The Museum of Modern Art announced today that its eighth annual film benefit will be held in honor of Cate Blanchett, who recently starred in two films that have garnered serious awards attention—Todd Haynes’ Carol, which was met with critical acclaim upon its premiere earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival, and Truth.

MoMA houses a number of Blanchett’s films in its collection, including all three Lord of the Rings films, two Hobbit films, Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, and Steven Soderbergh’s The Good German.

“As MoMA’s Department of Film marks its 80th anniversary, we’re thrilled to honor a woman who embodies the greatest traditions of screen acting, while fiercely embracing innovation and risk,” Rajendra Roy, the chief curator of MoMA’s film department, said in a statement. “Cate Blanchett has the kind of talent that inspires others to deliver their best work, challenges the field to be more fully engaged with women artists and audiences, and propels cinema forward with intelligence and grace.” [Source]

Sony Pictures Classics just unveiled the very first image from James Vanderbilt’s directorial debut, Truth. The movie is based on Mary Mapes‘ book, Truth and Duty. Robert Redford plays Dan Rather, Cate Blanchett plays Mapes, his producer, and the film covers when they discovered that George W. Bush may have been AWOL from the United States National Guard during the Vietnam War and what happened to them when they ran the story on 60 Minutes II.

Sony Pictures Classics is giving an Oct. 16 awards-season release to the Cate Blanchett-Robert Redford drama “Truth,” centered on the Dan Rather scandal.

It will launch in New York and Los Angeles with a nationwide expansion to follow. James Vanderbilt’s directorial debut also stars Topher Grace, Elisabeth Moss and Dennis Quaid.

The film is based on the Mary Mapes book “Truth and Duty,” and Blanchett plays Mapes, a CBS News journalist and Rather’s producer.

“Truth” follows Mapes and Rather as they uncover allegations that George W. Bush may have been AWOL from the U.S. National Guard for over a year during the Vietnam War. Four documents were presented as authentic in a “60 Minutes” broadcast aired by CBS on Sept. 8, 2004, less than two months before the 2004 election, but it was later determined that CBS had failed to authenticate the documents.

The ensuing scandal ruined Rather’s career — he stepped down six months later — and caused profound changes at CBS News. The network fired Mapes, several senior news executives were asked to resign, and CBS apologized to viewers. [Source]

Australian actress Cate Blanchett is continuing her role as the face of the Giorgio Armani fragrance Si with a new campaign set to launch in September.

Giorgio Armani has revealed behind-the-scenes images of the campaign, which will be out on September 13.

Filmed in Australia, the new campaign was helmed by the Iranian-American director Massy Tadjedin and is intended to depict a woman who is authentic, strong, passionate and accomplished.

Tom Munro is behind the print campaign. [Source]

Right now, Cate is attending the 2015 Helpmann Awards in Sydney, Australia. I added 2 photos to the gallery. More pictures to come as soon it surfaces!

Gallery Link:
— 2015 Appearances & Events > 2015 Helpmann Awards

Broad Green Pictures has announced that Terrence Malick’s star-studded “Knight of Cups” will arrive in theaters on March 4, 2016.

“Knight of Cups” stars Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Frieda Pinto,  Imogen Poots, Wes Bentley, Isabel Lucas and Teresa Palmer. Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green and Ken Kao produced the film.

Bale stars as Rick, an uninspired screenwriter living on the event horizon of all the vice, and some of the virtues, Los Angeles has to offer. He is a slave to the Hollywood system; addicted to success but simultaneously despairing at the emptiness of his life. With the death of his brother Billy hanging over him like a shadow and his surviving brother down on his luck, Rick seeks distraction in the company of women. Women seem to know him better than he know himself, bringing him closer to the heart of things, closer to understanding his place. And while the parties, the dalliances, and the career remain unfulfilling – each woman, each man he’s met through the course of his life has served him in some way as a guide, a messenger. This visceral journey through one man’s City of Angels has just begun.

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I added some great photoshoots of Cate Blanchett from 2008 so, you can go to the gallery to take a look and enjoy!

