Australian Actress Cate Blanchett Play Down Oscar Award propoganda
Best Actress Nominee Cate Blanchett tonight played down the Oscar hype surrounding her latest portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I. Speaking at the London premiere of Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Blanchett put Academy Awards talk surrounding her reprisal of the role which won her a Best Actress nomination in 1998 down to the "time of year". "Oscar who?" Blanchett said in a red-carpet interview with Sky News. When pressed on the film's chances at the awards next year, Blanchett said: "I don't know. Who knows? "In the end, when you reprise a role, you just hope the film is going to stand on its own two feet, which I think this does. "That's all you can hope for really." Blanchett, her Australian supporting cast, Geoffrey Rush and Abbie Cornish, and the film's editor, Jill Billcock of Melbourne, had been early front-runners for Oscars, which will be awarded on February 24. But the movie's hopes were hit by negative reviews in America ear...