">{{Cite news|last=de Vries|first=Hilary|date=12 December 2004|title=The Cate Who Would Be Kate|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/movies/the-cate-who-would-be-kate.html|access-date=27 October 2020|archive-date=20 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020194539/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/movies/the-cate-who-would-be-kate.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Blanchett spoke of the responsibility of portraying such an iconic star, stating, "Representing Kate in the same medium, film, in which she existed was very daunting. But because she was so private and few people really knew her, we basically know Hepburn through her films. So of course you have to give a nod to her screen persona when playing her."<ref name="nytimes"/> That year, Blanchett also won the [[Australian Film Institute]] Best Actress Award for her performance as Tracy Heart, a former heroin addict, in the Australian film ''[[Little Fish (2005 film)|Little Fish]]'' (2005), co-produced by her and her husband's production company, Dirty Films.<ref name="Dirty">{{cite web |url=http://sydney.edu.au/education_social_work/about/afilliations/bios/upton.shtml |title=Andrew Upton |publisher=[[University of Sydney]] |access-date=27 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403151108/http://sydney.edu.au/education_social_work/about/afilliations/bios/upton.shtml |archive-date=3 April 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> Though lesser known globally than some of her other films, the sober and sensitive<ref>{{cite web|title=Little Fish|url=https://www.timeout.com/movies/little-fish|access-date=27 October 2020|website=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]|date=18 July 2006 |archive-date=30 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030180413/https://www.timeout.com/movies/little-fish|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Little Fish'' received great critical acclaim in Blanchett's native Australia and was nominated for 13 Australian Film Institute awards.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rgm.com.au/portfolios/jacquelin-perske |title=Jacquelin Perske |publisher=RGM Artists |access-date=3 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103134814/http://www.rgm.com.au/portfolios/jacquelin-perske |archive-date=3 January 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/rake/about/directors.htm |title=Rake – About |publisher=[[ABC Online]] |access-date=23 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104055157/http://www.abc.net.au/tv/rake/about/directors.htm |archive-date=4 January 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Flickr - Siebbi - Cate Blanchett (cropped) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Blanchett attending an event for ''[[The Good German]]'' at the [[57th Berlin International Film Festival|2007 Berlin International Film Festival]]]]

In 2006, Blanchett portrayed Hedda Gabler at the [[Brooklyn Academy of Music]] in the Sydney Theatre Company production of ''[[Hedda Gabler]]'', directed by [[Robyn Nevin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.playbill.com/article/cate-blanchett-gets-restless-as-hedda-gabler-at-brooklyn-academy-of-music-march-1-com-131086|title=Cate Blanchett Gets Restless as Hedda Gabler at Brooklyn Academy of Music March 1|work=[[Playbill]]|date=1 March 2006|accessdate=4 April 2022|archive-date=4 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220404034921/https://www.playbill.com/article/cate-blanchett-gets-restless-as-hedda-gabler-at-brooklyn-academy-of-music-march-1-com-131086|url-status=live}}</ref> She then starred opposite [[Brad Pitt]] in [[Alejandro González Iñárritu]]'s multi-lingual, [[multiperspectivity|multi-narrative]] drama ''[[Babel (film)|Babel]]'', as one half of a grieving couple who get caught up in an international incident in [[Morocco]]. ''Babel'' received seven Academy Award nominations.<ref>{{cite web|title=The 79th Academy Awards {{!}} 2007|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2007|access-date=9 December 2020|website=Oscars.org|date=7 October 2014|archive-date=17 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180417093206/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2007|url-status=live}}</ref> She also co-starred in [[Steven Soderbergh]]'s [[World War II]]-era drama ''[[The Good German]]'' with [[George Clooney]], and the psychological thriller ''[[Notes on a Scandal (film)|Notes on a Scandal]]'' opposite [[Judi Dench|Dame Judi Dench]].<ref name="NYT" /><ref name="walk" /> Blanchett received a third Academy Award nomination for her performance in the latter film,<ref>{{cite news |title=Oscars 2007: full list of winners and nominees |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2007/feb/26/awardsandprizes.oscars2007 |date=26 February 2007 |access-date=1 April 2012 |location=London |work=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815183501/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2007/feb/26/awardsandprizes.oscars2007 |archive-date=15 August 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> where she portrays a lonely teacher who embarks on an affair with a 15-year-old student and becomes the object of obsession for an older woman played by Dench. Both Blanchett's and Dench's performances were highly acclaimed, with [[Peter Bradshaw]] writing in ''[[The Guardian]]'', "Director [[Richard Eyre]], with unshowy authority, gets the best out of Dench and Blanchett and, with great shrewdness, elicits from these two actors all the little tensions and exasperations - as well as the genuine tenderness - in their tragically fraught relationship."