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HISTORICAL FACTS: 33 - The Untold Story

Thank you, Cate Blanchett, for taking up the baton for female conductors

I’ve been trying to get more women on the podium for years. The actor’s star turn in her new film Tár is a huge help

The Guardian - UK

Critics’ Choice Awards 2023 best dressed: Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Coolidge, and Aubrey Plaza

The sophisticated line-up was defined by sparkle — as well as some noticably toned-down choices

Evening Standard

Cate Blanchett: Oscar favourite calls out awards shows while accepting Best Actress trophy for Tár

’Why don’t we stop the televised horse race of it at all?’ she asked

The Independent UK

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Blanchett Slams 'Patriarchal' Awards Shows after Accepting Best Actress Prize

Cate Blanchett criticized the "patriarchal pyramid" of Hollywood awards shows as she accepted a best actress gong from the Critics Choice Association in Los Angeles on Sunday. The Australian actor and Oscars frontrunner, whose performance as an ambitious, morally dubious conductor in classical music drama "TAR" is sweeping awards, told…

Asharq Al-Awsat

NSW MP to contest election despite husband’s death – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Critics Choice Awards 2023 winners: See the full list

Some of the night’s biggest winners were Angela Bassett, Jennifer Coolidge, Brendan Fraser, and Cate Blanchett

The Independent UK

Critics Choice Awards: Tearful Brendan Fraser hails comeback from ‘the wilderness’ following win

The 54-year-old took home the best actor award for his performance in drama The Whale

Evening Standard

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Critics' Choice Awards winner Cate Blanchett calls for end of televised awards

Cate Blanchett took aim at awards ceremonies in an impassioned speech as she lifted the gong for Best Actress at the Critics' Choice Awards

Daily Mirror

Monstrous maestro: why is Cate Blanchett’s cancel culture film Tár angering so many people?

Despite glowing reviews, Todd Field’s drama about a predatory conductor has struggled at the box office. Is this because its protagonist is an unlikeable woman?

The Guardian - UK

Cate Blanchett criticised for ‘condescending’ response to Margot Robbie comment on Graham Norton

Actors appeared on the BBC’s ‘The Graham Norton Show’ together

The Independent UK

‘People thought she was a poor deluded woman!’ Alan Carr on Amanda Holden being mistaken for his wife

The pals filmed a new show together in Italy leaving locals confused by their relationship

Evening Standard

Power behind the baton: the conductor who prepared Cate Blanchett for Tár

The Oscar-winning actor turned to Natalie Murray Beale to learn the conducting skills that underpin her latest film role

The Guardian - UK

Tár review – Cate Blanchett dazzles as monstrous maestro

Todd Field’s film echoes the slippery genius of its protagonist, a brilliant conductor-composer who toys with her admirers

The Guardian - UK

Cate Blanchett criticised for ‘condescending’ response to Margot Robbie comment on Graham Norton

Actors appeared on the BBC’s ‘The Graham Norton Show’ together

The Independent UK

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Tips for Enjoying the Australian Open

If you're going to be in Melbourne for the first major of the year, Jon Wertheim has some advice on how to have the best possible time.

Evening Standard

Margot Robbie says ‘stress levels were terrifying’ on set of Babylon as she teases Barbie movie

The 32-year-old said she feared ‘messing up’ on set of the Hollywood epic co-starring Brad Pitt

Los Angeles Times

This real-life conductor is mentioned in 'Tár.' And she's not a fan of the film

Marin Alsop, a world-renowned conductor name-checked in "Tár," is speaking out against the 2022 film and its antagonistic protagonist portrayed by Cate Blanchett.

The Independent UK

Tár review: Cate Blanchett is at her best in a nuanced take on #MeToo and cancel culture

Todd Field’s film is essentially about the whirlpools of discourse around #MeToo and ‘cancel culture’, but rarely in a way that feels like a polemic

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The Conversation

Tár – an exploration of the flawed musicians behind decadent music

Tár (2022) follows superstar conductor Lydia Tár, played by Cate Blanchett, as she conducts the Berlin Philharmonic (represented in the film by the Dresden Philharmonic) in a much-anticipated performance of Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.

The Conversation

From Cate Blanchett to Baz Luhrmann: Aussiewood at the 80th Golden Globe Awards

Aussiewood sprinkled its star dust at this year’s 80th Golden Globes with five nominations and a fourth acting win for Cate Blanchett, this time her performance as a renowned German conductor in Todd Field’s Tár.

The Guardian - US

SAG Awards 2023: The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once lead nominations

Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy and the acclaimed multiverse fantasy have five nominations each while Ozark leads the TV side

Evening Standard

Tár movie review: the bleakest and funniest film about systemic sleaze since Promising Young Woman

The team behind this nuanced film deserve to win big at all the glitzy awards this season

Evening Standard

Golden Globes 2023: Full list of winners and nominees

Actors including Evan Peters, Cate Blanchett, and Angela Bassett were successful

Asharq Al-Awsat

At Rehabbed Globes, ‘The Fabelmans,’ ‘Banshees’ Triumph

The Golden Globes returned to the air Tuesday with a red carpet flush with celebrities, comedian Jerrod Carmichael as a hesitant emcee and top awards for Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans" and Martin McDonagh's "The Banshees of Inisherin," as the beleaguered award show sought to rekindle its pre-pandemic and pre-scandal glamour.…

The Independent UK

Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans and The Banshees Of Inisherin win big at Globes

The awards show also saw Cate Blanchett and Austin Butler taking home top gongs in the performance categories.

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