Gallery Link:
— 2008 Photoshoots & Professional

In 2008, Blanchett starred alongside Brad Pitt in the acclaimed film Curious Case of Benjamin Button. She also appeared in Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, as the villainous KGB agent Col. Dr. Irina Spalko. On 5 December 2008, Blanchett was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard in front of Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre.

A pregnant Blanchett walks the red carpet of the Academy Awards, with two Oscar nods: one for Best Actress as Queen Elizabeth I and another for Best Supporting Actress as Bob Dylan. Although she doesn’t take a statue home, she does welcome her third son, Ignatius Martin, in April.

Over 2000 HQ photos of Cate from 2008 have been added to the gallery so, you can go there to take a look back to the past. I am working to add photoshoots and scans in a few hours. Enjoy!

Gallery Links:
— 2008 Appearances & Events
— 2008 TV Shows

Screen Australia says actor will direct television series based on the story of a German-Australian woman who was wrongly detained as an illegal immigrant

Cate Blanchett is to make her first foray behind the camera, developing and directing a new television series, Stateless, based on the life of Cornelia Rau.

Rau, a German-Australian woman and former Qantas air hostess, attracted attention in 2005 after she escaped the controversial Sydney sect known as Kenja only to be held at the Baxter detention centre in South Australia as a suspected illegal immigrant.

As the national debate around immigration and detention continues to swirl in Australia, Blanchett could not have chosen a more topical subject for her debut.

“Stateless will be Cate Blanchett’s first venture into high-end TV,” said Screen Australia who is funding the script’s development by writer Elise McCredie.

“Inspired by the incredible true story of Cornelia Rau, Stateless is a powerful and timely series about identity, belonging and the extraordinary lengths people will go to find their place in the world,” the funding body said.

Some of Australia’s top live entertainment names will join Helpmann Awards host, Todd McKenney on stage to present and perform at the star-studded 2015 Helpmann Awards Ceremony.

The 2015 Helpmann Awards, Australia’s premier celebration of the live performance industry, will be held at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre on Monday 27 July on the set of Cameron Mackintosh’s LES MISERABLES and broadcast live on Foxtel Arts.

Gracing the stage to present on the night will be one of Australia’s most celebrated and acclaimed actors, Cate Blanchett, leading ladies in both screen and theatre, Marta Dusseldorp and Danielle Cormack, and singer, stage performer, and television presenter, David Campbell.

Multi-talented Denise Scott and Amanda Bishop will join the stars of the new Foxtel series Screen,Margaret Pomeranz and Graeme Blundell, Australian television and music icon, Marcia Hines, and Australia’s number one ventriloquist, Darren Carr to present on the night.

A number of 2015 Helpmann Awards nominees are confirmed to present, including principal dancerMadeleine Eastoe, Dean Bryant, Andrew Hallsworth, Trevor Ashley and Stuart Maunder AM adding anticipation to who will win on the night.

Opera royalty Lindy Hume and Emma Matthews, cabaret trail blazers iOTA and Mitchell Butel, and musical theatre stars, Lara Mulcahy, Christie Whelan Browne, James Millar, and Blazey Best will also present on the night.

CATE Blanchett makes no bones about it. Returning to a theatre rehearsal room when you have a young baby is hard.

She and husband Andrew Upton adopted baby Edith from the US earlier this year and have said that they and their three sons are “besotted”.

But as everyone knows, caring for a baby is tiring.

“I feel a bit sleep-deprived,” admits Blanchett.

“But you have to work with whatever state you’re in and turn it in to a positive. Sometimes, it can be good to be a bit tired in a rehearsal room because your defences are down, your guard is down.”

Blanchett is about to co-star with Richard Roxburgh in The Present, adapted by Upton from Anton Chekhov’s sprawling first play Platonov, and playing at the Roslyn Packer Theatre from August 4.

Blanchett and Roxburgh also performed together in Upton’s 2010 adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, wowing audiences and critics alike in Sydney, Washington and New York.

As you’d expect, their reunion has made The Present one of the hottest tickets in the Sydney Theatre Company’s 2015 season.