<ref>{{cite web|date=2 February 2007|title=Notes on a Scandal|url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/feb/02/drama.periodandhistorical|access-date=27 October 2020|website=The Guardian|archive-date=4 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104092002/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/feb/02/drama.periodandhistorical|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2007, Blanchett was named one of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's [[Time 100|100 Most Influential People in the World]],<ref>{{cite news |author=Corliss, Richard |url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_1595332_1616643,00.html |title=Cate Blanchett – The 2007 Time 100 |date=3 May 2007 |access-date=1 April 2012 |magazine=Time |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206073152/http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_1595332_1616643,00.html |archive-date=6 December 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> and appeared on ''[[Forbes]]''{{'}} [[Forbes Celebrity 100|Celebrity 100]] list.<ref>{{cite web|date=14 June 2007|title=The Celebrity 100|url=https://www.forbes.com/2007/06/12/07celebrities_all_slide.html|access-date=10 December 2020|website=Forbes|archive-date=6 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106213513/https://www.forbes.com/2007/06/12/07celebrities_all_slide.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She made a [[Cameo appearance|cameo]] as Janine, [[Forensic science|forensic scientist]] and ex-girlfriend of [[Simon Pegg]]'s character, in [[Edgar Wright]]'s action comedy film ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' (2007). The cameo was uncredited and she gave her fee to charity.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://filmschoolrejects.com/features/29-things-we-learned-from-the-hot-fuzz-commentary.php |title=29 Things We Learned From the 'Hot Fuzz' Commentary |publisher=Film School Rejects |date=22 August 2013 |first1=Kevin |last1=Carr |access-date=27 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227162238/http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/29-things-we-learned-from-the-hot-fuzz-commentary.php |archive-date=27 February 2015 }}</ref><!-- <ref>{{cite web |url=http://movies.about.com/od/hotfuzz/a/hotfuzzew041307_2.htm |title=Inside 'Hot Fuzz' with Filmmaker Edgar Wright |author=Topel, Fred |publisher=[[About.com]] |access-date=27 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150507223159/http://movies.about.com/od/hotfuzz/a/hotfuzzew041307_2.htm |archive-date=7 May 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> --> She reprised her role as Queen Elizabeth I in the 2007 sequel ''[[Elizabeth: The Golden Age]]'' directed by [[Shekhar Kapur]], and portrayed Jude Quinn, one of six incarnations of [[Bob Dylan]] in [[Todd Haynes]]' experimental film ''[[I'm Not There]]''. She won the [[Volpi Cup]] Best Actress Award at the [[Venice Film Festival]], the Independent Spirit Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Jude Quinn.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article2640454.ece |title=Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I is no surprise |access-date=14 October 2007 |location=UK |work=[[The Times]] |first=Christopher |last=Goodwin |date=14 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907142526/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article2640454.ece |archive-date=7 September 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|title=''Juno'' cleans up at Indie Spirit Awards|url=https://ew.com/article/2008/02/25/juno-cleans-indie-spirit-awards/ |first1=Mike |last1=Bruno |date=25 February 2008 |access-date=9 December 2020|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|archive-date=7 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107162834/https://ew.com/article/2008/02/25/juno-cleans-indie-spirit-awards/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Winners & Nominees 2008|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/2008|access-date=9 December 2020|website=Golden Globes|archive-date=7 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171207085146/https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> At the [[80th Academy Awards]], Blanchett [[List of actors nominated for multiple Academy Awards in the same year|received two nominations]] – Best Actress for ''Elizabeth: the Golden Age'' and Best Supporting Actress for ''I'm Not There'' – becoming the first actress to receive a second nomination with the reprisal of a role.<ref name="double nod">{{cite news |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/cates-double-oscar-nod/story-e6frg6n6-1111115377883 |title=Cate's double Oscar nod |access-date=29 December 2014 |work=[[The Australian]] |first1=Peta |last1=Hellard |date=23 January 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227215948/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/cates-double-oscar-nod/story-e6frg6n6-1111115377883 |archive-date=27 February 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Of her achievement that year, Roger Ebert said, "That Blanchett could appear in the same [[Toronto International Film Festival]] playing Elizabeth and Bob Dylan, both splendidly, is a wonder of acting."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/elizabeth-the-golden-age-2007|title=Elizabeth: The Golden Age Movie Review (2007) |author=Roger Ebert|author-link=Roger Ebert|date=11 October 2007 |access-date=3 January 2015 |publisher=RobetEbert.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930224331/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20071011%2FREVIEWS%2F710110302 |archive-date=30 September 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>